Being a good leader

I totally agree with you. Not all men are born leaders. It takes training but others are just so good at it. Leading a team is a difficult task. I'm having the same issue with our current team leader now. He doesn't seem to know how to handle his team. He's not often visible in the office. He comes to work everyday but doesn't normally show his self to us. He's not trasparent and one thing I dislike about him the most is his negative attitude. Everytime you ask him something or propose something to him if it's possible for him to cascade it to upper management for approval he just tells you it's not possible without him giving it a try. It's really frustrating. We tend to conflict a lot. Well not just me but to my other teammates too. He knows most of the people in our team do not like him... hahaha! But seriously, having a bad leader can sometimes deter your enthusiasm for work or even your eagerness to go to work. Sometimes, I think he's not for the people. I'm not looking for a lenient leader but someone who you're confident that will stand by you in terms of goals. Talking about motivation, he doesn't even talk to us or keep us up-to-date about our performances or the things that we need to focus more to perform in our job well. If you ask him about your performance he'll just tell you that there's nothing to worry and that everything is okay. He can't give specific or detailed answers so we'd be at least aware of our performance in the team and if we can qualify for some performance appraisal. It's frustrating indeed! hahaha! I think I've said a lot already. hahaha! :D

I agree with you 100%. These are all great characteristics of a good leader. A good leader will want everyone on board with their goals. If everyone is on board with the same goal, there will be much success within the team as well as the goals that are wanted and needed within the team. Every good leader will lead by example and expect no less of him/herself.

Personally, for many people being a good leader is not easy. Many times there are a lot of people out there that can do wonderful jobs with things by themselves, but when it comes to being a leader they are not sure where to start. I work with one or two that are like this, and personally sometimes, I feel that they are just afraid to really take charge like they want too. Afraid of what others might think or say.

I personally believe leaders are born and not made. Great leaders like Hitler and Subash chandra Bose, had inherent qualities to control others and carried an air of charasma. Hitler despite him being short statured literally ruled the world.Yes honesty and the willingness to take risk are the two main quality a leader should possess. I hate to call today's politicians as leaders because they just dont fit the definition of a true leader

I'm not a good leader. Yet, I've often found myself in leadership roles, class president, organization and fraternity head at university, and project team leads at work. I am a good follower though. And when I see that nobody steps up, or that the prevailing leadership does not work, I often step in. And I just use the traits of a good follower as a style in my leadership.

A good leader needs to be a good follower too. The leader is a very essential position to make the team works in unison. It could be in actions and through words, a leader knows how to be a good listener and sensitive to the needs of other people.

I have taught in colleges, universities for over 40 years, about 15 years as Principal, so it was kind of administrative job, all say i was a good leader. Thanks for sharing the qualities.

I agree with you in this reagards and I also want to add to this that TRUE leader should treat every member of their team as same and should extend equal help and guideline without doing any discrimination

Good leader always comes through experience, Great attitude,supporting co-workers,gives values to time and smart way to solving the problems.

Hi dainy. You are right about all those qualities of a good leader. But as a leader the most difficult thing to do is to be unbiased and leave selfishness out. It is very difficult to make unbiased decisions. Also even if it goes against one's ego, he/she has to compromise for the sake of team. Only those who are capable of doing that can become a good and efficient leader. Anyways have a nice day ... ~=SuperShames=~

To become a Good Leader i think following below point is must important...... 1) Always say "We" not "I". Because you are working as a team. 2) Motivate your Co-worker. 3) Encourage team member before starting any task. 4) Listen the problem of team member and try to solve it first. Stop all your task and try to solve that problem first. 5) Be confident about what you say in-front of your team member because if you are not confident than your team member will not response you well. 6) Be friendly with your team member. 7) Help them in their problem whether it's a personal or official. 8) Treat your team member as good as possible. 9) Also put some restriction between you and your team member. 10) Whenever some mistake happen with them try to solve them politely and make them understood how to get away from that problem so that he can't make same mistake again rather than to scold him. Thanks.

a leader, to be such, must have at its disposal a close-knut gruup, must be able to respect and be respect, listen to his team and consider their opinions. a leader must always be himself and never mount the heand wanting be superior to others, the gruop recognizes the leader when it has demonstrated that it can do. be a leader not become you, but the group arraund you

i am a leader who in charge of HR team.It is not easy to leader people from different generations,especially those who elder than you.Being a leader,i always suffer great pressure from my upper boss.In a word,to be a leader needs courage and skill.