Extracted from Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates)
15 skills successful leaders need to master
As a leader, there are fifteen leadership skills to master, and this mastery can be achieved by all leaders who are committed to learning and have a mentor or two supporting them. I have broken these skills up into two groups, people orientated skills and personal skills.
People skills | 1. Communicating and influencing |
2. Recruiting and promoting | |
3. Develop and maintain stakeholder relationships | |
4. Selling and leading change | |
5. Provisioning for the team | |
6. Engaging others | |
7. Valuing results and empowering your team | |
8. Valuing work life balance | |
Setting direction skills | 9. Have a vision of your legacy |
10. Define the mission, vision, values and strategy | |
11. Working with the organisation’s critical success factors | |
Execution skills | 12. Embrace abandonment (letting go of the past) |
13. Champion of innovation and excellence | |
14. A focus on execution | |
15. Using your mentors and your safe-haven effectively |
Also read The eight leadership traits
I have separated these leadership traits into three categories, people focused traits, execution traits and handling change traits (Visit). Some of these behavioural traits, if lacking, may be very difficult to embed such as “integrity and honesty”, “love thy neighbour as thyself”, “abundance of positive energy” and “ability to excel in a crisis”. Thus, when recruiting for a key leadership position, the staff involved in the recruiting process must apply exhaustive processes to unearth any flaws in these traits.
Next steps
To read more about them access David Parmenter’s:
Extracted from Winning Leadership: A Model on Leadership For The Millennial Manager – Toolkit (120 page PDF whitepaper + e-templates)
or his short form Working guide: Winning Leadership: A Viking with a Mother’s Heart