What makes a leader?
18 Characteristics that everyone can develop
Dick Abel covers 18 characteristics that develop great leaders. Leaders are to be selfless, compassionate, high-principled, and consistent. These ideas can be expanded into practical characteristics that can be applied at work and at home. The seminar, as well as his book, The DNA of Leadership, will show you how to sharpen the following leadership characteristics (and others) and apply them to your personal style. A few of the 18 characteristics that Dick Abel will cover are:
- Integrity: Absolute wholeness, truthfulness, undivided
- Courage: Recognize the danger or criticisms, and proceed without fear
- Example: A pattern or model; something imitated
- Communication: Imparting or exchanging thoughts, opinions, etc.
- Teamwork: Cooperative effort on the part of a group
- Decisiveness: Picking the right course of action from reliable sources in a timely manner
- Sensitivity: Responsive to the feelings of others