The pandemic has left us in shatters. As a leader, it’s your responsibility to help your team stay focused on their work.

Successful leaders use soft skills to help themselves and the people around them stay focused on their work.

Take these 11 leadership soft skills and use them to take your company to the next level.

1. Self-Awareness

A leader must tune into his thoughts, emotions, and actions. Leaders take out time to be self-aware and make the necessary changes to enhance their skills and work on their weaknesses.

2. Emotional Intelligence

Being a leader is not about knowledge, skill, or experience. The leaders of 2021 are those who connect with their employees on an emotional level. Emotional intelligence help leaders understand their people and make them feel appreciated.

3. Positive Attitude

A positive attitude can do wonders for your team and company — plus it's contagious. For a leader, a positive attitude is a must-have skill to help the team stay motivated and hopeful.

4. Empathy

A leader needs to pay attention to his people. Empathy is simply understanding what’s going on in the lives of people and based upon that helping them get better. From team members to clients and even top managers, being empathetic is a necessary skill for the leader.

5. Problem solving

Problems are inevitable. Leaders who can find creative solutions to problems and forge a path on the fly are bound to succeed. Creativity in problem-solving drives innovation and boosts efficiency.

6. Accepting feedback

Accepting feedback gratefully is a fine skill. A leader listens to feedback with an open mind and makes the necessary changes for personal growth and development.

7. Praising publicly and criticizing privately

Leaders must praise publically and criticize privately. Because praising in public boosts confidence and private criticism helps people overcome challenges instead of being defensive.

8. Inspiring

Be the most inspiring person in the room. As a leader, you must hide all the negative emotions and give people hope even when you’re dying from inside. That’s a hard skill to acquire but once you have it, people will trust you and die to work with you.

9. Mentoring

One of the prime responsibilities of a leader is to mentor and coach people around you. It shows care and respect and confidence. Guide people in the right direction and have patience as everyone learns differently.

10. Delegation

When leaders are overwhelmed with responsibilities, they need to delegate stuff. Delegating responsibilities shows a level of trust among people and it helps the leader focus on other important stuff. Learn the art of delegating the right stuff to the right people.

11. Stress management

Now more than ever, it’s necessary to learn how to destress yourself. Sleep more, meditate, and write things down. As a leader focus on activities that help you release your stress. Stress management is life management.

Adopt these soft skills and see yourself growing and becoming a better human being.