LEADERSHIP TRAITS AND OPPORTUNITY

Running head: LEADERSHIP TRAITS
Leadership Traits
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note:

1
LEADERSHIP TRAITS
Table of Contents
1. Introduction..................................................................................................................................2
2. Literature Review........................................................................................................................2
3. Discussion and Evaluation of the Leadership Traits...................................................................4
4. Conclusion...................................................................................................................................6
References........................................................................................................................................7

2
LEADERSHIP TRAITS
1. Introduction
Leadership traits refer to the qualities, present in a leader that are required for inspiring
people to do things that they never thought they could. These traits mainly include
accountability, resilience, positivity, influence, integrity, empathy and vision. Good
communication skills are extremely important attributes or skills for a leader and different
characteristics are responsible for building the most efficient leader. It also has a great impact on
the lives of others on the basis of insights and experiences. Nichols (2016) has mentioned in his
journal of “What do people desire in their leaders? The effect of leadership experience on desired
leadership traits” that there is a specified effect of leadership experience on the expected
leadership traits. This report will be summarizing the above mentioned article with proper
description.
2. Literature Review
According to Nichols (2016), experience of leadership majorly impacts the overall value
that leaders eventually place on the major traits of leadership. He has determined whether these
individuals with specific variation of leadership are experiencing deferential desire
characteristics that are associated to cooperation and dominance. A proper methodology or
approach is being applied in this article, in which different participants reported the subsequent
significance of cooperative and dominance behaviors for any particular ideal leader and then
reported several roles for leadership, being experienced by them. The subsequent interest of
these associated leadership attributes have reduced since leadership experience has incremented,
however only for women.