7 Traits of High Potential Team Leaders - with Blair Stevenson

I’m Blair Stevenson, founder of BravaTrak. Since 1997, I’ve specialized in developing team leaders’ capability to get better results.

Working with over 7000 managers of customer-facing teams, I’ve identified there are 7 traits high-performing team leaders have in common.

These are the ones to look for when you’re recruiting team leaders, to ensure they’ve got high potential.

The 7 Traits of High-Potential Team Leaders:

Honesty (05:09).

Action oriented (11:02).

Low need for approval (14:32).

High IQ (20:10).

Social awareness and ability to maintain good relationships (22:57).

Self-awareness and ability to self-manage (25:02).

Great time management (28:08).

You'll Learn:

The most important characteristic people say they want in their team leader - based on global research since 1987 (05:34).

The 2 questions to ask during an interview to identify whether a prospect has this characteristic (08:02).

The competency area of your team leaders which has the greatest impact on employee engagement (07:08).

Why most successful team leaders aren’t perfectionists (11:58).

The percentage of decisions made by Chief Executives which are wrong - the number will shock you (12:33).

What high performing team leaders have in common with dictators (15:19).

Strategies they use to keep maintain self-awareness (25:32).

The common red flag which shows a person has poor self-management (26:04).

The hack high performing team leaders use to ensure they get things done in the required timeframe (28:38).

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