Developing Leadership Skills

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Leaders should focus on developing their emotional intelligence, including empathy, kindness, and people skills. These qualities will become foundational attributes for leadership in the age of AI. Leaders should inspire their teams, navigate complex interpersonal dynamics, and make decisions influenced by empathy and intuition.

Gregory Lewandowski • The Emotional Rollercoaster of Grief and Growth in AI-Driven Change

3. Five Characteristic of Leaders.

a) Capability : To be a leader you have to be capable in your field of work or craft. You have to know your shit. You have to keep improving your skill. Doctors will not listen doctors who are not great at medicine. A creative will not respect someone whose body of work they do not admire.

b) Integrity : Can one be... See more

4 Keys to Leading Today.

The five skills, in the author's words, are cross-cutting, collaborating, coaching, culture shaping, and connecting.

Cross-cutting: developing networks that extend to a diversity of people,
Collaborating: fostering psychological safety to increase team performance,
Coaching: having critical conversations that develop others’ potential,
Culture shaping:

Empathy Is a Non-Negotiable Leadership Skill. Here’s How to Practice It.

Palena Neale hbr.org

A good leader must be a great role model!

As a leader, your job is to model the right behaviors. People pay attention to how you talk, the decisions you make, and most of all, how you treat other people—especially strangers.

If you want to be a great role model, you must master these skills:

1. Learn to control your anger, especially in public.