If you want to be a good leader next year, you should focus primarily on knowing yourself and the people around you well. These are at least the most important leadership skills for the upcoming year by clomedia.com. The website summed up ten essential leadership skills for 2013 stating that you should know:
1. Yourself
Only when you know your strengths and the influence you have on the people around you, you can meaningfully address the needs of those around you.
2. Your people
You need to find out what motivates each member of your team. We can only figure this out by spending a lot of time with your perople a monitoring their work style and interests. The same approach to all does not work.
3. Your work
A leader needs two types of knowledge - technical knowledge and leadership knowledge. He can be successful when he has less technical knowledge than his subordinates, the reverse is, however, not true.
4. Your organization
A leader needs to understand the relationships in his organization, know how to communicate and make decisions in a particular corporate culture.
5. Your customers
A good leader constantly compares what their organization offers with what their customers want and know. He does not think that he knows the best what the customer needs.
6. your colleagues and superiors
If a leader wants to promote his ideas, he must be aware of the knowledge, skills and abilities of his colleagues and superiors and be actively involved in running things. Only depending on superiors is not enough.
7. Your vision, mission and values
These three pillars are the basis for making the right decisions not only at work but also in your personal life.
8. Change management process
Most changes fail because of poor planning and change management process. Leaders should, therefore, focus even more on developing their skills in this area.
9. Decision-making process
A leader who cannot decide only confuses his people and hampers his business. Your people need to know how and when you are going to make individual decisions.
10. Ways to build good teams
Teams should be constantly developped and their progress monitored. A leader should, therefore, also work on his facilitation skills.
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