Leadership Skills Leadership skills are important for people who want to play the leader on a team. A good leader can make the people around him become better persons. In order to help other people improve, the leader must provide constructive feedback to others, especially pointing out people's weakness. Having a conversation with someone about his weakness is a difficult task to do. People will generally get embarrassed when telling them that they haven't done well in certain areas. It takes a lot of skills to make these type of conversations conducted in a constructive way. The leader needs to make sure that the person treats the negative feedback as positive suggestions for me to improve rather blaming and scolding. My current boss is an ex-Google veteran. He worked for Google for more than 10 years. He has tons of technical and people management experience. During our one on one conversations, I could feel that his suggestions and feedbacks were solid and helpful. He tried his best to make sure that I took the feedback with a positive attitude. It has been fun working with him.