Fostering collaborations and partnerships with community agencies and businesses. Effective leaders help others to change and grow by creating environments where risk-taking and experimentation are actively encouraged. Give others permission to make mistakes as they learn. Provide the authority, resources, time, and training needed to do the job. Shared decision making Effective leaders are up front about roles, rules, goals, and relationships in reaching decisions.
Effective leaders believe that power shared, returns, and that power withheld, diminishes.
They know that listening is being caring enough to ask, interested enough to pay attention, and dedicated enough to respond. Everything they say or do sends a message, sets a tone, or teaches people what to do or not to do. They describe the results wanted, not how to do the job. As a follow-up, they may ask others to respond with a rough plan. Give authority to accomplish the task.