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If You Want to Be a Better Leader, You Need to Master These Hard Skills
The keys that unlock your ability to have a big impact
Being a great leader is much harder than the good ones make it look.
Nobody can teach you how to do it properly. There are few actual classes about the essence of it. Sure, you can learn about charts and personality types and KPIs. But actually leading a group towards actually doing things?
It takes effort, experience, and a few stumbles along the way.
Like anything in life, if you want to get better, you need to do the hard stuff.
There are setbacks, doubts, false starts, and missed opportunities.
Logically you may know what you need to do. You may feel confident that when the time comes, you’ll do it.
Then Whammy, a freak wave blindsides you. Now you’re not just off course, you’re potentially going under. You’ll scramble to survive, bobbing near the surface to try to get air.
As the saying goes, smooth seas don’t make good sailors.
Because some lessons have to be lived to be learned. Here are the things to focus on if you want to unlock your potential and become a…