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Module 2 10 Traits of Innovative Leaders

The document outlines the specific learning outcomes for a module focused on innovative leadership, highlighting ten key traits of effective innovative leaders, such as strategic vision, customer focus, and the ability to inspire. It also discusses the importance of leadership assessment in understanding individual leadership capabilities, optimizing self-awareness, and improving organizational leadership development. The benefits of leadership assessment include guiding career goals, enhancing leadership effectiveness, and supporting career growth.

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Module 2 10 Traits of Innovative Leaders

The document outlines the specific learning outcomes for a module focused on innovative leadership, highlighting ten key traits of effective innovative leaders, such as strategic vision, customer focus, and the ability to inspire. It also discusses the importance of leadership assessment in understanding individual leadership capabilities, optimizing self-awareness, and improving organizational leadership development. The benefits of leadership assessment include guiding career goals, enhancing leadership effectiveness, and supporting career growth.

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The specific learning outcomes

for this module are as follows:

* analyze the characteristics of


innovative leaders; and
* assess your leadership strengths
and weaknesses
10 Traits of
Innovative Leaders

Jack Zenger and


Joseph Folkman
1.Display excellent strategic
vision.

The most effective innovation


leaders could vividly describe
their vision of the future, and
as one respondent noted about
his boss: “She excelled at
painting a clear picture of the
destination, while we worked
to figure out how to get there.”
2. Have a strong
customer focus.
What was merely
interesting to the
customer became
fascinating to these
individuals. They
sought to get inside the
customer’s mind. They
networked with clients
and asked incessant
questions about their
needs and wants.
3. Create a climate of reciprocal
trust.

Innovation often requires some level of


risk. Not all innovative ideas are
successful. These highly innovative
leaders initiated warm, collaborative
relationships with the innovators who
worked for them. They made themselves
highly accessible. Colleagues knew that
their leader would cover their backs and
not throw them under the bus if
something went wrong. People were
never punished for honest mistakes.
4. Display
fearless loyalty
to doing
what’s right
for the
organization
and customer.

Pleasing the
boss or some
other higher
level executive
always took a
back seat to
5. Put their faith in a culture that
magnifies upward communication.
These leaders believed that the best and
most innovative ideas bubbled up from
underneath. They strived to create a
culture that uncorked good ideas from
the first level of the organization. They
were often described as projecting
optimism, full of energy, and always
receptive to new ideas. Grimness was
replaced with kidding and laughter.
6. Are persuasive.

These individuals were highly


effective in getting others to accept
good ideas. They did not push or force
their ideas onto their teams. Instead,
they presented ideas with enthusiasm
and conviction, and the team willingly
followed.
7. Excel at setting stretch
goals.

These goals required people to go


far beyond just working harder.
These goals required that they find
new ways to achieve a high goal.
8. Emphasize speed.

These leaders believed that speed


scraped the barnacles off the hull of
the boat. Experiments and rapid
prototypes were preferred to
lengthy studies by large
committees.
9. Are candid in their
communication.

These leaders were described as


providing honest, and at times even
sometimes blunt, feedback.
Subordinates felt they could always
count on straight answers from their
leader.
10. Inspire and motivate
through action.

One respondent said, “For


innovation to exist you have to
feel inspired.” This comes from a
clear sense of purpose and
meaning in the work.
Henry Sy
Who?

What values does he


demonstrate?

What makes a successful man?


Why?
Reference:
https://hbr.org/2014/12/res
earch-10-traits-of-innovati
ve-leaders

MSG
Management Study Guide
. Self Motivation for
Leaders. (n.d.). Retrieved
February 26, 2022, from
https://www.managements
tudyguide.com/self-
motivation-for-
leaders.html
Leadership
Assessment
Leadership Assessment is defined
as the process of discovering and
assessing the distinctive features of
an individual to lead, manage, and
direct teams or individuals and how
these features fit into the criteria of
a specific position.
B e n e fi t s o f
L e a d e r s h i p
A s s e s s m e n t
1. Guides in
creating career
goals
It offers everyone an impartial notion
about one’s leadership skills, regardless
of the stage taken in one’s career.

The organizations and the employees


can discover what type of
leadership abilities they possess
constructively through a successful
evaluation.
2. Optimizes
self-awareness
The way an individual manages companies
and deals with other individuals may be
tremendously improved by understanding
the traits and leadership skills a person
possesses

It can also help in enhancing the strengths


in leadership and address the flaws at the
same time.

Learning more about oneself can increase


the effectiveness of leadership in the
process
3. Assists you to
improve in all
stages of your
career
Help a person practice the suitable
courses that might be helpful in
career growth
4. Improves
leadership
development of
an organization
It helps organizations to measure
the competencies of business
executives and managers at
different levels of an organization
to lead team members and
projects.
Why should companies
do the Leadership
Assessment of
Employees?

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