Qualities of Successful Leaders

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Qualities of Successful Leaders

• Objectives
• Select qualities of successful leaders
• Describe the five leadership quality categories

Leadership Committee May 2007
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What qualities do successful leaders possess?
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Each quality of leadership falls into one of five
categories

• Human Relations Skills
• Technical Human Relations Skills
• Technical Skills
• Conceptual - Technical Skills
• Conceptual Skills

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Human Relations Skills

• Skills which tend to reflect a persons innate
  personality or value system
• Examples honesty, cooperative, sets example

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Technical Human Relations Skills

• Human relations skills that are easily learned
• Examples team builder, listens, encourages

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Technical Skills

• How-to-do-it skills involve doing leadership
  skills
• Examples time manager, selecting staff,
  competent

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Conceptual Technical Skills

• Thinking skills that can be taught
• Examples a problem solver, delegator,
  decisionmaker

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Conceptual Skills

• Thinking skills
• Examples vision, creativity, risk taker

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Everyone has the potential to develop their
poersonal leadership abilities, since leadership
is a process.
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