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Seventy-Eight Behaviours for Managers and Leaders
25 April, 2008 in career, effectiveness | Tags: acknowledgement, anticipation, apologising, appreciation, approachability, assertiveness, avoiding, balance, behaviours, being supportive, challenges, clarity, collaboration, commitment, communication, competence, compromise, concerns, conciseness, confidence, confidences, consideration, control, cost-effective, courtesy, creativity, credit, crisis mode, criticism, deadlines, decisions, decisiveness, defensiveness, delegation, difficulties, direction, discipline, domination, effectiveness, emotion, encouraging, engagement, enjoyment, excuses, expectations, fairness, family, favoritism, feedback, feelings, flexibility, focus, friendships, helping, high-quality, honesty, impact, improvement, influence, influencing, informing, initiative, innovation, integrity, interrupting, interruptions, leadership, leading by example, leisure, listening, long-term, loyal, management, meaning, mistakes, motivation, negative feedback, negativity, networking, open-mindedness, organisation, outcomes, people, performance, personal development, personal improvement, personal values, planning, popularity, positivity, pressure, priorities, prioritisation, procrastination, productivity, professional development, professional improvement, professionalism, projects, punctuality, quick fixes, recognition, respect, responsibility, saying no, self-control, sense of direction, sensitivity, solutions, solving, sphere of influence, straightforwardness, strengths, success, talent, tasks, teamwork, timeliness, understanding, values, viewpoints, wellbeing, win-win, work-life balance, working hard | Leave a comment
This morning a colleague invited me to fill in one of these anonymous 360-degree feedback forms. Being so acutely aware of my own “development points” I never really feel qualified to feed back on other’s professional behaviours, but people seem to keep asking me! While ticking the little boxes I had to work at staying focused, instead of becoming self-conscious of my own imperfections brought to mind by the questionnaire!
Even though my aim is to “downshift” and escape the corporate environment (often one of the most challenging environments in which to develop these behaviours) I will always have to be able to collaborate effectively, and will always want to behave in a way that is constructive and respectful of those around me. It still struck me that the list is a pretty thorough and proven memory aid for achieving that. Here is the list:
