
Did
they ignore your suggestions? Did they task you with more work than
was fair or right? Did they minimize your contributions and take the
glory for themselves?
Maybe
they weren’t good at explaining what they needed you to do and were
impatient with you or got frustrated or angry with you when you made
mistakes?
Odds
are, if you’ve spent any time in the work force, you’ve either
worked for, or come across someone who wasn’t a good leader.
On
the other side of the fence, you have the opposite type of boss… a
great leader that clearly possesses the necessary skills to be
effective in her/his role.
Being
a good leader is in a work place (or any situation, for that matter)
is more than just bossing people around and having them do what you
tell them to do. Yes, it does involve assigning tasks to people and
making sure those tasks are completed, but being a good leader is
much more than that, it
takes leadership skills.
What Are Leadership Skills?
But
what exactly are leadership skills? Well in order to understand
leadership skills it helps to have a good grasp on the two main
types of skills first. Skills can generally be broken down into two
categories, hard skills and soft skills.
Knowing
how to do your job and mastering the skills you need in order to
perform that job are what are called hard
skills.
You learn these through training, education and experience.
In
contrast, soft
skills are
usually interpersonal skills…or people skills. These can include
things like listening skills and communication skills, to name a few.
In
most cases (and for 99% of positions… not just leadership
positions), companies look to hire individuals who have a certain
combination of hard and soft skills that the company deems necessary
to be effective in the job.
So
how do hard and soft skills apply to leadership positions?
It
is no different when hiring for leadership positions. The company is
looking for the individual that best exemplifies the necessary
leadership skills that will allow her/him to be a successful leader.
In other words, there is a set of hard AND soft skills that are most
desirable for candidates interviewing for leadership positions.
If
you want to be hired for a leadership position, you need to identify
what these leadership skills are and ensure that you are able to
demonstrate them to your interviewer.
Don’t
worry, we’ve pulled together a list of the top leadership skills
hiring managers look for!
Our List of the Top 55 Leadership Skills
Here
we’ve compiled a fairly comprehensive list of common leadership
skills that hiring managers are often looking for:
- Analytical abilities
- Business sense
- Calculated risk taking
- Coaching experience
- Commitment
- Confidence
- Collaboration experience
- Commitment
- Communication skills
- Compassion
- Competitiveness
- Conflict management and resolution
- Constructive criticism and feedback
- Coordination experience
- Courage
- Creativity
- Critical Thinking
- Decision making
- Delegation
- Enthusiasm
- Flexibility
- Goal setting and completion
- Good judgement
- Honesty
- Humour
- Humility
- Initiative
- Inspirational
- Integrity
- Listening skills
- Logical thinking
- Management skills
- Motivational skills
- Multitasking abilities
- Negotiation skills
- Networking skills
- Non-verbal skills
- Open minded
- Optimism
- Organizational skills
- Passion
- Persuasiveness
- Planning and strategy skills
- Positivity
- Problem solving
- Relationship building
- Resourcefulness
- Respectful
- Self-confidence
- Self-motivation
- Supportive
- Team building
- Trustworthiness
- Verbal communication
- Vision for the future
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