Tuesday 25 November 2014

Are You A Leader?

Good Evening everyone, today I would like to post about leadership. Leadership is one of the most important characteristics that we must have in order to lead others to a good way. Especially students where they have to learn to gain this characteristic that very essential for their future. So, lets us look into more detail on what is leadership is actually about.


Definition- Leadership is the ability to inspire support and confidence among the people who are needed to achieve company goals.

KEY LEADERSHIP TRAITS TO DEVELOP

An important part of being an effective leader is to have the right stuff. Here, I would like to post about personal attributes that help a person lead others in many situations.
Five Key Leadership Traits- People who possess the traits listed below are usually well suited  to being an effective leader. However, many other traits and behaviors are also important contributors to effective leadership.

Self-Confidence and Leadership Efficacy

As a leader, one must have confidence in themselves as well as on others too. Besides, a leader should be confident on what he/she had planned and what he/she going to do next with. This will reflect the leadership in them and also this will build a confident on other people too. Leadership efficacy is that is a form of efficacy associated with confidence in the knowledge, skills, and abilities valuable for with leading others. You also can appear more self-confident to the group by using definitive wording, maintaining good posture, and making appropriate gestures such as pointing an index finger outwards.

Trustworthiness and Morality

Trust, is an important element where every leader should have in order to lead a group. No matter what, a leader have to tell or inform the followers of what is going on and what going to happen next. By telling them the truth, the respect for the leader will be increasing day by day instead of being no change at all. Besides, a leader also must have moral values in them. This for example, treating the group members fairly, talk politely, manage the problems in an organized way without hurting anyone.

Sense of Humor

Sense of humor is also one of the fundamental factor that a leader should own. Leaders usually able to entertain others by telling some jokes in their communication, but make sure that your jokes does not hurt or annoy anyone. Besides, humor also helps the leader dissolve tension and boredom as well as defusing hostility.

Emotional Intelligence

Emotional intelligence refers to the ability to recognize your emotions and those of people around you. Where, emotional intelligence also refers to being able to work effectively with the emotions of others to resolve problems, including listening and empathizing. Emotional intelligence can be developed via working on some of its components. It is also important to develop the habit of looking to understand the feelings and emotions of people around us.

Self-sacrificing Personality

A leader must have this characteristic, where he/she willing to sacrifice their own needs in order to satisfy other people’s needs. A leader should be open-minded and able to accept others opinion before interrupt it. Self-sacrificing personality is the tendency to be more concerned about the welfare and interests of others than those of oneself.  The self-sacrificing leaders are sometimes called as a servant leader because his/her primary focus is to serve the groups.

This are the traits or characteristics to be a good leader. I am pretty sure, if we own these characteristics in our lives, we able to lead a group. Hope everyone benefits this post. Thank You .

      Characteristics to become a leader

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