What It Takes To Be A Great Leader

Good leadership helps businesses, societies and even countries become better, and barely anything is more important to human action than having authority in place. Good leadership helps businesses become much more fruitful, it helps countries achieve more GDP, and even helps societies move forward thereby ending stagnation.

However, without administration or leadership, associations move too gradually, stagnate, and lose their direction.

Composed, farseeing, visionary, gallant are words which have been used to describe leadership qualities, and they are not far from the main meaning of what leadership entails. However, it is not enough for a person to be all of this without being an action taker. It is also not enough to have these qualities without having a team made up extraordinary people who are as passionate as the brand as you are.
What are the characteristics then that allow you to draw in intrinsically motivated staff and keep them.

They include:
Character;
Vision;
Enthusiasm;
Correspondence

1. Character:
Without character, one cannot even begin to embody the qualities of a leader. This is because your intrinsic character qualities and constraints assume your basic authority style. Finding out if you already have the character for a leadership position, depends on the evaluation of your personal SWOT analysis ie Strengths, Weakenesses, Opportunities which your strengths present to you and Threats which your weaknesses expose you to.

2. Vision:
As a leader, you should always find a way to convey your organization’s vision to the people who work for you. This first starts by you figuring out what exactly is the vision of the organization.

3. Enthusiasm:
It is not enough to be visionary without being enthusiastic. Your enthusiasm is always communicated to your subordinates and they would reflect it. You need to always inspire your team, “light a fire in their guts” so they can feel the energy and mirror your vision.

4. Correspondence:
As a leader, effective communication skills are one of the most important skills to have and it takes practice. Great leaders keep the staff abreast of changes or updates to happen and are very accessible to the staff. They also hold regular gatherings to ensure that the staff knows about the status of tasks.

The following are quotes by great leaders on what it takes to be a leader.

“No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself, or to get all the credit for doing it.” – Andrew Carnegie

“Outstanding leaders go out of their way to boost the self-esteem of their personnel. If people believe in themselves, it’s amazing what they can accomplish.” – Sam Walton

“Don’t find fault, find a remedy.”- Henry Ford

“Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm.” – Publilius Syrus

“Successful leaders see the opportunities in every difficulty rather than the difficulty in every opportunity.”- Reed Markham

“To lead people, walk behind them.” – Lao Tzu

“You don’t lead by pointing and telling people some place to go. You lead by going to that place and making a case.” – Ken Kesey

“A man who wants to lead the orchestra must turn his back on the crowd.” – Max Lucado

“The best leader is the one who has sense enough to pick good men to do what he wants done, and the self-restraint to keep from meddling with them while they do it.” -Theodore Roosevelt

Do you know any leadership quotes which you really like? Drop them in the comment section below!