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Leadership Skills

‘There are leaders and there are followers’, as the saying goes, and developing good leadership skills can create the distinction between the two. Many people believe a strong leader is born and not made. This is not necessarily the case. As with anything, educating yourself to encourage become a great leader or a person with superb leadership skills takes time, energy and commitment. A leader is a person who has strong principles, courage and dedication to a clear vision.

In business, possessing high-quality leadership skills are a must for any interested individual to succeed on an executive level. Developing a powerful vision, building a strong team and bringing out the best in those you lead are key facets to experiencing success as a leader in your field or industry. Leadership Skills articles in the Career Series section of tutorials will assist you in becoming a disciplined, successful and effective leader.

People follow a great leader because he is representative of the beliefs of a group. This person is often a well-principled individual who is focused on a common goal and eliminates excess fear and doubt. The followers of the leader often provide the necessary support for the team to advance and succeed in achieving their goals. An individual with good leadership skills will recognize and reward the team for the greater cause.
 

Leadership Tips

Leadership Tips To become a great leader, your followers must be able to respect you. There are a number of tips you will want to follow to gain and keep the respect of those you lead. There are a lot of mistakes made by people who wish to be leaders, and they are often made because they don’t understand what people want. One common problem made by leaders is expecting people to follow them because they have a certain title. It is not enough for you to have the title of CEO or captain. A title is nothing if people…
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Leadership Styles

Leadership Styles One factor in becoming a successful leader is choosing the right leadership style. The style that you choose to use will play a role in your success or failure. As you can imagine, there is no one leadership style that will work for all situations. To become a good leader, you will need to know when to use a certain leadership style for a given situation. There are six simple leadership styles that you will want to become familiar with. In this article I will go over them, and you can decide which one is best to use…
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The Secrets of Successful Leaders

The Secrets of Successful Leaders If you wish to be a great leader, you will want to have a deep understanding of what is valuable to you. It is also essential for you to understand ethics. A great leader will showcase their ethics and values in their behavior. A common problem that many leaders have is trust from those that follow them. When you don’t showcase your ethics or values, people will be wary of trusting you. The reason for this is because they can’t be certain of what actions you will perform. When people understand the value and ethics…
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How To Become a Great Leader

How To Become a Great Leader One thing that all great leaders have in common is strong beliefs. Once you understand your beliefs, you can next look at your group to determine if those beliefs are being promoted. To be a great leader, you don’t want to waste time worrying about things that are not directly connected to your beliefs. You must focus on yourself and your goals. Many people have misconceptions about what it takes to be a good leader. Some will tell you it is a natural gift, while others will say a leader must be tall or…
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How To Go From Being a Manager To a Leader

How To Go From Being a Manager To a Leader If you are currently a manager, it is likely you have been trained rational methods for managing employees. You probably use reason, logic, and a bunch of other techniques which are rational. While these skills are good for someone who wants to be a manager, they are not good for someone who wants to be a great leader. To become a leader, being logical is not enough. You must know how to influence those that follow you. Numerous studies have shown that emotional intelligence is much more important than logic…
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How To Develop A Powerful Vision

How To Develop A Powerful Vision One thing that all great leaders have in common is vision. If you wish to improve your leadership skills, you to will need to have a powerful vision. But it is not just enough to retain it in your head. You will need to design what is called a strategic plan. The strategic plan will need to be composed of six things, and these are your future vision, a statement that shows your goals, the values that will demonstrate your actions, strategies that you will use to succeed, and a guide which shows your…
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How Leaders Can Build A Strong Team

How Leaders Can Build A Strong Team To be a great leader, you will want to build a powerful team. It doesn’t matter how successful you are or plan to be. To succeed, you must know how to assemble the best people. This is important whether you are a coach, general, or corporate executive. The team that you build will play a role in the success or failure of your organization. In this article I will discuss the importance of building a powerful team. While you will hear many people talk about the importance of teamwork, many of them don’t…
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How Studying a Great Leader Can Improve Your Skills

How Studying a Great Leader Can Improve Your Skills One way to become a good leader is to study leaders who have been successful. By studying and applying the things you learn from these individuals, you to can become an excellent leader, and you will be able to excel in any area that interests you. Studies which have been conducted on the top American companies indicate that there are five important leadership skills you can use to help your team succeed. Before you use these techniques, you will first need to create the right environment. These companies are led by…
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How To Become The Leader Others Will Follow

How To Become The Leader Others Will Follow Great leaders are exceptionally rare. They have a combination of charisma and a number of other traits that cause other people to follow them. In this article I will go over these traits, explaining each of them in detail. By understanding them, you will have the necessary knowledge to begin enhancing your own leadership capabilities. One important trait of a good leader is the need to have people follow them. Despite this, people will only follow a leader who is competent and trustworthy, and people who are great leaders have both of…
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How To Set An Example For Your Followers

How To Set An Example For Your Followers Many employees have found that their managers often want them to follow rules that they themselves do not follow. If this situation sounds familiar, this means that you work under leaders who do not set good examples. A number of corporate executives wander why their employees follow their example instead of the rules which they have laid down. The behavior of any leader will set the values that their followers will use. When they behave in a decent manner, they can demand the same behavior from those beneath them. However, if they…
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How To Bring Out The Best In Those You Lead

How To Bring Out The Best In Those You Lead The success of a leader will always be dependent of the success of those they lead. The performance of your team is a reflection of your leadership skills. If they are performing well, this is a sign that you are doing a great job. If they are performing poorly, this is a sign that you must have areas where you need to improve. I want you to notice in the last sentence how I placed responsibility on the leader instead of the team. Many leaders make the mistake of blaming…
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How To Lead In An Environment With Multiple Cultures

How To Lead In An Environment With Multiple Cultures If you wish to be the leader of a large group, you will need to learn how lead people who come from cultural backgrounds which are different from your own. Few modern companies can survive by working with people of one cultural group. We live in a global world that is becoming more interconnected than ever before, and any leader who wishes to succeed will need to learn how to lead on a global scale. To do this requires you to respect and understand various cultures. Because we live in a…
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What Leaders Can Do To Motivate Their Followers

What Leaders Can Do To Motivate Their Followers It could be argued that the ability to motivate is one of the most important qualities a great leader should have. Indeed, if the members of a group are not motivated by their leader, the success of the group will be unlikely. The challenge of the leader is to create an environment where their followers can be motivated to succeed. Motivation is a simple concept that many organizations fail to use. They don’t reward or recognize the success of their members, or they fail to properly communicate. If you want to motivate…
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Why Discipline is Important For Great Leaders

Why Discipline is Important For Great Leaders Whether you are the CEO of a fortune 500 company or the general of an army, discipline is a serious issue that no great leader will want to take lightly. At some point, someone in your organization will not follow rules or guidelines. Making the right decision in an event like this will make the difference between success and failure. The reason for this is because you must properly discipline those that break rules. It is important for the safety of your organization. However, properly disciplining your followers is easier said than done,…
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The Importance of Task Allocation

The Importance of Task Allocation Before a sports team goes out to play a game, a large amount of time is spent deciding which player will play a particular position. The position that a player is placed in will often be dependent on their level of skill. It will also be dependent on the estimated performance of the opposite team. It is the leader who is responsible for picking the right players to play in a certain position, and this is called task allocation. Task allocation is just as important in business as it is in sports. Learning how to…
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The Importance Of Using Expertise To Lead

The Importance Of Using Expertise To Lead If you want to become skilled at leading people, it is important to realize that there are multiple foundations you can use. While many of these foundations can give you high levels of power, they also have a number of disadvantages. Many great leaders use their power to reward, punish, or control the information which is received by those they lead. The biggest problem with these methods is that the leaders who use them will often become autocratic, and will lose the trust or faith of their followers. In our world of today,…
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The Importance of Using Rewards and Recognition To Lead

The Importance of Using Rewards and Recognition To Lead Many large companies today spend excessive amounts of money trying to make their employees more productive. However, investing money in the productivity of your employees is useless if the leaders do not understand how to recognize and reward those who are under them. In addition to money, most people love receiving large amounts of praise and recognition for their accomplishments. A good leader will make his followers feel important. They will seek to create environments where their followers are rewarded for their hard work and success. While the concept of rewards…
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