Leadership Skills: Developing Leadership Strategies
Ashten Skupny
April 17, 2017
Lynda Extra Credit
1.Understanding Leadership
What is leadership?
Leadership skills can be learned and improved. There's a range of key leadership skills and practices but they fall mainly into four clusters of competencies. Self-awareness, building relationships, business acumen and organizational strategy.
In leadership, reputation really is everything. These leadership skills are relevant to every organization, and every leadership role, whether you're new to leading, or the CEO of a multinational corporation.
When are you leading?
Leadership and management are closely intertwined. As a manager, you create a stable work environment that is clear and consistent, so employees can be as productive as possible. …show more content…
Developing Your Leadership Skills
Mapping leadership competencies
First and foremost, remember that your integrity is your most precious asset. You want to tend to your reputation carefully, because you're through to move into higher levels of leadership, you must become known as a person who's trustworthy and has integrity. Be sure your words and actions align with your values so that you act ethically.
Next, self-awareness is your awareness and management of your inner world. It includes the competences of knowledge of self, accurate self-assessment, self-confidence, emotional self-control, achievement drive, Adaptability, and learning orientation.
Next is building relationships, which is the ability to build positive and effective relationships with direct reports, peers, customers, higher management, and all stakeholders both within and outside the organization. The competencies here are reading people, empathy and compassion, communication skills, developing others, maximizing team performance, managing conflict, appreciating difference, building influence, and service …show more content…
Number four, how well do they manage their triggers?
Number five, what are their work life balance needs?
Number six, what are their long-range career dreams?
Increasing team performance
How to tell you have a team
Number 1, a common purpose. This would be the clear goal they are to achieve. Number 2, their efforts must be inter-dependent. Otherwise, it's just coordinate efforts of individual contributors, and that's not a team. Number 3, they must share accountability. Everyone is held responsible for the group's success or failure.
And number 4, the members must believe that the outcome will be better together than working alone.
You'll want to be sure that everyone is clear about the purpose, scope, and quality and other important aspects of the goal.
Facilitating change
Because of the emotional nature of change, you want to do everything you can to create a culture of trust. This means clarifying the organization's intentions with a change, being reliable by matching your words to your actions, and being trustworthy by honoring your agreements. You can't build trust overnight, so if your organization has low trust, you should first prioritize building it, before you tackle big
April 17, 2017
Lynda Extra Credit
1.Understanding Leadership
What is leadership?
Leadership skills can be learned and improved. There's a range of key leadership skills and practices but they fall mainly into four clusters of competencies. Self-awareness, building relationships, business acumen and organizational strategy.
In leadership, reputation really is everything. These leadership skills are relevant to every organization, and every leadership role, whether you're new to leading, or the CEO of a multinational corporation.
When are you leading?
Leadership and management are closely intertwined. As a manager, you create a stable work environment that is clear and consistent, so employees can be as productive as possible. …show more content…
Developing Your Leadership Skills
Mapping leadership competencies
First and foremost, remember that your integrity is your most precious asset. You want to tend to your reputation carefully, because you're through to move into higher levels of leadership, you must become known as a person who's trustworthy and has integrity. Be sure your words and actions align with your values so that you act ethically.
Next, self-awareness is your awareness and management of your inner world. It includes the competences of knowledge of self, accurate self-assessment, self-confidence, emotional self-control, achievement drive, Adaptability, and learning orientation.
Next is building relationships, which is the ability to build positive and effective relationships with direct reports, peers, customers, higher management, and all stakeholders both within and outside the organization. The competencies here are reading people, empathy and compassion, communication skills, developing others, maximizing team performance, managing conflict, appreciating difference, building influence, and service …show more content…
Number four, how well do they manage their triggers?
Number five, what are their work life balance needs?
Number six, what are their long-range career dreams?
Increasing team performance
How to tell you have a team
Number 1, a common purpose. This would be the clear goal they are to achieve. Number 2, their efforts must be inter-dependent. Otherwise, it's just coordinate efforts of individual contributors, and that's not a team. Number 3, they must share accountability. Everyone is held responsible for the group's success or failure.
And number 4, the members must believe that the outcome will be better together than working alone.
You'll want to be sure that everyone is clear about the purpose, scope, and quality and other important aspects of the goal.
Facilitating change
Because of the emotional nature of change, you want to do everything you can to create a culture of trust. This means clarifying the organization's intentions with a change, being reliable by matching your words to your actions, and being trustworthy by honoring your agreements. You can't build trust overnight, so if your organization has low trust, you should first prioritize building it, before you tackle big