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While the Traits Approach took into account the personality of the leader and the Style Approach the behavior of the leader, the Leadership skills approach takes into account the knowledge and abilities that the leader has. A leader can learn certain skills and turn himself into a remarkable one. The Leadership skills approach believes that a leader should have technical skills, human skills and conceptual skills. Some of the strengths of this approach are it is a first approach to conceptualize and create a structure of the process of leadership around skills. Since it describes leadership in terms of skills, it makes leadership available to everyone. It provides an expansive view of leadership that incorporates wide variety of components (i.e., problem-solving skills, social judgment skills) and it also provides a structure consistent with leadership education programs. Some criticisms of the Trait Approach are breadth of the skills approach appears to extend beyond the boundaries of leadership, making it more general/less precise. It is weak in predictive value; does not explain how skills lead to effective leadership performance. The skills model includes individual attributes that are trait-like (Northouse, 2007, p. 55).