Leadership skills

1. Leadership is a skill that can be learned by anyone. Nobody knows how to drive, cook or build a house when they are born; these are skills that are learned over time. In the same way, leadership is a skill that you learn, not something that you are born with.
2. Leadership is relevant in all areas of Human activity, from family to community to business, politics and education. If there are people who need to work together to achieve a common goal and cope with challenging change then leaders are needed. One of the key challenges of today is the way that leaders lead needs to change. Leaders need to move away from the traditional ideas of reductionism, linear processes and hierarchy and move towards systems thinking, coping with uncertainty and using networks to organize people.
3. 21st Century leaders can “sustain the creation of excellent outcomes and influence people to cope with complex change”. 21st Century leaders succeed by ensuring their team or organizations can effectively optimize, innovate and adapt in the complex and changing world.
4. Above all, leaders make effective decisions. Wisdom is the ability to make effective long-term decisions; wise leaders can select the right behaviours to achieve the right outcomes. As a leader, the way you build wisdom is by constantly asking ‘why’, a practical way of building this skill is to ask ‘why?’ 5 times for any situation you encounter. You will rapidly see that this approach significantly improves your awareness and understanding of the overall situation.
5. 21st Century leaders are important as they can lead our communities, countries, cultures, cities and companies to cope with today’s accelerating complexity, uncertainty and volatility. create the innovation, sustainable growth and positive impact that are needed to succeed in the modern world. Further, the scarcest resource on the planet today is not oil, water or gold, it is highly effective 21st Century leaders. According to a 2012 PwC study, only 30% of CEOs believe they can get the leadership talent they need for their organizations to succeed. Investing in your ability to lead by mastering the 21 principles and actively practicing them in your environment is a powerful way of improving your future prospects! This section is about self-assessment, there are no right answers. It is designed to develop your learning by challenging you to think about how you can become a better 21st Century leader. You should write your answers to the questions in your learning diary as this will help you develop and track your learning! Introduction to leadership
1. Write an example of when you were a leader (remember you don’t have to be the formal leader to be leading the situation, leadership is about taking responsibility, describing what should be and exerting influence to achieve it, not job titles!)
2. Who is the most influential leader in your life? Who do you admire and respect?
3. What is the difference between leadership, management & entrepreneurship? The 21st Century leader
1. Why do you want to become a 21st Century leader?
2. How effective are you at enabling your team to Adapt to change?Optimise performance?Innovate new solutions?
3. How wise do you think you are? How wise do you need to be to be an effective leader?

Trust

Leading by trust

Leader influence coming by bridge trust, involving people to corporate and collaborate in doing specific task or special operation empower people who working with him and trust him because he involves theirs opinions for doing this job with him which reflect his influence in them.
Trust is too important in our daily life, job and many things, we should differentiate between trust dependence because trust means people's around leader playing with him a role to get a better results and achievements but dependence means he puts and plans to get actual results and achievements if they like to do or not.
The Trust empower people to do something not related to his role by collaboration to get better achievement which reflects to the whole team in their roles but dependence let jobs done by those people in meaning of he plan each one what is his role in this specific job to end the job with final results needed to be achieved.

SMART GOAL

S.M.A.R.T. goal setting: 

Specific

What exactly do you want to achieve? The more specific your description, the bigger the chance you'll get exactly that. S.M.A.R.T. goal setting clarifies the difference between 'I want to be a millionaire' and 'I want to make €50.000 a month for the next ten years by creating a new software product'.

Questions you may ask yourself when setting your goals and objectives are:

• What exactly do I want to achieve?
• Where?
• How?
• When?
• With whom?
• What are the conditions and limitations?
• Why exactly do I want to reach this goal? What are possible alternative ways of achieving the same?

S.M.A.R.T. goal setting: 

Measurable

Measurable goals means that you identify exactly what it is you will see, hear and feel when you reach your goal. It means breaking your goal down into measurable elements. You'll need concrete evidence. Being happier is not evidence; not smoking anymore because you adhere to a healthy lifestyle where you eat vegetables twice a day and fat only once a week, is.

Measurable goals can go a long way in refining what exactly it is that you want, too. Defining the physical manifestations of your goal or objective makes it clearer, and easier to reach.

S.M.A.R.T. goal setting: 

Attainable

Is your goal attainable? That means investigating whether the goal really is acceptable to you. You weigh the effort, time and other costs your goal will take against the profits and the other obligations and priorities you have in life.

If you don't have the time, money or talent to reach a certain goal you'll certainly fail and be miserable. That doesn't mean that you can't take something that seems impossible and make it happen by planning smartly and going for it!

There's nothing wrong with shooting for the stars; if you aim to make your department twice as efficient this year as it was last year with no extra labour involved, how bad is it when you only reach 1,8 times? Not too bad...

S.M.A.R.T. goal setting: 

Relevant

Is reaching your goal relevant to you? Do you actually want to run a multinational, be famous, have three children and a busy job? You decide for yourself whether you have the personality for it, or your team has the bandwidth.

If you're lacking certain skills, you can plan trainings. If you lack certain resources, you can look for ways of getting them.

The main questions, why do you want to reach this goal? What is the objective behind the goal, and will this goal really achieve that?

You could think that having a bigger team will make it perform better, but will it really?

S.M.A.R.T. goal setting: 

Timely

Time is money! Make a tentative plan of everything you do. Everybody knows that deadlines are what makes most people switch to action. So install deadlines, for yourself and your team, and go after them. Keep the timeline realistic and flexible, that way you can keep morale high. Being too stringent on the timely aspect of your goal setting can have the perverse effect of making the learning path of achieving your goals and objectives into a hellish race against time – which is most likely not how you want to achieve anything.

Leaders SMART goals