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Great leaders have the ability to look at a situation, choose a positive approach and make things happen as opposed to falling into the trap of focusing on being a victim. Leadership is often hard work. There is an old expression: “when the going gets tough the tough get going” which reflects a positive character trait that great leaders possess. Ultimately the choice you make with respect to your attitude impacts your destiny.
One way to simplify our understanding of virtues is to sort them into three “buckets” – virtues that exemplify our attitudes, our beliefs and our commitments. This “bucket” approach enables us to begin to assess and measure the approach that people take to certain situations in order to evaluate their character.
The key to understanding a person’s character is to establish how a person’s traits act in conjunction with their values and virtues. It’s like a math equation. Behaviour is a product of hardwired preferences multiplied by values and virtues. It is important to point out that values and virtues are not hardwired in the same way as traits are. Values and virtues can be learned, are a choice and can be changed.
One of the key goals of effective leadership is to enable others to act independently once they understand the vision and goals of the leader. The process of enabling independence requires the leader to move from telling “followers” exactly what to do in order to achieve the goal, to a process where “followers” make their own decisions on how to achieve the vision and goal that the leader has articulated. In other words leaders should ultimately move toward managing the outcome versus “micro-managing” the process used to achieve the outcome.
