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Self-confidence is built by mastering significant skills and situations, and by knowing that you can add real value through the work that you do. One of the best ways to improve your confidence is to become aware of all of the things you've already achieved.

Positive Attitude and Outlook (Questions 10, 17)

A positive mindset is also associated with strong leadership. However, being positive is much more than presenting a happy face to the world: you need to develop a strong sense of balance, and recognize that setbacks and problems happen - it's how you deal with those problems that makes the difference.

Positive people approach situations realistically, and are prepared to make the changes necessary to overcome a problem. Negative people, on the other hand, often give in to the stress and pressure of a situation. This can lead to fear, worry, distress, anger, and failure.

Emotional Intelligence (Questions 5, 15)
Transformational Leadership
Transformational leadership is a leadership style where leaders create an inspiring vision of the future, motivate their followers to achieve it, manage implementation successfully, and develop the members of their teams to be even more effective in the future. We explore the key traits of transformational leadership further, below.

Providing a Compelling Vision of the Future (Questions 6, 14)

From there, good use of strategic analysis techniques can help you gain the key insights you need into the environment you're operating in, and into the needs of your clients.

Motivating People to Deliver the Vision (Questions 9, 12)

Ultimately, you need to motivate people to deliver your vision. To better understand your ability to motivate, complete our quiz, How Good Are Your Motivation Skills? , and explore our articles on Herzberg's Motivators and Hygiene Factors and Sirota's Three Factor Theory.

Being a Good Role Model (Questions 4, 11)

Managing Performance Effectively (Questions 3, 13)

Providing Support and Stimulation (Questions 1, 7, 16, 18)

To be highly motivated at work, people need more than a list of tasks to be completed each day. They need challenges and interesting work. They need to develop their skills and to feel supported in their efforts to do a good job.

Think about your approach to Task Allocation, and look for opportunities to match people with jobs and responsibilities that will help them to grow and develop. Use Heron's Six Categories of Intervention to decide when and how to help them to progress. Perform Training Needs Assessments regularly to determine what your team needs to be successful.

What are the Most Important Leadership Skills?

Good leaders need to possess a myriad of skills and attributes if they are to effective in the role.

Some of the most important attributes are listed below. Leaders need to be:

Good open communicators

Empathetic

Strategic thinkers

Positive

Flexible

Adept at conflict resolution

Reliable/Show integrity

Mentors and motivators

Recognize potential

Organized

Good delegators

Offer feedback

Frequently Asked Questions About Leadership Skills

What Is the Key Difference Between a Manager and a Leader?

Leaders create a vision and generate support for it. Managers work to make the vision a reality.

What Are the 5 Traits of Being a Good Leader?

An effective leader is a person who does the following:

1. Creates a vision of the future.

2. Works well with a team.

3. Enables their team's success.

4. Demonstrates flexibility.

5. Embodies expert power, credibility, trust, and authenticity.

How Can You Improve Your Leadership Skills?

It's now widely recognized that top-down autocratic leadership has far less relevance to today's organizations, which face rapid change and have to fight to survive in an extremely competitive and increasingly global marketplace.

Good leaders are also flexible, adaptable, ethical, and culturally aware, in order to be credible in the eyes of their employees and stakeholders. The effective leaders of today and tomorrow will consult, collaborate and distribute their power in order to get the best from themselves, their people, and the organization as a whole.

How can Leadership Coaching Help You Grow?

Coaching can help leaders identify their strengths and weakness, so they have a clear picture of where they need to develop and improve.

Coaches can also offer honest feedback on new ideas or different approaches. They can also help develop leaders' emotional intelligence and communication skills, which are vital for effective leadership.

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How Good Are Your Leadership Skills? - Good leaders know which direction to take.

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Test your leadership skills with this quick quiz, and discover the leadership skills you need to develop to become a great leader.

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Do you believe that you can adapt your style? Harvard University professor Ron Heifetz and leadership experts David Rooke and William Torbert say that you can. So let's look in more depth at Lewin's leadership styles, their strengths and risks, and how you might become more skillful in using them.

Authoritarian, Autocratic Leadership

This approach is helpful when your team needs to follow a process "to the letter," to manage a significant risk. It's also effective when you need to be hands-on with people who miss deadlines, in departments where conflict is an issue, or in teams that rely on quick decisions being made.

But you need to be aware that relying on control and punishment to maintain standards will likely drive people away. Similarly, if you always demand that your team works at top speed, you can end up exhausting everyone.

Instead, you can show respect for team members by providing the rationale for your decisions. And they will more likely comply with your expectations if you take the trouble to explain Why the Rules Are There.

You can improve your ability to "lead from the front" by Planning for a Crisis, Thinking on Your Feet, and making good decisions under pressure. But be sure to balance these skills with an awareness of their potential negative impact on creativity, ideas gathering, motivation, and trust within the team.

Being too autocratic can also mean that you'll find it hard to stand back from the detail and take a wider, more strategic view.
Tip:
Democratic, Participative Leadership

With this approach, you set goals, guide team discussions, and make the final decision. But you also acknowledge that your people can have valuable insight into a problem or process, so you actively consult them. As a result, you'll likely gain creative input and fresh ideas that you wouldn't have come up with if you were working alone.

You might wonder how to manage differing opinions in the team, once you've invited participation in this way. Your goal is to build a culture in which people can have healthy debates with one another. So:

Be aware that processes could become dangerously slow if you involve your team members in every decision. You'll need to judge carefully whether you need to adopt a more autocratic approach, even if it's only briefly.

The Delegating, "Laissez Faire" Leader

"Laissez faire" is a French phrase adopted into English that means, "Let (people) do (as they choose)." It describes a policy of leaving situations to run their own course, without interfering.

By adopting this style of leadership, you empower your team to make decisions and to organize its own processes, with little or no guidance. The danger of this approach is that situations can collapse into chaos if your people have low motivation or poor skills. It can work, however, if they are experienced, knowledgeable, confident, creative, and driven, or if deadlines are flexible and processes are simple.

Be in no doubt, though, that as the leader you will still be held accountable for the outcome! So you might want to organize team decision making processes to support your people while you take a "hands off" approach. Just be sure to delegate the right task to the right person, as a mismatch could mean that the whole team fails.

Avoid becoming too remote, even with a high-performing, highly autonomous team. Change can occur at any time in business, so your organization's requirements for your team might shift after your initial brief. If this happens, stay in touch with your people, and communicate clearly and promptly. Remember, you can offer your support without becoming a micromanager!
Further Reading:

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What's Your Leadership Style? - Learn About the Strengths and Weaknesses of the Way You Like to Lead

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Use this quiz to discover your preferred leadership style, and to develop other ways to lead people successfully in different situations.

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Introduction to One Health Approach (Core and Technical Competencies)

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Introduction to One Health Approach (Core and Technical Competencies)

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One Health Approach in Outbreak Investigation and Management

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One Health Manual: On Handling Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks in Malaysia

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One Health Manual: On Handling Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks in Malaysia

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Professor Dr Abdul Rashid Khan

Mar 2017 · Malaysia One Health University Network

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One Health Manual, On Handling Zoonotic Disease Outbreaks in Malaysia - Google Play

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In recent times, several infectious and zoonotic diseases have emerged as major threats to the health of people and animals globally, resulting in suffering and death of human and animals. The One Health Manual, an initiative of Malaysia One Health University Network (MyOHUN), is the first local Manual to deal with zooneses outbreak investigation based on the One Health concept which is a multidisciplinary collaboration among a myriad of disciplines.

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Slides - Introduction of Public Health Laboratories