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Leadership Skills Development: A How-To for Women in Business

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NEWS AND INSIGHTS UPDATE: Do you have the leadership skills necessary to be a successful woman in business? According to the Guardian, there are four key qualities you need to have and four key things you need to do when directing your team in order to be a successful leader. 4 Tips to Develop Your Leadership Qualities.

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Your Business, Your Leadership

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I don’t know about the new school of leadership, but the school that I graduated from taught me that when you are responsible for a division, you are responsible for the mistakes. Leadership is often many intangible things; it’s that thing that this person has that is so hard to explain. You’re not a leader.

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How to Utilize Your Natural Leadership Abilities to Snatch That Big Promotion

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You may have a fantastic resume and be a master of task completion, but leadership skills play a huge role in landing a promotion. You need to look past the specific skills of your job and show the natural leadership you possess. There are a few ways to improve your leadership skills and bring natural abilities to the surface.

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Leadership Tactics: New Meaning of FEMA

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The title of my almost finished book about women and leadership keeps changing, while I continue to search for essential concepts about partnering with our male colleagues in new and highly productive ways. Looking at a synthesis of female-male leadership qualities, I started to call it “FEMA”.

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Does IQ or Emotional Intelligence Make a Good Leader?

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People have been debating IQ versus emotional intelligence in leadership for years. “In his research at nearly 200 large, global companies, Goleman found that while the qualities traditionally associated with leadership—such as intelligence, toughness, determination, and vision—are required for success, they are insufficient.

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You Are What You Say You Are….

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Leadership is an elusive quality and few people ever really get it, but as the figurehead of a company you are supposed to know what it means to be a leader and a motivator even if it wasn’t taught to you. Leadership is an elusive quality but interestingly enough the people who want it usually aren’t leaders.

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Time For Women to Compete

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A recent study conducted by Zenger Folkman tested males and females in leadership positions in the workplace. They tested leadership skills from development to problem solving to innovation etc. With results like this why are more women not in top leadership roles? That is right Ladies.