Top 6 Traits that make a Great Leader Whitepaper

A top priority for businesses today must be to look beyond the traditional strategies for leadership recruitment and development. In our new whitepaper, ‘Top 6 Traits to make a Great Leader’, we present the six key traits of high performing business leaders in the modern workplace:

• Conscientiousness – self-motivation and drive to achieve
• Adjustment – resilience to stress and pressure
• Curiosity – openness to adopting new approaches
• Risk Approach – willingness to confront and solve difficult challenges
• Ambiguity Acceptance – approach to uncertainty and complexity
• Competitiveness – need to achieve and fulfil positions.

“The greatest leaders are the ones that take a little bit more of the difficult stuff on their own shoulders than perhaps they should and a little bit less of the kudos than perhaps they should” - Dave Woodward, former Chief Executive of E.J. Heinz, North America.