3 Essential Leadership Qualities That Make You A Bad A** Boss Leader
All the Bad A** Boss Leaders that I know and coach, have a few things in common, that make them stand out among their peers and get results.
Being a Bad A** Boss Leader is simple but not easy. It requires training, coaching, and introspective work to build and maintain the necessary skillsets for the role.
A Bad A** Boss Leader leads from the comfort of herself while getting done what must be done. She is relentlessly optimistic and creates a future that delights all her stakeholders. She uses all the tools and skills in her leadership toolkit to inspire buy-in and navigate the many challenges she experiences along the way to improving productivity and profitability in her organization.
She is calm, confident and courageous and is a life-long learner who creates a workplace environment for others to learn and grow.
Some leadership essentials to achieve Bad A** Boss Leader status:
- Self-Awareness
Developing self-awareness is key to becoming a leader of yourself and others. Understanding how your habits, values, thought patterns and emotions have impacted who you are today, and how your actions or in-actions have influenced others in the workplace in getting the current results.
Self-awareness is the first step to knowing what must change.
When you gain this awareness, you are able to conduct an honest appraisal of:
who you are,
where you are, and
what steps you need to take to reach your goals and get the outcomes you want.
Bad A** Boss Leaders all have a clear understanding of what their goals are and what they must do to get the best from themselves and their teams.
And they do what must be done to maintain that clarity. When my clients realize that they don’t demonstrate what they say they value, and they make the necessary changes, they create alignment within themselves and ultimately change what they believe is possible for their future in these areas:
their career path,
performance at work,
relationship in their personal life, and
their leadership.
Awareness creates shifts in reducing the stress that leaders feel and significantly improves their decision-making process.
- Productivity
It’s easy to get pulled from one place and one task to the next, busying yourself with servicing a constant barrage of communications from staff, colleagues, emails, calendar notifications and more.
Bad A** Boss Leaders are clear about the difference between Busyness and Productivity, plus, they understand the quick and easy ways to get drawn into busyness. Because of that, they create structures and processes that keep them in the lane of productivity.
When you understand that your personal and professional growth, as well as the growth of your organization and team depends on your ability to focus on the big picture, while attending to the necessary and important daily work that only you can do; it’s easier to get it done.
Being productive is a skill to help you succeed professionally, as well as create the life you want.
So, when Bad A** Boss Leaders begin to have feelings of overwhelm and frustration, they pull the tools and skills from their leadership toolkit so they can focus on the crucial tasks and commit the time to completion.
- Relationship-Building
To be a Bad A** Boss Leader, you must create a badass team! This requires you to have genuine relationships and create an environment that allows your team to work well together.
One way is to develop a team that is aligned around a common purpose. To do this:
identify and foster the best qualities and skillsets of each team member,
communicate your expectations, and
motivate and coach them to perform their best.
When you master the skills of:
self-awareness,
productivity, and
relationship-building
…you learn how to lead with your heart and reach your full potential as a leader who makes a positive difference in the world.
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