The Six Characteristics of an Agile Leader
Pivot At Work has identified the Six Qualities that are critical for a leader to possess to be effective.
Six Characteristics of Effective Leaders
The six characteristics are:
To Champion – to be the face of the organization, team, products, and services.
To Achieve - to consistently deliver results by devising and executing strategy.
To Guide – to establish clear direction and ensure everyone is on the same page.
To Bond – to build and maintain strong resilient relationships.
To Unite – to build collaborative networks and utilize diverse talents.
To Excite – to create passion, drive, and commitment through culture, systems, and processes that encourage people to thrive.
We have learned that leaders tend to utilize a certain set of innate leadership behaviors that they have mastered. These foundational leadership behaviors are habits that leaders use instinctually. Therefore, we tend to be stronger in certain leader characteristics than in others.
Even more insightful is to understand is that in certain situations our innate leadership behaviors create barriers. When change, market forces, conflict, or other disruptors occur, we must lead with intent rather than by habit and bring forward behaviors new behaviors to overcome challenges. This is what pivoting is all about.
Which of the six leadership characteristics do you bring forward most often?
Which of the six leadership characteristics do you not utilize and if you did would increase your effectiveness?
The ability to understand which characteristics and innate leadership behaviors are habits; and when conditions require you to lead intentionally, bringing forward new leader behaviors and create new habits is what Pivoting is all about.
We assist leaders to wake up the leadership muscle.
Creating new leadership habits to meet the challenges of a constantly changing and demanding environment.