5 Essential Leadership Skills and How to Build Them

If you want to become a better leader, start practicing these skills.

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A leader’s job is tough. From defining the direction in which the company should be headed, making tough decisions, dealing with uncertainty to focusing on hiring the right talent, creating a culture of trust and respect, and building a highly performant team, they are expected to excel in everything.

They are constantly challenged to guide, advise and lead their teams to excellence. They’re required to navigate uncharted territory. Playing safe or doing ordinary things doesn’t fit their profile. They’re required to find solutions others didn’t know existed.

“Many people in the world see events as they are; leaders are different in that they see things that could be. And the future they see is always a better version of the present. We believe we can make a difference; we think we can make the world, or at least our part of it, better. Leaders are generally more optimistic than nonleaders.”
— Mark Miller