The success of the leader is dependent on the leader’s ability to get results and motivate the team to willingly cooperate. This article looks at the important traits that a leader should develop to be successful.
Basic traits of successful leadership

Leaders are those members of the group that influence the activities of the group. If an individual in the group is perceived by the group as a means to the goal because of his personal characteristics like knowledge, skill, self-confidence, expert or anything else, then he is likely to emerge the leader. The successful leaders are assumed to possess more or less certain traits:-

a) Self confidence is foremost important quality of any successful leader.
b) He is liked by his follow men.
c) Possess technical knowledge about his field.
d) He is respected by his fellow men.
e) Acceptance by other group members.
f) He is flexible in nature, adjusts rapidly to changing conditions.
g) Has sensitivity towards feel for people.
h) Possess intellectual ability.
i) Has self-control, creativeness and administration qualities.
j) Possess foresight for the future, sees new opportunities, sees and acts on new opportunities.
k) Has human relations skill to motivate the group members and get them to work together.
l) Ability to do planning and administrate.
m) Receives loyalty and co-operation from other group members.
n) Has decision making ability.

Leadership is basically behavioral, situational or else related to the interaction of the leader and the group. It is not essential for all the successful leaders to possess every mentioned traits, but have a combination of certain essential traits to make them successful like-self confidence, motivation, decision making ability, goal-oriented, knowledge or anything else. The best method to examine leadership is by looking at bad and good leaders, and observes how they differ with each other in their traits. Good leaders are generally assumed to be member-oriented, accept suggestion from the group, rewards good work, maintain internal harmony and encourages participation of group in planning and goal setting.

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