Paperwork Office politics Production snafu Customer service issues Isolation Lack of honest feedback Lack of emotional intelligence Lacking skills and techniques Lack of communication skills Meeting to inspire others Developing employees Leading a team Handling change Having high-energy all the time Creating leaders Encouraging employees to take ownership Learning new technologies A leader, how do you handle the above challenges? I'm willing to bet that if you could sit down and think for a moment you probably could add more items to the list. You need Skills and Techniques and not a sales pitch. How do we handle these challenges? What skills and techniques are required to handle these challenges? During this series of articles let's look at the 5 basic skills that are required. For some, this series will serve as a review, which can be a great reminder to refresh and reinstitute these techniques. For others, this will give you a checklist that you can use on a daily, weekly, and monthly basis to make sure you're touching all the bases. Being a leader is not easy. Don't let anybody fool you into thinking that they were a natural-born leader. Natural born leaders do not exist. They never have and they never will exist. Leadership is a learned skill. Maybe these skills were learned in Boy Scouts, Girl Scouts, playing sports or by being a Musician in an orchestra or choir. Leadership skills are learned not inherited. You can look at so many different examples in society and you’ll see that leadership skills are learned. These are skills and techniques that you can learn. Leadership skills and...