Effective Leadership Skills

Presentation outline
• Introduction
• Roles and Responsibilities of a Leader in a Team
• What can make an effective leadership Skills?   
• 9 Effective Leadership characteristics to help
your Team Member
• Conclusion
 Introduction
• Effective leadership skills is about managing or
handling others especially your subordinates
who report to you.
• In effective leadership skills you need to aspire
to preserve a leadership role to be come
successfully.
• Effective leadership and management skills is
about influencing and
motivating others to achieve the goals and
objectives assigned to your team
 Introduction Cont’d
• You start with yourself, you need to
understand your responsibilities and what it
take to lead a team.
• Effective leadership and management skills,
you need to make a better choice not for
yourself but for your team and its betterment.
• Effective leadership involves continuously
working on yourself as a leader to become an
effective self made leader.
 Roles and Responsibilities of a Leader in a Team
• A leader in a team is task with roles and
responsibilities and helping the team serving to
grow successfully.
• On the other hand, a effective leadership is someone
who has the ability to create and sustaining the
organization and to remain to in the market place.
• Effective leadership skills can be sharpened with
the help of practice and exchange of ideas within
and outside the team.
• Furthermore, in effective leadership both the leader
and the team members can influence and
motivate each other in achieving their set targets.
 What can make an effective
leadership Skills?     
• The 1st most important requirement of becoming an
effective leadership is commitment from a person who has
actually made time in their career for their organizations.
• It is a combination of the effective leadership 
skills of the person along with his knowledge, his values,
and his skills.
• According to effective leadership qualities, it is very
important to know your own abilities, skills, your
knowledge and your values and how do people reciprocate
to you.
• Along with abilities and skills the leader must have an eye
of recognizing and valuing strength, weaknesses, and
abilities of his team members as individuals and also as a
team.
9 Effective Leadership characteristics
to help your Team Member
1. Knowledge power
2. Roles and responsibilities
3. Work with your team
4. Know your team members
5. Take up challenges      
6. Take risk
7. Recognize and encourage
8. Have a positive and a problem-solving approach
9. Listen to your subordinates         
 1. Knowledge power
• This is the 1st traits of effective
leadership and the most important thing
you need to have.
• Get yourself to go through the product
knowledge, policies and procedures; as
knowledge will help you deal with
difficult situations and a guiding tool.
• By having good and required knowledge
you can be prepared for unforeseen
situations, which is your responsibility.
 2. Roles and responsibilities

• Get to know your roles and responsibilities

well before you start performing as a leader.

• Knowing your roles and responsibility does

not just restrict you to them, knowing them
helps you understand your job and your
profile better, however taking up additional
responsibilities is always beneficial for you
and your learning process.
 3. Work with your team

• Being a leader you are still a part of the team.

• As a leader you have to behave like a team member by
working with the team, helping them solve their
issues, coordinating between teams to make sure you
get the best solution at all times.
• You have to help your team with your technical
knowledge, emotional support and vision to help them
perform as per the your Department/Agency
standards.
• You have to insist on the support of the team by using
the words ‘WE’ and not ‘I’ as I alone will not be able to
meet up to the expectations of the organization.
 4. Know your team members

• Know each individual not just professionally but

also somewhat personally simply in order to
connect well as a leader.
• When you know them professionally you will get to
know their specialization, what they are good at
and what they are not good at.
• If you know their weaknesses coach them and train
them in order to overcome their weaknesses to
help them have knowledge of all business domains
the team has been performing.
• Knowing your team well helps you during difficult
situations which member of yours can help you out
of it.
 5. Take up challenges      
• Taking up challenging situations and helping by
resolving them is a very good way of learning
something new for you and the team and also
proving your worth to the management.
• To come into a position of taking challenges you
need to have a very strong team in terms of
knowledge, ability, willingness, and commitment
towards the organization and their job roles.
 6. Take risk

• Taking risk is coming up with new ideas and

initiating them.
• An effective leadership can give ideas and
implement them or can take suggestions and ideas
from his team members.
• The ideas do not need to come only from an
individual they can also come from a community.
• However, recognizing good ideas and initiating
them is the job and the responsibility of the leader.
• Leaders should be people who are willing to step
out into the unknown as the unknown work with
the help of his experience, knowledge, ability, and
confidence.
 7. Recognize and encourage
• Encouragement and motivation are very important
for our lives. And if an employee gets it at his
workplace nothing is more encouraging for him/her.
• Traits of effective leadership recognizing the
efforts of your subordinate is extremely important
and motivating them to keep the good work up and
do even better keep their spirits up and running.
• Make sure you recognize their efforts and motivate
them accordingly.
8. Have a positive and a problem-solving approach

• Your attitude towards problem-solving matters a

lot, if you take a problem as a challenge and
something to learn from you will be able to handle
problems calmly and patiently.
• Keep a positive attitude towards problems you
come across at your workplace and you will get to
learn a lot from these daily issues.
• If you have a positive attitude towards your work
and work-related issues even your team will be
motivated.
 9. Listen to your subordinates         

• By listening you might get a resolution for a number

of problems,
you might have to solve a few problems for your
team members and most of all your team members
will believe that their problems are being
addressed to, and their leader is considerate
enough.
• Effective listening is extremely difficult and needs
a lot of practice.