The other day I was reading an article on most important Leadership Traits and got stuck with this excellent words by Jack Welch, former chairman and CEO of General Electric Co., "Good
business leaders create a vision, articulate the vision, passionately
own the vision and relentlessly drive it to completion."
The trend of the forthcoming business world shows an impressive impending requirement of Strong Leaders with deeply rooted value system and precise clarity of knowledge and proven skill set and expertise. With the ever increasing number of Business Schools in India and all over the world, the human resource market has almost become like a fish market. Every B Schools are trying to sell their MBAs and make money out of it. All these students are a product or better to say a blend of Product and Service. They are the product of the B Schools and they are expected to provide a certain level of service to the company which recruits them. But are they all really ready to board the ever dynamic biz ship? Are they ready to lead the others or they are just stagnant followers?
A Leader is fundamentally supposed to inspire and motivate others, be it someone in her own team or someone outside her team, to visualise the same vision and goal aspect of the team or the organization as a whole and to give their best to achieve the same. A Leader could be found or nurtured to sprout out the necessary qualities. But the deep sense of sincerity is a must for the candidate to have, to realize her responsibilities and how is she expected to behave towards her team members/ followers.
There are some points and parameters which we need to consider coming to a decision viz. Competency, Dedication, Magnanimity, Humility, Openness, Creativity, Fairness and Assertiveness. Even a ‘Good Sense of Humour’ is as important as the other aspects. Other than that a never back down attitude is very much required. We look upon those leaders who has an exemplary intrinsic character and who inspires or ignites the same kind of zeal in us when we interact with her.
A leader is expected to have the Go getter and “Nothing is Impossible” attitude. Most of all a leader is supposed to inspire, and seed in the confidence and ambition aspect in her team members. A true leader does not only set an example in front of her team members, she does the same for those who are even outside her organization or professional circle. She needs to be a wholesome package of Skill and Value.
Communication skill and interpersonal skill is the human resource handling aspect of a leader. She is supposed to share the vision or the organization and mission of the team and inspire the whole team to pulsate at the same frequency level - be it ideas, or energy or approach! This comes only when she has complete knowledge about each and every member of her team. She must know every member both at a personal level and obviously at a professional level. She has to have complete confidence and certain level of trust about their skill and capabilities. Continuous knowledge flow and idea sharing is the only way for an excellent leader to build her team a very competent and performing one.
Last but not the least, a leader is the one who is emotionally stable and balanced as a person. It many happen sometime when the leader herself does not know the way out of some crucial issue. And she might be desperately trying to find a proper and effective solution to the same. As a leader she really cannot open up to her team members that she herself is at loss. Because no body wants a leader lost in deep soup. So she has to keep the confident facade on all the time and have to maintain her calm even when her team mates are in fact doubting her ways.
The websites I was mentioning are
http://www.comparebusinessproducts.com/briefs/top-10-leadership-qualities
http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/204248
http://www.nsba.org/sbot/toolkit/LeadQual.html
http://www.groco.com/readingroom/bus_goodleader.aspx
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