PART TWO
Performing as a Leader
The greatest ideas for performing as a leader are grouped under the key areas of setting and achieving objectives, developing leadership skills and the essential qualities of leadership.
Once you have a clear idea of the generic role and responsibilities of a leader, you need to build up your knowledge of your own strengths and weaknesses (or areas for improvement) in relation to that role.
When you identify your personal goals there should always be, I suggest, at least one that relates to learning and self-development. In the speech that President John F Kennedy was on his way to deliver in Dallas when he was shot dead on that fateful day, he was going to say: ‘Leadership and learning are indispensable to each ...
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