Leadership Traits

Leadership Traits
2019
Student’s Name
7/4/2019

Leadership traits 1
Introduction
The concept of leadership focuses on influencing the behaviour of the members to achieve
the goals of the organization. The leaders motivate the members towards the vision of the
company. The leader performs in the key role in four-step project life cycle .i.e. from
initiation to closure. The success of the project depends upon the characteristics and traits of
leaders (Dess and Picken, 2001)
Traits and characteristics of leaders
The characteristics that help in measuring the effectiveness of the leaders include the ability
to manage their emotions and awareness about the strengths and weakness. The self-
managing quality will allow the leader to effectively plan and execute the strategies. The
leader must be open-minded and a forward thinker to handle the uncertain complexities and
allows the leader to make the best strategic decisions. The leader has good communication
skills to effectively interact with the members and able to bring clarity in the roles and the
responsibilities (Kissi, Dainty and Tuuli, 2013). The leader must have the quality of inspiring
its workforce and promotes teamwork by collaborating the efforts and should be able to
create long lasting relations with the employee to effectively manage the complexities and
drives innovation in the organization. The leader must have the quality of empathy under
which it develops long term relations with the employees. The qualities under the
transactional style of leadership .i.e. ability to motivate and creates a positive working culture
will help with the successful implementation of the phases of life-cycle. The transparency of
the leader and engagement of employees in the decision making will allow motivating the
employees and effectively achieving the vision of the organization (Mir and Pinnington,
2014).