Leadership skills are often built in you and sometimes you adopt them from your surroundings. We have discussed about major leadership skills in detail in our previous article, which you can read here. This article comes up with how you will identify if someone has leadership qualities. Here is a list of 10 major true leadership skills in people in your organization.
1- REMARKABLE COMMUNICATION SKILLS:
Strong communication is a key sign of a true leadership. To identify true leadership skills in a person, you need to observe his communication with other people in organization. He must have a quality of listening to others carefully and then delivering his words or work. He also keeps his communications transparent among all. There is always a possibility that some shared information can fall into contender’s hands but the fact is that, the gains far outweigh the risks. If these qualities, precisely, exist in a person then he has leadership role in his organization.
2- FOCUS KEPT ON HIGH POTENTIALS THAN ON PERFORMANCE:
A true leadership is emerges from high potentials rather than high performances. Many individuals in their organizations are best in their performances but they lack the capabilities to show their desire to grow or their aptitude or overall potentials; so they are satisfied being followers instead of leaders. Therefore, a true leader’s potentials always outweigh his performance.
A person must be dedicated to his organization’s goals and should visualize his professional successes through his organization’s growth trend. He must invest in delivering his thoughts to achieve flexible outcomes in his organization, as well as suggests ideas for process improvement.
3- MOTIVATIONAL SPIRIT:
True leaders always motivate others to do best and be best according to their capacities, by transferring knowledge, inspiring others and rewarding them. It is never enough to tell people to do good for organization, but its more than important to actually show them how they can do that good to their organization by sharing knowledge and inspiring them and also rewarding them on basis of their outcomes to encourage them to be more positive and be valued.
4- STAY CALM EVEN OUTSIDE AREA OF EXPERTISE:
It’s a great sign of true leadership when somebody stays comfortable even outside his expertise zone. The individual makes himself adaptive to the occurring scenarios because he have to deal with all areas without even having expertise in them, knowing that he can always get back to his leadership skills without worrying what the area is.
The owner of any organization is a true leader because he deals with all the areas within his organization, keeping aside his area of expertise, to make it run smoothly; knowing that if he will not get involved in any certain area, he might get cheated on his work, which he definitely cannot afford.
5- BEING ADAPTIVE TO NEW SITUATIONS:
Leadership is based on the ability to adapt any given scenario. In today’s business and IT world everything is changing on a fast rate. But keep in mind that not everybody is born to adapt change and become a leader. Some people are really happy in doing a fixed road-map job over years or just sitting back and developing strong applications and projects. Leaders are those who have in-built ability of adapting according to their surroundings and the needs of their organizations as well. They help guide the departments at different levels within their organizations. Ultimately they serve as an effective and successful leader for their organization.
6- SERVICE FOR OTHERS:
True leaders never just command, dictate or impose their orders on others. A sign to identify their true leadership is their ability to serve other people, either employees or customers. They always help and motivate others towards their respective goals; help others to show up best in them; making others’ needs more important than their own needs; and encouraging others to reach their highest possible potentials. This quality is said to be among the highest ones to achieve leadership success.
7- HAVE TRUE MENTORS:
Future leaders surround themselves with their mentors who guide them through their wisdom and sincere feedback. A true leader chooses his mentor very carefully; keeping in mind that a wrong guidance may potentially be career-limiting for him or it may prove to be a bad move in future. So a leader looks for tried and tested mentor who have high sense of integrity, which everyone admires.
8- BEING ACCOUNTABLE:
One of the major signs of identifying true leadership is to see if someone holds himself accountable for his failures and shortcomings. Those who shy away from holding themselves responsible for their deed, because of its poor impression on their profile, can never have leader-thing in them. True leaders always make themselves comfortable with constructive criticism situations as well because they make up their time to influence their positive actions on others around them.
9- BEING ENERGETIC:
People who tend to lift up others with energy, shows signs of true leadership. Often, a time comes when the organization goes through a tough phase and undergoing heavy and tough projects, there are people within the organization who carries an ability to boost up the teams or department in their challenging projects; and ultimately they turn up to create a big difference in the long run with their energetic and optimistic behavior.
10- TRUST:
To identify leadership skills in someone, you need to see his trust level with other people. This is because trust is a pillar of company’s successful leadership. True leaders have certain traits to build trust within organization that are: they hold themselves accountable; create transparent medium for communication as well as their work; confront upcoming challenging realities; clarify their expected thoughts; and listen to others first. These signs will increase trust levels across the board, which will ultimately make a major difference in organization’s performance.
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