Warren Allan Johnson in a recent post on his blog provides 3 tips from Bill Hybels who spoke at the Willow Creek Leadership Summit (August 10-12, 2006):
1. To develop your own leadership skills:
- Read everything you can get your hands on about improving your leadership skills. You should always have two books that you’re working on.
- Go where leadership is taught. Take the initiative to do this early in your life and career.
- Get around leaders who are better than you and ask good questions. Take them to lunch to ask your questions, if needed.
- Be involved in leading something
2. When hiring people, or looking for people to move into leadership positions, look for:
- Character
- Competence
- Chemistry
3. Leaders will eventually reach a point where it is wise to develop a “constellation of colleagues” to work beside them in senior leadership. The additional grid he uses to select who should be leaders at the senior level includes:
- Intelligence
- Energetic people
- Relational IQ – someone who doesn’t hurt people as they get things done
- Commitment - a “win or die” spirit
It’s important for the leader to develop other leaders because you eventually become the growth-limiting factor for your department, division or organization. If you don’t develop leaders, the good people in your organization will eventually leave for other positions where they can make an impact.
4. Keep Leading Something
It's important to keep your skills honed and to apply yourself whenever possible.
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