The attributes of a leader are not something everyone has or understands. The problem with that is that poor leadership can destroy a business or team. You have to develop the skill of a leader if you wish to lead your people. Here are five leadership skills every business leader should learn to have.

Collaborate

The best way to run a successful business is to run it together. Find those who have good ideas and get them together to try and work something out. Leadership doesn’t mean it’s all about you. It’s about finding those who can help you get the job done to the best of your company’s capability. Getting together and asking your employees for help and suggestions shows that you trust them.

Support

Giving your workers support tells them you believe in them and that you’re all in it together. You do what you can to take the bad things and turn them good. Or you wield your power to make something happen and get rid of whatever was coming. Showing your workers you’re behind them can help boost the spirit and productivity in the workplace.

Empathize

Great leadership feels everything their workers do. Just because you’re listening to them doesn’t mean you truly understand them. Showing empathy tells your workers you care about them as humans and not as work minions. Truly putting yourself in their place, feeling what they feel, and letting them know you’re there can make the world of difference in the office.

Plan

When you have things to get done, you have to make a plan for them. It does no good to talk about ideas and new strategies without actually going through with them. Those in leadership know they have to make things happen. Take it slow and come up with little steps, but at least it means the ball has started rolling. Nothing happens without you making it happen. Figure out the process.

Decide

Failure and mistakes are a part of life and the business world, but you won’t make it if you don’t decide on things when you have to. Second-guessing and questioning yourself shows weakness to your employees which is not what is needed. Get them involved when things need to be decided on, and let them become so familiar with your ways they normally know which way you will choose. Let your past choices prove you know what you’re doing.

Your leadership can determine the outcome of your business. How you lead your employees mirrors how your business is going.

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