Enhancing your Management and Leadership Skills

Whether you are an inspiring or seasoned manager, continuing to develop and enhance your management and leadership skills is essential and vital.

Becoming a great manager and leading a team to success requires time and effort, you need to put in the work to see results. 

Studies have shown that managers who are making the effort to upskill and improve their managerial skills experience greater profitability, increased levels of productivity and higher employee engagement. Demonstrating not only how vital high-quality management is to a team's success but the overall culture of an organisation. Amelia, a qualified career coach in Melbourne, can work with you to learn and improve your leadership skills. Work with Amelia here.

What makes a good leader?

Before we delve into the nitty-gritty of how to enhance your management and leadership skills. Let’s touch on what makes a good leader. A good leader guides their team to meet goals effectively and in a timely manner, whilst acknowledging individual needs. They possess skills to delegate tasks according to team members’ skills and strengths effectively. Enhancing your leadership skills and becoming a better leader, can lead to hopefully a promotion but can lead to many other benefits. Benefits such as earning more respect from your co-workers and increased job satisfaction.

First and foremost, you don’t have to be a manager to become a better leader!

Here are a few ways to develop your leadership and management skills.

Find a Mentor or Role Model

Whether your company offers mentorships or not, finding a role model within the company who can give your guidance and you can learn from can be very beneficial. Observe people in your workplace, become aware of everyone’s different skill sets and notice what skills you admire. How do they interact with co-workers? Are they collaborative? Do they involve their team in decision-making?

Working alongside a role model or mentor is a great way to learn leadership skills. It is also a great opportunity to gain feedback on your strengths and weaknesses from someone who can help you work on them.

Embrace Continuous Learning

You have probably heard this millions of times, but try to never stop learning! Be proactive in your learning, and look for professional development opportunities, such as online courses, seminars and training that can help you enhance and refine your leadership skills. Many companies provide in-house training or offer financial support for off-site learning. 

If you are out of pocket for your training, think of it as an investment injection into your career. Amelia, a qualified career counsellor, can guide you in the right direction and help you find training/courses that will enhance your career. Contact Amelia here.

Become best friends with feedback

Feedback can be hard to tackle, but constructive criticism from managers and mentors is a great opportunity to grow as a professional and enhance your leadership skills. An outside perspective/opinion allows you to become aware of behaviours or patterns you might not have noticed.

Colleagues and managers can help you identify your strengths and weaknesses, they can help you define areas that need more work. Actively seeking feedback is also a great way to build trust and credibility, which are key leadership characteristics. If you find yourself, quivering at the thought of receiving feedback, work with Amelia. A Melbourne career coach, Amelia is equipped with tools to help you receive and give constructive feedback. Chat to Amelia Here.

Do something you are passionate about

This one may sound obvious, but when you are doing something you love, you will be more motivated to succeed and enhance your skills and you will be passionate to be a leader! Being a successful leader isn’t all about skills and knowledge, being able to instil drive and motivation in your fellow co-workers. 

We understand that not everyone lands their dream job straight away! Working with Amelia, a careers coach in Melbourne, she can help you navigate the right pathways to finding and landing your dream job. Work with Amelia Here.

Strengthen Your Soft Skills

Soft skills are non-technical skills that describe how you work and interact with people. Whereas hard skills are ones learnt from education, courses and training. Soft skills are transferable from career to career, no matter the field you are in! Soft skills are essentially indispensable to employers and they are integral for your personal success in the business. 

Soft skills fall into 6 main categories, Communication skills, leadership skills, time management skills, problem-solving skills, critical thinking skills and teamwork skills.

Enhancing your leadership skills can prove to be crucial for job advancement. Consider how you can increase your influence if you want to develop your leadership abilities. If you are a leader already, consider how you can motivate others. 

To learn more, contact Amelia's career counsellor Melbourne.

Amelia McDermott is a Career Coach and Coaching Psychologist, based on the Mornington Peninsula in Melbourne. With nearly 20 years of training and experience working as a psychologist, Amelia has a strong understanding of how to uncover what makes people tick, and how to help people find an authentic career that aligns with their unique talents and values. If you’re looking for Career Advice or Career Counselling, look no further than Uplift Coaching and enjoy a consultation with Amelia to see if a Career Coach is right for you. Book a consultation here.