I gave an English class to a private one-to-one client recently and we got talking about leadership. He is a Brazilian manager with a multinational business and for that reason needs to maintain his fluency. Especially since he has been transferred from São Paulo, which is a World-renowned and very big city, to Cuiabá.
He encapsulated the skills so fluently that I just had to write them down here because I have been studying leadership for a long time. We divided them into two categories, Basic Leadership Skills and Advanced Leadership Skills.
Basic Leadership Skills include qualities such as these.
The leader needs to be
- a teacher
- loyal
- a psychologist
- fair
- able to like people
- able to foster team spirit
S/he can foster team spirit by
- using "we' not "I"
- have consversations
- listen
- give advice
- give feedback
We touched on the all-important body-language, too. The leader needs to
- maintain eye contact
- be attentive.
As my own emotional maturity and social intelligence develops, I am more and more drawn to one specific paradigm shift that is mentioned above. That is, the importance of liking people. As you may know if you have been reading me on a regular basis, my background is in biology and veterinary medicine ie dealing with animals and not people. In the past I have been only too happy to enjoy my own company. But that, I am pleased to say, is changing. I am learning to love being social. And that is important, because being social is what life is all about. Being sociable is living. Getting along with people is happiness. Have a great day.
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