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leadership skill

leadership skill

11 3.4
To guide and manage a group to reach goals
  • noun
translation icon : habilidad de liderazgo
  • I think to be a good manager, you need to have good leadership skills.
  • develop leadership skills
  • effective leadership skills
  • acquire leadership skills

What leadership skills are needed in that context?

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Examples

  • To succeed in management, one must develop strong leadership skills to motivate the team.

  • The program places special emphasis on the development of leadership skills among all the scholars.

    Academic text (2013)
  • What leadership skills are needed in that context?

  • The goal is to turn these raw leadership skills into positive actions.

    Academic text (2013)
  • All students are potential leaders, and service is a powerful tool for developing students' leadership skills.

    Academic text (2012)
  • Native American students can build on their leadership skills by establishing leadership groups.

    Academic text (2006)
  • In adult and children's social care, training can help to develop leadership skills on the ground.

    Academic text (2011)
  • Nevertheless, efforts to improve supervision and leadership skills appear to have been profitable.

    Academic text (1993)
  • Many of these individuals have gained the organizational and leadership skills to take on major roles during autonomy.

    Academic text (1993)
  • I would say that I work on my leadership skills by really doing the work because it doesn't come that easy for me, I guess as maybe I thought I did.

Synonyms

leadership
vsleadership skill
510 3.5

Ability to guide and inspire people so they work well together

emphasizes managing others effectively and running operations
helmsmanship
vsleadership skill
8.0

Skill in guiding a group or organization steadily

focuses more on managing people and broader operational effectiveness

How Capable

expert
3.2
leadership skill
11 3.4
competent
  • Formal
39 4.1
incompetent
6 4.6
empty suit
  • Offensive
7 8.1
charlatan
  • Offensive
38 8.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

leadership + skill

The meaning 'the ability to lead and manage others effectively' is directly and transparently derived from combining 'leadership' (capacity to direct or guide people) with 'skill' (a practiced capacity). This noun + noun composition follows a regular, compositional pattern found across languages, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents would readily infer the MWE meaning.

Etymology

Leadership skill combines lead ('to go first and show the way') and skill ('an ability'). Imagine someone walking in front of a group and helping others do their job; that's why leadership skill means the ability to guide and manage people well.