leaderShip

Five skills that build leadership depth

1.    Emotional Intelligence: The leaders should develop Intra-personal and Inter-personal intelligence. It helps you be more successful in your interactions with stake holders.

2.    Challenge others: Declare objectives and offer opportunities for people to stretch their thinking and adapt the right behavior to achieve those objectives. Set the expectation that everyone, including you, should improve their skills.

3.    Coaching: While you challenge people, remember that the members may not have the right skills. Conduct short coaching sessions to build the skills. Make sure that the members are clear about the goal during these coaching session for enhanced effectiveness. Give and receive feedback in the subsequent coaching sessions.

4.    Walk the talk: There has to be a congruence between feeling, thinking, saying and doing. This helps the members observe consistency in the leaders’ behavior and the leader is considered as reliable.

5.    Be transparent: A leader has to make sure that he/she shares the similar information with all his/her team members. Team members should be aware of the information specially which is relevant to them.