Leadership Skills

Leadership Skills

Introduction

The term leadership, is basically defined as a process of social influence, which is based on the capabilities of one person that can enlist the support and aid of the other fellow members to accomplish the common task that assigned to him by the organization. According to the author, the traditional concept of the leadership is defined by the chief of the organization who sits at the top of the hierarchy and all the subordinates follow his instructions. However, in the modern world, the concept of leadership and leader has been transformed. Now, in the modern world, effective leadership not only considered by giving the orders to subordinates but effective leadership also required positive attitude and behaviors which characterize to the humanity as well.

Discussion

The purpose of writing this paper is to give readers an idea regarding the leadership and the skills required for effective leadership. Therefore, the author highlighted the different skills that essential for a leader to transform him/her into an effective leader. Similarly, the author also discussed the impact of those skills help the leader to lead the subordinates. However, the author concluded the paper by discussing the role of those skills on personal development.

Leadership Skills

The author came across different leadership skills, however, among those skills; the author highlighted some of the important skills in this paper

Academic and Verbal Intelligence

Common wisdom suggests that intelligence, what is more clearly termed academic or verbal intelligence, should predict both emergence into positions of leadership (smart people are selected as leaders or figure out how to become leaders) and leadership effectiveness (smart people are better at determining strategy and solving complex problems). Although there is a positive relationship between verbal intelligence (as measured by traditional intelligence tests that often produce an intelligence quotient, or IQ, score), this relationship is not as strong as one might expect. A meta-analysis by Timothy Judge, Amy Colbert, and Remus Ilies (2004) suggests that the correlation between verbal intelligence and leadership is between only .21 and .27 (corrected for range restriction)—lower than common wisdom might suggest.

The author is of the view that intelligence played a significant role in developing the effective leadership because intelligence on wisdom. Leta Stetter Hollingworth (1926) found that if a leader's intelligence was much greater than that of followers, the followers did not identify with and support a leader. The social identity theory of leadership (Hogg, 2001) suggests that followers choose and support leaders who are more “prototypical” members of the group, ...