Distinguishing Yourself As a Green Leader

Our global environmental crisis requires we align our thoughts and actions with the furthering of renewable, sustainable, eco-friendly solutions at work, home and play. With green career opportunities growing at an ever increasing rate, it’s an opportune time to stand up and stand out as a leader in your niche. Businesses will be looking to [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders Are Courageous

What are the qualities of a leader? What characteristics are part of the profile of people who rise to the challenge of leading community organizations, schools, churches, companies, and even nations? As leaders, it’s important that we take time to remember what we contribute and how we contribute in our personal and professional lives. When [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders have Solid Values

What are the qualities of a leader?  Courage, solid values, rock solid integrity.  These are just some of the standout values profiled in men and women who rise to the challenge of leading community organizations, schools, churches, companies, and even nations. If you want to really know who someone is, study his or her words [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders have a Positive Attitude

When people hear statements like “have a positive attitude” or “think positively,” many shake their heads thinking, “Sure, but they don’t know what my life is like.”  Maybe not, but regardless of your life circumstances, you can and should, do your best to maintain a positive attitude. Only the ignorant believe that life is to [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders are Open Minded

What does it mean to be open-minded?  Does it mean that you automatically check your ethics, belief system, and personal values at the door and then blindly follow out-of-control politicians and corporate leaders?  Absolutely not.  That’s a recipe for disaster and a very unhappy life.  If having conversations with others is enough to unseat you [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders Possess Warmth of Personality

In the past, when someone thought of a business leader, a warm and welcoming personality was not usually something that readily came to mind.  The cold, unfriendly, and aloof management attitudes of the 60s, 70s and 80s have changed dramatically in the past two decades.  A leader who can’t smile, speak the language of his [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders are Responsible

The word “responsible” has to do with a moral, legal, or mental accountability.  Responsibility is a tough concept for many to master.  And that’s more evident than ever as we witness unprecedented rates of decline in all aspects of our society.  From hospitals to schools, from bureaucracies to boardrooms, the lack of personal responsibility on [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders Possess High Self-Worth

Self-worth or self-esteem is the value that we attribute to ourselves.  It’s our perception of who we are, which, of course, can differ greatly from how other people view us.  Everyone forms certain beliefs about themselves as they grow up.  These beliefs underlie much of the confidence that we pull from as we take on [...]

Leadership Qualities – Great Leaders are Flexible

Consider any manufactured product.  When something is flexible, it can withstand certain levels of influence and not break, shatter or become inoperable.  Flexibility allows it to last longer, endure, and continue to work well into the future.  Rather than resist the forces coming at it, it engages with that energy and absorbs or deflects it [...]

Leadership Qualities – Leaders Possess Leadership Ability

Leadership ability is about pulling together one’s understanding of self and others and integrating that within a framework of values, ethics, and culture.  It is about drawing upon one’s inner core of discipline and persistence to empower others to do great things while setting the example of doing great things our self. Our ability to [...]

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