Professor Gerard Seijts, Executive Director of the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership, delivered a lecture at the Community Safety Village at Bruce’s Mill, York Region last week. The takeaway? Get out of your comfort zone, because whether you succeed or fail, you’ll have grown in the end.
Seijts was promoting Developing Leadership Character, a book he co-authored with fellow Ivey faculty members Mary Crossan and Jeffrey Gandz.
He discussed the different character traits that enhance and develop leadership skills: courage, transcendence, drive, collaboration, humanity, humility, integrity, temperance, justice, accountability and judgement.
“In the book, you see a number of words, I call them character elements,” Seijts said during his lecture. “They’re important because if I asked someone for a definition of these elements, I’d get 40 different answers. We look at examples of behaviours that are illustrative of those character dimensions.”
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