Strategic Leader
What are the true characteristics of a Strategic Leader? Well from my experience I personally have seen terrific insight into the art of leadership and strategy. I have personally witnessed some of the leasers who practiced this art and took the organization they worked for to great heights. I have also witnessed the other side and learn how not to commit such mistakes. My opinion of an effective leadership involves training and also entails helping individuals form an enterprising and immensely focused group. There are leaders and then there are great leaders. I have yet to truly see a great leader in this young generation. Not that I was around during President Lincoln or President Grant. These two were great leaders in different ways. President Lincoln was a leader that moved the people with words of encouragement and President Grant (although not a successful politician, but a true strategic General) moved his generals with strategic leadership on the battlegrounds as did the South General Lee.
A successful leader is always on the lookout for new trends and new threats, so that they continue to outpace the competition. Strategic leaders ought to always anticipate change before it happens, embrace it when it happens and make it work to their advantage. There is a choice of either being the cause of change or the effect of change. Either way, always scan and diagnose your business environment for change and the opportunities that come with it.
The most effective organizations are planning now for tomorrow’s leaders – specifically by interviewing for future leader skill sets and coaching/training those who are in the leadership pipeline on the key leadership competencies. With a new generation (identified as generation Y and Z) moving into the workforce and new expectations among top talent – today’s leaders need to be ready to address five core leadership traits for the 21st century.
According to The Hayes Group there are The Five Key Traits for Tomorrow’s
A successful leader is always on the lookout for new trends and new threats, so that they continue to outpace the competition. Strategic leaders ought to always anticipate change before it happens, embrace it when it happens and make it work to their advantage. There is a choice of either being the cause of change or the effect of change. Either way, always scan and diagnose your business environment for change and the opportunities that come with it.
The most effective organizations are planning now for tomorrow’s leaders – specifically by interviewing for future leader skill sets and coaching/training those who are in the leadership pipeline on the key leadership competencies. With a new generation (identified as generation Y and Z) moving into the workforce and new expectations among top talent – today’s leaders need to be ready to address five core leadership traits for the 21st century.
According to The Hayes Group there are The Five Key Traits for Tomorrow’s