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Tips on Being a Great Leader – Part 1

“Top 10 Leadership Characteristics”

This is a topic that you could write a book on and there are in fact many books on leadership.  The idea of this blog is to create a short but concise blog series on this important topic.  As a manager in my professional career (both military and civilian/corporate America) I have worked with many managers, some good ones and lots of bad ones.  Why are there so many bad managers/leaders out there?  One common issue I see is that the majority of them have never had the opportunity to be trained as a leader and how to manage people.  Having attended a Military College (Norwich University, the oldest private military college in the country) I had the benefit of being a part of an elite organization that was focused on developing the best leaders possible.  That involved taking many leadership courses in order to graduate with a commission in the Army and then the Army continued to provide more leadership training on a regular basis.  Unfortunately most people never get these same training opportunities and at some point in their career they get promoted into management and are just expected to know how to be a great leader and manager.  Sorry, but that doesn’t just come with the title.  Read more