No one is a born leadereveryone can develop leadership skills and everyone

can benefit from using them. Leadership can develop first, take time to honestly
analyze yourself. Second, Identify areas for improvement. Ask yourself these questions:
And lastly after analyzing your strengths and weaknesses--take action.
Although understanding leadership skills is one of the more important things to
understanding a leader, very little attention has been given to leadership skills over the
years. Only recently has much attention been brought to leadership skills and
understanding their importance in a leader. In the chapter, leadership skills were
grouped into three categories. The first skill is having administrative skills, which
involves mostly with management. Interpersonal skills deals with being socially aware
and understanding the emotions of others. Conceptual skills involve strategy and the
ability for effective planning. Together these make up the model for primary leadership
skills.
Having administrative skills is a big part in being an effective leader. They must be
able to manage people. This involves connecting with people and knowing what needs
to be done. This part of the administrative skill deals with getting a task done in the
most efficient way possible. A leader must also understand how to manage their
resources. Resources can include people, money, supplies, etc. and managing
resources is essential in order to run a company or organization. The last skill involved
is having technical competence. A leader must have knowledge about the task that is
being done. In order for an organization to run effectively, the leader must have
specialized and technical expertise of the organization.
One of the other core skills for the leader is having interpersonal skills. These
skills help a leader work effectively with people to accomplish a task more efficiently.
The interpersonal leader needs to be socially perceptive, which is understanding
others. They also need to be emotionally intelligent. This involves having the ability to
not only understand their own emotions and what drives them but also knowing how to
understand the feelings of others. Having this ability can build a relationship between
the leaders and his peers for a successful company. Another aspect of the interpersonal
leader is handling conflict. Although addressing them might not be easy, it is a
necessity for a leader to know how to effectively work through conflict.
The last core skill for a leader is having conceptual skills. This area of leadership
deals with working with concepts and ideas. This type of leader needs to have problemsolving skills. In order to be an efficient problem-solver, a leader must know how to
identify the problem, make alternative solutions, select the best solution, and then put
that plan into action. The conceptual leader also needs to know how to plan
strategically. They need to be able to think cognitively and plan a strategy to generate
ideas for a group. A vision must also be created. This special kind of talent deals with
challenging the members of a group to create a different and unique idea that has the
ability to lead to success within the group. They must be able to make this vision clear
to the group and implement this vision efficiently.

Educational leadership, our review also makes clear, comes from many sources, not
just the usual suspects superintendents and principals. But the usual suspects are
likely still the most influential. Efforts to improve their recruitment, training, evaluation
and ongoing development should be considered highly cost-effective approaches to
successful school improvement. These efforts will be increasingly productive as
research provides us with more robust understandings of how successful leaders make
sense of and productively respond to both external policy initiatives and local needs
and priorities, and of how those practices seep into the fabric of the education system,
improving its overall quality and substantially adding value to our students learning.
Therefore I conclude that organizations, management, and leadership are all important
to scalability. People are the most important element of scalability, as without people
there are no processes and there is no technology. The effective organization of your
people will either get you to where you need to be faster or hinder your efforts in
producing scalable systems. Management and leadership are the push and pull,
respectively, in the whole operation. Leadership serves to inspire people to greater
accomplishments, and management exists to motivate them to the objective. The
characteristics of a leader need to be genuine and authentic and the theoretical
perspective of servant leadership emphasises the caring aspect of leaders towards
their followers. Typically servant leaders are altruistic and are concerned about the
well-being of others. There are a number of characteristics which appear to be more
important than others although it is difficult to isolate only a few. However, one
characteristic that does seem to be high on the list for good leaders is good
communication and interpersonal skills.