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Equip Yourself and Your People with the Right Leadership Attributes



Leadership attributes of the right kind will go a long way in helping people in authority bring management and people together to achieve greater success.

Your organization needs corporate leaders having such leadership characteristics.

What is Meant by Leadership Attributes
This refers to the leadership qualities or leadership traits that make a good and effective leader.

"Attribute" means quality, characteristic, trait or value.


Qualities of Good Leadership
Here we are talking about values that a leader must have.

"The Six Essential Leadership Attributes (2005)," by John Di Frances are:

  1. Setting high standards;
  2. Living your standards and Mentoring those who follow;
  3. Creating and sharing a Vision;
  4. Making the hard choices when necessary;
  5. Being visible and out front, and
  6. Instilling hope in those who follow.

Greg Roworth lists seven attributes that a leader must have to develop a business. These are:

  1. Vision that drives the leader;
  2. Entrepreneur that creates the business;
  3. Inspires others to achieve the vision;
  4. Sets standards of performance;
  5. Orchestrator of methods to organize business well;
  6. Understands and motivates people, both employees and customers; and
  7. Measures results to determine progress in achieving results.

But to Howard Putman, there are ten attributes of leadership, namely:

  1. Honesty and integrity;
  2. Passion;
  3. Vision;
  4. Excellent listener;
  5. No arrogance, ego or exclusion;
  6. Embrace change;
  7. International mentality withe referrence to diverse cultures and thinking cross functionally;
  8. Grasp for the value of technology;
  9. Education and experience, and
  10. People leader and flexible thinker.


Shirland Carrington lists eleven attributes as being critical to leadership development.

  1. Unwavering courage;
  2. Self-control;
  3. A keen sense of justice;
  4. Definiteness of decision;
  5. Definiteness of plans;
  6. The habit of doing more than paid for
  7. A pleasing personality
  8. Sympathy and understanding
  9. Mastery of detail;
  10. Willingness to assume full responsibility; and
  11. Cooperation.

Three of them list "Vision" as an attribute indicating the comparative importance of having a leader with clear vision of the organization.


There are even leadership attributes required when interviewing people.

Here, Herrera pays attention to "The Seven Attributes of Leadership."

  1. Solidarity
  2. Modesty
  3. Self-confidence
  4. Initiative
  5. Creativity
  6. Passion, and
  7. Symbolism

There are many leadership attributes that are similar or convey the same meaning or are intended to achieve the same goals.

Even if there are differences the objectives is the same. This is help develop people to become better leaders.

Corporate leaders of the right attributes are sought for by serious organizations.


Leadership Skills Improvement
As a person in a position of authority, you need to learn to become a more effective leader in whatever field you are involved in. Make the effort to attend the right training.

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