5 essential leadership skills
As we all know, 2009 will be an unpredictable, volatile year. Being a good leader is going to be more challenging than ever.
I was recommended a book called The Leadership Code by Dave Ulrich. I haven’t read it yet but I got a good summary diagram off the book’s promotion website.
There are 5 skills that a good leader must master. Some of these skills are focused on tangible organizational aspects while others are focused on the intangible people aspects. Some have long term rewards while the benefits of others may be visible in the shorter term.
A good leader must focus on these 5 crucial rules or skills:
- Be a strategist – Shape your future
- Be an executor – Make things happen
- Be a talent manager – Engage today’s talent
- Be a human capital developer – Build the next generation
- Develop your personal proficiency – Invest in yourself
The core of leadership is to continue to invest in yourself and maintain your personal proficiency that makes you a better strategist, executor, talent manager and human capital developer.
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