The Beginning: PRODUCTIVE LEADING SKILLS & STYLES

Productive Leading

PRODUCTIVE LEADING SKILLS & STYLES
People can learn and continually develop skills and styles of leading whether they are supervisors, team leaders, department heads, leaders, CEOs.
Leaders at all levels have the responsibility to develop the future leaders among the people who they work with.
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4 PRIMARY LEADING STYLES can be learned and developed into 16 effective LEADING STYLES that any leader can use to fit situations and the thinking styles of their people.
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Among the many skills and traits that leading requires to be a Productive & Valuable Leader there are a basic 12 learnable and developable skills.
12 Cornerstones of Productive Leading
each of these can continually be developed and added to other needed skills. 
 Skills of Leaders that are needed often are situational from short-term to on-going development.

1.   Communication
2.   Consistent
3.   Centered
4.   Compromise
5.   Confidence
6.   Caring
7.   Creditability
8.   Control
9.   Commitment
10. Creative
11.  Challenges
12.  Competence

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