Qualities of a Good Leader

The assignment examines the key qualities necessary for successful leadership. It highlights attributes such as innovation, patience, positivity, courage, flexibility, impartiality, confidence, and having a clear vision. The text delves into how these qualities contribute to effective leadership and positive team dynamics.

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Leadership Management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author note

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Part B 1
The experience that I have been proud of as a leader is when I was in my college days
and an annual event was conducted wherein my position was event manager. I had taken entire
responsibility of the event in an effectual approach, wherein there were five members were
working under me and I dispersed the tasks accordingly. However, there was a huge calamity
had taken place on the day of the main event. The four point DVD player stopped functioning,
this caused massive commotion with my whole team, and firstly I could not comprehend how to
handle the entire condition in an effectual manner.
However, I tried to handle the entire state of affairs effectively by engaging the audiences
in other activities. I tackled the circumstances by engaging them in performing different games
and activities. This helped me in managing the situation in an effective manner with my
leadership skills by being certain. I took decisions myself wherein I delayed the dance and
singing curriculum and started with the quiz and debate, as this did not make the public
uninterested.
With my decision-making capabilities, I tackled the situation and the audiences were
happy and interactive in nature. I gathered all the contestants who were taking part in the quiz
within ten minutes and arranged the entire competition within a short time. With my full
courage, I tried to scrutinize the situation and solved it with the assistance of my teammates by
organizing the entire event in a different manner. I tried to manage the entire circumstances in
such a manner that this helped me in understanding the different possibilities that can be applied
to avoid such situation. At first, I was petrified to handle the situation in an effective manner as

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the entire responsibility of the event was on me and I had the entire accountability to finish the
task, as there were special guests who were imperative for the entire company.
As a leader, I tried handling the situation in an effective manner that helped me in
tackling the folks in the event. I tried reaching the mechanic for coming to the spot and repairing
the DVD player as it is urgent, however it was a Sunday and the mechanic did not pick up my
call. Furthermore, I contacted one of my friends who were expert in handling the different issues
related to the repairing of the music system. Finally, I convinced my friend, he came down to my
college to mend and look into the faults that had taken place in the music system.
Finally, as a leader I was confident and proud enough as I solved the matter in a
successful manner. I was stress-free after the dilemma was sorted and I finished the function in a
good note. The whole program ended successfully and I was proud of myself as a leader I
performed well in leading the entire event in the college. As a result, I can comment that I have
the leadership quality in myself that I have able to manage the entire situation very effectively.
After that particular incident, I have seen that I have the leadership quality in me that is
required in different event programs that is held in colleges to make the event successful. I feel
due to my decision-making capabilities and confident nature, I have handled the situation in an
effective manner and this has brought huge success in my career as well as in the program that
has been organized by me in my college.
Part B 2
When I started my career, few years back as a team member with a respective
organization. In the respective company, I worked under a team leader who was well organized
and effectual as the leader and learnt different leadership qualities from the respective individual

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as well. After a few months, noticing and analyzing my performance, my team member
recommended me to the higher authorities in the organization. I was appointed as the team leader
of a respective team wherein around six members were working under me. I was working and
performing well as the leader and handled the entire team effectively and I understood the
different issues that have been faced by the members. I was excited to perform my tasks as the
leader in the organization and I felt that I would be successful in it as well.
On a particular day, a respective team member came up to me and asked a query that has
been faced by her regarding a task that has to be performed individually. I made her understand
the different areas that she could not understand and helped her with solutions. She came up to
me in order to understand the different concepts regarding the specific topic in an effective
manner. I was frustrated in nature as she was not able to understand the task properly and she
was doing it incorrect every time. I checked the entire task done by her and other team mates in
the group and understood that she did not understood the matter that has been explained by me.
However, the task that was performed by her was not up to the mark and I called her to my
cabin, shouted at her, and told her to get out from my cabin.
Furthermore, after sometime when I checked the task that has been performed by her, I
saw that she has followed the same directions that were provided by me. However, I felt that it
was my mistake that I told her the wrong concept for performing the task. I was guilty as I
shouted on her without any mistake committed by her. I have checked the task and understood
my faults as well that was corrected by me in an effective manner.
Later, I realized that I was wrong as shouting on her was not the solution of making the
stuff correct. I went up to her and apologized about my behavior. I was disappointed as I did not

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prove to be good leader and this is not expected from the team leader in any organization. I
remembered that when I was the team member and working under my team leader, he used to
make me understand the different issues that have been made by me. I realized my fault of
shouting at my team member who has contributed a huge amount of hard work in completing the
task with proper dedication. In my cabin, I tried to analyze the entire situation and understood
that I should make her and my entire team understand the different faults that has been done by
me.
However, that particular team member left the job and I was guilty as this was due to my
rude behavior that she has taken such steps to leave the job. Later on, I called her many times
and apologized to her about the rude behavior that I have done with her. However, she did not
return and from that day onwards I have promised myself that I will behave in a proper and
decent manner with all my team members as all of them are valuable and because of them, I am
able to perform my duties effectively and in an easy manner as well. I learnt that leadership
qualities are essential to be adopted by me as this helps in maintaining a balance between the
different employees in the workplace.
Part C
1. Ten leadership features that have been learnt by me are as follows:
Confidence
Proper vision
Responsible
Focus
Innovation

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Patience
Positivity
Courageous
Flexible
Impartial
There are different leadership features that has to be analyzed in such a manner that this
will help in understanding the effectiveness of the leaders in different fields.
a) Leader is someone who knows the approach, shows the way and goes that way
b) Leadership is not about designation or title
c) Leadership is not title or position; it is action or example
2.
Responsible is one of the characteristics that are required in order to understand the
requirements of the different team members. leaders should be able to handle different
conflict situations in an effective manner
Focus is essential in nature as the passion and focus is essential for a leader to understand
the issues faced by a team.
Innovation is another element that is required as this will help in generating innovative
strategies that will help the leader in maintaining cordial relationship between the
different employees and team mates

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Patience is essential in nature, as the good leader needs to identify the risks involved in
the task and handle it with patience. The patience level has to be high in a leader as there
can be unwanted risks at different point of times
Positivity is important in a good leader as this will help in innovating new ideas with
positive approach and solve issues in a positive manner
Courageous is another element, as the leaders need to take up different risks to manage
the activities of the team in an effectual manner.
Flexible is essential as a good leader needs to be flexible and adopt different situations in
a positive manner. They require to welcome new ideas and change
Impartial is essential in nature as good leaders are impartial in nature. They are unbiased
about their different opinions on others as this is necessary
Confidence is essential as this will help in providing confidence to the team mates in
such a manner that this will help in completing different difficult tasks in an effectual
manner
Proper vision is essential and it is required, as this will help leader in understanding the
tasks properly. The vision is required to analyze and complete the tasks within deadline

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