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LEADERSHIP TRAITS

LEADER

A leader has to achieve the goals with objectives as well as emotions balancing the team's need. The common activities of a leader are planning, organizing, directing and commanding.

There are number of different leadership styles, the best leaders share some common traits.

Peterson and Plowman presented 18 traits based on physical qualitiespersonal attributescharacter attributes intellectual attributes.

Among the 18 traits I feel these 5 are top rated

1.Ability to inspire2.Intigrity3.Self-discipline4.Ability to teach others5.Scientific approach to the problems

ABILITY TO INSPIRE

The ability to inspire the people is the skill that improves the performance of the subordinates and reaches the success.

The inspirational leaders feel passionately about the vision and mission of the organization. He has to inculcate that passion into the coworkers in a way that even they have to feel passionate.

INTIGRITY

Integrity is the most important trait a leader has to possess. In any organization a leader has to lead the subordinates towards the success.

A leader is the role model for the group to which he has to influence. And he has to model the group’s behavior towards success.

This is why he has to maintain high standards of character and integrity in on and off the duty. Without the integrity a leader can never gain the respect and built confidence of subordinates in the organization.

SELF-DISCIPLINE

The common trait in the successful people is self-discipline Discipline is a fundamental element in obtaining goals, dreams and desire.

Any person building an organization, Self-discipline is must. We have to constantly believe in our purpose. Discipline keeps us going when times are tough and it makes the bad times easier to get through.

Having discipline means being very structured in our approach to reach our goal. Discipline sometimes requires some sacrifice to reach the end goal.

ABILITY TO TEACH OTHERS

Teaching is not primarily telling. It’s helping other people learn. That means the focus is on the learners, not the teacher. Teaching is a skill which involves five basic steps: PreparationExplanationDemonstrationPracticeApplication

SCIENTIFIC APPROACH TO THE PROBLEM

A leader should have scientific approach to the problem this is most effective in developing skill in employing the science processes.

There are five methods to be followed for scientific approach :

*Sensing and defining the problem

*Formulating hypothesis

*Testing the likely hypothesis

*Draw Conclusion

*Report Results

CONCLUSION

There may be some leaders who may fail even if they follow these traits; the truth is there no magic combination of characteristics that makes a leader successful because they vary up on the different circumstances.

This doesn’t mean that one cannot be a good leader. He has to understand various approaches to leadership, so that he can know the right approach to good leader.

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