Leadership Practices and Development

Leadership Practices and Development

Introduction

Leadership is all about behavior i.e. an observable set of abilities and skills rather than personality. When different successful leaders from throughout the world are studied, certain traits are common in all. These leaders despite the differences in their culture, age, gender and other variables display similar patterns of behaviors.

Discussion

Leadership Practices and Improvement Actions

The five common practices of exemplary leaders include:

Model the Way

The leaders establish values regarding how different members of the team or Organization would be treated. In doing so, the leaders themselves set commendable behavioral examples and design policies (Kouzes & Posner, 2011). ...