Category: Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
Finding Meaning in Unemployment

Unemployment is a huge barrier to our country achieving its full potential. It will probably also become a pivotal theme in the upcoming American elections. In our national values assessment last year thousands of South Africans countrywide voted for ‘employment opportunities’ and ‘poverty reduction’ to be in the top five desired values for SA. Participants […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
The Two Pillars of Leadership

Let us consider power for a moment:  One cannot be a leader without the ability to exercise some sort of power and influence. There are essentially three types of power – coercive, positional, and true power. Coercive power is when someone leverages a weakness of another. Positional power is when position alone gives the holder […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
Leaders in Zoar

Have you ever heard of a place called Zoar? If you have I am impressed. It is a small community of about 6000 people situated in the mountains past Oudshoorn, between Calitzdorp and Ladysmith, in the Western Cape. In the heart of that community lives a small family of authentic, exemplary leaders, adding real value […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
Motives of a True Leader

Leadership Platform has interviewed and profiled hundreds of top leaders from many walks of life.  We have been able to engage average leaders, good leaders, great leaders, and the very rare exceptional leader.  It is the last that I wish to refer to today To begin this second instalment of our You(th) the Leader series, […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
What kind of leader am I?

What kind of a leader or aspiring leader am I? This article is about a few key parameters that we can use to measure our leadership attitude. Leadership Platform uses the term ‘seamless leader’ to describe a specific kind of leader that we believe most of us can become. Several of these universal principles have […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
Leadership and Repetition

For a seamless leader, repetition is a core element in the development of character and leadership competence. No skill of real value is possessed without the application of much repetition. Every skill we learn is the result of practice and experience. Think of learning to read and write, to drive a car, to speak a […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
A Seamless Attitude

The critical role that a seamless attitude plays in life was brought home sharply to me a week ago when we heard the distressing news that two sons of friends from the Eastern Cape had died in a plane crash. The two brothers were in fact participating in a final flight before the one brother […]

Characteristics, Attributes, and Qualities
Your Leadership Journey

Leadership Platform has been engaging leadership and leaders for over a decade now. Our core motive has remained constant:  empowering leaders to generate movement along their personal leadership journeys AND to then, in turn, empower their staff/teams to do the same.  In short:  the creation of movement (which is the essence and function of leadership) […]

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