Essential Leadership Skills

Irrespective of your sector, the success of any business is hinged on your people - their ideas, creativity and passion etc.

Imagine if your team were fully engaged and firing on all cylinders... What could they achieve? How much easier would the adoption of change become etc?

So, what's the hidden switch controlling this potential? Their energy! You might want to call it people fuel.

The link between emotions and energy is that emotions are essentially "energy in motion," meaning our feelings can directly impact our energy levels, with growth-based emotions leading to increased energy and motivation, while scarcity-based emotions drain our energy and leave us feeling depleted.

Therefore, leaders have a vested interest and responsibility of catalysing the latent energy in their people to be their best. For this reason, leaders need to develop mastery of the following 4 essential skills of Self-awareness, Self-management, Social-awareness & Social-management.