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7 Traits of High Potential Team Leaders - with Blair Stevenson

Secrets To Contact Center Success

Release Date: 05/31/2021

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I’m Blair Stevenson, founder of BravaTrak. Since 1997, I’ve specialised in guiding sales leaders on how to motivate behavior change in their consumer sales teams, so they increase sales conversion and cross-selling.

Working with over 7000 managers of customer-facing teams, I’ve identified there are 7 traits high-performing team leaders have in common.

These are the ones to look for when you’re recruiting team leaders, to ensure they’ve got high potential.

The 7 Traits of High-Potential Team Leaders:

  1. Honesty (05:09).

  2. Action oriented (11:02).

  3. Low need for approval (14:32).

  4. High IQ (20:10).

  5. Social awareness and ability to maintain good relationships (22:57).

  6. Self-awareness and ability to self-manage (25:02).

  7. Great time management (28:08).

You'll Learn:

  • The most important characteristic people say they want in their team leader - based on global research since 1987 (05:34).

  • The 2 questions to ask during an interview to identify whether a prospect has this characteristic (08:02).

  • The competency area of your team leaders which has the greatest impact on employee engagement (07:08).

  • Why most successful team leaders aren’t perfectionists (11:58).

  • The percentage of decisions made by Chief Executives which are wrong - the number will shock you (12:33).

  • What high performing team leaders have in common with dictators (15:19).

  • Strategies they use to keep maintain self-awareness (25:32).

  • The common red flag which shows a person has poor self-management (26:04).

  • The hack high performing team leaders use to ensure they get things done in the required timeframe (28:38).

 

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