5 Soft Leadership Skills That Affect the Bottom Line and Create Hard Results

Managing the personal portion of leadership while still achieving goals and hitting deadlines requires the art of leadership, as opposed to the science. As the leader, you’re managing for results and outcomes. But results don’t come without relationships, connections and personal investment.

If you’re not getting the results you want, it may be the soft stuff that you’re lacking.

Here are the five soft leadership skills that affect the bottom line the most directly, and how leaders can develop them.

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In the Digital Economy, Speed Matters

According to an MIT Sloan Management Review article, Jeanne Ross says, "To keep pace with customer demands and competitor moves, companies must be able to quickly experiment with a potential offering and, depending on customer response, continuously enrich and scale that offering, or discard it and move on to the next experiment."

Ms. Ross claims that innovating at speed means utilizing empowered teams that are aligned to achieve company-wide objectives.

Read more about how to empower your teams and architect your company for agility.

Find Finance. Find Mentors. Find Balance.

Women entrepreneurs face many challenges when they start companies.  That said, to make it easier on women, all companies should be supporting the move towards more diverse perspectives and inclusive attitudes at every level of the business world.

As the article below, states, "understanding and quantifying the challenges faced when starting a woman-centric business may help to break down the systematic prejudices and level the playing field for women in the entrepreneurial sector."

Read more about finding finance, finding mentors and finding balance as you build a business.  And of course joining WPO can help you overcome all of these challenges.

A Few Good Winning Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs

Who isn't always looking for a good winning strategy that brings success to a business that much faster?

Here are eight (8) winning strategies from a book, Think Bigger, that will help you enlarge your thought processes on what it takes to run a successful business.

Read:  Winning Strategies for Women Entrepreneurs

Be Unique and Intelligently Greedy When Others are Fearful in 2018

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As Tony Robbins said to entrepreneur and author Tim Ferriss, “Winter is coming.” Everything is cyclical, so make sure you’re prepared to be intelligently greedy when others are fearful. When people are myopically fixated on problems, they often leave opportunities in plain sight.

Read more on what will make your business a success in 2018.

Happy New Year!