MN7185 - Concept of Qualities of Leadership

Leadership is having the ability to convince others to route defined goals enthusiastically. It motivates to lead toward the goal. It will be the main factor of an organization or a company to reach their success. As a basic definition leader can be defined as a person that someone can influence and who has managerial authority. The final leadership objective will be to achieve the final goal.

According to Stephen Robbins, "Leadership is the ability to influence a group towards the achievement of goals.” According to L.P. Alford and H.R. Beatty - "Leadership is the ability to secure desirable actions from a group of followers voluntarily without the use of coercion."

Qualities of Leadership

Certain qualities should possess with the Leaders while influencing and receive the top results from the followers. Different professionals have recommended varied qualities of leadership as Personal Qualities and Managerial Qualities.

Personal Qualities

1. Self-Confidence: Real leader necessary to have self-confidence and strong will power while being enthusiastic and cheerful in case of obstacles will create trust on his dependents.

2. Flexibility: Flexible attitude should possess where a decision or a view should be prepared to alter or change at any given time if required.

3. Take Lead and Initiative: in some issues at uncertainties and complexities, which requires to take decisions promptly while possessing a quality of imagination, creative abilities, and courage to face realities confidently and peacefully.

4. Dynamic Personality: Charming and cheerful personality should possess having strong, good health and cool temper

5. Intellectual Capacity: A leader should be intelligent than his followers and should have the ability to think logically analyze the situation accurately and understand the problems clearly. An intellectual capacity is very vital to be a good leader.

6. Vision and Foresight: Able to anticipate or visualize the probable trends and develop own policies and programs with foresight. Required sound judgment and the ability to take the right decisions at right time.

7. Sense of Responsibilities: should able to bear the burden of all his decisions upon himself and should be dependable so that the subordinates can trust him.

8. Character: Should be a strong character of a leader to set an example before the followers while maintaining traits like honesty, loyalty, and personal integrity and actions and attitudes should be morally justifiable to create confidence among followers.

Managerial Qualities

1. Technical Knowledge: High sound in technical competency in the job and organization where the ability to take the right decisions on different matters. While having good technical knowledge, followers can be guided.

2. Situational Adaptation: Leaders should adapt to the dynamic and rapid changes in the environmental.

3. Motivation Skills: Leaders motivational skills will make followers active towards the work while having knowledge of the needs of subordinates which can apply motivated techniques appropriately.

4. Effective Communication: should maintenance of two-way communication system with followers having free to exchange views freely without interruptions which helps on decision-making where It is an essential characteristics of the leader .

5. Human Relations: A Leader should be social while having the ability to influence and manage followers. Work can be done effectively if having a good relationship between subordinates. Win the confidence and the loyalty of people inspired and motivated.

6. Power of Judgment: Power of judgment and ability to take the right decision at the right time. It depends on one’s self-confidence and self-control while having quality judgment whether the decision made by him is correct or not.

 (Sharma, et al., 2011)

References

Sharma, P., Shrestha, A., Pant, H., Gautam, I., Thapa, R. B., & Upadhyay, P. (2011). Buddha Publication.