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dormant in your subordinates?
Organizations need great leaders to help them successfully survive the
many difficulties of this decade. Yet, the very notion of leadership has rapidly
degenerated into a cliché, a buzz word. In many people's minds, leadership has
become identified with an overly simplistic conception of vision and empowerment.
Although these concepts do play an important role in the leadership process,
they only scratch the surface of what an exceptional leader actually does on a
day-to-day basis.
What do leaders really do to make an organization work well? In my research
I found that great leaders exhibit nine different kinds of behaviors that enable
them to bring out the best in the people around them. Some of the nine behaviors
of leadership listed below involve building participatory teams, some involve
using "situational management strategies," while others enhance personal
resources. Listed separately, the nine behaviors include:

Developing ...

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authoritative "take-charge" people Dispelling these
myths is a key and briefly I will explain the nine, learnable behaviors of
leaders.
In order to go beyond a cognitive understanding, participants must begin to
experience these behaviors as they might occur at work, hence the name
experiential education. They will begin see that leaders have a strong interest
in the people working for them, for when a team works well together they all
help get an excellent job done.
The first four behaviors focus on building high functioning teams:
developing people; being able to influence others, encouraging teamwork, and
empowering others.

Developing People and Influencing Others

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