Ever thought about your ability to anticipate as a strategic leadershp skill? Well believe it or not great leadershp isn’t just about clarity, communication, trust, recognition and the ability to get a team to deliver on a product or outcome (although that is what I often focus on – those ‘real skills’ not ‘soft skills’ 😉). Great leadership is also about foresight, prediction and anticipation, trust, empathy and empowerment. And right now, being strategic in your leadership is more important than ever. So if you are ready to uplevel and lead here are the most important strategic leadership skills you need in your leadership toolkit.

Strategy, strategy, strategy…. We’ve all been told that to look good we need to be strategic. We need to have strategic activities in our list of performance criteria, metrics and goals. We have to-do lists that are ‘strategic’. But are we really being strategic?
All too often people misuse the word ‘strategy’. It is used to define a metric, or a goal, or even a set of tactics. What sets apart the high performers (whether we are talking individuals or business high performers) is a clear understanding of what strategy really is. So in this post I’m taking apart strategy, removing the mystery and showing you what a great strategy really looks like. If you want to uplevel your game, this is what you need.