Effective Leaders

When a business is guiding itself through a period of economic uncertainty, effective leadership is essential and necessary. Every business leader needs to be a force for positivity, innovation, change and commitment. This is necessary given that businesses have to react quickly to the surrounding economic changes. Effective leaders need a skill set that can equip them to make a business grow and succeed. Such leaders tend to have these charracterisitics:

• Vision Creators: articulating the direction that the business should be taking and making employees feel inspired and enthusiastic about it. The most successful leaders have a clarity of communication to their employees and their stakeholders, which distils situations into straightforward clear actions and a common purpose.
• Change Implementers: taking their ideas and turning them into actions. Effective leaders make clear what needs to be done and are flexible on how it is done. Leaders are aware that problems will occur and that they must be overcome, and anticipate that some changes come sooner than others.
• Decision Makers: Discernment and good judgement is needed when deciding to make a decision immediately or whether and how to consult others. Discussing, listening and questioning are vital for making accurate decisions, particularly when the impact is long-term or is on a significant scale.
• Team Builders: a calm management style, supported by positive supervision. This builds confidence amongst the workforce, particularly when full credit is given to an individual when they succeed. This helps boost a company’s productivity and is essential of change management.

Leaders bring ideas and new light to a company which they initiate and develop into a company’s working practices. They seek out new opportunities and transform business when it is needed. Therefore companies should be looking to build up these types of leaders and this leadership skills

First Published 07/08/2013