What is leadership attitude?
Leadership attitude is a collective term for qualities that a good leader should possess. These qualities include open-mindedness, a coherent value system, authenticity, a positive charisma, enthusiasm, an appreciative attitude, presence, a healthy self-confidence, doer qualities, a commitment to performance, decisiveness, drive and commitment, a service attitude, commitment, good communication skills and the ability to …
Self-Awareness and Self-Control
Not everyone has to be or become a leader. Not even you. Even if you are assigned as a leader, this does not necessarily mean that you are a leader or would like to be a leader. Perhaps you feel much more comfortable as a specialist. People are different, and that’s a good thing. Try …
ZEN Practice as a Path to Self-Awareness and Self-Control
Zen is a movement or line of Mahayana Buddhism that originated in China from the 5th century before the Christian era and was influenced primarily by Daoism. Zen promotes an inner balance and enables people to draw strength from serenity. In this way, Zen enables people to move things forward and to follow a clear …
Time management: manage limited time well
Leadership means being present for your employees. The higher your position in the organization and the greater your leadership span, the more time you should devote to leadership. This brings us to a classic conflict: you have limited time. You can’t do everything yourself – and you’re not supposed to, because you have employees to …
The Pareto principle: Focus on required delivery
Focus on the activities that “your customers” pay for. By customers, we mean primarily internal customers. These are your superiors, your colleagues and your employees. What do you need to deliver to your supervisor? What is most important to your internal customers so that they can perform this “delivery” as well as possible? In conversation …
The Eisenhower principle: Urgent and important tasks
The fact that time is always short was noted by former U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower, who recommended in the 1950s that we should distinguish sharply between urgent and important tasks. Urgent and important tasks should be done immediately by yourself. You should consistently delegate urgent but less important tasks. For important but non-urgent tasks, …
Delegating tasks for more freedom
Support your employees, develop them and coach them in their work so they become successful, but don’t do your employees’ jobs. Don’t allow monkeys to sit on your shoulder and dictate your daily routine. Don’t accept a problem being brought to you without any suggestions for solutions. Let your employees take responsibility for problem solving. …
Field leadership: How to lead staff
In distinction to self-leadership or , the leadership of others is called external leadership. By the way, you can not only lead employees; you can also lead your superiors and your customers to a certain degree. External leadership includes creating a among colleagues, creating a , , the consideration of of employees, for which the …
Performance climate and togetherness
Leading means creating a performance climate and at the same time cultivating fair and respectful interaction with one another, in a balanced relationship at a high level. Very important for a performance climate is that you put the right employees in the right place. Find out what your and how they want to develop. The …
Appreciative and truthful business culture
and are essential for a performance climate.