Idea 58: Awareness, understanding and skill
Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.
J F Kennedy (from notes of a speech he was never to deliver, found in his pocket after his assassination)
To become an effective leader your top priority is to develop your:
- Awareness – becoming sensitive to what is happening in groups or organizations, and why it is happening; the ‘group dynamics’ of the situation.
- Understanding – knowing what leadership function or act is required at any given time.
- Skill – having the skill to do the function effectively in order to achieve the desired result.
Skill, from an Old Norse word, is roughly synonymous with ability – being able to use one's knowledge effectively in execution or performance or technical ...
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