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Are leaders born or made?
Acquiring strong leadership qualities can provide confidence and direction in your career. There are many situations in which you might want to take on a leadership role, such as managing a team or project in your workplace.
What are leadership strengths? Leadership strengths help you relate with others, make productive decisions and provide effective guidance. They may also include skills or qualities you have demonstrated, characteristics or social abilities.
In this article, we discuss how to develop your leadership strengths and become more effective in a leadership role.
Identify your leadership strengths and weaknesses
By identifying your strongest areas, you can focus on those strengths while working on your challenge areas. To do this, it can be helpful to ask a mentor or trusted colleague to discuss areas where you excel and those that could use some attention. You might also try taking personality or aptitude tests and assessments.
Another helpful thought exercise is to consider when you have received praise, promotions, awards or compliments. Are there any themes or areas you find you are consistently praised? What traits, qualities and skills helped you achieve awards or recognition?
Discover your leadership style
Identifying your personal leadership style can provide helpful context as you grow your leadership skills. Examples of leadership styles include democratic leadership, transformative leadership, coach-style leadership and autocratic or coercive leadership. By identifying your leadership style, you can seek opportunities that highlight your leadership strengths. You may also discover aspects of your leadership abilities that you could improve through mentor relationships, workshops or requesting feedback from coworkers.
Always keep learning
This is something that we see all the time in great leaders – they are still curious. You should always keep learning as much as you can about the business, the people around you and your strengths and weaknesses.
Take the initiative when it comes to your learning, put yourself forward for work that will challenge you and look at the areas you can improve and then take some leadership training or read some self-improvement books.
Seek mentors
You may have people around you who you admire as leaders and may be potential mentors. These people may be able to offer advice or to take on a mentorship role. If the person knows you personally, they may be able to offer you specific feedback on skills you can develop that may help you advance within your current organization.
Leaders may be role models. Think about people you admire from public life, and try to find out more about how they developed their leadership skills.
Take on leadership roles
A good way to develop your leadership qualities is to look for advanced roles to take on at work. Any leadership opportunity is a chance to work on your skills by experiencing what strengths you have and what strengths you can improve.
You could offer to lead a project, suggest an improvement or change you’d like to implement or ask your supervisor directly for an opportunity to gain leadership experience. Look for smaller ways to embrace leadership too, such as offering to guide new team members or offering to assist your supervisor.
Ultimately,
The best way to unlock your full leadership potential is to invest in yourself. Be eager to learn, challenge yourself, and strive to learn something new every day.
Are you ready to identify your leadership strengths and unlock your potential? Start today by registering for this Leadership & Management Course!
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