Are you struggling to achieve success as an entrepreneur or business head? Even when you are personally skilled, leading a team or developing a business brand is not that easy. The fact may be that you need some additional skills to achieve your goals. But, what are those skills which can help you succeed?
After some intensive research and long discussions with successful entrepreneurs, here we are listing out some core skills which every successful business leaders should possess. In fact, these inputs are not just collected from businessmen, but also from the known leaders from other sectors too like industry, consulting professions, personal development, etc.
Even though these leaders may not have been mastered all the skills, they may possess at least the basic skill sets of each. The primary rule is that anyone who is looking to achieve a higher level of leadership would persistently practice and master these leadership tips.
1. Critical thinking
Look into the history, and you can see that all successful leaders possess commendable critical thinking skills. They have the ability to audit the facts and quickly analyze them to understand the core issues and deal with them effectively. Critical thinking is also essential in terms of understanding the new issues popping up in light of the factors which impact one’s goals and objectives.
2. Creative thinking
Next, to critical thinking, successful business leaders also should have the ability to think creatively, though differently from others. Winning business leaders have the ability to step out of the stubborn mindset and think flexibly by exploring potential new ideas, which others may consider as risky, silly, or even crazy.
3. Listening
Learn as a primary lesson that all great leaders bound to be good listeners too. Leaders are fine-tuned to focusing their energy to great things, including listening, so while they listen, they are more focused on hearing all information which helps to make well-informed decisions.
Essential Oracle DBA knowledge for business database administrators
As we had seen above, informed decision making is the key to success to any business of this age. A database, which is a structured collection of relevant data/info in an organized manner, will help the business administrators to access, modify, or analyze the data efficiently for better decision making.
As a reliable RDBMS (Relational Database Management system), Oracle DB helps store, modify, and retrieve business information securely and efficiently.
KRAs of Oracle DB administrators as defined by RemoteDBA.com.
- Planning for effective data collection
- Data migration
- Database design
- DB installation & configuration
- Performance monitoring
- Database security
- Timely backup
- Recovery administration
Oracle database administration skills
An Oracle DBA must have good communication skills and also need to work closely with storage technologies and computer networks. Some primary skills required to manage Oracle database are:
Database Designing
Database Modeling
Operating Systems
Querying
Client-Server Architecture
RDMS Basics etc.
In fact, when it comes to Oracle administration, employee screenshot monitoring and management is not done by a single person, but there may be a group of specialists who do the administration works together. Oracle database architecture typically functions on the basis of grid computing, which is suitable for large-sized enterprises with a need to handle big volume data. Some of the major files handled by Oracle databases are:
- Data Files: These database files contain primary data required for initiation of the database engine.
- Parameter Files: Files which reside on the machine which the Oracle DBMS server executes.
- Redo Log Files: These are log files, which contain the modified info or the latest changes made to the database.
- Control Files: This is the metadata, or the databases storehouse used by the Oracle engine.
Oracle DBA terminology
Here are some important terms to be remembered for administering an Oracle database.
Shared Memory: This is the same as the Random-Access Memory as we use in computer terminology.
System Support Infrastructure: It is the front-end and back-end processes which facilitate the application interaction in databases.
Operating System Files: The set of files which play a crucial role as far as the database runs.
Instances: Crucial part of the database memory structure, combining all background processes to retrieve data from the databases.
Buffer Cache: It can be considered as s small storehouse which consists of all frequently used data.
Shared Pool: A pool containing data needed to be shared with users.
Large Pool: This is the optimal storage place to store all large processes with abilities for data recovery and backup.
Log Buffer: A storehouse for backup, which consists of modified data and also helps in the recovery of processes and instances.
Now, as you learned the basic of Oracle database administration for the beginners, let’s get back to our primary topic of discussion as essential leadership skills.
4. Reading
Ability to read and process information is a crucial skill for personal and business success. All leaders out in the industry tend to be a naturally good leader who gets exposure to a large sum of information through books, newspapers, reports, white papers, etc. Even if you are not a speedy reader, you need to practice and gain excellence in grasping the fundamental ideas and context of the material you read and practice it in real.
5. Writing
Professional writing is another skill to be nurtured through learning the proper way and persistently practicing it. In fact, you need not have to write a lot, but when there is a need, successful leaders do it in a clear and concise manner, to put the point straight.
6. Speaking
Speaking well is the most important language skill to be gained, and you can see that all best leaders are good speakers too. They possess the excellent verbal ability to present their ideas to be best of the understanding of the audience and get a positive acknowledgment. Good leaders can respond well by understanding the responses of the audience and offer them exactly what they need.
Along with the above, a good leader should be motivating, engaging, networking, delegating, evolving, and also have to keep a positive and reassuring attitude everything and everyone they come across.