Six Essential Leadership Skills

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Six Essential Leadership Skills


There are 6 categories of skills that make or break a leader:

  1. Strategic Formulation

  2. Customer Orientation

  3. Business Strategy Implementation

  4. Being a Team Player

  5. Leadership

  6. Personal Traits


Understanding these skills will help you to recognize your opportunities.

Elizabeth Xu, sample content from the to be published book.

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January 25, 2012 at 4:38 AM
Ivan Zeng said…
Category 1, 2 and 3 can be learned by reading about them and practicing on them. Of cousee, one needs to be aware of them first. Category 4, 5 and 6 are more of self enlightment that are hard to quantify and thus harder to be learned.
January 26, 2012 at 8:57 PM
Jeff Taylor said…
Yes, these are 6 essential skills that make or break a leader. Truly agree with this.

Jeff @ Leadership Training - Future Matters
February 6, 2012 at 9:01 PM
Continuous Optimizer said…
Those six essential skills are vital, but if you want to achieve your mission, vision, values, guiding principles, strategy and tactics, the organization must be injected with realistic, superlative guidelines. Leaders, teams and organizations can't function at their peak when they think and execute suboptimally. For more information about a seminar I participated in, see: http://www.optimalthinking.com/leadership-skills-seminar.html
May 14, 2012 at 12:15 PM
Rana Khalil said…
Dear Mrs. Elizabeth,

I couldn't help not leaving a comment after reading your blog. Its not only inspiring, it gives me a real view of what working towards a successful career is like (since am a fresh graduate). I loved your article about the glass ceiling, as it relates exactly to how I feel in my home culture. However, I am still trying to relate how can you be creative and imaginative, in a goal oriented fast organization that needs as you mentioned a systematic scheme to make decisions. Where would creativity fit in?

Also, If there is a single advice you would give a fresh graduate like me , what would it be?

I hope I would hear back from you

Thank you so much

Best Regards,

Rana Khalil
May 17, 2012 at 3:31 PM
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