Leadership Traits

1. You create and maintain trust by making sure your people know that you understand their opinions and concerns;



2. You view truthfulness as more than just honesty, genuinely longing to digest information and adjust to the realities around you;



3. You make a genuine effort to be results-oriented, and not just grace-oriented;



4. You embrace bad news. You get it and get moving;



5. You don’t maintain your leadership abilities. You grow them.



6. You accept the question of transcendence—you say you’re not God and act like it.
   

Adapted from Dr. Henry Cloud's address at Willow Creek's Children's Ministry Conference