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Being a leader is more than just “skills”

18/1/2022

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With so many big decisions to be made as a leader, you may think that being an entrepreneur is all about the skills that are learned over the years but being an entrepreneur, in many ways, is more than just learning a bunch of information to implement but it's about making sure that you have the right characteristics. Even if you think that you don't have what it takes to be an entrepreneur, it's worth considering these components. 

Understanding You Are Not the Cleverest Person in the Room (and This Is Okay) 
One of the big misnomers of being a leader is believing that in order to be in charge of a group of people, you've got to be more intelligent than all of them combined. The reality is that you should not be the cleverest person in the room by a longshot! 

Being a great leader or entrepreneur is about utilising the skills of other workers and understanding how they all slot together. You may believe that you need to be supremely skilled in every single area, but the fact is that your goal is to address the big picture. 

So many businesses outsource these days, and it's about understanding that whether you need to take advantage of small business accounting online, or you are looking for bloggers or graphic designers, you have to ensure that what everybody does seals your vision in place. 

Accepting That You Need to Keep Learning
Becoming a successful leader is a learning curve. No one can know everything, and part of being a leader is to understand that and to be willing to keep learning. Being in charge of a business is a highly responsible job, and it is likely that you will need to understand the rules and regulations that govern your industry. That is a lot of information to take on board, so continually refreshing your knowledge is an essential task. If you run a construction company, no one is expecting you to know the timber roof standard regulations without ever reading them; instead, this kind of knowledge is something that you will need to learn along the way. So, the key lesson is not to be hard on yourself and to accept that there will always be new things to learn as a business leader.

Why Your Personality Is Pivotal
The most important piece of the puzzle, in order to be an effective entrepreneur, is to be the best version of yourself possible. Every leader knows they need to have the right skills like communication and soft skills, but one of the biggest oversights many entrepreneurs make is thinking that they need to just learn all of these skills and they can automatically lead the company and their people to greatness. 

But the fact is you've got to understand who you are in order to bring all of these skills out in the right ways. This is why you cannot completely neglect your personality in the process. A lot of people think that if they want to be a leader, but don't have what it takes right now, they have got to completely draw a line in the sand and start again. The reality is that you have an abundance of resources at your disposal and you will always use your perspective of the situation to fuel your decision-making. 

So rather than thinking you are not capable and need to build a whole new personality, being a leader is not just about the skills. The fact is that we can all learn skills but we need to apply them through our own unique prism. 

An entrepreneur is someone who doesn't just need to have sales acumen or the ability to delegate, but the fact is that your personality is the missing link between learning all of the skills that are so essential and leading a group of individuals to success.
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