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So this is just another spot for me to express my interests and knowledge of online marketing, relationship building, and mindset building, as well as the experiences I have gained from them to help me succeed in today's ever changing world!
I hope you like the stuff I put on here... I hope you hate some of it to, I like quality friendly debates too
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Skills For Leadership: Improve Yourself & Your Following
Posted 21st July 2013 at 04:58 AM by bmathewsCCM
Top 10 Essential Skills for Leadership
There is an interesting phrase about leadership. It says "Even turkeys can fly in a strong wind". This phrase implies that even an ordinary man will be able to fly very high and reasonably lead when everything can go very well and the wind blows strongly.
However, when there is no wind at all or the winds blow slowly, the true leader will emerge. He/she is the one capable of using his/her resources to fly as high as possible.
Leaders will emerge from the pack. They are people who have soft skills for leadership which are well-developed like hard or technical skills. Besides, leaders are people who can balance the soft skills and hard skills. These great leaders are in high demand in today’s world.
What are Soft and Hard Skills for Leadership?
Types of Soft Skills include interpersonal and social skills and when they are well-developed, they will improve the quality of your relationship with all your followers. Soft skills can be reflected in someone's attitudes, personality and behavior. Then, they are imperceptible and not easy to measure. Their existence, however, will significantly impact on one's professional and personal development as well as the culture of organization.
These kinds of skills are frequently associated with self-awareness, self-development and self-management.
On the other hand, hard skills are technical skills relating to the industry group or specific profession, such as accounting or engineering skills, building and construction skills, IT skills or skills of reading a financial report. Unlike soft skills, these ones are measurable and tangible skills of the business or profession enabling us to finish the job and also produce outcomes and results. People can learn and study to get these kinds of skills.
The Importance of Soft Skills for Leadership
The nature of leaders is leading people or participants. They have to be capable of presenting the best for all participants of the group. Therefore, their talent can be put at the organization disposal and their career development. For those points, leaders have to really understand every person in the group. They have to be intuitive and insightful and can become aspirations and motivations for everyone. Leaders need to know what makes the participants stressed, and understand what leaders have to do to engage the participants' commitment and loyalty.
Not to mention, leaders have to know how to inspire the participants, including how to commit to the vision of the organization and make it come true.
Leaders have to be genuine and high in integrity since followers will see through their leaders if they try to manipulate the participants.
Soft skills are not obtained in the vocational or professional training courses. Soft skills include people skills, communication and interpersonal skills which see great and brilliant leaders keep on the top.
Great leaders are tough and can manage the change especially in challenging period and inspire the participants to do the same thing.
For the time being, leaders have high challenge. Managers and leaders of companies are suffering from high level stress.
This condition can affect the employees. Before it is noticed, the entire organization will live in temporary life, do nothing and simply wait for something to happen. They do not dare to take risks and live on the edge. This condition can be diagnosed that the business is plummeting drastically.
These problems will not occur if not triggered from the top. Leaders with a lack of soft skills will fail to create a healthier and more resilient culture.
Best Practices When Developing Skills for Leadership
To be leaders with all the previous specifications, we need to have ten required soft skills. These skills are believed to be able to enhance the leadership development in this challenging and changing period. The soft skills include:
- Self-awareness. It implies the ability to know and reflect on ourselves. It enables someone to be conscious of one's own style of leadership and how it effects participants.
- Emotional intelligence and maturity. It is the awareness of how someone's emotion impacts on the way one thinks, performs and reacts. This skill includes how the way someone manages the participants can improve the relationship or even destroy it.
- Resilience. It is the ability to bounce back, not get trapped, and move forward constructively and positively.
- Pro-activity. It is a mind-set which is educative and positive and allows someone to take the responsibility to shape one's works and lives, rather than only reacting on what happens in disempowering and negative ways.
- Embracing change. It implies the ability to work despite the change and not to be threatened with it.
- Engaging participants. It is the ability of knowing how to deliver feedback as well as how to inspire, motivate, value, empower and appreciate participants. It also implies the ability to engage commitment and loyalty, manage the arising conflict and difficult participants constructively, effectively couch, communicate and mentor.
- Self-management skills. It is the ability to manage stress and time effectively and also develop work-life balance.
- Perseverance and persistence. These are abilities to overcome obstacles and challenging situations.
- Patience. It is the ability to wait and pause when someone wants to rush the others or is in a rush.
Can Soft Skills for Leadership be Improved?
Even though soft skills will not be obtained in the vocational courses or academic learning, they can be gradually improved. Starting from today, someone can improve his/her soft skills by:
- Building self awareness. Someone needs to understand why he/she reacts to some situation and participants, why he/she is stressed, shy, angry, irritated, shy and so on. First, someone has to understand his/her self.
- Understanding other's motivation. Interacting with people enables someone to understand his/her motivation and theirs. Putting his/herself in people's shoes proactively enables someone to have a better communication and manage his/her reaction to any unexpected situation.
- Being patient. As soft skills cannot be instantly improved, someone has to start from one skill and keep it gradually progress.
- Beginning to change one's self, perception and approach upon situations.
- Keep practicing. Since soft skills cannot be learned in books, improvement of skills for leadership requires practicing over time. Fundamentally, it requires someone to change the thought pattern and behavior upon one's self and others.
There is an interesting phrase about leadership. It says "Even turkeys can fly in a strong wind". This phrase implies that even an ordinary man will be able to fly very high and reasonably lead when everything can go very well and the wind blows strongly.
However, when there is no wind at all or the winds blow slowly, the true leader will emerge. He/she is the one capable of using his/her resources to fly as high as possible.
Leaders will emerge from the pack. They are people who have soft skills for leadership which are well-developed like hard or technical skills. Besides, leaders are people who can balance the soft skills and hard skills. These great leaders are in high demand in today’s world.
What are Soft and Hard Skills for Leadership?
Types of Soft Skills include interpersonal and social skills and when they are well-developed, they will improve the quality of your relationship with all your followers. Soft skills can be reflected in someone's attitudes, personality and behavior. Then, they are imperceptible and not easy to measure. Their existence, however, will significantly impact on one's professional and personal development as well as the culture of organization.
These kinds of skills are frequently associated with self-awareness, self-development and self-management.
On the other hand, hard skills are technical skills relating to the industry group or specific profession, such as accounting or engineering skills, building and construction skills, IT skills or skills of reading a financial report. Unlike soft skills, these ones are measurable and tangible skills of the business or profession enabling us to finish the job and also produce outcomes and results. People can learn and study to get these kinds of skills.
The Importance of Soft Skills for Leadership
The nature of leaders is leading people or participants. They have to be capable of presenting the best for all participants of the group. Therefore, their talent can be put at the organization disposal and their career development. For those points, leaders have to really understand every person in the group. They have to be intuitive and insightful and can become aspirations and motivations for everyone. Leaders need to know what makes the participants stressed, and understand what leaders have to do to engage the participants' commitment and loyalty.
Not to mention, leaders have to know how to inspire the participants, including how to commit to the vision of the organization and make it come true.
Leaders have to be genuine and high in integrity since followers will see through their leaders if they try to manipulate the participants.
Soft skills are not obtained in the vocational or professional training courses. Soft skills include people skills, communication and interpersonal skills which see great and brilliant leaders keep on the top.
Great leaders are tough and can manage the change especially in challenging period and inspire the participants to do the same thing.
For the time being, leaders have high challenge. Managers and leaders of companies are suffering from high level stress.
This condition can affect the employees. Before it is noticed, the entire organization will live in temporary life, do nothing and simply wait for something to happen. They do not dare to take risks and live on the edge. This condition can be diagnosed that the business is plummeting drastically.
These problems will not occur if not triggered from the top. Leaders with a lack of soft skills will fail to create a healthier and more resilient culture.
Best Practices When Developing Skills for Leadership
To be leaders with all the previous specifications, we need to have ten required soft skills. These skills are believed to be able to enhance the leadership development in this challenging and changing period. The soft skills include:
- Self-awareness. It implies the ability to know and reflect on ourselves. It enables someone to be conscious of one's own style of leadership and how it effects participants.
- Emotional intelligence and maturity. It is the awareness of how someone's emotion impacts on the way one thinks, performs and reacts. This skill includes how the way someone manages the participants can improve the relationship or even destroy it.
- Resilience. It is the ability to bounce back, not get trapped, and move forward constructively and positively.
- Pro-activity. It is a mind-set which is educative and positive and allows someone to take the responsibility to shape one's works and lives, rather than only reacting on what happens in disempowering and negative ways.
- Embracing change. It implies the ability to work despite the change and not to be threatened with it.
- Engaging participants. It is the ability of knowing how to deliver feedback as well as how to inspire, motivate, value, empower and appreciate participants. It also implies the ability to engage commitment and loyalty, manage the arising conflict and difficult participants constructively, effectively couch, communicate and mentor.
- Self-management skills. It is the ability to manage stress and time effectively and also develop work-life balance.
- Perseverance and persistence. These are abilities to overcome obstacles and challenging situations.
- Patience. It is the ability to wait and pause when someone wants to rush the others or is in a rush.
Can Soft Skills for Leadership be Improved?
Even though soft skills will not be obtained in the vocational courses or academic learning, they can be gradually improved. Starting from today, someone can improve his/her soft skills by:
- Building self awareness. Someone needs to understand why he/she reacts to some situation and participants, why he/she is stressed, shy, angry, irritated, shy and so on. First, someone has to understand his/her self.
- Understanding other's motivation. Interacting with people enables someone to understand his/her motivation and theirs. Putting his/herself in people's shoes proactively enables someone to have a better communication and manage his/her reaction to any unexpected situation.
- Being patient. As soft skills cannot be instantly improved, someone has to start from one skill and keep it gradually progress.
- Beginning to change one's self, perception and approach upon situations.
- Keep practicing. Since soft skills cannot be learned in books, improvement of skills for leadership requires practicing over time. Fundamentally, it requires someone to change the thought pattern and behavior upon one's self and others.
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