INFOGRAPHIC: 5 Simple Habits of Top Performing Leaders

Habits that enhance leadership

In the workplace, a leader’s management style can affect the quality of operations — from productivity and employee satisfaction to your organization’s overall performance. What sets a great leader apart is the values and actions behind their management styles, as well as their dedication to continuous improvement.

Even at any level within an organization, being a leader through actions can make all the difference in your performance and as well as that of others.

One way to improve the quality and level of your leadership for your organization is to build your habits. Habits themselves are powerful forces that drive routines for day-to-day living, hobbies and leisure activities and even responses to situations and practices of specific skills. By forming habits, you are ensuring that you are developing a good work ethic that can inspire your team to do the same for themselves.

Developing a habit is not easy and often involves having to force yourself into discipline, as motivation will always be fleeting but discipline is hardwired into your brain.

It is no surprise that habits such as how you work, interact with your colleagues, and find solutions can be formed in the workplace. Consciously cultivating positive habits can have a direct connection in improving your leadership. Many renowned and influential leaders have built up positive habits that eventually contributed to their success, and that of their organizations.

This infographic highlights the five habits of top-performing leaders, using their success as examples and breaking down the key thoughts behind each one. At the core of it, these habits promote having a strong vision for your leadership and exercising critical thinking, as well as being able to trust and be open to collaboration with your colleagues.

These habits, once integrated into your management style, can contribute to possibly many positive improvements in your life, the lives of your colleagues, and the overall workplace environment.

Knowing this, practicing the necessary skills should be done frequently in order to fully form these habits. Alongside this, it is also good to seek feedback from your colleagues and higher-ups to ensure that the right practices are being built.