7 Behaviors of Great Leaders

HOW do great leaders learn to demonstrate the behaviors that can make them the most successful? This dynamic session will review those behaviors, explain how they can be demonstrated in daily practice, show how they can be acquired and then effectively applied, and reviews methods by which to build the skills linked to those behaviors in oneself and in other people. 

• Introduction
  • Overview
  • Objectives
  • Organizational scheme of the webinar
• What Are Effective Leaders?
  • Descriptions of leadership
  • What is transactional leadership and transformational leadership?
  • What are facts and figures about leadership?
• What Are the 7 Behaviors of Effective Leaders?
  • Building relationships
  • Developing people
  • Leading change
  • Inspiring others
  • Thinking critically
  • Communicate effectively
  • Establishing and maintaining accountability
• How to Develop the 7 Behaviors
  • Methods of developing behaviors
  • Helping other people to develop the behaviors
• Summary and Final Questions
  • Summary
  • Final Q & A

• knowing how to build relationships
• knowing how to develop people
• knowing how to lead change
• knowing how to inspire others
• knowing how to think critically
• knowing how to communicate effectively
• knowing how to establish and maintain accountability

• Executives
• Managers
• Front-line supervisors
• Workers who aspire to be leaders

William J. Rothwell, Ph.D., SPHR, SHRM-SCP, CPLP Fellow is President of Rothwell & Associates, Inc. He has worked in HR for more than 40 years and has also worked as a consultant for more than 50 multinational corporations--including Motorola China, General Motors, Ford, and many others. In 2012 he earned ASTD’s prestigious Distinguished Contribution to Workplace Learning and Performance Award, and in 2013 ASTD honored him by naming him as a Certified Professional in Learning and Performance (CPLP) Fellow. (ASTD is now called ATD.) In 2014 he was given the Asia-Pacific International Personality Brandlaureate Award.

He has authored, coauthored, edited or coedited 115 books since 1987. His recent books since 2017 include Virtual Coaching to Improve Group Relationships: Process Consultation Reimagined (Routledge, 2021), The Essential Human Resource Guide for Small Business and Start Ups (Society for Human Resource Management, 2020); Increasing Learning and Development’s Impact Through Accreditation (Palgrave, 2020); Workforce Development: Guidelines for Community College Professionals, 2nd ed. (Rowman-Littlefield, 2020); Human Performance Improvement: Building Practitioner Performance, 3rd ed. (Routledge, 2018);  Innovation Leadership (Routledge, 2018), Evaluating Organization Development: How to Ensure and Sustain the Successful Transformation (CRC Press, 2017), Marketing Organization Development Consulting: A How-To Guide for OD Consultants (CRC Press, 2017), Assessment and Diagnosis for Organization Development: Powerful Tools and Perspectives for the OD practitioner (CRC Press, 2017). He also authored such books as The Leader’s Daily Role in Talent Management (2015), Effective Succession Planning, 5th ed. (2015), and Becoming an Effective Mentoring Leader (2013).