Positive attributes
- Interpersonal Competence is essential for
effectiveness in influencing others outside your chain of command, or
negotiating across agency lines. It suggests high confidence in the
worth of other people, which is reflected in openness
and trust in others.
- Empowering Subordinates goes beyond simple
delegation of tasks and is crucial for creating and leading high
performing organizations. It involves the personal capacity to develop
meaningful roles for subordinates and then to encourage
initiative in the execution of these roles.
- Team Performance Facilitation includes
selecting good people in assembling a team, getting team members the
resources to do a job, providing coordination to get tasks done and
moving quickly to confront problem individuals.
- Objectivity is the ability to "keep one's cool" and maintain composure under conditions that might otherwise be personally threatening.
- Initiative/Commitment is the ability to stay
involved and committed to one's work, get things done, be part of a team
effort and take charge in situations as required.
Understanding the character of
strategic leader power and the requisite personal attributes and skills
sets the stage for employing power effectively. We need to know more
than the conceptual elements that constitute power in organizations at
the strategic
level. But, we need to know the strategies of how to use power effectively and to get things done.