What makes a good leader? Being able to listen, say young people

Bringing radical together, showing determination and being a bully listener are immoderate of the qualities younger generations look for successful leaders.

That's according to Generation Z and millennial participants astatine the One Young World acme successful Montreal, Canada.

"It's indispensable that, erstwhile leaders are astatine the forefront, they are acting upon the interests of the people, and not the involvement of themselves oregon of a tiny group," according to Sue Whisky, CEO and laminitis of sustainability enactment Environmental Network Malawi, who spoke to CNBC's Tania Bryer astatine the acme successful September.

She besides said persistence and determination were important successful leaders. "People spell done truthful overmuch and yet their achievements are truthful overmuch greater than everything that they've ever been through," she said.

While immoderate leaders "aren't truly ever driven by bully intentions," according to Whisky, adjacent those with differing views tin "sit successful the aforesaid room." "We tin each marque the satellite that we privation to make. We tin each enactment towards achieving peace," she said.

For Northern Irish person Cara Hunter, empathy and knowing are paramount. "The value of listening tin ne'er beryllium undervalued," she said. Hunter, who became a subordinate of the Northern Ireland Assembly for East Londonderry astatine the property of 24 successful 2020, said she is keen to perceive what those younger than her privation from education.

"A bully person is astir listening and raising the voices of radical who possibly can't ballot but privation to beryllium portion of the governmental process, and ensuring they cognize the powerfulness that they have," she said.

Hunter is portion of the Northern Irish Education Committee, successful a relation that she said contributes to gathering a peaceful nine successful the region. "A cardinal facet of that … is looking astatine the value of integrated education, truthful ensuring each child, careless of inheritance oregon belief, is educated unneurotic and truly respects taste difference," Hunter said.

Bringing radical from a assortment of backgrounds unneurotic is important for erstwhile rugby subordinate Tendai Mtawarira, who named South African rugby prima Siya Kolisi arsenic a "great leader." Kolisi led his squad to triumph the World Cup successful 2019 due to the fact that of his quality to "bring retired the champion of everybody," Mtawarira said.

"[He creates] a truly conducive situation for everybody, wherever everybody feels similar they belong. You know, their cultures and traditions are taken into relationship and embraced," helium said of Kolisi.

Mtawarira runs The Beast, a instauration that helps young radical summation beingness skills via acquisition and sport, and has launched Lead Like a Girl, a assistance for teenage girls. "If we were capable to ... upskill our young people, make a thriving workforce, past we're going to spot a overmuch amended world, a overmuch amended Africa," helium said.

Meanwhile, entrepreneur Laura Stocco urged decision-makers to bash much to tackle clime change. "My procreation … we person this benignant of anxiousness towards the mode we spot the satellite being led close present with clime change, we're not successful statement with the enactment that is successful place," she said.

Stocco is laminitis of Openversum, which provides cleanable h2o exertion via a "microfranchising" exemplary that trains women to assemble and merchantability h2o filters successful countries including Colombia and Uganda, who Stocco said could go "actor[s] of change" successful their communities.

She said enactment is astir problem-solving. "If you're not listening, you volition … effort to instrumentality fantastic changes and solutions that you deliberation are solutions, but that the radical you're trying to pb don't request oregon don't want," she said.

When asked what young leaders want, Stocco said, "We privation to beryllium heard, and we privation to beryllium enabled to instrumentality enactment truthful that we tin truly plan the aboriginal that we want."