If you can say "yes" to all of the following nineteen statements, you are a leader of others in the ways they want and need for you to be. However, you would only be a second tier leader. If you can say that you are helping others to be able to say "yes" to all of these statements, then you are the best possible leader of others that there can be.

How effectively are you leading? How effectively are you "leader-ing" (making leaders of others)? Your responses to this leadership checklist will determine the answers you can give to these questions.

A Leadership Manifesto

1. I am striving to think better thoughts about myself, my work and other people.

2. I am looking for ways to exceed my previous "best" at work and at home.

3. I am searching for ways to make my work and home environments supportive and encouraging.

4. I am expressing appreciation to my coworkers, employees & family every day.

5. I am seeking ways to think more efficiently and accurately.

6. I am looking to identify beliefs I have that sap my energy and desire to move forward.

7. I am focusing on what's going right with me and with others at home and at work.

8. I am celebrating my successes and the successes of others on a regular basis.

9. I am learning the causes for our successes.

10. I am keeping my objectives and my organization's objectives clearly in view at all times.

11. I am helping clarify for myself and others the benefits of achieving our objectives.

12. I am searching for creative ways to move closer to our common objectives.

13. I am looking for reasons to say "Yes" rather than "No."

14. I am asking specific questions of myself and others to help us gauge how effectively we are moving forward toward our objectives.

15. I am asking specific questions of myself and others to help us focus on the positive.

16. I am allowing structured time for myself and others to think and to record our thoughts & ideas.

17. I am willingly sharing what I know with others.

18. I believe that I am at my best (and can move beyond my best) when I help others do -- and exceed -- their best.

19. I am asking my co-workers on a daily basis, How can I help you do your best work today?

Kenneth Wallace

Ken Wallace is a seasoned consultant and executive coach with extensive business experience in multiple industries who provides practical organizational direction and support for business leaders.

He possesses an incisive understanding of the interrelationship between the economic and human dynamics of the marketplace.

Ken Wallace, M. Div., CSL has been in the organizational and human resource development field since 1973. A professional member of the National Speakers Association since 1989, he is also a member of the International Federation for Professional Speaking and holds the Certified Seminar Leader (CSL) professional designation awarded by the American Seminar Leaders Association.

Since 2000, Ken has been a certified Business Coach for General Motors; there are only eight such coaches world-wide. Additionally, Ken is one of only a few certified facilitators worldwide for the ScoreCarding® strategic partnership methodology. He is certified by the Mediation Training Institute International as a global mediation trainer and consultant. Ken has also taught at Southern Illinois University, Carbondale.

A graduate of Illinois Wesleyan University, he holds the Master of Divinity degree with honors from Drew University, Madison, New Jersey and has completed graduate work at Oxford University, Oxford, England, the University of Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany, and the Drew University Graduate School.

His speaking, training, consulting and coaching topics include:

ethics leadership management culture change communication Ken's unique Optimal Process Design® organizational development methodology Ken is also a musician who is able to compose customized music for his clients' corporate gatherings and special events. In many of his programs, he incorporates music to punctuate the points he makes.

Having studied and worked abroad, Ken gained a global perspective on how to:

Reduce Costs Increase Sales Improve Profits Boost Efficiency Energize Cultures He has refined his unique approach to business through his extensive original research and experience with over 1000 of the best run companies in the world.

In 1990 he founded the Ken Wallace Company, a management consulting firm. He has hosted radio and television programs on personal and business development topics and has authored numerous professional articles and educational materials.