LEADERSHIP SKILLS

and
6 STEPS IN DEVELOPING
LEADERSHIP SKILLS FOR SOCIETY

WEEK 5

UL03002: LEADERSHIP & SOCIETY

INSTRUCTOR: DR ROMZI ATIONG

 Identify the top
6 leadership
skills
Identify the
limits of
Understand authority in a
leadership society leader
skills Examine the
roles, duties and
responsibilities
LEARNING of a society
leader
OUTCOMES
Understand
and practices
the 6 steps in
developing
leadership
skills for
society
Plan to develop
your own
leadership
potential/skills
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What are leadership skills?
(indeed.com, 2020)

Leadership skills are skills you use when organizing other people to reach a
shared goal. Whether you’re in a management position or leading a project,
leadership skills require you to motivate others to complete a series of tasks,
often according to a schedule. Leadership is not just one skill but rather a
combination of several different skills working together.

Some examples of skills that make a strong leader include:

*Patience *Empathy *Active listening *Reliability *Dependability
*Creativity *Positivity *Effective feedback *Timely communication
*Team building *Flexibility *Risk-taking *Ability to teach and mentor

What makes a good leader?

Effective leaders are essential to any organization. They can help build strong teams within a business and ensure
projects, initiatives or other work functions are performed successfully. Good leaders have strong interpersonal and
communication skills, and anyone can become one by learning how to exercise and hone leadership abilities.

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Leadership Skills changes the world
 Top 6 leadership skills

Almost any positive soft skill might be considered a leadership skill.

Examples:
1.Active listening helps leaders bring projects to completion by hearing the ideas and concerns of the team.
2.Empathy helps leaders understand how their team feels about their workload, environment and workplace
relationships.

Here is a list of must-

have leadership skills
that may prove 4. Problem-solving
valuable to anyone
3. Relationship building (or team building)
2. Integrity
1. Decisiveness
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 Leadership Skill 1. Decisiveness
Effective leaders are those who can make decisions quickly with the information they have. Effective decision-making
comes with time and experience. As you become more familiar with your specific industry, you’ll be able to make
decisions faster, even when you don’t have all the necessary information. Decisiveness is seen as a valuable leadership
skill because it can help move projects along faster and improve efficiency.

Effective decisiveness requires research, evaluation, problem-solving and goal-setting, often with a quick turnaround.
Decision-makers should be able to pull from their own experience with similar tasks, evaluate what might work best,
make the decision and be confident in taking the responsibility for the result. Key skills related to being a strong leader
through decisiveness include: 1) Problem-solving; 2) Initiative; 3) Research; 4) Evaluation; 5) Expectation setting

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 Leadership Skill 2. Integrity

Integrity is often seen as just truthfulness or honesty but, in many cases,, it also means having
and standing by a set of strong values. Integrity in the workplace often means being able to
make ethical choices and helping the company maintain a positive image. All businesses seek to
hire workers who have a strong sense of integrity.

Having integrity as a leader, not only encourages the most truthful and fair practice and
outcome, but also, sends a strong and positive example to your team. A leader with integrity
also shows: 1) Diplomatic; 2) Ethical; 3) Reliability; 4) Professionalism; 5) Confidentiality; 6)
Honest

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 Leadership Skill 3. Relationship building (or team building)

Leadership requires the ability to build and maintain a strong and collaborative team of individuals
working toward the same goal. Team building requires other leadership strengths, like effective
communication skills and conflict resolution. Relationship building is potentially one of the most
important skills to a leadership role as it makes communication of tasks, responsibilities and goals more
effective. Once you understand each other, you will benefit by being able to assess strengths, delegate
tasks and complete your goals more seamlessly. A successful leader who is adept at relationship building
will also have the skills includes: 1) Collaboration; 2) Management; 3) Interpersonal; 4) Social; 5)
Communication; 6) Active Listening; 7) Teamwork

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 Leadership Skill 4. Problem-solving

Good leaders are skilled at problem-solving issues

that arise on the job. Effective problem solving often
requires staying calm and identifying a step-by-step
solution

This skill can help leaders make quick

decisions, resolve obstacles with their team
and external teams alike, and ensure projects
are completed on time, according to the
specifications. Leaders who are effective
problem-solvers generally have the skills
includes: 1) Critical Thinking; 2) Analytical
Skills; 3) Research; 4) Decisiveness
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 Leadership Skill 5. Dependability

Being a dependable leader means that people can

trust and rely on you. A dependable person follows
through on plans and keeps promises. The strong
relationships built by a dependable leader create a
resilient team that can work through difficulties that
may arise. Being a dependable professional means
meeting deadlines, being straightforward, coming
through on obligations and when you can’t meet a
promise or a goal, communicating this early on and
having a backup plan. 
Dependable leaders also have the skills
included: 1) Realistic Goal-Setting; 2)
Integrity; 3) Timeless; 4) Initiative; 5)
Detail-Oriented; 6) Loyal; &) Truthfulness
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 Leadership Skill 6. Ability to teach and mentor

One skill that differentiates leadership from many other

competencies is the ability to teach and mentor.
Effectively teaching colleagues or direct reports to grow in
their careers helps organizations scale. Often, this skill
requires that leaders think less about themselves and more
about how to make their team successful.

To be successful as a leader that can teach and mentor a team,

you might hone the following related skills:
1.Motivation
2.Clarity
3.Able to recognize and reward
4.Understanding employee differences
5.Assessing
6.Helpfulness
7.Positive reinforcement
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 Key Roles, Duties and Responsibilities of a Society Leader

4. Focus on performance – anticipate challenges,

monitor performance, delegate and provide Continuing
Professional Development (CPD) support

3. Clarify working methods, practices and protocol

2. Provide structure for society – set mission and

purpose, clarify roles and responsibilities, allocate
tasks and set objective

1. Guide/coordinate society members –

encourage teamwork and motivate individuals

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 Limits of Authority in a Society Leader
(Aravind TS, 2014)
Authority is the power to influence or command thought,
opinion or behavior

-Leader authority will vary from role-to-role dependent on the

scope of duties and society structure
-A society leader may refer to line management or other
authorities for the following:
a.HR (staff recruitment and training, performance and
discipline, racism or bullying)
b.Policy and procedures (Health and Safety, changes to working
practices)
c.Budget & resources (allocation and management)
d.Organizational objectives (strategy, targets)
e.Managing change (department restructure, office move)
f.Line management (support and advice, own CPD)

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Whether you are in your traditional society or entering a new
society, there will be situations that require you to step up as a
leader. Even outside of both societies, there are moments in life
where you may depend on your leadership skills to uplift those
around you.

This suggest that you need to develop your

leadership skills

Let’s look at how you can develop your

leadership skills

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6 Steps in Developing Leadership Skills for Society
(Riggio, 2015 – Original Version Called 10 Steps in Developing LS)

The 6 steps in developing leadership skills includes:

1. Engage Your motivation to Develop & Assess Your Current Strengths and Developmental Needs

2. Know the Core Competencies Leaders Most Often Need

3. Develop Cognitive and Social Skills, Emotional Skills & Character

4. Set Good Developmental Goals

5. Get Feedback & Reward Progress

6. Make Continuous Improvement

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 Step 1. Engage Your motivation to Develop &
Assess Your Current Strengths and Developmental Needs
Some people willingly accept
responsibility, while others shun it.
Likewise, in order to become a top-
rate leader, you must have the
motivation and drive to develop.
We use the term “developmental
readiness.”
What that means is: Are you ready
to work hard to develop your
leadership competencies? Are you
able to take constructive criticism
to improve? Are you willing to give
up old, ineffective strategies and try
new ones? If you answered “yes” to
all these questions, you have the
motivation to develop your
leadership competencies.
All developmental programs need a starting
point. We begin with an assessment of your
current strengths and areas that need
improvement. Engage in self-reflection.
What are you good at? What needs work?
You can also get feedback about your
leadership strengths and developmental
needs by asking coworkers—the people you
supervise, your peers, your superiors.
In organizations, getting feedback from all
“directions” is referred to as 360-degree
feedback, and is an important part of most
leader development programs. The
advantage is that you can gain insights from
those around you who see you in different 1
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 Step 2: Know the Core Competencies Leaders Most Often Need
Leadership has been studied for more than a
century. We know which competencies
leaders need to be effective. In brief, you need
to be smart, be emotionally savvy, and have
the right character to lead effectively.
Each of these competencies can be developed,
but all of them take hard work.

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The next step describes the general core competency areas that leaders really need to develop. 6
 Step 3: Develop Cognitive and Social Skills,
Emotional Skills & Character
Effective leaders need to be
smart. That doesn’t mean
that you must have a super
high IQ, but it does mean
that you need to know what
you are doing, and how to
make the right decisions.
Learn about your business
and about your work team.
Learn how to collect and
analyze data to inform
decisions. Be “socially
intelligent,” by learning to
be tactful in
communications and seeing
things from others’
perspectives. Learn how to
solicit valuable information
from your work team, from
peers, and from mentors.
It’s not enough to Leaders can be smart and competent, but it all goes for naught
if the leader lacks the ability to do the right thing. Character is
be just smart. A
critically important for keeping a leader on the right path. A
good leader also
well-proven model for leader character development is to focus
needs to be on the four cardinal virtues:
emotionally a.Justice: being fair in your treatment of others
intelligent (EG). b.Temperance: regulating your emotions and passions
EG is the ability c.Prudence: being wise and considering others’ points of view
to read others’ d.Fortitude or Courage: being brave enough to do the right
emotions—to know thing, take calculated risks, and put your career on the line
rather than doing something unethical.
when they are happy
or disgusted with
what you are saying
or doing. It is
also about learning
to control your own
emotional
expressions—to not
act out in
anger and to keep
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 Step 4: Set Good Developmental Goals

Regardless of the competencies that you are

trying to develop, it is important to set good
developmental goals. The acronym SMART is
the guideline for goalsetting. Goals need to be:
-Specific - know exactly what competency you
are targeting for development
-Measurable – figure out how to assess
improvement
-Attainable – don’t set goals that are so high
that you will get frustrated
-Realistic – likewise, don’t make goals too easy
so that there is no challenge involved
-Timely – set a specific timeframe for
developing the leadership competency
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 Step 5: Get Feedback & Reward Progress

It is critically important that you

receive feedback throughout the
competency development process.
Having a mentor or coach who will Leadership development is
give you honest and constructive hard work. Therefore, it is
feedback is one strategy. Pairing up very important that you
with a partner-peer who is also take time out to reward
working on leadership development yourself for improvement.
will allow you to give each other Celebrate even the small
feedback. Another strategy is to ask “wins” and improvements. 
your direct reports if they have
noticed improvement. Use mistakes
as a learning tool to further develop
your leadership competencies.

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 Step 6: Make Continuous Improvement

Developing leadership
competencies is not a one-
time event. It is a continuous
program of improvement.
Remember, leadership is a
journey, not a destination.

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Plan to Develop your
own Leadership
Skills!

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THANKS

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