In one
way or the other, I may say everyone is a leader because situations do crop up
in our lives day in day out and we apply some of these leadership skills to
solve them carefully unawares. It therefore means that you must not be voted
into power or appointed to manage a firm before you are called a leader.
Everyone mindful of creating a family through marriage needs leadership
qualities to rule his or her home and this. To do this, one must start branding
him or herself each and every moment so as not to be taken by surprise or found
wanted when situations arise and they need to intervene skillfully.
The
following and some other more are the top qualities that make you a perfect
leader;
L- LOYALTY:
To be loyal
means to show consistency and firmness in one’s support for a person, organization,
country or anywhere applicable. The quality in loyalty is that, it makes you
serve with kindheartedness. Loyalty creates rooms for acceptance, good personal
relationship and self-respect, all which are needed in leadership.
Inconsistency in leadership is a very bad attitude and can lead to repeated
failure.
E- EXCELLENCE:
To excel means to be very good at something, performing exceptionally well
there. Excellent people make efforts to attain the peak of their pursuits
through what they know, think about and do. Mediocrity on the other side is to
accept the average as the ultimate. Leadership position in a group demands a
division of labour. For instance, at a firm, we have someone as a porter,
another person entrusted with publicity issue, someone also concerned about
administration, etc. Excellence in that state therefore means that you can do
very well at the very post you find yourself and you can do better than anyone
who might step in that shoe. A good leader does best where he finds him/herself.
A.- ASSERTIVENESS:
To be assertive means to be confident and passionate. The role of assertiveness
in role performance is that it the leader face difficult situations with
courage. In quest of managing multiple priorities, an assertive leader
delegates effectively and supervises perfectly. Melancholy has no room in the
mansions of a leader endowed with assertiveness. A leader with this quality can
fail though because of risk taking, but through failure, he learns from mistakes
and this contributes to the resultant excellence.
D-
DEDICATION:
A person is said to be dedicated when he devotes him/herself to a particular
task, subject or goal to fulfill a purpose. Dedication and loyalty go
hand-in-hand; loyalty provides the platform where dedication demonstrates. A
committed leader invests time, money and talent into what becomes a success as
last. In the presence of dedication, it is very difficult to give up. Giving up
is an indication of defeat, and winners are normal people who have not been
defeated at last. Personal dedication takes its source from the love for work
and the purpose being pursued.
E-
EXEMPLARY:
To be an example is to create and show a pattern of what you expect another
person to show or create. All leader are models and every model is expected to
teach through action, behaviour and speech. A leader must therefore have the
quality of being first what he wanted his followers to be. There is no need
being a pretender or a hypocrite in leadership. A good father teaches his
children through his actions and likewise a good mother because every little
step taken by these models would surely surface in the children. A good leader
thus does what he preaches.
R-
RESULT CONSCIOUS:
Follow the links below for various leadership articles:
Every step we take brings us a consequence, whether desirable or unwanted. The
whole scenario is like cultivation where every seed yields a fruit of its own
species. A good leader must be fully aware of this: - this is knowledge. Wisdom
which is another premier quality comes into play when the leader applies this
knowledge to prepare, plan, promote and pursue projects that will lead to the
fulfillment of purposeful results. A result-conscious leader is focused on an
outcome and generates skills to let this happen. If it will be by delegation or
in terms of resources management to meet expected goals, he does it perfectly.
A result-conscious leader does not sit down in order to celebrate a success
that is expected to arrive by chance.
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