Theme 1 - Leadership

1.3. Developing Skills for Effective Leadership

As an effective community leader there are a range of personal skills that will help you feel more confident and "in control", and will let you make better use of the resources at your disposal. Life-long learning benefits everyone as we gain confidence to enjoy new experiences. In particular, gaining skills as a leader can increase the satisfaction gained from your leadership role as you increase in effectiveness with each new skill.

Understanding your personality a little better may have helped you discover areas where developing skills might be helpful. If not you could audit your skills by:

• Listing all your skill strengths and weaknesses
• Prioritising the area you feel you could most benefit from developing

Skills that are known to be helpful to leaders are:

• Self Assessment
• Identifying my needs and getting them met (sometimes)
• Managing your time
• Dealing with conflict
• Negotiating
• Managing stress