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Importance of Leadership Skills and Personal Leadership Philosophy

Leadership skills are essential in every sector and in every role to become successful. Leaders can adapt to changes quickly and make the right decisions that benefit them and their company. Employers see leadership skills while hiring employees for their company. Leadership skills are learned through practice and experience. However, these leadership skills and styles can only benefit the company when a person sets his leadership philosophy. A personal leadership philosophy is the values, principles, and beliefs one has and follows in his own life. His values add extra value to his leadership skills. This article includes the fundamental leadership skills, the importance of personal leadership philosophy, and how to develop personal leadership philosophy.

By Farhanaz Published 4 years ago 3 min read
Importance of Leadership Skills and Personal Leadership Philosophy
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Key Leadership Skills

Leaders are the ones who can change people with their attitude, and behavior and motivate people to do something good. Leadership skills are learned through practice and experience. Seniors were elected as leaders in the olden days because they had seen the world and experienced more than youngsters. In this century, anyone can become a leader who has leadership skills and abilities to handle any situation smoothly irrespective of their gender, color, and religion. Leadership skills are learned to become leaders. Some of the fundamental leadership skills are

  • Self-awareness: a person must be able to identify his strength and weaknesses to overcome them and increase his abilities. A person must gain knowledge and experience through his work. Self-awareness is an essential leadership skill and plays an important role in making oneself successful. He must be aware of things going around, and he must be able to predict the future with his knowledge and experience and make wise decisions.
  • Communication: communication is the most important and first visible leadership skill in a person. A person must learn to communicate well in his course to become a successful leader. The main job of a leader is to speak continuously about the company vision, encourage employees with a motivational speech, communicate with investors and partners and make them happy, communicate with board members while making decisions, and so on. Communication is the only way to build trust among stakeholders and shareholders. A leader must have both written and oral communication skills to succeed.
  • Influence: influences are the other skills used to attract others and become role models. On can influence others with his work, decision-making skills, motivational skills, idea generation, attitude, and others. A leader must influence his employees and workers to make them work for the company. Influencing skills must be developed to grow at the career level.
  • Active learner: a leader must be an active learner and must have every knowledge of his work, latest trends, and technologies to create new ideas and opportunities for the organization. He must be an active leaner to make his followers updated with every business and other external news. Active learners can adapt to changes quickly without any fear of technology.
  • Personal Leadership Philosophy

    A personal leadership philosophy is the values, principles, and beliefs one has and follows in his own life. His values add extra value to his leadership skills. The personal leadership philosophy helps others to understand their leader better. It creates comfort and trust among the followers who follow him. The personal leadership philosophy also helps leaders to create their ideas and solutions to succeed in their careers. The personal leadership philosophy benefits the company in many aspects, such as it makes the leader contribute more to the company that increases its production of the company.

    Importance of Personal Leadership Philosophy

    The personal leadership philosophy help followers differentiate between good leaders and great leaders. It helps to understand your reactions and behavior according to the situation. It enables followers to understand what you expect from them and when. It allows leaders to make decisions by considering both business and cultural ethics. It allows them to make decisions that do not hurt anyone of their followers. Employees who understand the personal leadership philosophy of their leader get more influenced by him and trust him completely. They work for him and the company, which increases company productivity.

    Develop Personal Leadership Philosophy

    To develop a personal leadership philosophy, a leader must write his goals, built-in values, and rules that he wants to follow. He needs to note down all qualities he has and wants to develop. Then create a plan to practice and develop the leadership skills, and apply them in real-time while solving problems in personal and professional life. Analyze the results and practice until the skills are acquired. The personal leadership philosophy makes the person leader from the inside. He need not act as a leader in front of others when he develops the personal leadership philosophy. Each leader has different leadership philosophy that helps them to create unique solutions. These personal leadership philosophies and leadership theories are taught in schools to develop leadership skills in people before entering the corporate world as it becomes easier to handle situations.

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