Top 100 Quotes About Leadership Skills
#1. I kind of know what my job is, it's to develop a message that's hopeful and optimistic about the future of the country, to develop ideas that will give people a sense that they can lift up, and to tell them about my leadership skills to make it so.
Jeb Bush
#2. Develop your leaders into a competitive advantage. Reconnect your leader-power to success.
Gene Morton
#3. Relational skills are the most important abilities in leadership.
John C. Maxwell
#4. The only thing tougher than developing leadership skills is attempting to be successful without them.
Orrin Woodward
#5. If you don't demonstrate leadership character, your skills and your results will be discounted, if not dismissed.
Mark Miller
#6. Not everyone is born a great leader, but anyone can foster core leadership competencies for themselves and become actionable, effective leaders.
Ravinder Tulsiani
#8. Leaders are passionate learners. Leaders are always seeking ways to improve themselves by sharpening their skills. They fully embrace the fact that growing leaders lead growing organizations.
Gary Rohrmayer
#10. People who know what they want and why they want it, and have the skills to communicate that to others in a way that gains support
Warren G. Bennis
#11. It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from followers.
Warren G. Bennis
#12. I was fortunate enough to have baseball to teach me the values relative to success. The sport gifted me with leadership and team building skills that translate in a relatable way in the world.
Willie Wilson
#13. Success comes to people with leadership skills, a sound vision, enthusiasm, and the willingness to put forth the effort to build an organization and find others who will do the same.
Mark Yarnell
#14. REAL Leaders are experts at bringing out the best in others ... Thinking , feelings and actions. They improve their teams' thinking skills and Mindsets.
Tony Dovale
#16. All of this suggests that while citizens became more comfortable with President Bush after September 11 and thought him to have the requisite leadership skills, they continue to harbor doubts about his priorities, loyalties, interests, and policies.
Thomas E. Mann
#17. Great leadership has more to do with character, courage, and conviction than it does with specific skills or competencies.
William A. Adams
#18. Enter the candidates on horseback: While military leaders can sometimes be dangerous in politics, our best generals and admirals embody the democratic values and leadership skills for which the country is yearning.
David Ignatius
#19. Is it more important for you to know what happened in the First World War or to memorize other significant dates in history, or is it more important to learn the strategies they used for optimum leadership, success and joyful living?
Don't you think schools need to teach the latter?
Maddy Malhotra
#20. Where do business leaders turn for advice to improve their leadership skills? Many successful leaders like Dan Cathy, President and COO of Chick-fil-A turn to the Bible. Speaking at Trinity College in Illinois, "Cathy discussed how scripture dictates Chick-fil-A's business plan.
R.J. Stepansky
#21. Let's get busy. Get up! Stop living an average life. Stop living in a rut. Get ready for a new way to walk and talk. Taller, louder, prouder and thoroughly convinced that you have enough hope in your life to give some away.
J. Loren Norris
#22. In Business School they taught us about cash flow, not about corporate politics; about return on equity, not about egos and pride. Oh, there were optional courses on 'Organizational Behavior' and 'Managerial Skills,' but these were a little too bloodless to convey what I learned on the job.
Mary Cunningham Agee
#23. When leaders acquire the skills that enable them to release the productive potential and tap the collective capabilities of the group, who knows what positive results will be achieved? Some of them may move mountains.
Thomas Gordon
#24. Positioning yourself and effective branding should not be left to sports and movie stars. Your need a personal coach, manager or mentor otherwise your expertise, skills or talent will not go far. You might have what it takes but sometimes you lack strategy and some finer elements.
Archibald Marwizi
#25. Learning how to respond to and master the process of change - and even to excel at it - is a critical leadership skill for the twenty-first century. Constant, rapid change will be a fact of life for all of us.
Jennifer James
#26. Your leadership skills determine the level of your success, and the success of those who work around you.
John C. Maxwell
#27. People often confuse leadership with managerial skills.
Sylvain Neuvel
#28. Skills and special abilities will only grow if you practice more. You become a star-performer by doing. Let performance and production of desired results become a consistent habit associated with your personal brand.
Archibald Marwizi
#29. The key to long term success in the marketplace is to build relationships & acquire leadership skills that can build great teams.
JR
#30. Great communication depends on two simple skills-context, which attunes a leader to the same frequency as his or her audience, and delivery, which allows a leader to phrase messages in a language the audience can understand.
John C. Maxwell
#31. In my experience, the skill of success breaks down into three things. The skill of marketing. The skill of sales. And the skill of leadership.
Michael Ellsberg
#32. A manager must always provide the employees opportunities to continuously improve their skills and reassure them that they have a promising future.
Abhishek Ratna
#33. Leadership: The skill of influencing people to work enthusiastically toward goals identified as being for the common good.
James Hunter
#34. Dialogue isn't a competition to be the smartest or the most correct person in the room; it is a collaboration to find the truth.
Oli Anderson
#35. Authenticity is a practice we choose in each present moment. It is not a plan or a destination to get to. The choices we make in the now are most important because in a fast-changing world, flexing to what's happening now, and creating from it is a critical leadership skill.
Henna Inam
#36. One of the greatest skills - and gifts - is to focus on a person. Make them feel as though they're the only person in the world.
Rhonda Rhyne
#37. Multiple Spiritual Choices towards Light will accumulate your positive karma, upgrade your vision, develop your leadership skills
Jacklyn A. Lo
#38. We must be present enough and receptive enough to "hear" with our whole being beyond just the words that are being spoken.
Henry Kimsey-House
#39. Any idiot can point out a problem. So, bosses do.
Gerry Geek
#40. Technology Coaches demonstrate professional knowledge, skills, and dispositions in content, pedagogical, and technological areas as well as adult learning and leadership and are continuously deepening their knowledge and expertise.
Jo Williamson
#41. If we don't communicate, we certainly can't get much done and if we don't communicate authentically, what we get done is less effective.
Michele Jennae
#42. Vocational education programs have made a real difference in the lives of countless young people nationwide; they build self-confidence and leadership skills by allowing students to utilize their unique gifts and talents.
Conrad Burns
#43. A leader isn't born after 9 months' conception. When talents are discovered, skills are mastered & values are developed, a leader is born.
Israelmore Ayivor
#44. Leaders know the great deal of productivity that comes out of a strong self-esteem. They help others to develop this esteem so that productivity can increase.
Israelmore Ayivor
#45. Volunteer activities can foster enormous leadership skills. The nonprofit professional volunteer world is a laboratory for self - realization.
Madeleine M. Kunin
#46. Mindsets, skills and leadership, experience and access, and critical consciousness - we need all four of these things for our students to be the leaders, people and citizens we want them to be.
Wendy Kopp
#47. Leaders create and inspire new leaders by instilling faith in their leadership abilities and helping them develop and hone leadership skills they don't know they possess.
John C. Maxwell
#48. The team developer realizes that at times the leadership 'torch' must be passed on to others. This empowerment of others serves a dual purpose; it helps them hone their own team-building skills and it brings a fresh approach, perhaps even a special expertise, to the group's efforts.
Marlene Caroselli
#49. The world can teach leadership skills but only Jesus can teach you a leaders heart.
Gerald Brooks
#50. From average to great is a leadership journey; it takes vision, passion, confidence, problem-solving skills, and teamwork to match up.
Pearl Zhu
#51. Next time you're about to call your daughter bossy, take a deep breath and say, 'My daughter has executive leadership skills.'
Sheryl Sandberg
#52. In leadership, skills may take you where character won't keep you.
Mike Ayers
#53. Effectively clear communication is crucial to a transformational leadership while poor communication is its biggest enemy.
Farshad Asl
#54. Listening (the first competence of leadership) is not a skill, it is a discipline. All you have to do is keep your mouth shut.
Peter Drucker
#55. Most people who want to get ahead do it backward. They think, 'I'll get a bigger job, then I'll learn how to be a leader.' But showing leadership skill is how you get the bigger job in the first place. Leadership isn't a position, it's a process.
John C. Maxwell
#56. Developing strong interpersonal relationships by creating lasting connections instead of just passing acquaintances will take your business to a new level.
Farshad Asl
#57. Five rules to follow to be a great leader:
1. Be curious.
2. Serve others.
3. Be purpose oriented.
4. Be adaptive.
5. Be positive.
Debasish Mridha
#58. If we're not ready for leadership or don't want to be the leader, then we need to focus on our followership skills that relate to a bad leader or select another leader that we think would do a better job than we would.
Kurt Madden
#59. Selling and teaching demand that you develop your intrapersonal and interpersonal communication skills. You must be able to communicate with yourself as well as with others in a way that makes them buy your offering or benefit from the knowledge you want to impart.
Archibald Marwizi
#60. Ronald Reagan?wasn't without leadership ability, but he lacked most of the management skills that a President needs. But let me give him his due: he would have made a hell of a king.
Tip O'Neill
#61. Liege," I said deferentially. "She's more obsequious to you than she ever has been to me," Ethan observed with a tilted eyebrow. "Better leadership skills," Malik said with a smile,
Chloe Neill
#62. When a manager openly expresses his faith in an employee's skill, he doesn't just improve mood and motivation; he actually improves their likelihood of succeeding.
Shawn Achor
#63. Your listening, not your speaking, is your most direct access to leadership effectiveness.
Al Ritter
#64. Management and leadership are not separate spheres. The two skills work together in the larger realm of communityship.
Henry Mintzberg
#65. Women have more to offer the church than mad decorating skills or craft nights. I look around: I see women who can offer strategic leadership, wisdom, counsel, and teaching.
Sarah Bessey
#66. Those of us who have been privileged to receive education, skills, and experiences and even power must be role models for the next generation of leadership.
Wangari Maathai
#67. Every effective person must be able to sell and teach, whether in private or to a group in public. This applies equally to skills and talents as it does to products and services.
Archibald Marwizi
#68. A shoulder clap is more appropriate in a business setting. But the underlying principle holds: touch more than the majority of people would in the same context. It demonstrates comfort, leadership, and conviction in your communication skills.
Charlie Houpert
#69. I like to take chances on people, and whenever possible, promote from within - it sends a great message to everyone in the company when someone demonstrates a passion for the job and leadership skills at every step along the way and is rewarded with a leadership role.
Richard Branson
#70. There are certain skills that business people have that are - that are, in fact, helpful in - when it comes to being in political leadership.
Rick Santorum
#71. It's not a case of us against them, it's a matter of melding all people's skills and resources to create a better world for everyone !
Lyn St. James
#72. No amount of training in leadership skills, courses in management methods, power titles, promotions, or associations can substitute for the right attitudes.
Myles Munroe
#73. The secret to success is doing the best that you can do. Forget about whether you might win or lose. By working hard and practicing the skills that you need to perform, the results will take care of themselves. Being successful is about doing your best.
Barbara Cochran
#74. When young people develop basic leadership and collaborative learning skills, they can be a formidable force for change.
Peter M. Senge
#75. Imagine going to work every day to do only and exactly what you love!! All the work gets done because of the abundant diversity of your team. Different skills, interests and talents are woven together into a whole that is much greater than the sum of the parts!
Denise Moreland
#76. There is something discordant about a team of speechwriters and political operatives hammering away to create an image of the 'real, inner' candidate. And, to be blunt, there is no necessary connection between a moving life experience and the skills necessary for leadership.
Jeff Greenfield
#77. In terms of the principles of politics, I think I understand well. Thailand needs someone who has leadership, who has the management skills to help the country.
Yingluck Shinawatra
#78. If the challenge is far beyond their skill level, they tend to get frustrated; if it's far below their skill level, they tend to get bored. Leaders need to strike the right balance.
Teresa Amabile
#79. Many men have children, but not many children have 'Fathers'. Age releases to you reproductive skills. Fatherhood requires LEADERSHIP skills
Fela Durotoye
#80. Our place of birth is not so much as important as our place of berth, yet we can't moore. If we do we know our birthplace for the first time.
Amah Lambert
#81. At Texas A&M you learn first to follow, then to develop and practice your leadership skills, and finally you become someone others want to follow.
James R. Thompson
#82. IQ and technical skills are important, but Emotional Intelligence is the Sine Qua Non of Leadership.
Daniel Goleman
#83. A leader should never compare his technical skills with his employee's.
Jack Ma
#84. Every time I set my face to seeking God in a fresh way, God begins to change my heart, my mind, my preaching, and my leadership skills. When any believer commits his or her heart to seeking the Lord, everything is going to change.
Daniel Henderson
#85. The best leaders are well-rounded, able to draw on whatever skills suits the particular situation at hand. They are determined, insightful, shrewd, and, most important, able to command the attention of the people around them.
Bob Rae
#86. You can't effectively move up to the next stage of leadership yourself until your current stage leadership skills are solid and are being developed in your team members so they can take over as you move on.
Liz Weber
#87. My four years in the Marine Corps left me with an indelible understanding of the value of leadership skills.
Frederick W. Smith
#88. Holding your team accountable to do the jobs they're being paid to do is not being mean; it's being a manager, and that's your job.
Liz Weber
#89. A powerful leader, like a conductor, need not say a word for his message to be communicated.
Orly Wahba
#90. Let the government not be an instructor but a parent who loves and adjusts to the needs of the nation, But remember a parent does what makes things look good to the entire family without segregation.
Auliq Ice
#91. A little known area often defines the fortunes of leaders
management skills.
Ron Suskind
#92. Just do what you were going to do, before you said you were going to do it.
Delma Pryce
#93. It's important to get in the habit of growing as a human being, developing and refining leadership and management skills and entrepreneurial instincts and changing to accommodate the times.
Ivanka Trump
#94. It often happens that less depends upon the valor of an army than the skill of the leader.
Aristophanes
#95. When we aren't curious in conversations we judge, tell, blame and even shame, often without even knowing it, which leads to conflict."
-The Power Of Curiosity: How To Have Real Conversations That Create Collaboration, Innovation and Understanding
Kirsten Siggins
#96. Leadership is people taking the initiative, carrying things through, having ideas and the imagination to get something started, and exhibiting particular skills in different areas.
Charlotte Bunch
#97. A good part of my leadership skills is crafted from learning from experiences early in my career that were not positive experiences.
John Lasseter
#98. There are good leaders who actively guide and bad leaders who actively misguide. Hence, leadership is about persuasion, presentation and people skills.
Shiv Khera
#100. Chess is a game that benefits people of all ages, especially kids, in any area of life, business, problem solving, and social skills. Chess has the unique ability to combine focus, concentration, imagination, coordination, teamwork, and leadership all at the same time.
Dustin Diamond
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