Jobs and CareersPersonal Qualities of Leadership
By Otto Schmidt
In our world we have leaders and followers that we cherish, respect and emulate. We need both, of course. However, leaders always seem to stand out more and are valued differently. What sets a person apart as a leader - a beacon to all?
Leaders are sometimes like prophets who comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. They use their abilities, talents and skills to be the best they can be and thereby set the example to others almost at any cost. Their values, principles, ethics, morality, altruism, and sense of aesthetics may be what make them stand out.
The comprehensive list below is unique. It comes from a personal analysis of dozens of newspaper and magazine articles about people who have done things in a recognizably different way. Become aware of what we all need to nurture. Also, search carefully and find the qualities you need to improve and work on to be the best you can be in life.
Personality Traits
- gives off positive "light" in times of darkness
- shows kindness to all that are encountered, no matter their position
- speaks with positive, healing, gentle words to all the people in his/her care
- has strong principles and a sense of right and wrong
- has courage to take on very difficult tasks or challenges for the benefit and service of others
- is willing to acknowledge personal mistakes and makes sure they are corrected
- learns constantly in order to stay even with or ahead of inevitable changes
- is willing to put in many tiring years of experience and training before assuming command
- is optimistic in outlook despite sometimes experiencing great difficulties
- shows energy and creativity when working. Shows as a good role model.
- willing to accept responsibility to bring about positive, progressive change in work and in others
- has a "no-time-like-the-present" sense of accomplishment
- is a doer, not just a talker
- presents him/herself as bright, upbeat, professional
- shows mental toughness and an unflappable attitude
- has a good mastery of modern technology
- is confident and hopeful about the future
- thinks strategically to get jobs done
- persuades effectively through reasoning
- self-starting person who takes the initiative when necessary
- shows a passion for work and is energized and excited by it
- willing to ruffle a few feathers in order to get things done
- oversees the creation and completion of projects rather than controls
- thinks that the group is as important as the individual. Thinks collectively.
- is approachable to people at almost any time
- knows something about everything and everything about something in his/her realm of operation
- has a reputation for getting things done
- offers reassurance and strength when times are difficult
- has a sincere desire to help others and/or the community
- willing to risk failure but still develops large, creative, perhaps risky ventures
- has the ability to inspire others to greatness
- believes strongly that he/she can make a difference
- has tenacity. If they start something, they finish it.
- has the awareness to see when things need to get done and does them
- uses negative past experiences to improve the present
- has ambition to better him/herself every day
Relationships with Others
- shows humility when in service to others e.g. Mother Teresa
- is open to alternatives and better proposals from others
- tolerates the mistakes of others and helps them to right the wrongs
- gives credit where credit is due especially if it belongs to others
- makes tough decisions about others for the greater good
- invites participation in an open forum
- maintains open lines of communication with all concerned
- speaks in a language suitable to the audience at hand. This prevents appearing aloof or above others.
- establishes relationships and links to others who can help
- listens to others and will use their ideas especially if better than his/her own
- willing to make a statement in representing others
- sets an agenda that people want, need and abide by
- praises and supports staff that work for him/her
(by Otto Schmidt, Education Consultant, Accent on Skills Consulting, Toronto, ON 416-226-2332, o.schmidt@accentonskills.com - AccentonSkills.com)
Contact me for professional development with a difference. I specialize in skills training. Participants in my workshops WILL be more creative, perceptive, better communicators.
Otto Schmidt, Education Consultant, speaker, author - "Accent on Essential Life Skills" - http://accentonskills.com/aelsbook.htm
Accent on Skills Consulting, Toronto, ON 416-226-2332 o.schmidt@accentonskills.com
Visit my website http://www.AccentonSkills.com for further information on booking custom-designed workshops for your team, employees, administrators. Choose from 48 personal, empowerment skills.
====================================================
Transformational Nurse Leadership - Cultivating Leaders Through Personal Encounters With Nature
By Jackie Levin
In these transitional times, when the old health care order is falling away and a new one is emerging, transformational nurse leaders are needed to guide our staff, patients, families, and institutions into this new era of health care. Leadership of this kind comes from "the inside out" and in order to truly be an agent of change, we must be willing to risk transforming ourselves.
This can be very challenging. Fear of relinquishing the traditional command-and-control style of leadership in favor of a less familiar yet more authentic style of leading can keep us locked into old habits. So how can we learn new ways of leading? For a quest like this, I often turn to nature as a guide.
Last fall I participated in a women's leadership retreat to explore myself as a leader. I began with a basic question: Whom I am leading and where am I leading them?
As part of the retreat, I took these questions out with me on an early morning walk along the rim of a high desert mesa in northeastern Arizona. It was quiet except for some birds singing their dawn songs in the trees below. Leaning against a boulder, I surrendered my mind to the stillness around me and felt at peace. Then a deerfly started buzzing in my face. I swatted it with my baseball cap, annoyed. My serenity dissipated into the air around me.
Distracted, my thoughts left the mesa and shifted to my work. I pictured myself in the chaos of a nursing unit. The sound of conversations behind curtains, the clanging of metal against metal, the smell of cleaning solution, all the unanswered emails and unending demands from nurses, doctors, and administrators wafted through on the warm desert breeze.
Later, in the growing heat of the day, I asked for another message from nature. At that moment, I became aware of a falcon flying gracefully on the air currents overhead. I knew from where I sat that what appeared effortless did in fact take a particular kind of wisdom and elegance to work with the force of the winds and not against them.
Reflecting on both of these encounters with nature and using nature's wisdom as a metaphor for my own emerging leadership, I asked myself, "how often do I spend my energy swatting at small nuisances when I would be better off reading and navigating the larger currents?"
My quick annoyance at the irritating buzz in my outer world had mirrored to me how easily I allow my mind to become diverted by the buzz of all sorts of minor occurrences beyond my control. The fluidity of the falcon using the wind currents to soar effortlessly reflected the innate grace that is available to me when I take the time to balance mind with body, heart, and spirit.
I realized that my guiding question wasn't "who am I leading", but rather, "how do I want to be as a leader?" What an important shift!
I find great wisdom and insight is available to me when I step into nature in an intentional way. Over the course of this one retreat, many more profound insights came to me regarding who I am as a woman and as a nurse leader with a passionate desire to make a profound difference in the field of health care.
Spending several days on a retreat in nature is an effective, powerful, and delightful way to renew and grow oneself as a transformative nurse leader. However, great learning and insight can also come from a simple encounter with nature in our own backyards or local parks, if the intention is there.
Next time you're heading out into nature and you know you'll have some quiet time on your own, consider where you're feeling challenged in your life or in your work. Then set a question as your guiding intention and pay attention to the signs nature offers to you.
I was so inspired by my experience on that retreat last fall that I'm now co-leading that same program because this is the kind of transformative experience I want to bring to nurse leaders. I know it is a deeply rejuvenating experience, one that can revitalize our overworked selves while helping us to reconnect with the vision that brought us into nursing in the first place.
So when you're ready to go beyond the intentional walk in the park and instead access the deep wisdom of body, mind, heart, and spirit so you can bring all of who you are to your nurse leadership, go to http://www.fourshieldsofleadership.com and check out the Four Shields of Leadership for Nurses. I'd love to share the experience with you!
From Jackie Levin, Clinical Nurse Specialist-Leader in the field of Holistic and Transformative Nursing.
===============================================
All Objectives Have a Cost
By John Kreiter
Leaders must understand that any goal comes with a certain price. Nothing is free that is in anyway meaningful and certainly any campaign that has a possibility of success must have a certain cost.
This cost is not always measured in money or energy per se, often times what we risk is something more existential; our future.
Every time that you take responsibility for an action, you are risking your standing and reputation. You are putting yourself on the line as soon as you are willing to stand up and take action. Taking responsibility means instant scrutiny from others so you must stand firm against this challenge.
Since you risk so much when you take a decisive action, you must be very certain that you calculate the cost of all that you are about to do. Leaders take responsibility and because they are responsible, they put themselves in harm's way.
To be a leader is therefore to be a risk taker. Leaders gamble on the fact that what they are about to do will have future gain. This future gain is for their good, and for the good of all those that they lead.
Leaders need to calculate the cost of any venture before they commit to an action. They need to look past their emotions and let go of any instinct to act on first impulses. To be a leader means to plan and to look ahead. Impulsive actions can have a terrible cost, a cost that can most often not be reversed.
Leaders therefore are planners, they calculate. They measure, they ponder, and they examine every possible outcome to every possible circumstance. Before leaders act and put themselves and their people in the spotlight, they must ponder and calculate every possible outcome. Anything less is most certain defeat.
"Walk softly and carry a big abacus," should be your motto. Realize now that everything that you do when you act as a leader has a price. Since everything has a price, make sure that you do not commit until you are ready, willing, and able to commit with as many of your resources as it takes to win.
There are times when the world thrusts a big problem on your shoulders and you are not given the choice to take action. The playing stage that is a leaders domain is full of uncertainty and there are times when you can't calculate, but are thrust into the spotlight by powers beyond your control.
When this happens, and it will, a leaders creates time. When a leader is face with odds that he or she hasn't had time to calculate, he/she lets his mind expand and looks for ways to create time which can be used to postulate the right decision.
Leaders engage their competitors with a free and open mind that is not concerned and they look for ways to distract those competitors. These distractions must be abstract and catch the competition unaware.
This allows the a leader to retreat for a moment so that they can quickly contemplate their actions and choose the one course of action that will be best suited to thwart the opposition. The more time that you can give yourself to calculate and to reposition your forces the better.
A great leader could be thrown into a pit of hungry lions and walk out with their food bowls.
Learn to do this so that when you are faced with the worst, you pull out of your hat the impossible. Then calculate, calculate and calculate some more. And when you think that you have made the best possible decision, taking into account every possible outcome, ACT.
If you can do this, then you will succeed over all those obstacles, challenges and competitors that you meet. Your people will begin to see your power and will trust your command. With trust and good will, you can get your people to do anything.
Resources---The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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By Otto Schmidt
In our world we have leaders and followers that we cherish, respect and emulate. We need both, of course. However, leaders always seem to stand out more and are valued differently. What sets a person apart as a leader - a beacon to all?
Leaders are sometimes like prophets who comfort the disturbed and disturb the comfortable. They use their abilities, talents and skills to be the best they can be and thereby set the example to others almost at any cost. Their values, principles, ethics, morality, altruism, and sense of aesthetics may be what make them stand out.
The comprehensive list below is unique. It comes from a personal analysis of dozens of newspaper and magazine articles about people who have done things in a recognizably different way. Become aware of what we all need to nurture. Also, search carefully and find the qualities you need to improve and work on to be the best you can be in life.
Personality Traits
- gives off positive "light" in times of darkness
- shows kindness to all that are encountered, no matter their position
- speaks with positive, healing, gentle words to all the people in his/her care
- has strong principles and a sense of right and wrong
- has courage to take on very difficult tasks or challenges for the benefit and service of others
- is willing to acknowledge personal mistakes and makes sure they are corrected
- learns constantly in order to stay even with or ahead of inevitable changes
- is willing to put in many tiring years of experience and training before assuming command
- is optimistic in outlook despite sometimes experiencing great difficulties
- shows energy and creativity when working. Shows as a good role model.
- willing to accept responsibility to bring about positive, progressive change in work and in others
- has a "no-time-like-the-present" sense of accomplishment
- is a doer, not just a talker
- presents him/herself as bright, upbeat, professional
- shows mental toughness and an unflappable attitude
- has a good mastery of modern technology
- is confident and hopeful about the future
- thinks strategically to get jobs done
- persuades effectively through reasoning
- self-starting person who takes the initiative when necessary
- shows a passion for work and is energized and excited by it
- willing to ruffle a few feathers in order to get things done
- oversees the creation and completion of projects rather than controls
- thinks that the group is as important as the individual. Thinks collectively.
- is approachable to people at almost any time
- knows something about everything and everything about something in his/her realm of operation
- has a reputation for getting things done
- offers reassurance and strength when times are difficult
- has a sincere desire to help others and/or the community
- willing to risk failure but still develops large, creative, perhaps risky ventures
- has the ability to inspire others to greatness
- believes strongly that he/she can make a difference
- has tenacity. If they start something, they finish it.
- has the awareness to see when things need to get done and does them
- uses negative past experiences to improve the present
- has ambition to better him/herself every day
Relationships with Others
- shows humility when in service to others e.g. Mother Teresa
- is open to alternatives and better proposals from others
- tolerates the mistakes of others and helps them to right the wrongs
- gives credit where credit is due especially if it belongs to others
- makes tough decisions about others for the greater good
- invites participation in an open forum
- maintains open lines of communication with all concerned
- speaks in a language suitable to the audience at hand. This prevents appearing aloof or above others.
- establishes relationships and links to others who can help
- listens to others and will use their ideas especially if better than his/her own
- willing to make a statement in representing others
- sets an agenda that people want, need and abide by
- praises and supports staff that work for him/her
(by Otto Schmidt, Education Consultant, Accent on Skills Consulting, Toronto, ON 416-226-2332, o.schmidt@accentonskills.com - AccentonSkills.com)
Contact me for professional development with a difference. I specialize in skills training. Participants in my workshops WILL be more creative, perceptive, better communicators.
Otto Schmidt, Education Consultant, speaker, author - "Accent on Essential Life Skills" - http://accentonskills.com/aelsbook.htm
Accent on Skills Consulting, Toronto, ON 416-226-2332 o.schmidt@accentonskills.com
Visit my website http://www.AccentonSkills.com for further information on booking custom-designed workshops for your team, employees, administrators. Choose from 48 personal, empowerment skills.
====================================================
Transformational Nurse Leadership - Cultivating Leaders Through Personal Encounters With Nature
By Jackie Levin
In these transitional times, when the old health care order is falling away and a new one is emerging, transformational nurse leaders are needed to guide our staff, patients, families, and institutions into this new era of health care. Leadership of this kind comes from "the inside out" and in order to truly be an agent of change, we must be willing to risk transforming ourselves.
This can be very challenging. Fear of relinquishing the traditional command-and-control style of leadership in favor of a less familiar yet more authentic style of leading can keep us locked into old habits. So how can we learn new ways of leading? For a quest like this, I often turn to nature as a guide.
Last fall I participated in a women's leadership retreat to explore myself as a leader. I began with a basic question: Whom I am leading and where am I leading them?
As part of the retreat, I took these questions out with me on an early morning walk along the rim of a high desert mesa in northeastern Arizona. It was quiet except for some birds singing their dawn songs in the trees below. Leaning against a boulder, I surrendered my mind to the stillness around me and felt at peace. Then a deerfly started buzzing in my face. I swatted it with my baseball cap, annoyed. My serenity dissipated into the air around me.
Distracted, my thoughts left the mesa and shifted to my work. I pictured myself in the chaos of a nursing unit. The sound of conversations behind curtains, the clanging of metal against metal, the smell of cleaning solution, all the unanswered emails and unending demands from nurses, doctors, and administrators wafted through on the warm desert breeze.
Later, in the growing heat of the day, I asked for another message from nature. At that moment, I became aware of a falcon flying gracefully on the air currents overhead. I knew from where I sat that what appeared effortless did in fact take a particular kind of wisdom and elegance to work with the force of the winds and not against them.
Reflecting on both of these encounters with nature and using nature's wisdom as a metaphor for my own emerging leadership, I asked myself, "how often do I spend my energy swatting at small nuisances when I would be better off reading and navigating the larger currents?"
My quick annoyance at the irritating buzz in my outer world had mirrored to me how easily I allow my mind to become diverted by the buzz of all sorts of minor occurrences beyond my control. The fluidity of the falcon using the wind currents to soar effortlessly reflected the innate grace that is available to me when I take the time to balance mind with body, heart, and spirit.
I realized that my guiding question wasn't "who am I leading", but rather, "how do I want to be as a leader?" What an important shift!
I find great wisdom and insight is available to me when I step into nature in an intentional way. Over the course of this one retreat, many more profound insights came to me regarding who I am as a woman and as a nurse leader with a passionate desire to make a profound difference in the field of health care.
Spending several days on a retreat in nature is an effective, powerful, and delightful way to renew and grow oneself as a transformative nurse leader. However, great learning and insight can also come from a simple encounter with nature in our own backyards or local parks, if the intention is there.
Next time you're heading out into nature and you know you'll have some quiet time on your own, consider where you're feeling challenged in your life or in your work. Then set a question as your guiding intention and pay attention to the signs nature offers to you.
I was so inspired by my experience on that retreat last fall that I'm now co-leading that same program because this is the kind of transformative experience I want to bring to nurse leaders. I know it is a deeply rejuvenating experience, one that can revitalize our overworked selves while helping us to reconnect with the vision that brought us into nursing in the first place.
So when you're ready to go beyond the intentional walk in the park and instead access the deep wisdom of body, mind, heart, and spirit so you can bring all of who you are to your nurse leadership, go to http://www.fourshieldsofleadership.com and check out the Four Shields of Leadership for Nurses. I'd love to share the experience with you!
From Jackie Levin, Clinical Nurse Specialist-Leader in the field of Holistic and Transformative Nursing.
===============================================
All Objectives Have a Cost
By John Kreiter
Leaders must understand that any goal comes with a certain price. Nothing is free that is in anyway meaningful and certainly any campaign that has a possibility of success must have a certain cost.
This cost is not always measured in money or energy per se, often times what we risk is something more existential; our future.
Every time that you take responsibility for an action, you are risking your standing and reputation. You are putting yourself on the line as soon as you are willing to stand up and take action. Taking responsibility means instant scrutiny from others so you must stand firm against this challenge.
Since you risk so much when you take a decisive action, you must be very certain that you calculate the cost of all that you are about to do. Leaders take responsibility and because they are responsible, they put themselves in harm's way.
To be a leader is therefore to be a risk taker. Leaders gamble on the fact that what they are about to do will have future gain. This future gain is for their good, and for the good of all those that they lead.
Leaders need to calculate the cost of any venture before they commit to an action. They need to look past their emotions and let go of any instinct to act on first impulses. To be a leader means to plan and to look ahead. Impulsive actions can have a terrible cost, a cost that can most often not be reversed.
Leaders therefore are planners, they calculate. They measure, they ponder, and they examine every possible outcome to every possible circumstance. Before leaders act and put themselves and their people in the spotlight, they must ponder and calculate every possible outcome. Anything less is most certain defeat.
"Walk softly and carry a big abacus," should be your motto. Realize now that everything that you do when you act as a leader has a price. Since everything has a price, make sure that you do not commit until you are ready, willing, and able to commit with as many of your resources as it takes to win.
There are times when the world thrusts a big problem on your shoulders and you are not given the choice to take action. The playing stage that is a leaders domain is full of uncertainty and there are times when you can't calculate, but are thrust into the spotlight by powers beyond your control.
When this happens, and it will, a leaders creates time. When a leader is face with odds that he or she hasn't had time to calculate, he/she lets his mind expand and looks for ways to create time which can be used to postulate the right decision.
Leaders engage their competitors with a free and open mind that is not concerned and they look for ways to distract those competitors. These distractions must be abstract and catch the competition unaware.
This allows the a leader to retreat for a moment so that they can quickly contemplate their actions and choose the one course of action that will be best suited to thwart the opposition. The more time that you can give yourself to calculate and to reposition your forces the better.
A great leader could be thrown into a pit of hungry lions and walk out with their food bowls.
Learn to do this so that when you are faced with the worst, you pull out of your hat the impossible. Then calculate, calculate and calculate some more. And when you think that you have made the best possible decision, taking into account every possible outcome, ACT.
If you can do this, then you will succeed over all those obstacles, challenges and competitors that you meet. Your people will begin to see your power and will trust your command. With trust and good will, you can get your people to do anything.
Resources---The Art of War by Sun Tzu
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