LSA Global Insights Newsletter: 8 Key Traits of Successful Talent Leaders

March 31, 2013

8 Key Traits of Successful Talent Leaders

What makes a person an outstanding talent leader? Is it the ability to set a vision, develop a strategy, or manage a budget? Or is it something much less visible and more subtle?

In our experience, leadership is not something that we are born with. While some people certainly have a general aptitude toward specific leadership traits, the vast majority learn to effectively lead others through hard work and experience.

After all, it is not easy to get people to follow you - especially through difficult changes in complex times. It is also unsettling to many new leaders when they finally realize that their success is dependent upon those around them and not their individual smarts or heroics.

It takes insight into what leadership is all about and the desire to practice it in a deliberate, thoughtful, and consistent way to become an effective leader.

Based on over 20 years of experience, we have identified 8 Key Traits that successful talent leaders share time and time again.

Read more about the 8 key traits of successful talent leaders




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