Leadership Qualities Priority Ranking and Self-Assessment

Leadership Qualities Priority Ranking and Self-Assessment
Ranking Leadership Quality Importance
Rank each quality from 1 (highest) to 25 (lowest).

Leadership Qualities / Defined
Choosing a leadership style isn’t always easy due to different situations and changing environments. Individual leaders can reflect using a competency-based leadership self-assessment. The ability to learn your strengths and weaknesses as a leader is key to learning what leadership styles might best align with your skills and abilities. Effective leaders can take what they learn from various assessments to help guide their current and future leadership styles. You will thoroughly examine your Leadership Qualities Priority Ranking and Self-Assessment results, focusing on 25 leadership qualities results, strengths, and weaknesses. You will use the self-assessment process, your additional exploration of key leadership qualities, and your own leadership awareness to demonstrate your understanding of how leadership qualities establish your personal leadership style.

Self-Assessment
Select one for each quality.



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Integrity - Integrity in leadership means having strong moral principles, standing by your words, and doing the right thing. It's a highly valued trait since most employees look to their leader for cues on how to act. A leader that demonstrates the company values in their actions helps set expectations for acceptable behavior.



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Innovative - Innovative leadership is a style of leadership that involves applying innovation and creativity to managing people and projects. Innovative leaders inspire productivity in new ways and through different approaches that have typically been used and taken.



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Honesty - An honest leader can be trusted to make decisions in the best interest of their team or organization. They are also more likely to gain the respect of their peers and colleagues. In addition, an honest leader is more likely to achieve their goals.



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Active Listening - The Impact of Active Listening - Listening builds trust, creates transparency, and fosters loyalty. Active listening also gives leaders insight and makes them more mindful of the stress and tension points of those they lead. It encourages stronger communication between leaders and team members and drives engagement.



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Self-Confidence - Self-confidence is necessary for leaders to take risks and accomplish high goals. Leaders who are self-confident tend to deal immediately and directly with problems and conflicts, rather than procrastinating, ignoring, or passing problems to others (Chance and Chance 2002, p. 86).


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Visionary - What Is Visionary Leadership? Visionary leadership is a business leadership style that focuses on a long-term plan for the future. A strong visionary leader has a clear idea of the future, which they communicate to their employees to foster a community of collaboration and teamwork.



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Strong Communicator - Leaders must be good communicators because they inspire and empower people around them, and without good communication skills, a leader would never be heard or understood by others. Therefore, effective communication is an important non-technical skill that every leader must possess.



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Delegation - A delegating leadership style is a low-task and relationship behavior approach to leadership where a leader empowers an individual to exercise autonomy. Employing this approach entails providing the individual with the big picture, then trusting them to deliver agreed-upon results.



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Decision-making Skill - A leader with strong decision-making skills will: Seek data to validate accuracy and relevancy of potential solutions. Combine experience and intuition with data to find the best solution. Assess ideas, choices, proposals, and possible outcomes.


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Problem-Solving Skills - A strong leader must have the capacity and skills to anticipate, identify, solve, prevent, and learn from problems that occur in the work environment. Creative problem-solving skills require positive processes that incorporate strong communication skills, respect for all parties involved, and innovative approaches.


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Fair Attitude – “Fair Attitude” leaders have an attitude of trust and reliance on their employees. They don't micromanage or get too involved; they don't give too much instruction or guidance. Instead “Fair Attitude” leaders let their employees use their creativity, resources, and experience to help them meet their goals.


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Inquisitiveness - Being an inquisitive leader does not mean that they have all the answers, far from it. They practice self-awareness, knowing their limitations, and admitting that mistakes are a crucial part of their journey. They ask the right people, the right questions and listen to what they hear.



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Self-motivated - Self-motivated leaders stimulate a sense of passion or excitement amongst the team members to achieve challenging goals, improve the existing systems and processes by championing excellent change initiatives with the support of others and manage resources optimally.



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Humility - Humility in leadership is the ability to consider others' opinions, act with self-awareness, and lead from a spirit of generosity instead of narcissism. Humble leaders will practice emotional intelligence and show appreciation for others while curating a work environment that prioritizes employee empowerment.


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Care for Others - A caring leader cares about the people around them by creating an environment where everyone feels valued, supported, appreciated, engaged in conversation, challenged as well as heard.



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Self-Discipline - Self-discipline is the ability to resist impulses, maintain focus, and see projects through to completion. It is categorized by a leader's persistence and willpower in dedicating their attention to a task until it is satisfactorily finished. Leaders who are high on self-discipline are not easily distracted.


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Emotional Intelligence - Emotional intelligence in leadership comprises empathy, social skills, self-awareness, self-regulation, and motivation. These are all teachable soft skills.


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Passion - Passionate leaders are outstanding communicators. They listen with the intent to genuinely understand rather than to advance their own agenda. Passionate leaders have clarity of vision. They are future-focused and have the capacity to engage others to realize their goals.



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Resilience - Resilient leaders can sustain their energy level under pressure, to cope with disruptive changes, and adapt. They bounce back from setbacks. They also overcome major difficulties without engaging in dysfunctional behavior or harming others.


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Accountability - Accountability is a key component in leadership. Essentially, it is the act of holding yourself accountable to others. To be an effective leader, you must be able to hold yourself accountable for your actions and decisions, as well as those who report to you.


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Supportive - Supportive: If you're approachable and empathetic, then you're probably a supportive leader. You show concern for employees and treat them with dignity and respect. Your employees, in turn, feel valued. In times of change or crisis, they trust you to help them manage uncertainty.



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Tech-savvy - A tech-savvy leader is aware en...