I spent the afternoon with a leader from another real estate organisation the other day. We were both working on applications for the same industry awards program.
The first sign of a great leader: she shared her knowledge. Even though our agencies are in competition with each other at times, this leader gratefully shared with me insight on what had helped them be successful in these awards programs previously – a real help given that it was our first time entering.
The second sign of a great leader: she made someone else feel special. During our afternoon chat, I mentioned that our office junior had spent considerable time working on her own application in the category of “support person of the year”. Not only did this leader take this knowledge in, but when she saw our office junior a few days later she remembered the conversation and asked her how she’d gone with her submission and spent a few minutes taking time with her. I don’t know if she noticed, but my office junior was not so secretly chuffed that this leader had taken the time to make her feel important and valued.
I’m about to send a copy of this blog post to this leader so that she knows it’s her I’m talking about because my bet is, she’s such a great leader and this generosity of spirit comes so naturally to her, that she won’t have even registered that she did something really special that day.
Monday, April 25, 2011
Two Signs of a Great Leader
Added Jan 6, 2010, Under: leader
2 comments:
What is a small thing to one person is huge beyond belief to another.
The fact that you have a huge following proves that your a great leader who inspires a lot of people.
Keep up the great work you are doing as a fantastic leader.
A proud fan and a student in training.
Robin Wood
awww.. thanks Robin!
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