How to Hone Leadership Skills

Here Is How to Sharpen Your Leadership Skills

Leadership is key to the success of an organization, including the government and company. All decisions, steps, and resources required for success are critical.

In addition, a strong team requires an effective and respected leader. Thus, an employee trusted to lead a team or working unit must show strong leadership.

According to experts, everyone has the potential to be a leader. However, the potential is not developed in daily life.

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It Takes Habits and Training

Leadership requires habits and training. It must be demonstrated in every action or behavior.

Nevertheless, understanding how to be a good and respected leader is essential. An effective leader requires good and creative communication.

Moreover, they must be able to motivate their team, manage conflicts, accept and delegate responsibility, receive inputs, and demonstrate empathy. Finally, a leader must adopt a flexible approach to each problem in ever-changing workplaces.

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Hone Your Soft Skills

A leader must also create suitable conditions in their working unit. In other words, a leader must acquire hard skills and soft skills.

Hard skills are skills or abilities to do our duties. On the other hand, soft skills are intangible and immeasurable, but they influence our attitude and behavior.

Companies with a sound work system need such characteristics. Therefore, at the early stage of recruitment, they try to know whether their potential employees possess the characteristics. 

You can say that you have leadership potential when applying for a job in reputable companies.

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One of them is PT Serasi Autoraya (SERA). SERA is a subsidiary of PT Astra International Tbk that provides integrated transportation solution services through TRAC-Astra Rent a Car, used vehicle sales through mobil88 and IBID-Balai Lelang Serasi, and integrated logistics management services through SELOG.

This subsidiary of Astra Group welcomes new team members to fill various positions at the company.

SERA is now recruiting employees to fill various positions in its Information System & Technology department, such as Business Analysts, Mobile Developers, and IT Secure Analysts. Accounting Analysts and Finance Staff (Jakarta) are also welcomed to join the Finance Accounting Tax department. New employees are also expected to join the Sales department as Sales Officers (Surabaya), Account Executives, and Marketing Research Analysts.