Becoming a Better Leader

Jack Zenger, CEO of one of the world's largest leadership development organizations, recently reported the results of research on leaders who made dramatic improvements in their leadership. Here are the behaviors these leaders used to turn around their performance.

• They improved their communication effectiveness.
• They made an effort to share their knowledge and expertise more widely. 
• They began to encourage others to do more and to be better. 
• They developed a broader perspective. 
• They recognized they were role models and needed to set a good example. 
• They began to champion their team's new ideas. 
• They learned to recognize when change was needed. 
• They improved their ability to inspire and motivate others. 
• They began to encourage cooperation rather than competition.