article thumbnail

Empathy: The Top Leadership Skill for Today’s Work Environment

Leading Blog

An empathetic approach to organizational culture has been proven to have positive business outcomes. Recently, a large study ranked empathy as the most important leadership skill in the workplace. Empathy has been shown to drive positive business results and has numerous therapeutic effects on stressed employees.

article thumbnail

Visionary Thinking Is a Practiced Skill

Leading Blog

In my younger years, I had many visions of the ideas, goals, and positions that I wanted to achieve. As I looked back, I realized that most, if not all, of the 45 Performance-based Skills are utilized in some way during visionary thinking. This is why social interaction skills and boldness are so important to visionaries.

Skills 343
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

How to Leverage Your Skills with the Most Valuable Leadership Practice

Let's Grow Leaders

Showing up moment by moment, day after day, project after project with the same skills, character, and commitment. The same is true for any meaningful team behavior or leadership skill. That’s why we recommend developing a habit of using one leadership skill before adding the next. What’s the most valuable leadership practice?

Skills 498
article thumbnail

Executive Leadership in 2024: Skills and Strategies for Leaders

N2Growth Blog

As they navigate these changing trends, leaders must harness the skills and understanding necessary to steer their organizations confidently into an ever-evolving future. This means today’s leaders must possess a unique blend of skills that promote and support innovation and digital literacy alongside their conventional skill set.

Execution 217
article thumbnail

7 Effective Leadership Skills Every New Manager Should Know

Lead from Within

It’s a role that demands not only technical expertise but also effective leadership skills. To succeed as a new manager and lead your team to excellence, you’ll need to hone specific leadership skills. In this blog, we’ll explore seven essential leadership skills that every new manager should know and cultivate.

Skills 161
article thumbnail

Positive Chaos: Transforming Crisis into Clarity and Advantage

Leading Blog

In Positive Chaos , Dan Thurmon explains how to do just that. Chaos happens, but we need to become a creator of positive chaos. That is to say, we need to seize the chaos as an opportunity to transform ourselves, accomplish, and positively influence others to do the same. C HAOS is ubiquitous and inevitable. Why don’t we?

article thumbnail

Four Skills That Revolutionize Team Communication

Lead Change Blog

Fortunately, there are four skills we can learn and develop to counteract our tendencies to win or minimize. We do that by learning and using the skills of testing and inquiring. The skill of inquiring involves drawing the thinking of others into the conversation. Stating a Clear Position and Explaining Your Thinking.

Skills 393