How do leadership skills relate to leadership styles?

1. Which is the most important leadership skill group in your opinion (administrative, interpersonal, or conceptual)? Why?

Choose one of the following additional questions to answer:

• In your own words, what is emotional intelligence and why is it important for leadership?
• Which leadership skills are most important when working in a virtual team?
• Are leadership skills exhibited the same way by men and women? By older and younger workers? By people from different cultures?
• How do leadership skills relate to leadership styles?
• Are all the skills equally important in every leadership situation? Explain how their relative importance might change.
• Are there key leadership skills you would add to the ones discussed in this chapter? Explain.