How I define Leadership
in terms of specific skills





What is leadership?

I define leadership in practical terms – my definition of leadership doesn’t get here from theory, but rather, from practical, hands-on, day-to-day leadership challenges leaders face today.

My focus is on the vital leadership characteristics that are indispensable for any leader to possess, in order to genuinely build a high performance organization, and as a consequence of this, a truly sustainable competitive advantage.

My definition of leadership is in terms of specific skills – in terms of observable, measurable, and learnable behaviors.

My leadership definition has nothing to do with charisma, charm, or magnetism.

The great majority of world-class high performing organizations are led by so-called not charismatic leaders; charisma helps leaders indeed, there is no question about that – and it also helps any person for that matter – but charisma is not a key factor in driving organizational high performance.

On the contrary, leadership is so objective that it smacks you in the face with its concreteness – the performance of an organization is the result of its leaders' behavior.

Leadership is about observable, actual, and unmistakable behaviors – it is about knowing exactly what organizational levers to use; it is about identifying a reasonable number of priorities that will have the greatest possible impact on the success of your organization.

You control a bull by grabbing it by its horns, to make it jump – and even soar – according to your dexterity.

I define leadership as having the specific skills that allow you to grab your organization by its horns in order to make it soar – to reach organizational peak performance.

Leadership skills are learnable – like any other skill.

Here on this page, you will find the most effective skills – explicit, practical, and powerful – that will give you the greatest possible impact on your company’s performance.

You will see many “old” terms on this page – there is nothing new about these good old leadership skills.

However, most of the top-level executives don’t use these leadership tools appropriately. The term “mission” for example, despite the fact that most companies have a mission statement (they probably even went to an expensive off-site meeting to craft it), their mission is nothing more than a useless paragraph written on their company’s main entrance, on their website’s corporate information page, and on their business brochures.

The information I give you on these pages tell you exactly what it is you need to do in order to make these tools have a direct impact on organizational performance.

These leadership skills are subdivided into three sections:

  • Head – the head of your organization
  • Heart – the heart of your organization
  • Muscle – the muscle of your organization

    The overall picture of our leadership model looks like this:

    Good Leadership Skills

    To understand why my model is represented in concentric ellipses, take a look at my Systems Thinking section.



    HOW I DEFINE LEADERSHIP
    IN ORDER TO BUILD
    ORGANIZATIONAL HIGH PERFORMANCE


    First Section: The HEAD of your Organization

  • Leadership Characteristics
  • Definition of Organizational Culture
  • What is Systems Thinking
  • Alignment Definition
  • Content and Process
  • Ethical Decision Making Model
  • Team Building Techniques
  • How to Run a Meeting

    Second Section: The HEART of your organization

  • Writing a Mission Statement
  • Sample Mission Statements
  • Value Based Leadership
  • Definition of Values and Examples
  • Writing a Vision Statement
  • Sample Vision Statements
  • Definition of Strategic Planning
  • Goal Setting Guidelines
  • Effective Workplace Communication

    Third Section: The MUSCLE of your organization

  • Job Interviewing Techniques
  • Sample Interviewing Questions
  • Basic Management Skills
  • Leadership Skills vs Management Skills
  • Quotes about Leadership
  • Free Employee Recognition Ideas
  • Wrongful Termination

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    How I define leadership is simple – my definition of leadership is not rocket science. Its rocket science-like difficulty resides in its implementation – its implementation requires discipline indeed.

    However, organizational high performance is at the reach of any leader who truly wants to succeed – applying these leadership skills is not about working more; rather, it is about working differently, in a more effective way.

    If you would like your executives to learn about how I define leadership through my speaking or consulting services, please click on this link.

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