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Most Useful
Skills:
- Negotiations
skills
- Smart
Partnership
- Positive
Thinking
- Communication
Skills
- Adaptability
- Understanding
- Effective
communication/explanation
- Co-ordination
skills (juggling!)
- Trying
to understand what motivates individuals in order to help them perform
- Keeping
to high personal standards
- Keep
ego/defensive behavior out of the office
- Creativity
- problem solving and lateral thinking
- Insight
- awareness of situation and problem
- Energy
- Follow
through
- Flexibility
- Living
in the truth
- Listening
- Empowerment
- Busting
Barriers
- Vision
Creating with team involvement
- Ability
to motivate team in order to accomplish vision/goals/objectives
- Take
advantage of opportunities for success
- A true
interest in people and their welfare
- Organisational
skills
- The
ability to set and achieve realistic objectives
- Setting
and maintaining a high personal standard (walk the talk)
- Listen
rather than to assume that you already know
- Diplomacy
- Ability
to make the most of your team's individual skills
- Empowering
others
- Vision
- Networking
- Getting
things done
- Inspiration
- Perspiration
- Capacity
to encourage
- Ability
to see various solutions to a problem
- Positive
attitude (being grumpy or irritable just wastes precious energy)
- Business
Acumen
- Thinking
ahead (strategic)
- Analysing
situations
- Integrity
- 'Big
picture' thinking
- Collaboration
- Lateral
thinking
- Patience
- Managing
expectations
- Ability
to learn and to be flexible
- Determination
- Fortitude
- Self-belief
and I would like to develop further
- Effectively
communicating a message to people with different aptitude and experience
- Keeping
your cool when the going gets tough
- Developing
others and enabling them to succeed
- Having
the confidence to recruit others who are better than yourself
- Managing
expectations at all levels
- The
ability to listen
- The
ability to delegate and train others up
- Being
able to articulate and illustrate a vision in as many ways as is necessary
- Trusting
your intuition
- Calm
- Positive
listening skills
- Confidence
- Fairness
- Openness
- Goals/direction
- Structure/strategy
- Focus
on people
- Listening
skills
- Interpersonal
(making strong relationships within the team)
- Political
skills (being the tie between the team and upper management - building
the relationship with both "sides"
- Positive
phrasing
- Project
Assurance
- Researching,
developing and communicating the widest possible view across the company,
market, competition
- Recognizing
and feeding people's potential to develop
- Leaving
ego at the door
- Effective
consultation
- Risk
taking
- Dissemination
of appropriate information
- Take
initiative
- Lead
a project
- Lead
a team (even if it is a small one)
- Ability
to understand the needs of each member of your team
- Building
relationships
- Innovation
- Continual
personal and professional development
- Clear
lines of communication
- Creative
thinking
- Involving
a team to create a vision
- Empathy
- Delegation
- Dealing
with conflict
- Enabling
others to think for themselves
- Good
leadership in today's fluid organisations is about facilitating others
not supervising them
- Guiding
others - creating a vision
- Motivate
and encourage colleagues
- Make
colleagues feel included in decision making process
- Bring
vision and direction to a team
- An
interest in those you're leading
- Preparedness,
knowledge of the area and the being able to predict various outcomes
- Sense
of humour
- Pragmatism
- Charm
- Coaching
staff
- Organisation
- Listen
and give honest feedback
- Make
things happen - don't just say something, do it
- Work
with integrity
- Listening
as opposed to talking
- Empowering
your team: make them feel responsible for successes and failures
- Hiring
someone you think may be better than you are
- People
skills
- Decisiveness
- Showing
support
- Demonstrating
loyalty to the team and the people who work for you and for whom you
work
- Ability
to delegate well, but be available to support when required
- Enabling
responsibility
- Listening
and learning
- Calmness
in adversity
- Strategic
vision
- Translating
vision into practice
- Communicating
vision to others
- Speaking
in plain English
- Pushing
colleagues to think for themselves
- Trusting
colleagues
- Sensitivity
to people
- Structural
grasp
- Patience
and perseverance usually pay off eventually
- Lead
by example
- Tenacity
- Knowledge
- Making
everyone feel part an important part of the team,
- Showing
how the business can keep developing and moving forward towards goals
- Quick
decision making
- Team
Work
- Confidence
in decisions
- Direction
- Planning
- Focus
- Keen
awareness of when to get a final decision made and acted upon
- I found
my ability to listen often meant I found a solution before my staff
was aware of the problem
- Raw
smarts
- Talent
- Enthusiasm
- Keeping
your mouth shut, letting others shine, and not taking all the credit
for the success of the people you're leading!
- Reading
at least three newspapers every day
- Returning
calls and e-mails within 24 hours
- Attending
networking events!
- Inspiration
- to know what needs doing
- Courage
- to do it
- Thinking
ahead
- Energy
to motivate team
- Ability
to disassociate criticism from personal preferences
- Ability
to main focus of objective throughout project
- Ability
to project oneself in a meeting as another person contributing rather
than men viewing as a woman contributing
- People
Management skills
- Financial
management skills
- Time
management skills
- Speedy
replies to inquiries
- Effective
resourcing
Most Admired
Skills:
- Negotiation
- getting a win/win result
- The
able to excite, inspire and motivate others
- Staying
calm always
- Simply
and clearly convey the outcomes desired
- Diversity
management
- Critical
thinking
- Courage
- Tenacity
- Risk
taking
- Strength
- The
ability to say "No" when necessary
- Motivating
a disparate band of people from different backgrounds and with very
different levels of experience to work together and learn from one another
to achieve a common aim (idealist).
- To
give a background knowledge of one's area to enable self sufficiency...to
give a staff member a taste for something and equip them to then go
find out more for themselves ... giving a fishing rod rather than a
fish etc.
- Stronger
decision making skills
- Not
sure what it is called, but a skill that allows me to distance myself
a bit and not worry about everyone else being happy all of the time
- Public
speaking
- Succinct
press releases
- Art
of delegation
- Motivation
techniques
- Patience
- Tolerance
- Wisdom
- Discipline
to follow through and achieve all stated objectives without getting
sidetracked along the way
- Good
communication skills on timings/deadlines etc
- Calm
under pressure
- Well
organised and informative of changes/updates on projects
- The
Art of Persuasion
- Concise
explanations and arguments
- Clear
and plain speaking
- inspire
and motivate without fear
- Dealing
cooly and getting to a "win-win" situation with highly chauvinistic,
egocentric and/or obnoxious people
- "Working
a crowd" during business gatherings
- Ability
to understand what motivates individuals and therefore helps them to
perform to best of their ability
- Lateral
thinking-problem solving
- Being
influential
- Generating
followers
- Good
leaders are never worried...
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