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Leadership Skills

Leadership is an interactive conversation that pulls people toward becoming comfortable with the language of personal responsibility and commitment. Leadership is mostly about being yourself and maintaining your personal authenticity rather than about learning some formula from a text book. Aspiring leaders need to remember some simple things to improve their leadership.

• Firstly they should always be true to themselves; not just slavishly following other's ideas. That is not to say that role models can not be powerful exemplars, but you must be yourself not a shadow of someone else.
• Real leaders are not only prepared to reveal their weaknesses, because they know they are not super-human, but also to use them to their advantage. Revealing their true selves, leaders can allow others to know and help them and this makes for better teamwork; followers can also feel better if they've got something to complain about. Thus by sharing at least some of their weaknesses, leaders can prevent others from inventing damaging problems.
• True leadership is much more than demonstration of strengths. Real leaders acknowledge their shortcomings and may even be able to make them work for them.
• Good leaders always rely on their ability to read situations. They develop a feel' for an environment, and interpret soft data without having to be told. They know when team morale is patchy or when complacency needs shaking up.
• Effective leaders are continually learning about the motives, attributes and skills of their important subordinates. They get to know their people through formal and, often better, informal contact.

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