Five skills you should develop as a leader in 2025

The year 2025 is here, and it is the perfect time to do a small audit of your skills and be clear about what you need to work on. Here are five skills that all managers and team leaders should work on in 2025.

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Mastering AI

As Forbes states, AI (artificial intelligence) experienced a huge rise in 2024 and is starting to enter the workforce in virtually all professions. As managers, you need to know be familiar with it, understand its uses, and be able to master and use it.

Capacity for empathy

Empathy, the ability to understand other people's feelings, is a necessary skill for any successful manager. So there is certainly nothing wrong about trying to improve in this area in 2025.

Giving feedback

Feedback is essential in successful people management and the younger generation, currently entering the job market en masse, consider constructive feedback extremely important. Learn to give feedback regularly, effectively and in a personalised way.

Change management

Change management consists of principles, theory and practice focused on how to introduce any change at the individual, team and company-wide level. Given the dynamic times we currently live in, we can expect change management to be an important skill in 2025.

Communication skills

Managing people is primarily about interpersonal communication. Hone your communication skills, learn to communicate effectively with all types of people and become a better manager.

 


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