Leadership skills for the future, developing socially intelligent leaders

I attended several seminars on leadership. Years ago, experts were mostly talking about leadership at the top.

In my executive coaching programs with the leaders of today, most of the conversations revolve around the need for leaders to be a source of inspiration and flexible. Leaders must be developed at all levels of the organization.

What skills need to see leadership in your organization in the future?

Leadership in the Future

Writing about leadership in the future, Harlan Cleveland goes so far as to say that leadership is so common that there will be nobody in Charge (John Wiley and Sons, 2002). He reasons that now, and even more in the future:

1. The systems are so complex that nobody can really be responsible for something meaningful.

2. More people are involved in a decision, the more likely to be implemented.

3. Looser forms of organization are superior to controlled forms.

4. Planning must be fluid and subject to change.

5. The information must be shared rather than hoarded.

Cleveland suggests four traits of extraordinary leaders of the future:

1. Physical energy: Being able to work long hours and do a lot of homework. The current leaders can not afford to be isolated from new ideas, different or challenging.

2. Consensus management: decision makers need to consult or negotiate with people who actually carry out their orders. In fact, many interest groups are involved in a given real work problem, and often decisions have to be negotiated. Being able to conduct separate groups in reaching consensus is a critical leadership skills.

3. Euphoria of choice: a wide range of fun choices, not to depress an effective leader, you should be able to accept complex social management with taste.

4. Joy of Motion: Good leaders steer more than driving. The time is already there and work of the manager is to drive with a touch-sensitive.

The leaders of the future will require an integrative mind. Leaders must be comfortable working under high levels of uncertainty and almost chaos. He or she must be able to accept a role of leadership without hierarchical authority. This leader will be able to take different elements of a changing world and blend together to make sense for others. In offering this vision, the leader will be able to get people to work together on a common goal. This is what being a leader is about. (Cleveland, Harlan, no one in charge, John Wiley and Sons, 2002).

What do you see as the most important priority / quality for effective leadership in the future?

Working with an experienced executive coach trained in emotional intelligence and incorporating leadership assessments such as the Baron Eqi and 260 CPI can help you become a more challenging and visionary leader. You can become a leader who models emotional intelligence and social intelligence, and that inspires people to become happily engaged with the strategy and vision of society ....