“I suppose leadership at one time meant muscles; but today it means getting along with people” - Mahatma Gandhi
A leader is one who influences other people around him and supports to achieve a task. Leadership qualities helps in organizing a group of people to bring productive results. There are many great leaders who have created history and they would have followed their own style to achieve results.
In a organization, leading people is a major task and a leader should have profound qualities to deal with people. Some important qualities of a good leader are as follows.
Qualities of a good leader
Every organization needs a leader and to be more precise there is lot of difference between a manager and a leader. A manager is one who manages operations of a his department in a organization and a leader is one who takes decision and inspires people.
- A good leader is one who inspires people and make them realize their potentials lying dormant within them.
- He has strong personality traits like influencing people, maintaining integrity and honesty.
- A leader always motivates his followers or sub-ordinates to achieve work results.
- Being assertive is an important quality of a leader. They immediately act according to situations and they never hesitate in making decisions.
- A leader will show extreme dedication towards any task and supports his sub-ordinates to complete the group task.
- Being open minded and listening to followers and displaying humanity makes a good leader.
- A leader always has strong vision, ability to guide people and he can bring the best results.
Why Organizations need strong leader?
An organization may have many managers but should have a leader with leadership qualities to produce effective results. A manager can take care of operational activities but a leader is one who helps in maintaining good work force in the organization.
No organization can survive without a good leader. An organization always needs a leader with vision, action and commitment. When a strong leader assist his followers regarding a task, sure the accomplishment of the task will be also great and soon on time.
Whatever may be a it is important for an organization to have strong leaders because they are one who can nurture business and people.
