What Are the Most Important Skills for Effective Business Leadership?

WHAT ARE THE MOST IMPORTANT SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS

Leadership?

Roman Semiokhin, serial investor and entrepreneur.

What are the most

IMPORTANT SKILLS FOR EFFECTIVE BUSINESS LEADERSHIP?

C-level roles do not come with a guide or manual to help inexperienced entrepreneurs make the leap to becoming effective leaders. Great leadership requires a variety of soft skills, although fortunately, most of these can be learned and polished with practice.

1. Active Listening: We tend to associate leadership with people giving orders, but the ability to listen is paramount, particularly in the digital era

2. Inspire: To lead, an individual has to be capable of persuading others to follow, inspiring and motivating teams, customers and potential investors 3. Positivity: Great leadership requires a positive outlook, recognising opportunities and remaining buoyant, even in challenging times; a great leader is someone who can effectively manage stress, demonstrating friendliness and empathy with staff 4. Trustworthy: An honest and accountable leader who shows integrity will elicit trust from their staff, making employees more willing to discuss potential problems and ideas 5. Creativity: Great business leaders are constantly innovating, finding new and more effective ways of doing things without fear of taking the lesstravelled path

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