Traits of Leader
Some sit and pontificate on whether leaders are made or born.
The real leader ignores such arguments and instead focuses on developing the
leadership qualities necessary for success. The shorter period you’ve to spend
to persuade others to follow you, the more time you’ve to spend refining
exactly where you wish to go and how to arrive there. The five leadership
traits\/leadership qualities are: Honest – Forward Looking – Competent –
Inspiring – Intelligent – These five qualities come from Kouzes and Posners on
the leadership that was done for the book The Leadership Challenge. Your
ability to expose these five leadership qualities is strongly related to
people’s desire to follow along with your lead.
Exhibiting these traits will inspire confidence in your
leadership. Not exhibiting these traits or exhibiting the opposite of those
traits will diminish your leadership influence with those around you. It’s
significant to exhibit, model and display these traits. Simply possessing each
trait isn’t enough, you’ve to display it in a manner that individuals notice.
People want to see that you actively demonstrate these leadership qualities and
won’t just assume that you’ve them. For instance, simply because you’re not
dishonest won’t cause individuals to recognize that you’re honest. Just
avoiding displays of incompetence won’t inspire the same confidence as truly
displaying competence.
The focus of every of those five traits needs to be on what
individuals see you do not just the things they do not see you do. Being
sincere is not a question of not lyingit is taking the extra effort to show
honesty. Honesty as a Leadership Quality – People want to follow a sincere
leader. Years ago, many employees started out by assuming that their leadership
was sincere just since the authority of their position. With modern scandals,
this is no longer true. Whenever you begin a leadership position, you need to
assume that individuals will think you’re a little dishonest.
Individuals won’t assume you’re sincere just because you’ve
never been caught lying. Probably the most frequent places where leaders lose
the opportunity to display honesty is in handling mistakes. Much of a leader’s
job is to try new things and perfect the ideas that do not work. Nevertheless,
many leaders want to avoid failure to the degree that they do not admit when
something didn’t work. There was a medium size organization which was
attempting to move to a less centralized structure. In the same time, they were
planning an expansion for headquarters to accommodate more clients at the main
site. The smaller remote offices were heralded as a way to reach more clients
at a lower cost and cover more demographics areas. After spending a significant
amount of cash on a satellite location, it became clear that the cost structure
wouldn’t support a separate smaller office.