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Top 10 Critical Leadership Skills
Apr 05, 2020
Transferable skills are ones that apply in all professions, and typically at all levels.
They are the foundation of all the professional success you will experience in this and other careers you may pursue.
The top 10 are:
- Technical aptitude – knowledge and usage of common operating systems, mechanical, information technology, trouble shooting, mathematical, or scientific tasks
- Communication – active listening, speaking when you have something meaningful and enlightening to share to keep things moving forward, observing body language of yourself and others, and empathizing with people, tone of voice, asking courageous questions
- Critical Thinking – think independently, logically and effectively
- Organizational ability – prioritize tasks, sort files, minimize distractions, staying focused on first things first and accomplish what you need to get done today, tomorrow, this week, next month, by year end
- Teamwork – building relationships and rapport, resolving conflict, being reliable, assisting each other whenever possible, collaboration, mutual respect, embracing diversity, brainstorming and building off of and valuing other people ideas, celebrating accomplishments
- Problem solving – developing/exploring creative solutions to complex problems, taking into account the short, and long-term repercussions of each solution and applying innovation and new ideas
- Win-win strategizing – helping people and departments achieve their goals in addition to your own
- Negotiating – assertively discerning what others want and need as well as taking your own needs and wants into consideration, clarifying misunderstandings, finding the ‘happy medium’, win-win for all stakeholders involved
- Empowering others – give power or authority, alignment between beliefs and the work a person does, what they value, to take action with ability to assess risk and learn from success as well as from perceived failures, encouragement and support to achieve greatness inline with personal and company values and vision
- Decision making – obtaining information critical from several sources and making the best decision possible under the circumstances and within specific parameters, separating emotion and logic
For self assessment, rate yourself out of 10 for each skill (0 being low and 10 being high), determine 3 you would like to work on as a priority and devise a place to increase your competence in each of these 3 critical leadership skill areas.
Keep learning, keep growing, keep leading.
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