Becoming Effective Leaders means that you must always be learning. If you want to lead your team to the best of your abilities you must have a high working knowledge about the industry you are in, the companies in that industry or that are your competition and technical aspects of your organization. It is very important to be in essence, a sort of central hub of information for you team members. By knowing processes and procedures of your company, you are then able to then teach this to your team. Making them more efficient and effective. Getting a degree is useful in a career but more times than not, experience and expertise in a field is much more valuable to an organization. Now by no means am I suggesting that one should not go to school and get a degree. I highly suggest it because there is so much valuable information to learn. Don’t go to get your degree if you want to simply get a piece of paper that said you graduated. That is a waste of time and useless.
Lastly, Effective Leaders are adaptable in their abilities to understand the needs and goals of other individuals rather than themselves and can adjust the personal leadership approach depending on the situation. Not everyone can be lead or managed the same. Not everyone responds to the same level of coaching or constructive criticism as your or someone else. This is why it is important to get to know the people that work for you so you can effectively lead them to the results that the organization and yourself seek and those that the employee seeks.