If you can say "yes" to all of the following nineteen statements, you are a leader of others in the ways they want and need for you to be. However, you would only be a second tier leader. If you can say that you are helping others to be able to say "yes" to all of these statements, then you are the best possible leader of others that there can be. How effectively are you leading? How effectively are you "leader-ing" (making leaders of others)? Your responses to this leadership checklist will determine the answers you can give to these questions. A Leadership Manifesto 1. I am striving to think better thoughts about myself, my work and other people. 2. I am looking for ways to exceed my previous "best" at work and at home. 3. I am searching for ways to make my work and home environments supportive and encouraging. 4. I am expressing appreciation to my coworkers, employees & family every day. 5. I am seeking ways to think more efficiently and accurately. 6. I am looking to identify beliefs I have that sap my energy and desire to move forward. 7. I am focusing on what's going right with me and with others at home and at work. 8. I am celebrating my successes and the successes of others on a regular basis. 9. I am learning the causes for our successes. 10. I am keeping my objectives and my organization's objectives clearly in view at all times. 11. I am helping clarify for myself and others the benefits of achieving our objectives. 12. I am searching for creative ways to move closer to our common objectives. 13. I am looking for reasons to say "Yes" rather than "No." 14. I am asking specific questions of myself and others to help us gauge how effectively we are moving forward toward our objectives. 15. I am asking specific questions of myself and others to help us focus on the positive. 16. I am allowing structured time for myself and others to think and to record our thoughts & ideas. 17. I am willingly sharing what I know with others. 18. I believe that I am at my best (and can move beyond my best) when I help others do -- and exceed -- their best. 19. I am asking my co-workers on a daily basis, How can I help you do your best work today? |
