11 Personal Leadership Ideas - A Series on Managing Relationships

A senior leader in a corporation faced political battles early in a new position and sought advice on managing relationships. The author offers three categories of advice, beginning with critical personal leadership behaviors. These include self-assessment based on honesty and integrity, recognizing the role of emotions while giving importance to facts and logic, figuring out your purpose and priorities, seeking out varied perspectives, being distinctive in adding value, listening, communicating ideas in multiple ways, staying open to possibilities, tactfully challenging ideas, and bringing intensity and passion to work.