Laurie Neilson

Thoughts on Leadership If you’re a job hunter, matching your skills with the job requirements will bring you closer to landing a job. For instance, the accounting field requires strong math skills, electricians should understand circuits and conductivity, and structural engineers must apply principles of load, support and strength to construction design. Opportunities for leadership often present themselves in specialized fields, like these. The accountant may become CFO with an office staff, the electrician, a project manager overseeing work crews, and the engineer may head a structural design department. Along with their technical knowledge, some professionals find themselves in leadership roles. This begs the question, are people who lead automatically good at it? Have you ever known a bad or a good leader? And how does one become good at leadership? While some people advance to positions of leadership because they have acquired more knowledge or skills, I’d say that knowl...