There are companies today that even with their rhetoric on leadership bench strength, a robust pipeline and smooth leadership succession, cannot still get a specific process to identify and help these employees with high potential, and eventually would groom them to take on leadership positions.
As we consider leaders to have the initial traits of diligence, domain expertise, industrious and a reasonable intelligence, there are some qualities that would help someone to develop and become a successful corporate leader.
In becoming a successful corporate leader, a person has to have an intellectual bandwidth of his or her particular industry, which means this leader must be able to look beyond tomorrow from the domestic to the global context. Aside from having this vision, he or she must have the bandwidth to imagine the picture and confident enough to take his or her team to go to a direction and have the strength in the process.
Being resilient is another quality that a successful leader should have, which means, having the ability to face difficulties and rise above these with confidence and ease. This is the trait of the ability to use challenges in the process of growing, and in part realizing rapid and disruptive change is today’s normal. People who can bounce back, has the ability to cope changes, can reset their course of action and can renew efforts and tap their reserved strength even under difficult conditions, qualities called resilience, are what companies would need in their employees potential to become leaders in the company.
Another quality of a leader would be one having leadership EQ, which touches on the emotions in the workplace among his or her people, by instilling higher morale, motivation and commitment, together with a display of trust, integrity and conscientiousness. .
A successful leader is passionate about his or her work and on how to achieve success, and you will see potential employees to display this characteristic. Business leaders who can be seen as promising are those who are good collaborators, with great execution and very focused on how to reach their goals and achieve success.
The desire to learn, especially in the turbulence times today, is another mark of a good business leader. This is the leader’s ability to be open and grab the opportunity to take up difficult projects with the idea in mind to increase his or her knowledge.
An organization will be better off developing leaders with strong characters into successful leaders if they see one because in the end it will benefit the company in the long run.