Develop Leadership Skills Through These 8 Questions

The key to successful leadership today is INFLUENCE, not AUTHORITY.

- Ken Blanchard

For a small business, developing leadership skills is more critical to daily operations than larger businesses. Why? Because there is much less leadership to be involved. So … you need to pay attention to the development of your own leadership abilities if you are a leader of a small business.

Here are some important leadership questions for your thinking and improving your ability to influence … do you, as business leader:

Empower your staff to act on behalf of your business on most things?

Listen more than you talk?

Show interest in your staff’s wellbeing?

Treat your staff with respect … consistently?

Know your staff as individuals?

Give your staff adequate accessibility to you?

Create a growth environment where your staff can exercise and build on their strengths?

Show that you care?