Top 3 Skills for Effective Leader: LinkedIn Post & Ed White's Response

Leadership Development

a subgroup of Training&Development  

(an excerpt from LinkedIn Group)

TOP 3 skills for an effective Leader

Dr. Mahmood Khan CEO & President at ICT Global Services 

Would you agree that the TOP 3 skills for an effective Leader are to excel and perform best in:

1. STRATEGIC THINKING and PLANNING whereby you look beyond the visible and predict the eventualities proactively. You think ahead and manage the course effectively while staying ready to face the challenges if beyond your control.

2. TEAM BUILDING whereby you not only challenge your team consistently with next levels of hardwork/hardship but remain available and supportive to hold them if they fail back. You also develop your team to learn how to remain focused and be able to take existing and future challenges courageously and successfully.

3. COMMUNICATION SKILLS whereby you express yourself in a manner that your world knows to what you are expecting and how you would want to go by.

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Ed White, Ed.D 

VP, Global Talent Development at CDR Assessment Group posted:

I agree that Team Building and Communications skills are required of all effective leaders. Strategic Thinking and Planning skills are critical for some leaders but not all leaders. That is, if you define strategic as only future oriented. We need some leaders to be visionary. We need other leaders who are masters at execution to get us to the future. While both traits are required for an effective organization, an effective leader does not have to possess both traits.