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Hardest Leadership Skill You'll Ever Learn. Any great leader faces a multitude of challenges every day.

Hardest Leadership Skill You'll Ever Learn

Whether it's communicating strategy, helping people through change, holding on to excellence in the face of compromise, or just navigating the leadership environment, there is no shortage of development opportunities lurking in each day's schedule. I've worked over the years with leaders on all of the challenges above--and many, many more.

But surprisingly, the skill that I see more leaders struggle with more than any other is relatively mundane (but very important): the ability to work with their team as an equal. To be "merely" a resource, rather than the team leader. Hiring Wisdom: Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit. Here are 10 ways to guarantee that your best people will quit: 10.

Hiring Wisdom: Top 10 Ways to Guarantee Your Best People Will Quit

Treat everyone equally. This may sound good, but your employees are not equal. Some are worth more because they produce more results. The key is not to treat them equally, it is to treat them all fairly. Successful Leadership Skills. For too long, we’ve thought of “hard skills” and “soft skills” as mutually exclusive.

Successful Leadership Skills

Hard skills are supposed to provide the value, and soft skills supposed to be subordinate, inferior, and all about feelings. Some frameworks of leadership reinforce this myth by encouraging positioning leaders as above the group and magically removed from doubt and anxiety. In reality, there is nothing “soft” about the skills needed to relate to people well enough to lead them. True leadership involves both hard skills and harder skills. Here’s what I mean. Leadership Practices to Stop Today.