If you already exhibit leadership skills in everyday life, you may wonder why you need to develop them. There will always be times when you need to use your leadership skills in your personal life but in a workplace these skills may be a key requirement for a role.
To apply for a leadership role, you will need to evidence times when you have been a leader. When applying for jobs during your onward journey from university, leadership skills are a much-desired skill.
‘Effective leadership is widely regarded as one of the most critical assets of any organisation in today’s fast developing economic environment. An influential leader can play a pivotal role in ensuring the success of both the team and the enterprise as a whole.’
Within interviews you may get asked questions such as:
Describe a situation where you have led a team.
Can you talk about any past situations where you have supervised the work of others?
Tell me about the challenges you faced when leading a project.
How do you motivate others to reach goals and targets?
It is important to consider your leadership skills and to assess if they need developing and improving. Moving forwards, finding opportunities to test out your leadership skills will be really useful - you will then feel more prepared at interview because you will have lots of examples that you can use.