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Anyone can be put in a leadership role, but to succeed and thrive in that position requires solid leadership skills.
8 leadership skills you need to know include:
- Building Relationships
- High Agility & Adaptability
- Creativity & Innovation
- Employee Empowerment
- Decision Making
- Conflict Resolution
- Negotiation, Dialogue
- Critical Thinking
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#1. Building Relationships
Many leaders believe they don’t need to be liked to succeed in the workplace. While this may be true, to build a highly cohesive and engaged team, good managers need to have the leadership skills to develop strong working relationships with their employees.
Leaders with sustainable, trustworthy, and genuine relationships with their team know that investing time in building these relationships makes them more effective as leaders and lays the foundation for success.
If your team is tightly knit and happy at work, you are likely to be respected as a leader with employees who love what they do and hope that the strong relationships you have nurtured will help your team operate at its highest level.
#2. High Agility & Adaptability
Agility and adaptability have become crucial leadership skills, especially in highly competitive business environments, political landscapes, climate change, changes due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and various other factors that demand leaders to be nimble and responsive.
Effective leaders must adapt to both internal and external changes – even if it means working outside your comfort zone.
A crucial way to develop leadership agility and adaptability is to take ownership and accountability for your actions, ensuring that you have a plan in place for how you will respond to change.
This plan should have achievable milestones that allow you to continuously check your progress on how you are adapting to change and how you are demonstrating this to your team.
#3. Creativity & Innovation
Innovation in leadership is paramount for any company. Successful innovation begins with ideas – the stage where excellent ideas are developed and become the bedrock of innovation success.
The increasing demand for creativity and innovation will continue to drive executive leaders, as they need to leverage their leadership skills in these areas for effectiveness and competitiveness.
#4. Employee Empowerment
In close relationship with relationship-building, the ability to empower your workforce is as important as maintaining a high level of employee engagement. One of the most effective leadership skills is knowing how to consistently motivate employees, which requires leaders to connect with their team and pay attention to what’s happening around them.
Motivated employees are much more engaged; they are also more confident in what they do and can do. This helps them know how to react in difficult situations and develop creative ideas that can optimize business efficiency.
#5. Decision Making
A leader is tasked with making decisions at all times. To be an effective leader, those decision-making skills need to be top-notch. Important decisions that impact your organization on a large scale need to be rational, reasonable, and assured.
Making decisions, no matter how big or small, is a fundamental part of leadership.
Making an unpopular but necessary decision is perhaps one of the most challenging tasks as a leader, but it is crucial that as a leader, you recognize your responsibility and make a clear decision for your team or organization.
#6. Conflict Resolution
Conflict is seen as any issue between two or more individuals that has the potential to disrupt work. Business conflict can extend beyond the workplace as it may involve clients, suppliers, and even competitors.
To be an effective leader, you must be adept at identifying conflict and have a foresight into how to resolve it. Rational confrontation is also necessary.
As a leader, it is crucial that you can manage conflict, but developing skills within your team can also help prevent conflict altogether.
#7. Negotiation, Dialogue
The negotiation, dialogue process includes 6 steps:
- Preparation
- Discussion
- Clarification of goals
- Negotiation towards a Win-Win result
- Agreement
- Action plan
Good negotiations can be beneficial to an organization as they build better relationships, both internally and externally. They also help find the best long-term solution by maximizing the potential of both sides. An effective leader must master their negotiation style to move the organization forward. As a leader, negotiation is used to understand the interests of employees and find ways to satisfy those interests to achieve organizational goals.
#8. Critical Thinking
Leading a business is certainly challenging. To succeed, a leader must make many difficult decisions. Critical thinking is the most important skill a leader needs to successfully lead an organization.
Critical thinking is the ability to think clearly while building a logical connection between different ideas. Those with critical thinking skills are smart decision-makers, have high analytical abilities, and are often rational. These attributes are essential for leading an organization to achieve its goals.
Typically, critical thinkers will ask serious and thorough questions about ideas and assumptions; they will always try to determine if the ideas, arguments, and findings represent the true picture and often have the ability to recognize contradictions and errors in reasoning to achieve the desired outcome.
Compiled and translated by Athena I&E
