Leadership: Traits, Challenges, and Recommendations

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A manager who is likewise a leader is a resource for any organisation. Having the
capacity to oversee others, as well as to motivate them to work their hardest is an incredible
trademark for any supervisor to have. The initiative administration can utilise authority abilities
in an administration position. In general, they get to set goals, support, motivate, contribute as
team leaders and encourage teamwork for the organisation to be able to succeed. These leaders
always need to be alert at all times to be able to know what do at the right time because a wrong
action at a wrong time or even a right decision at a wrong time and vice verse could harm to the
company. Leadership is about an organisation’s management setting and achieving goals and
objectives, taking difficult and decisive actions, outperforming the competition, and making
other desire to perform well.
A few people may feel that it is unfeasible to be both a leader and a manager,
guaranteeing that they are two different employments. While on one hand managers are
responsible for completing work, being in charge, underscoring systems and principles, and
deciding. Leaders are cooperative individuals, working with others to accomplish objectives. Be
that as it may, by joining the two parts, it is conceivable to motivate representatives to beat
difficulties and increment efficiency, consequently achieving more work. Additionally,
representatives who feel like a piece of a group rather than subordinates will probably take after
standards and rules.
Leadership is one of the most complex phenomena. This is because it varies from one
individual to another. This has led to the presence of different concepts in regards to good
leadership (Vann,2014). Whereas some might say that a good leader is one who ensures that

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there is discipline in his team by being strict on them, other individuals argue that a good leader
is one who accommodates every team member and works with them on an equal playing field.
Some so many previous writers have tried to explain the different characteristics of a good
leader. All these writers have different views of a good leader, however; their different opinions
on the topic seem to converge on specific points of a great leader. They include having excellent
communication skills, being time cautious, hardworking and persistent. These are all the critical
values that leaders need to motivate their teams to higher success rates. Effective leadership
requires a leader who has strong character, which is, someone who exhibits honesty, integrity
and is trustworthy. Strong leadership involves clear communication skills; this leader should
speak and also listen to their staff members, empathise with the staff members at all times and
above all respond to questions and concerns without being biased. True leadership can foresee
where the company is headed to and plans the necessary processes and steps towards that. These
type of leaders are in a position to visualise the possibilities, trends in the industry and also risks.
They always take the necessary steps to be able to make sure the company is balanced and safe.
Lastly, there is the productive leadership, these type of leaders show optimism and provide
positive energy for the staff. Leaders should be able to find solutions to challenges and should
reassure and inspire their team even when things don’t go according to plan.
I interviewed one of the team leaders in a local startup company. The team leader was
quick to point out that being a leader required patience understanding and commitment. This
would be compounded by the extra skills in communication which would allow the leader to be
able to give instructions to his team but also motivate them when the results are not going the
way they had expected. The leader I talked to described leadership as a process of guiding a
group of people towards the achievement of a specific goal. The leader was quick to point out