LEADERSHIP SKILLS TO ENSURE GOOD TEAMWORK

To graduate with first class honors is the dream of most undergraduates and is seen as a ticket to ensure a good and highly paid job.  But most graduate schools do not teach the soft skills needed formally.  The skills such as working and dealing with people, the leadership skills and teamwork qualities are all gathered from whatever they can through extra curriculum activities or organizing events.

To be a great leader, you have to be able to master yourself.  To be able to understand that each one of us is different and has awn special needs.  Leaders lead people.  To lead people need special abilities to understand and to inspire others.  Leaders need to be insightful and highly intuitive in order to be able to inspire everyone to do the right task following the right way.  Good leaders can easily bring out the best in his people.

Leadership skills needed to ensure good teamwork

1.         Look at inner self

·         Look within and find the mental picture of other people in you

·         Do a light soul searching of finding tune between you and other people

·         Being aware of own emotional response and of positive intuition of other people

·         Be in control of own feeling and action with self-reflection and patience

·         Our EQ will affect the way we think and react to others

·         Look at people with trust and guide them through understanding which will eventually enhance good relationship between people

2.         Management skill

·         Leaders should manage their time effectively

·         Organize tasks and arrange matters of importance

·         Managing job is different from managing people

·         Without people, job may not be able to be completed

·         Leaders must also be aware of the priority concerns the person’s personal needs

3.         Appreciating others

·         Everyone likes to hear word of appreciation

·         Good leaders should be aware of the need of individuals acknowledgement

·         Appreciating other includes

o   Giving public compliments

o   Listening

o   Giving positive feedback

o   Motivating and inspiring others

4.         Resilience and pro-active

·         Have positive mindset towards life encounters

·         Resilience will give strength to adapt new changes and to move formard proactively

5.         Communication skills

·         Understand others and be understood

·         Basic concept of understanding people

o   Listen with open heart and mind

o   Understanding and mutual agreement

It is very important for leaders to look after their people and to bring out the best from them.  Without good teamwork, organization will fail.

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Enhancing soft skills: Leadership and teamwork

By Uzaimah A Nizam

BH Varsiti Khamis, 21 March 2013