CAREER LEADERSHIP: 5 LEADERSHIP SKILLS YOU NEED FOR CAREER ADVANCEMENT

CAREER LEADERSHIP: 5 LEADERSHIP SKILLS YOU NEED FOR CAREER ADVANCEMENT

  July 05, 2019    InspireForte Solutions

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The difference between a successful career person and a mediocre is leadership. Possessing good leadership skills can help you make the quantum leap from mediocrity to significance in your workplace. The key to being an influential figure in your profession is by developing leadership skills that can position you for opportunities that will change your life. The Pareto Principle states that 80 percent of professionals in any field of endeavour will enjoy 20 percent in any field of endeavour, while 20 percent of professionals will enjoy 80 percent benefits in any field of endeavour. Obviously, you’ll agree with me that enjoying 80 percent benefit is bigger and better. So, your number one goal is to be in the top 20 percent in your profession. You can achieve this by developing leadership skills that will accelerate you to the top.

Here are 5 key leadership skills that can advance your career:

   1.   PROBLEM-SOLVING/CRITICAL THINKING

To be influential in your profession, then you need to be a critical thinker. Good career leaders are able to foresee potential problems before they occur. Also, they also identify solutions to these problems so as to prevent the damages these problems might try to create. Another important critical thinking ability of top career leaders is that they look out for potential opportunities and take full of advantage of them to benefit their organizations and the people in their workspace. They have an ability to have things under control by proffering solutions to the needs of their workplace.

   

    2.   LEARNING AGILITY

The ability and willingness to learn is an important quality of career leaders. As a person aspiring to be one, you need knowledge to be able to give direction to others. A Study by the JJHournal, learning aGility and leadership competence are positively correlated. It also revealed that with regards to career growth, employees with remarkable learning ability received higher compensation over a ten-year period compared to those with low learning agility. Leadership Expert, John C. Maxwell once said: “Show me a reader, and I’ll tell you a leader.” You cannot diffuse learning from leadership, and vice versa.

    3.   INNOVATIVE THINKING

Leadership and innovation are like Siamese twins. Being innovative can help you lead positive changes in your workplace. Innovative leaders create new ideas can transform the fortunes of their organizations, manage change through out-of-box solutions at can still make their organizations competitive and profitable. Innovative career leaders take on the responsibility of making their organizations make the quantum leap from good to great with their exceptional ideas.  

    4.   GOOD COMMNICATION SKILLS

Good career leaders know how to communicate their ideas to other people. This means working on various ways you can make people understand the message you’re intending to pass cross to them in a simple and effective way. You can improve your communication skill through the following ways:

·       Paying attention to your speech by avoiding grammatical blunders, controversial statements that could send negative vibes.

    ·       Actively listening to people with rapt attention when they speak.

   ·      Taking classes in public speaking and speech presentations is a no-brainer.

   ·   Taking note of key points when communicating with people is important as it shows you value them and their opinions.

You can be a great communicator if you can consciously and intentionally work on improving your communication skills.

    5.   RELATIONSHIP BUILDING SKILL

Good career leaders have the ability to building powerful and meaningful relationships with people. They do so by listening to people and communicating their ideas to them. They take out time to understand and help people become better. It is often said that leaders must first touch the heart, before they can ask for a helping hand. If you desire to be a successful career leader, then you need to be empathetic towards people which mean you need to develop your emotional intelligence. Help them to modify their weaknesses and magnify their strengths.

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