Cios Five Leadership Traits

Like any other senior executives, CIOs have varies of personalities and unique leadership strength, no matter you are CHARACTER-BASED LEADER or CHARISMATIC EXECUTIVE; a transformational strategist or transactional manager, effective CIOs shall share some common leadership traits, these traits of a CIO have a significant effect on culture, mood, motivation, aggressiveness, innovation, helpfulness, business mindset, creativity, tech depth, skills, emerging tech use, teaming, rate of change; more broadly, CIO's leadership influence will directly impact business, culture education and society. To brainstorm more specifically, what is the right personality, personal attributes, and daily mode of operation a CIO must have to succeed with the people and staff within IT?1. CIO AS AN AUTHENTIC BUSINESS LEADER WITH STRONG WILLThe spirit of business comes from top, authenticity is important for CIO and all leaders.A CIO just needs to be him/herself really. We're all different and unique human beings, so there's nothing to suggest we all have to be of the same personality. On the other hand, traits such as integrity, trustworthiness and work ethics are traits that should exist in all professionals rather than just in the CIO. * THE DAILY MODE OF OPERATION SHOULD BE WILLINGNESS;willing to engage organizational leadership and get buy in on emerging technology and innovation, as well as engaging staff to impart your overall VISION and the importance of successfully completing projects and tasks on time and within budget. * BEING AUTHENTIC IS INFLUENTIAL: CIOs influence is based on persuasive communication, via logic, analysis & synthesis, but being persuasive need be authentic, convincing and consistent. A CIO as an authentic leader will positively effect people and staff of IT through management style, work ethics, fairness, aggressiveness, forgiving, knowledge, efficiency, calm control, approachability, ability to succeed, ">2. CIO AS AN INSIGHTFUL STRATEGIST WITH VISIONLeadership is the ability to paint a picture of a better tomorrow. This might be a role of influencing the CEO to make the jump to a new technology. This might be a role of getting a team to work longer, harder, more efficiently and/or more effectively than even that team thought possible * AS A BUSINESS VISIONARY: The impact the vision of a leader has on the environment in which they operate. This might be a role of effectively communicating organizational decisions, in a way which not only allows those decisions to be accepted but inspires teams to clearly see the picture of a better tomorrow. It may be providing the vision because of an intimate understanding of the business and communicating that vision in a way in which the picture becomes clear to those who can provide direction, funding and/or permission to execute the vision to the benefit of the organization * AS A BUSINESS STRATEGIST - understand your environment and playing field to develop a plan to harness the opportunities you identified. When the CIO is in charge of a forward-looking organization that needs/expects a lot from technology, the style of the CIO needs to be more of a strategic partner/vision designer. He/she needs to be a trusted partner to the business areas who understands the business and communicates well with others. 3. CIO AS AN EMPATHIC TALENT MASTER CIOs should also have deep mentoring capabilities - not just for the IT team, but for organization. CIO can also empower talent to achieve more. CIO's personality should be engaging, whereby it provides purpose, direction, motivation, guidance, invokes thought, and calls the staff into action. If done properly, just get out of the way and allow your staff to WOW you with their creativity and energy. * A SPECIAL ACCENT IN CIO LEADERSHIP IS THE ABILITY TO INSPIRE THE TEAM FUNCTION. A good portion of the CIO's team is hard core IT guys or soft touch information gals, server / storage / cloud / virtualization / network specialists or data/process/application designer/analyst/architect. A majority of the folks are introvert geeks living to a big part in the IT fancy land of bit mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> * TALENT ENGAGEMENT: Where the CIO comes to play is to find a way how to lead gurus or geeks, how to build a team out of well shaped individuals, how to find a way to further shape the modern IT processionals as the corporation needs them; to inspire them not to burn out or get unmotivated, to make them leave their comfort shell and approach the users, the process... the business. To look through the IT team and to see through the talents... that's what a must for a CIO that is right in the place to have right talent in the bus. * EMPOWER TALENT FOR CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION. It is important that the CIO spends time to learn the dynamics of team culture and the organization where it is embedded most valuable for the CIO role and that is to know the teams, then he/she will be able to maximize the synergies and avoid duplication of efforts. CIOs can work more closely with HR ">4. CIO AS INNOVATIVE CHANGE AGENTSince the CIO is a senior level executive and often a member of the board, he/she needs to understand business and lead key project to contribute to business as well as drive the change in the business. The CIO needs to be entrepreneurial. He/she needs to be a business change agent who can move the company in a direction that will best identify the company. * AGILE MINDSET & METHODOLOGY TO MASTER COMPLEXITY: CIOs should be very comfortable in dynamic situations, secure enough in the knowledge that they may not know EVERYTHING but would LOVE to know as much as they can (a constant learner), being learning agile mso-list: l1 level2 lfo1; tab-stops: list 1.0in; text-indent: -0.25in;"> * PLANNING: BY NATURE OF PERSONALITY, CIO maybe not so spontaneous when running project or solving complex issues, always take step-wise action and be thoughtful when practice changes. Truly and totally know, understand and internalize the paradigm of IT as a service. As an innovator, CIO's spontaneity comes from the freedom of choices as well as flow of creativity. 5.CIO AS AN INTRINSIC CUSTOMER CHAMPIONModern CIOs not just serve internal users, but also make digital impact at every touch point in end customer experience. Thus, CIOs also need be the intrinsic customer champion, to manage customer relationship based on the nature of customer and understand of need by putting customers' shoes on. * BUSINESS OPPORTUNIST - be willing to take the constructive criticism from customers, and turn the beating, lashing, and criticism into opportunities by demonstrating through delivery of successful IT projects that not only benefit the business but gives you a sense of personal satisfaction. * CUSTOMER EMPATHY: CIOs should be familiar with both business and IT, understand both internal users and external customer, by taking advantage of analytic tools and social platforms, CIOs can master global customer dialects, listen smarter, not just harder, transform IT into business catalyst and customer champion. As a CIO, one must practice leadership principle, possess a great work ethic, be comfortable with paradoxical thinking, be knowledgeable, be decisive, be a team builder, be respected, be available, be a negotiator, be an innovator, and always a student of emerging technology. The CIO/CTO also must recognize their own strengths and weaknesses and compensate with either a dose of personal education or by filling the gaps around them with the right personality mix.Read more leadership blogs here:Ten Insights of Leadership Substances. vs. StylesHo, Ho, Ho of Leadership InfluenceThree "C"s in Character-based LeadersThree "C"s in Charismatic LeadersFive Elements of Authentic LeadershipGlobal LeadersLeadership StyleThree Trends of Future of LeadershipFollow us at: @Pearl Zhu

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