Leadership: Qualities, Styles and Areas of Improvement

Running head: LEADERSHIP
Leadership
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LEADERSHIP
Introduction:
Leadership can be defined that the capacity of people to lead others towards achievement
of a predetermined targets. As per Putra (pg 85-96) mentions that leaders have certain qualities
like focus, self-confidence, motivation and management which enable them to lead their
subordinates towards attainment of goals. Williams mentions that decision making quality is one
of the most important qualities of leaders which enable them to lead their followers. The leaders
follow different styles of leadership depending upon situations to lead their subordinates like
participative leadership styles and transformative leadership styles. The leaders require to assess
their leadership skills and develop new skills to be able to lead their subordinates successfully.
Areas of leadership strengths and areas of improvements:
The leader’s survey shows that the leader under study follows several leadership styles
like transformational leadership style, transactional leadership style, management by exception
and laissez faire. However, his leadership style in general exhibits transformational leadership
styled. As far as leadership qualities are concerned, the leader under question exhibits four
qualities. The first quality is transparency in relationship with the team members. This can be
aligned with the transformational leadership style and transactional leadership style which are
followed in the team. The survey shows that the leader maintain strong relationship with the
team members which helps him to lead his team efficiently. The leader also exhibits high degree
of moral strength which means he is very strong ethically. The survey also shows that the
balanced processing and self-awareness are the two other qualities the leader possess. However,
as far as the survey is concerned, he shows a very low score on self-awareness
(Yahaya and Fawzy pg 190-126). The leader is required to improve his self-awareness by
attending self-awareness courses and reading articles, books and journals on the subject. The