7 Essential Soft Skills to Elevate Your Leadership During the Pandemic Optimistic leaders encourage employees to persist and achieve success in adversities.

The disruptions that the COVID-19 pandemic has wrought to economies, businesses and organizations across the world are one for the record books. The initial response of most countries was to lockdown their borders and quarantine their citizens into their homes. Slowly, businesses are opening while the pandemic stays and remains deadly. Leaders across the world remain unsure when a vaccine will be developed and become available to the public so that we can all go back to normalcy.

Meanwhile, as a leadership development coach and consultant, one of the most frequent questions from clients I get is "What (more than anything) should we be focusing on right now that will help our leadership team to be most effective?"

Leaders can remain on top of the disruptions by acquiring and focusing on these seven essential soft skills.