Emerging Leadership Skills and Competencies of LIS Professionals.

Abstract

Emerging technologies in the field of LIS has resulted in the need for LIS Professionals to acquire adopting new skills and competencies. This paper addresses the coming out of leadership skills and the competencies necessary for a Library professional who want to be notable from the swarm, need to nurture and attain assured skills and competencies in broad like Generic skills, Managerial skills, Professional skills and ICT skills. To be specific: Vision, Trust And Values, Honesty, Emotional Intelligence (EI) and Emotional stability, Strategic orientation, Dominance, Innovative mindset, Customer focus, Enthusiasm, Teamwork and collaboration , Interpersonal and Intra personal skills, Research-based competencies, Critical thinking, problem solving and decision making , Communication , Ability to tackle unfamiliar problems , Conscientiousness, Confidence, Commitment, Creativity, Independent, initiating and proactive; self-directed , Self-assurance, Tough-mindedness, learning Ability from situations and events, Social boldness, including failures and successes, Ability To Inspire, Intuition, Leadership style and traits, Compulsiveness, acquiring all these the LIS Professionals stay extremely confident in their abilities and They are not boastful which would make them successful leaders and the drive to pursue their professional goals. Thus skills acquired by a librarian persuades library’s efficacy and Competencies are the set of talents needed to achieve the role of LIS Professional by applying the skills to cope with the rapidly changing world.