No matter where you are in your career, you can find opportunities to practice these six skills.
Ron Ashkenas & Brook Manville, coauthors of the Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook
Leaders often have a bias for action that keeps them from stepping back in this way — but it is the reflection on your practice that will help you improve… become a leader, capable of rallying an organization of people around a meaningful collective goal and delivering the results to reach it.
Takeaways of Note:
6 Fundamental leadership skills that really matter to practice*
- Shape a vision that is exciting & challenging for your team
- Translate that vision into a clear strategy about what actions to take, and what not to do
- Recruit, develop, and reward a team of people to carry out the strategy
- Focus on measurable results
- Foster innovation & learning to sustain your team and grow new leaders
- Lead yourself — know yourself, improve yourself, and manage the appropriate balance in your own life.
* according to research & interviews for the Harvard Business Review Leader’s Handbook