A good leader is an amalgam of courage, integrity, empathy, and communication.
While accountancy and finance play a critical role in a business enterprise, it is the leaders and managers who shape the corporate vision and drive growth. The leadership culture symbolises an organisation’s character as well as its ability to set goals, acquire new clients and markets, take decisive action in overcoming challenges, beat competition, and inspire employees.
In addition to having extraordinary skillssets, leaders and managers must also possess a high degree of professionalism, a positive mindset, and the willingness and capacity to go the extra mile.
Effective leadership is the ability to take charge of strategy, operation, and implementation, doing what is right for the organisation and its most important stakeholders—employees.
Recruiters or HR managers look for the above qualities while hiring people, even at the entry level, so as to nurture young professionals to become leaders of tomorrow.
While passion, commitment, decisiveness, and team-building are essential qualities, there are other characteristics that can help leaders and managers maximise their strengths and develop a great management style. Here are seven soft skills that will enable managers to steer the ship effortlessly, ensure integrated and harmonious functioning of the organisation, and attain new heights of success:
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Trust is a must
Trust a belief in the abilities, integrity, values, and character of any organisation is one of the most important management principles.
Listen To Your Customers
A good customer experience management strategy will not just help retain existing customers but also attract new ones.
The hand that feeds
Providing free meals to employees is an effective way to increase engagement and boost productivity.
Survival secrets
Thrive at the workplace with these simple adaptations.
Plan backwards
Pioneer in the venture capital and private equity fields and co-founder of four transformational private equity firms, Bryan C Cressey opines that we have been taught backwards in many important ways, people can work an entire career without seeing these roadblocks to their achievements, and if you recognise and bust these five myths, you will become far more successful.
For a sweet deal
Negotiation is a discovery process for both sides; better interactions will lead all parties to what they want.
Humanise. Optimise. Digitise
Engaging employees in critical to the survival of an organisation, since the future of business is (still) people.
Beyond the call of duty
A servant leadership model can serve the purpose best when dealing with a distributed workforce.
Workplace courage
Leaders need to build courage in order to enhance their self-reliance and contribution to the team.
Focused on reality
Are you a sales manager or a true sales leader? The difference, David Mattson, CEO, Sandler® and author, Scaling Sales Success: 16 Key Principles For Sales Leaders, maintains, comes down to whether you can see beyond five classic myths that we often tell ourselves about selling.
