So now that we've taken a look at the three basic approaches to leadership style, your personality behavior, the situational leadership approach and then finally the action centered, contingency approach. And you've got a better feel for what your leadership style is and which of those categories you're feeding into. A good question to ask yourself is, do you have the potential to be a leader in your organization? If you're already operating as a leader? What can you do to help lift your leadership potential if you're if you want to get into the field of leadership? Now one of the things one of the key characteristics that determine whether or not someone can be successful as they, if they have that ambition, of Korn ferry, which is a very large organization, consulting businesses specializes in leadership development and executive search has literally appraised Thousands of potential leaders over the years.

And what they've distilled is the seven key characteristics that define what whether someone can have the potential to step up and become the leader that they perhaps want to be. So let's take a look at those seven characteristics. But first one, you know, do they have a track record of formative experiences. So have they been putting positions of, of leadership and where they've been able to demonstrate the capacity to be a leader, and that those crucible biter situations have really given them the perspective that they need to be able to go to another level? So if you're managing a small team, how have you gone with that? Because that builds your capacity to lead a much larger team over time?

Secondly, do you have the ability to learn from experiences some, some people tend to continue to do the same thing, same thing same old same old and What if it's not working? That's not a good outcome. So what's important is to be able to say, you know, can I can I take something away from each experiences, which is where reflection fits in, because I might need to do something differently. The next time out if that didn't work? How can I take that experience and transform my approach to it in a way that allows me to be more effective the next time a similar situation comes along. Thirdly, no surprises here.

Self Awareness is a really key factor that determines someone's leadership potential. We've talked about self awareness on numerous occasions throughout the throughout the course. And it's great to see that a prominent organization like Korn ferry also calls that out as as a key characteristic. The fourth one is leadership traits. Those are some of the things that we've talked about, you know, that authentic leaders do that empowered leaders do that. The great leaders of the Fortune research show many of those traits have now been captured.

Within our organic leader, a concept and the fact that you know when you look at the word dancer and that and the 12 attributes that sit within that, that word, they are the kind of leadership traits that Korn ferry is pointing to as being important to be an effective leader, particularly now in the 21st century. Then there's something about, do you actually have the drive to be a leader, because it's hard work, and it's very demanding. You're going to be pulled from pillar to post. And so actually aspiring to be a leader and having the determination, the resilience. The passion to be a leader is actually a key characteristic that you need to ask yourself when you've got it and or what you can do to help develop it. The second last one, an aptitude for logic and reasoning, that kind of makes sense.

You just can't continue to do things On your gut, you actually need to spend time thinking about things working through the logic of the situation, being able to apply the the gray matter if you like. And, and that's a key factor. Doesn't have to be Albert Einstein, but you do actually need to apply consistently apply your your brain power to matters that come across your desk as a leader. And then finally is managing derailment risks. And that's a big word really refers to bad personality traits. People who are overly hostile have a high need to control as we talked about previously, people who are perhaps just just not have been able to lead their teams very effectively.

They're not very adaptable and very open to feedback or experience. Those would be considered meaty relative risks. And so you as a leader need to learn how to minimize those interpersonal weaknesses if you like and learn to ramp up the things that are going to help you become the best leader you can be. So that's where the the Korn ferry characteristics are and it'd be worthwhile he's in a few minutes there's actually an attachment that goes into more detail, but worthwhile just spending a few minutes just taking a look at those and, and deciding for yourself where you sit and what you need to do to change