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This illustrated guide will show you how to step up your interpersonal effectiveness by learning how to work more successfully with those around you, be they people you manage, or your colleagues. This guide is your toolkit for managing yourself, assisting team performance and enduring and flourishing in times of change. The most successful leaders have not only mastered technical skills, they?ve also mastered soft skills. Commonly known as people or interpersonal skills, soft skills like negotiating, building morale, and maintaining relationships are key to a leader?s success. With these soft skills you can excel as a leader. Problem solving, delegating, motivating, and team building are all much easier if you have good soft skills. Knowing how to get along with people ? and displaying a positive attitude ? are critical for success. It?s important for you to recognize the vital role soft skills play within your team and not only work on developing them within yourself, but encourage their development throughout the organization.
Leadership is a function which is important at all levels of management. In the top level, it is important for getting co-operation in formulation of plans and policies. In the middle and lower level, it is required for interpretation and execution of plans and programs framed by the top management. Leadership can be exercised through guidance and counseling of the subordinates at the time of execution of plans. A leader through leadership traits helps in reconciling/ integrating the personal goals of the employees with the organizational goals. This can be done only if a leader can influence and get willing co-operation and urge to accomplish the objectives.
Illustrated Handbook of Soft Skills and Leadership explores different models, conceptualizations, and measures of leader interpersonal and influence ?soft skills? that are so necessary for effective leadership. Leaders are a key human resource in any organization. We generally think of companies competing by means of their products, but they probably compete more by means of their leaders than their products. Better leaders develop better employees and the two together develop better products. The importance of leadership in management cannot be overemphasized. To get things done by people, management must supply leadership in the organization. Team-work is essential for realizing organizational goals. Managers must influence the team for work accomplishment through leadership. Secondly, leadership aids authority. There are limits to the use of authority in obtaining high performance amongst subordinates. Authority alone cannot generate a favorable attitude for improved performance. Because of its main reliance on influence, leadership is essential for obtaining successful work accomplishment. Effective leadership is important because it creates confidence among the participants in an organization and encourages a professional and positive environment. In an enterprise setting, leadership acts as the catalyst that makes all other business aspects work in tandem. In the absence of proper leadership, business resources lie dormant.
The Illustrated Handbook of Soft Skills and Leadership will be of critical tool for all students and researchers in the field of Management.
