• Successful women have leadership skills.business women image by Kurhan from Fotolia.com
  
  Leaders have the power to influence others with their actions. The website Advancing Women states that the ability to lead comes from childhood environmental factors, family situations and personality traits. Women leaders are fast growing in the business marketplace. Women offer a variety of leadership skills that help improve their business, community and nation.
  
  

Mentoring

• Women in leadership offer skills in mentoring relationships. Pro Train states that women recognize the importance building mentoring relationships. When trying to build a career, women who seek strong mentors succeed. Women in leadership also know how to be strong mentors to their proteges. In business scenarios, women with leadership skills behave in a manner that builds strong relationships. These behaviors include friendliness, trustworthiness and helpfulness. Women with these behaviors can become mentors for younger people who seek success in the same business career. Mentoring relationships benefit both parties with personal growth and success.
  
  

Balance

• A skill of leadership offered by women is work balance. Women must find a balance between work life and home life to be effective leaders. The roles of mother and office manager are equally important to women. Those who lead well have strategies in place to help them make the right choices about life and career. An effective strategy may be analyzing each situation individually to decide whether she will go home to tend to a sick child or stay at the office to work. Professional women who are strong leaders have the skills to keep work life separate from home life. Once they leave the office, they do not bring its issues home. Likewise, those who lead in the workplace do not bring stresses from home to the job.
  
  

Social Skills

• Women in leadership positions have strong social skills. The Military Women website analyzed an article called "Leadership Development Skills for Military Women." Sociability is a skill that women in leadership positions in the military posses. In social settings, military women leaders have a crisp, no-nonsense image. They do not flirt or discuss their personal life with men. Women with good social skills keep a sense of humor and use strong eye contact when talking to others. Using professional language is also a necessary social skill. Women who are not in leadership positions in the military must still have these social skills to lead. Strong leaders talk to others with respect and listen when others speak. Strong women leaders acknowledge that they need a team to get the job done.