Friday, December 19, 2008

ATTRIBUTES OF A GOOD LEADER

Results oriented management style: Based on clearly defined expectations, business plans, roles, and responsibilities. Believe in motivating individuals and teams based on personnel needs and group dynamics, while creating room for differing management styles to thrive. Desire and ability to identify when and how to direct others, resulting in highly productive teams, which deliver scalable growth.

Momentum leadership: Capable of generating excitement and user desire "client pull vs. push approach.” Able to earn respect through idea leadership, strategic vision, quick wins, and bottom line impact.

Change management: Proven ability to communicate, manage change, and gather internal and external resources. Capable of creating "cross-functional teams" for the creation, development, and integration of new policies, workflows, tools and technologies, to meet the changing corporate and retail environment.

Managerial experience: Proven managerial leadership experience of leading teams of 5 to 100+ employees, vendors, and clients, across the entire organization and supply chain.

Idea generation: Proven ability to leverage/conceptualize personnel, corporate, and industry knowledge, analytic’s, and resources to generate ideas that fundamentally change the way organizations work, communicate, and market to customers.

Creation of qualitative and quantitative measures: The ability to leverage "spin or weave” data, intellectual capital, and emerging technologies into the next big idea, for all processes, programs, and projects.

Communication skills: Demonstrated ability to translate complex, ideas, technologies, and concepts into easy to grasp, relevant ideas, communications and business plans, by using everyday non-technical tools, common language, and visual examples. Capable of asking insightful questions about business and marketing objectives, which drive user acceptance, solicit program funding, resources, and implementation.

Presentation skills: Strong interpersonal and presentation skills in both one-on-one and group settings; an ability to sell ideas and obtain buy-in from others; demonstrated ability to use data and customer insights to change how people approach marketing decision-making and related investments.

Project management: Demonstrated ability to, plan, develop, implement, gather input "user testing" and roll out programs, projects, technology, policies, and/or procedures both internally, and industry wide. Capable of managing multifaceted projects requiring, multiple personnel, process, and technology changes.

Engagement management: Ability to generate and lead projects from the concept, business plan, and "sell" stages through the, make vs. buy, RFI/RFP/RFQ stages, and into development/implementation, training, and rollout. Proven track record of meeting or exceeding implementation, development, rollout schedules, and budgets. Capable of leading multiple simultaneous cross-functional and enterprise wide initiatives. High level understanding of web based eWork, B2B, e-buy and e-Pay workflows, systems and requirements including a broad exposure to corporate procurement and financial requirements.

Cross-functional liaison: Ability to create consensus and goal alignment in complex and matrixed corporate organization structures. Demonstrated ability to leverage conflict from varying product and functional groups to develop consensus. Political sensitivity and interpersonal skills to identify the key decision makers who can impact mark decisions. Able to identify key executive issues and build partnerships that result in increased investment in the overall strategic vision.

Trouble shooting: Excellent listening, interpreting, problem solving, negotiating, and consensus building skills. Ability to identify the core issues/problems and bring closure to complex and "heated" issues. Able to sell/transfer ownership of ideas to others in order to gain desired results.

Industry contacts and knowledge: Highly motivated continuous learner: capable of utilizing a broad array of industry, technology, and vendor contacts, to gather pre- next generation technology information (Under NDA) and prepare for organizational change management, and manufacturing workflow implications.

Personal interests: Football, Basketball, Golf, Rock-Climbing, Hiking, Hunting, Fishing, Travel, and Art.
Service activities: Kraft Employee Fund, Chicago Children’s Hospital

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