When it comes to leadership skills you first have to be a
role model with great wisdom and integrity. You should at all times present
yourself with great confidence and self-control. Lao Tzu says: Mastering others
is strength, mastering yourself is true power. After all, if you are not
comfortable with yourself, how can you be comfortable when you are around other
people? This is what portrays true leadership
skills.
Besides integrity, anyone in an executive
position must first learn to understand others before achieving organizational
objectives. When you seek to understand the needs of others, they will return
the favor in an amazing way. Involvement of all parties in setting plans leads
to harmonization of group objectives which is aided and enhanced by effective
communication. Leadership skills require you as a leader to find common goals
among members. This can best be achieved when everybody feels that they have
contributed and not when they feel like they have been left out or manipulated.
Having leadership skills is all about service, humility and
motivation. Great leaders stimulate minds and develop potentials. The strongest
weapon is neither nuclear nor atomic but the will to fight. It would be much
better to get a team of average qualified personnel who are eager to produce
results than have a group of bored but highly qualified professionals.
Information is power but to know how to use it well is super-power. They say,
in exams the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer.
One must learn to appreciate the efforts and
skills of his subordinates by manner of rewards and other incentives. A person
with good leadership skills does not use dictatorship, but instead he/she is
full of humility and respect. Therefore leading is letting people do something
you want done because they want to do it.
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