Some of us received a questionnaire in the mail recently on "Leadership Competency Profiling". This questionnaire looks at developing a Leadership Competency Model for managerial roles in the company. The questions explore behaviours which we may or may not demonstrate in our role at work and how we balance our professional and personal lives. It asks us how often these behaviours are demonstrated and our perceptions on its importance. \
Doing that questionnaire got me thinking about what makes a good leader. One of the best definitions I have found so far is by Moira Rayner, a human rights ctivist in Australia.
How do you define leadership?
"In the words of Lao Tzu, When the best leader's work is done, the people say, 'we did it ourselves'." "A leader encapsulates a group's sense of purpose and aspirations. She can inspire others to work together because they genuinely wish to, and the skills that lead a group to find shared objectives and achieve a desired result, sometimes at the cost of their personal preferences.
Leaders are intelligent, aware of their own limitations and skills, possess vision, and the ability to communicate that vision, and have a range of significant skills,
including the ability to select others with the skills they don't have but need, and in particular the capacity to bring other people along with them, as a result of free choice.
A leader can personify the aspirations of the group, without losing their individuality."
Posted by Najah Nasseri at 2003年01月14日 11:38