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Developing Your Leadership Capabilities

Things You Can Do To Develop Your Own Leadership Abilities and Effectiveness

There's not a leader on the planet that cannot improve his or her leadership effectiveness, but getting better as a leader doesn't "happen" by accident. Fortunately, there are many things you can do, on your own or with the help of those around you that can produce the learning needed to improve.

From this page you can access many suggestions on this topic, ranging from ways to increase your self-awareness, improve your communication skills, and elicit help from followers, mentors and peers. We'll look at informal and informal ways to develop yourself as a leader.

Your Leadership Development -- Who's Responsibility
It's great when you can be mentored, or have someone in a leadership position help you develop your leadership skills, but the ultimate responsibilities lies with you, and it's something you need to do continuously!

Can I learn to be a better leader by watching what politicians do?
One of the best things you can do to develop leadership capabilities is to listen to, and watch politicians, particularly in election years. But, the rest of the story is shocking so read the entire answer.

Starting With Self -- Leadership Development Through Self Awareness

A significant body of leadership literature suggests (rightly or wrongly) that the better you understand yourself, the better able you will be to lead others. While self-discovery and awareness are not the be alls and end alls of leadership development, it's almost always useful to become more aware. Here's some material on the topic.

Using Quizzes and Leadership Assessments To Learn About Self As Leader
Well, Just Ask!

See Also:

To access other articles and material to help you develop as a leader, access the Leadership Self Development Resource Area where we have listed a number of articles authored by others and located at other websites.

 

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