Leadership Styles and Development

Leadership Styles and Development
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Leadership is a process, in which an individual becomes a leader by influencing a group in realizing a shared goal. However, for leadership to be effective, a leader needs to adopt several integrated skills, which are crucial in leadership because they are the influential factors to leadership. These are the most important traits needed to be regularly exhibited; to effectively influence people (Kippenberger, 2002).
Most scholars argue that there are three important skills crucial for leadership; the skills include technical, human and conceptual skills. Technical skills are the capability of acquiring specific knowledge in a particular area of specialization. Technical skills mean having knowledge about standards operating procedures and all the organization products and services. Human skills are the ability to be able to work with people based on person's knowledge about people and knowing how they behave and operate in groups. Conceptual skills are the ability t...