Your leadership traits will tell the manner in which you will lead your followers. Effective leadership traits will make that company successful. Leadership traits will convince voters, wins negotiations and overcomes objection. Leadership should have the potential to lead others to accomplish goals.

Leadership traits build excellence but do not command excellence. To achieve excellence, you should be a leader having good qualities. A leader must be of good character. Your leadership should honestly perform the tasks and set an example for his or her followers. The leader should set a goal for the organization and strive hard to achieve it. An important leadership trait of a good leader is the flexibility to changes without compromising his or her morale principles.

It should be most adaptive to any change in the organization. Leadership should be able to build to motivate and inspire the followers to reach common goals. Your leadership should keep on motivating the followers to accomplish the desired task. It should guide the followers in the right direction. Leadership should be such, that it energizes and activates the followers. It should develop enthusiasm and passion among its followers to achieve the desired goal. It should be aggressive and risk taking to accomplish certain tasks. 

It should be practical and be comfortable with criticism low Leadership should demonstrate a determination to achieve the required goal of the organization. Your leadership should instill sense of responsibility among your followers. It should train your employees as a team. Your leadership should ensure that job to be done by the employees is well understood and supervised. His or her leadership should be a source of enthusiasm. Your leadership should not be emotional and should not hesitate to take tough decisions. Your leadership should be tolerant and should handle stress and frustration effectively. Overall, a leader should have the maturity to handle anything in an organization.

It should have the dominance, positive attitude and assert ness to overcome any obstacles. It must be optimistic and should be open to any change. Your leadership should inculcate a soaring standard of excellence among its followers. It should make timely decisions. Leadership should be compassionate but should also take tough decisions at the right time. It should also listen to its followers patiently if they want to give any suggestion regarding the task allocated to them. Leadership should try to develop a friendly relationship with its followers. That is, it should develop a team spirit. It should have the self-confidence to guide anyone who is going wrong. It should be unaffected by failures or prior mistakes. It should always look out for the welfare of its employees and keep them well informed.

It should employ candidates according to its capabilities. Your leadership should take responsibility for your wrong actions. It should also seek self-improvement. It should also be technically profient. Your leadership should at times be offensive if your follower is not at all listening to you.  At times, it should arouse emotions to captivate and unite them to achieve the desired purpose.



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Introduction

 

An executive is only as effective as the leadership team she or he puts in place.  Whether you’re building a team from a clean start, or working with one you’ve inherited, your job is to evaluate that team and make sure they are able to work with you and carry out your agenda. 

 

This article provides valuable guidance on the most important roles on a leadership team.  Use it to your benefit!

 

Don’t Make the Biggest Mistake

 

When you’re putting together your leadership team, or evaluating the one you’ve inherited, watch out.  Most of us have a blind spot.  We really like it when we find leaders like ourselves.  We know we’ll get along with them.  We know they’re likely to agree with many of our ideas. 

 

After all, the only reason I need a leadership team is that there are too many people and too many tasks for me to oversee it all myself.  If I could clone myself that would be perfect, right?  Well the next best thing would be to find people just like myself to fill out the leadership team. 

 

Wrong! 

 

First of all, you don’t have all the answers.  Don’t believe that?  You need an ego check.  And if your leadership team consists of clones (or worse, sycophants) then they have the same limitations collectively, as you do individually. 

 

Second, there are roles to be played on any leadership team.  It’s possible and desirable for one person to fulfill more than one role.  It’s also desirable to have the same role be a strength for more than one person.  For example, it’s great if there are two or three people on a team who are all strong in customer relationship management. 

 

But if you stack the leadership team with people like yourself, then the team will be strong in your strengths, but magnified in your weaknesses.  (You do have weaknesses, don’t you?)

 

The 5 C’s

 

Let’s explore the roles on a leadership team.  I call them the 5 C’s.  I mentioned the first one above:

 

Customer Relationship Manager - If you’re leading a customer service organization this won’t be a problem.  But if you’re running an IT organization, as I have, this might be your biggest challenge!  I’ve met CIO’s with absolutely no customer skills at all.  They load up their “leadership team” with technology experts whose customer skills are worse than their own.  CEO’s and COO’s need to guard against letting this happen. 

 

Communicator - It’s a cliché, but that doesn’t mean it’s not true.  If you want to keep people on track, you need to keep communicating with them.  Leaders who know how to speak and write effectively are critical to your success.  Enough said.

 

Challenger - Executives who stack the leadership team with their own clones overlook the importance of the Challenger.  Whether you’re setting out a strategic plan or dealing with day to day tactics, there are decisions that the leadership team needs to make.  If they were easy decisions somebody else should have made them.  So you’re decision making responsibilities can’t be taken lightly.  The decision making process should involve debate and challenge.  You’ll want to time bound the discussion so you’re not paralyzed by debate.  That’s your job.  But if members of a leadership team don’t challenge one another, decision making is less effective.

 

Commando - You need a leader or two whose greatest strength is getting things done.  I was on a leadership team where this role was called the 800 pound gorilla.  We rolled it out when we were in trouble, or thought we were about to be in trouble.  The guy we relied upon for this role didn’t really care if anyone liked him (though he was, all in all, a very likeable guy).  He cut through the you know what and got people fired up and focused.  Big projects don’t always go smoothly, and distractions can really bog you down.  The commando gets you back on track.

 

Celebrator - I had a boss who called this person the Vice President of Fun.  He or she may not have the same scope of responsibility as others on the leadership team, but this person is constantly thinking of the employees.  The celebrator isn’t just about parties and recognition.  In this role you’ll want someone who people trust, who can let you know when you’re wearing people out or losing their support.  This is someone who can remind you and your leadership team that Susie deserves a pat on the back or the production team feels its concerns are being ignored.   This person helps you listen to your organization.

 

What’s your role on this leadership team?  Build it, and hold it together.  Help the people in the different roles appreciate one another’s strengths, since that may not come naturally to all of them.



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Organizational Leadership And Development

Leadership is the most sort after trait for people who are engaged any kind of a business venture. It doesn’t matter if it is a home based business or the regular office based business. Leadership must be shown for the business to take off and prosper. Sound business decisions must be made-this is only possible through good business leadership. In fact, leadership translates to achieving of all our business objectives through strategies which are neither complex nor controversial. These strategies must also be affordable. All those people who deliver in a smooth way are the true leaders. For a home based business to prosper, a person must show tried leadership abilities. These properties must be shown even before starting the home based business; otherwise it will be foolish to engage in any business venture if you can’t take the lead.

One thing about the leaders, they are the people who believes in collective responsibilities. Business leadership requires a broader understanding of what people or clients really wants. You zero in on this to make a business killing. This is also what is known as good business acumen. This is what is required for any person who wants to engage in any home based business. Before starting, you should be able ask yourself, is what I ‘m doing really what people wants? Is the service I’m offering the right type for the people I’m offering to? Anyway, leadership skills and traits have been examined and conclusively tagged as very unique.

Before you quit your present job to engage in a home based business you should have realized that your boss is really fond of your ability to collectively work with your departmental leadership in a participatory way. This is what is going to make your new business to take off. Without being able to participate in collective activities, your home based business is doomed to fail. The ability for your business to prosper depends on how you are going to deal with your clients, thus you must take the leadership helm to show you know what you are doing.

Thus it is of a paramount importance to understand leadership before you engage in any business. In fact, it is almost structural. Business or any leadership has various contexts. A leader could be a leader by default while another has attained leadership through promotions to a managerial position. The general outcome of a leadership is inversely proportional to both business growth and employee productivity. Bad leaders compel bad results, unhealthy working environment and unproductive employees. Good leadership inspires business growth, this does not matter if it is a home-based business or a corporate business, the results are the same, poor or good.

Bad leadership has brought many a businesses to their knees. It has caused millions of money to go to the drain due to mismanagement. Good leadership has constantly brought about rapid change in the face of many business enterprises. Business organizations with good leaders, report in huge profits while the opposite is often true. A good leader listens and participates in all business undertaking with their employees or clients. Furthermore, leadership is not about imposing or instilling fear in employees rather it is all about bringing and instilling hope, passion and the best aspects in everyone they come into contact with. What I am saying is- leadership is not a one man show but a collective, participatory and responsible undertaking to the benefit of any organization. This is also the key to a successive home based business. One should learn to participate in what they preach or engage themselves in. Doing this will see you safely on the sunny side of business life.





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Types Of Leadership Styles

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From making minor purchases to major purchases.
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