Written by: Dr Parin Somani
The covid-19 pandemic has evidently caused global chaos and it has impacted global societies. Organizations have been affected within a personal and professional capacity questioning leadership skills as we embark into a new normal world. Within the corporate world, leadership skills are very important. They are behaviors, tools, and capabilities that a person requires to be successful at motivating and directing others. It is also the ability to help people grow in their own abilities and can drive others to achieve their own success.
What are leadership skills?
- They are skills that you can show even if you are not directly managing others.
- Understand how to motivate the behavior of others and understand your own role.
- You must be committed to a vision or mission within your organization and demonstrate integrity.
- Be a good role model.
To lead effectively, it is important for you to:
- Develop good problem-solving skills
- Take risks
- Communicates effectively
Therefore, leadership can be thought of as a collection of various other life skills. It also includes having a positive attitude. Each of us is a leader within our own ways, and we can enhance our leadership skills within the cooperate world through demonstrating the following qualities:
- Demonstrate the desire to lead and be empathetic towards your colleagues because this can be a great driving force for innovation.
- Illustrate your commitment to the objective.
- Cultivate and act with integrity through which you are true to your word, authentic in your actions and speech.
- Demonstrate the behavior that you would like to see within your colleagues in the cooperate world.
- Be patient, practice and persevere.
- Be sincere, consistent and aim to be a person of substance who is fair to all colleagues.
As a leader is it important to take responsibility for your actions and motivate colleagues to do better. Within all projects as a leader, you may face challenges particularly as the world is changing, you should work together and ensure that a solution is decided on and implemented. Therefore, as a leader agility, quick thinking, adapting to change and the ability to make data-driven decisions are imperative in the new normal world.
