Top Qualities of an Effective Leader Video Lecture | Be a Leader: Leadership Development Course - Management

hello i'm brian tracy if you aspire to
become an inspirational and effective
leader you must continuously work on
yourself and improve your management
skills no one starts off as an effective
leader or manager but you can aspire to
improve your skills by learning what
leaders do and how they think and how
they feel and then by copying them until
you become one yourself
remember leaders are made not born and
they are self-made through personal
development I'll discuss with you some
of the qualities of successful leaders
you can focus on to strengthen your
leadership skills and get more results
better faster easier from other people
now the first quality of effective
leaders is their ability to focus on
strengths they focus on the strengths in
themselves what they're really good at
and on the strengths in others what they
are really good at the fact of the
matter is that strong people have far
more weaknesses including yourself than
they have strengths you can never
achieve greatness and leadership by
simply compensating for your weaknesses
but you can become an outstanding
manager by identifying your areas of
great potential strengths what you like
to do and what you do well and then by
focusing all of your energies on
becoming outstanding in those few areas
you only have to be really good in two
or three areas for you to move to the
top of your field another important
quality of an effective leader is to be
a role model to be the kind of person
that everyone else looks up to it wants
to be like this is true in your work in
your personal life it's to in your
family but it's also true as a manager
effective leaders carry themselves at
all times even when no one is watching
as if everyone was watching leaders
imagine that they live in a goldfish
bowl and everyone is watching the leader
in the leadership role they are very
aware of the impact of their words and
gestures on the people are
them they realized that what they say
has tremendous impact so you must always
be sensitive to the fact that everything
you say or do is magnified many times by
the people who look up to you or look up
to you for guidance a positive remark
from you to someone over whom you exert
influence or control has inordinately
positive effects a negative remark or
criticism from you has inordinately
negative effects the impact of both are
multiplied so choose your words and your
behavior with care a third and perhaps
the most important and respected
leadership quality is integrity it's the
most required and most admired quality
of all people but especially of the
effective leader
you see Trust is the quality that binds
all relationships personal and business
together the willingness and ability to
trust the people that you look up to and
report to is absolutely essential to
your ability to perform at your very
best sometimes people come up to me at
my seminars and tell me that they like
their jobs but they don't particularly
like their bosses I tell them over and
over that one of the most important
things you do if you want to be
successful at work is to choose your
boss with care I have seen very few
occasions where a person has been
successful under a negative or dishonest
boss with poor management skills in most
cases you're wasting your life and your
career by staying in a situation with a
negative or untrustworthy person because
the situation has no future so practice
these qualities of the most successful
and effective leaders to hone your
skills for leadership success only by
continuously improving on your skills
will you gain the respect and admiration
that you deserve