By Mike Figliuolo, Managing Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC

Twelve Characteristics of Great Leaders

Language: English
All Levels

Course description

Great leaders share many characteristics including caring tor their team, setting the example, taking responsibility, and making decisions. Learn 12 key traits you need to demonstrate.

What makes a leader a great leader? There are 12 key principles you can apply to be a more effective leader. This course covers caring for yourself, setting the example, caring for your people, taking responsibility, making decisions, and executing your plan. The value of this course to participants and the organization are more accountable leaders who deliver results while caring for their team members, more motivated team members who know their leaders are developing them, and faster decisions because leaders feel more empowered and capable of making them.

Objectives Caring for Yourself So You Can Care for Others Setting the Example Taking Care of Your People Developing and Taking Responsibility Making Decisions and Executing the Plan Training and Deploying Your Team

Who is it for The target audience for this course is leaders and future leaders who want to strengthen their leadership skills.

Related Skills

Course overview - 6

  • Caring for Yourself So You Can Care for Others

  • Setting the Example

  • Taking Care of Your People

  • Developing and Taking Responsibility

  • Making Decisions and Executing the Plan

  • Training and Deploying Your Team

Meet your instructor

Mike Figliuolo
Mike FigliuoloManaging Director, thoughtLEADERS, LLC
Mike Figliuolo is founder and managing director of thoughtLEADERS, LLC, a professional services training firm. He is an internationally recognized speaker and blogger on the topics of leadership, communications, decision-making, problem solving, and other critical business skills. An honor graduate from West Point, Mike served in the US Army as a combat arms officer. Before founding his own company, he was an assistant professor at Duke University, a consultant at McKinsey & Company, and an executive at Capital One and Scotts Miracle-Gro. He is the author of One Piece of Paper: The Simple Approach to Powerful, Personal Leadership (www.onepieceofpaper.com), Lead Inside the Box: How Smart Leaders Guide Their Teams to Exceptional Results (www.leadinsidethebox.com), and The Elegant Pitch: Create a Compelling Recommendation, Build Broad Support, and Get it Approved (www.elegantpitch.com). Mike's blog and the programs he teaches can be found at www.thoughtleadersllc.com.