It may seem like some people are gifted with leadership skills, but the truth is most leadership traits can be learned, adopted, and strengthened with time and practice. You can begin building your success by developing these must-have traits of a powerful and successful leader.
- Be a Visionary
Having a clear picture of what needs to be achieved is a crucial quality of good leadership. - Acting Strategically
A forward-thinking, open-minded approach is necessary for today’s leaders. Having strategic goals and planning accordingly towards them with flexibility. - Goal Driven
Have a strong sense of purpose and telescopic vision as to how everything fits the equation, how little tweaks can change the long term image altogether. Be confident and optimistic, inspiring enthusiasm in those around. - Self Management & Self Reflection
Managing yourself is a fundamental is managing your company as well as others as you’ll set an example for them. Self Reflection helps you look at your actions and tells you what qualities you must inculcate. Few qualities include being Motivated, Focused, Optimist and Positive, Stable, Confident, Decisive, Passionate. - Team Building
If you think you can do everything yourself, you’re terribly wrong. Find Human resources who are as inspired, skilled & motivated, ready to work on a common goal. Successful leadership is built on the people around you.
Employees who feel valued and appreciated, who feel like what they do makes a difference, will feel invigorated to push harder to achieve success for their company. - Communication
You need to be able to project your vision onto your team members to create empathy and work on the goal in a collective manner. From the long term vision to the strategic tasks that lead to it. Powerful leaders know when to talk and when to listen.
Communication is built on a steady flow of verbal and nonverbal exchanges of ideas and information, so work on being approachable and involving people from different levels. - Accountability & Responsibility
Effective leaders hold themselves accountable and take responsibility for their own mistakes—and they expect others to do the same. Try owning up to issues and finding solutions to them. By doing this, you’ll immediately gain people’s respect. Develop Integrity and you’ll naturally become Trust worthy. - Problem Solving
Leaders must be problem solvers who can make decisions under rapidly shifting circumstances, assess a situation’s complexity and choose appropriate courses of action. Be creative in finding solutions, think outside the box. - Creativity & Innovation
Leaders must have the courage to risk experimentation and encourage creativity. Encourage the people around you to spend at least 15 percent of their time exploring new ideas through brainstorming and prototyping. - Agility & Flexibility
Truly great leaders know that the strength of their leadership is built on their ability to adapt to suddenly changing circumstances and to know how and when to seize on opportunities amid a changing landscape.
Having an insatiable curiosity will fuel your desire to constantly learn and grow.Learning agility hinges on developing critical thinking skills, being accepting of uncertainty, having social and emotional intelligence and always having the desire and determination to push forward.
Leadership is a journey of continuous learning.
Begin now to build your skills and experience, pick out the traits that you currently lack – and then work on developing those. It will take tons of practice and time before becoming an effective leader but eventually you will join the ranks of great leaders.
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