Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart once famously observed about pornography, “I can’t define it, but I know it when I see it.”

The same might be said about leadership.

In our coaching work, we’ve explored the concept of leadership for years.

We’ve had the pleasure of coaching many great leaders, and it’s led us to conclude that leadership is not an inborn skill.

Instead, anyone can improve as a leader by practicing the traits of a great leader consistently over time.

Below are 6 proven leadership skills and behaviors we’ve discovered over the years consistently are practiced by the very best leaders:

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I have a question for you:

How do you motivate a leader who has no interest in changing?

When someone asks that question, they are usually thinking of an individual in their organization who needs to improve in some way — and “everybody knows it”.

Even if the individual has received feedback and been made aware of the need to change, they are resistant.

So what do you do?

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Dynamic and strategic leaders possess certain traits that allow them to be successful at leading others.

They also work hard to hone their craft and become better at what they do.

In a recent article we covered the 4 critical behaviors that strategic leaders usually possess that can predict how effective they will be in this area.

We now wanted to cover exactly HOW leaders of all stripes, can vastly improve their own strategic visioning.

From our experience coaching hundreds of leaders on how to develop a vision and a related long-term strategy, we have found there needs to be a combination of talent, timing, and innovative thinking.

Further, fostering a strategic vision requires laying the proper groundwork so that the vision and strategy are embraced by the key stakeholders/shareholders and therefore marshal support rather than create resistance.

What follows are five key steps that our most successful clients have utilized to create their own strategic vision while getting buy-in from the entire organization, business unit or function, in order to convey that vision in a form that leads to effective performance.

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