Current leadership theory agrees that it is impossible to be a good manager without soft skills. Numerous studies have shown that skills such as team focus, motivation, self-criticism, openness and empathy increase and support employee satisfaction. This is why modern leadership programmes and communication courses provide training on how to perceive verbal and non-verbal subtleties, and teach skills such as meta-communication, active listening and paraphrasing. In addition, at the moment, the most important characteristic of an exemplary manager is authenticity.
WeiterlesenWomen who want to be professionally successful are increasingly being given lists of recommended behaviour and tactics that they need to observe in order to hold their own and assert themselves against the competition. The advice is based on verbal and non-verbal strategies that are considered to be more male (such as taking up space, claiming speaking time, using status symbols, sometimes interrupting others, making and communicating uncomfortable decisions, speaking about one’s own success, taking a seat at the top of the table, etc.) – and it is effective!
WeiterlesenIf you experience feelings of inadequacy, or believe you have taken too great a risk, or even think that people might find out that you can’t actually do what you have been pretending to do for years, you may be suffering from imposter syndrome.
This syndrome is a psychological concept where those affected are unable to accept their accomplishments, are convinced that they have achieved them fraudulently, and fear that they will be found out at some point. Achievements are dismissed as being due to good luck and coincidence; evidence of even the slightest lack of knowledge is seen as proof that the qualifications acquired are undeserved.
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