5 Steps To Master The Leadership Skill Of Persuasive Storytelling; Forbes, December 7, 2023

Rachel Wells, Forbes; 5 Steps To Master The Leadership Skill Of Persuasive Storytelling

"For as long as humans have been in existence, we've been in the habit of telling stories. Stories entertain, delight, inspire, inform, and take audiences to a different world where they can envision and immerse themselves in a completely new experience. As a leader, it's important to have the art of storytelling under your belt as one of your core communication skills, because it's one of the main ways you can motivate towards a shared vision, and effectively persuade and gain buy-in from your audience—be it teams, stakeholders, or senior management...

In your leadership or management role, your purpose is not to make someone purchase a product or service, but to persuade and inspire people to action to get them to buy into what you have to say.

Here are five ways you can master this essential leadership skill of impactful storytelling, whether in a meeting, project update, or presentation."

Compassion Is A Vital Leadership Skill; Forbes, January 25, 2022

 Irma Becerra, Forbes; Compassion Is A Vital Leadership Skill

"Compassion In Action

First, compassionate leadership involves trying to walk in the shoes of others, be it your employees or your clients, in order to better understand what they are experiencing at a much deeper level."

Humility Is an Undersung Leadership Skill. Adam Grant Says These 2 Interview Questions Screen for It; Inc., September 13, 2021

JESSICA STILLMAN, Inc.; Humility Is an Undersung Leadership Skill. Adam Grant Says These 2 Interview Questions Screen for It

How to figure out if someone is truly a humble team player in a job interview.

 

"In life, it's often those who toot their own horn the loudest who draw the most attention, but an absolute mountain of evidence shows that humility is actually an essential skill for great leadership. Academic studies show staying humble helps us learn more quickly, and that teams of humble leaders tend to perform better. Jeff Bezos has even cited intellectual humility as his top sign of true intelligence. 

Which means if you're hiring for any sort of leadership position, you're going to want to assess the ability of candidates to empower others, acknowledge their own limitations, and learn from errors. But while screening for applicants' willingness to trumpet their accomplishments is easy, how do you get at a quieter trait like humility?"

Next PTO Director must have management experience, patent savvy, and leadership skills; IPWatchdog, June 12, 2017

Judge Paul Michel, IPWatchdog; Next PTO Director must have management experience, patent savvy, and leadership skills

"All these ills can be addressed effectively by the PTO’s new Director, provided they have the necessary management experience, patent savvy, and leadership skills.  Someone like me who has not run anything larger than a courthouse may lack the needed capabilities, as may someone who has run nothing larger than a litigation team or small law firm.   Same for the gifted academics who provide  such useful commentary on all matters patent.  Same with former Capitol Hill staffers(I was once one myself).  They all have their place, but it is not at the helm of America’s 13,000 person innovation agency.

Rather, we need someone from a large company who has shown leadership ability and has a proven record of successfully managing a significant part of a large organization.  Of course, the person must also have experience prosecuting, licensing and litigating patents.  And, a background in science or engineering.  But many patent lawyers have such experiences.  Few, however have the necessary management chops.

In my opinion, David Kappos embodied all these attributes to a great degree.  And, he came from a long, highly successful career at IBM, where he ran a large operation that depended on using patent skills both for protecting patented inventions and defending against patent assertions by others.  A company or law firm that primarily or only employs one or the other strategy is probably not the best talent pool from which to select a PTO Director, because achieving balance between owners and users is the key to success.

Finally, the person should have deep experience with the patent policy debates and the many agency reports and legislative proposals that have roiled the patent community for a decade.  Today, those debates continue, unabated."

Writing, Reflecting, Capturing: Three Less-Discussed Leadership Skills | Leading from the Library; Library Journal, 5/26/16

Steven Bell, Library Journal; Writing, Reflecting, Capturing: Three Less-Discussed Leadership Skills | Leading from the Library:

"JUST GET STARTED

These are good ideas for getting started, but the hardest part for many leaders is deciding what to write about when it’s time for reflection. Adler recommends trying a trigger question. How are you feeling at the end of your day? What made you feel best about being a leader? Did you have a new idea today? What made you happiest—or perhaps angriest. Just let it out. The highest level of reflection is achieving new knowledge as the outcome of a process of inquiry, where conclusions arrived at are based on evidence, thoughtful interpretation, and compelling understanding of an issue. Not everyone will think of reflecting, writing, and capturing as leadership skills, but I do. It’s unlike those skills we use in a more direct way as we practice leadership, such as good listening or coaching. Think of it as a more foundational skill that allows leaders to learn how to improve at those other practices. As Adler puts it, “Using a journal regularly will give you the courage to see the world differently, to understand the world differently, and to lead in new and needed ways.” What more encouragement do you need?"

ALA Midwinter 2012: When Looking for a Job, Remember to Smile; LibraryJournal.com, 1/23/12

Michael Kelley, LibraryJournal.com; ALA Midwinter 2012: When Looking for a Job, Remember to Smile:

"Job seekers in the library field need to remember that recruiters often highly value “soft skills.”

“First and foremost, I look at how they present themselves, how well they communicate, and I like when they smile a lot,” said Megan Alpaugh, a staff recruiter for the Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA...

“When I’m hiring I’m not necessarily trying to match up ‘Oh, have you used this system or have you done x, y, or z’ as much as does this person have good communication skills, can they be an effective member of a team, do they have leadership skills, are they enthusiastic in learning new things,” said Ewa E. Barczyk, the director of libraries at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. “Those are the kind of things you can’t teach somebody,” she said."