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Having a great idea and finding a skilled team to bring your concept to life is the basic step in creating a successful organization. The ability to masterly execute this idea is what separates the dream from reality. At this moment arises a need in a good leader. One of the writers of “Forbes” defines leadership as a “process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal” (Kruse, par. 11). Great leaders are required in any type of organizations - right from setup of a small team to do a group project to run a huge international corporation. But how do we determine who a good leader is? Are there any specific qualities that make people successful leaders?
There is a huge discussion on set of qualities that make up a successful leader. Those qualities can vary depending on organization, team and work environment. First of all, leader should be extraverted, agreeable, conscientious, and emotionally stable and open to a new experience; all those behavioral traits predict that person has a good foundation to become a successful leader. However, though these qualities is not enough to become a truly good leader such as level 5 executive (Collins, par. 5). According to Rachael Fisher-Layne, there are 5 qualities of a good leader “Honesty, focus, passion, respect and excellent persuasion ability” (Farrell par. 6-10). Darcy Eikenberg stated that only 3 qualities are necessary to become a successful leader, those are “Confidence, clarity and care” (Farrell, par. 11-13). Mike Sprouse was confident that skills like “Humility, empowering, collaborative, communicative and fearlessness” are the basics of leader’s success (Farrell, par. 19-23).Tom Armour was sure that good leader can’t survive without “integrity, compassion, shared vision and actions, engagement and celebrations” (Farrell, par. 14-18). On the other hand, “justice, courage, temperance, accountability, humanity, transcendence, judgment” are also important to the character of a good leader (Crossan, Gandz and Seijts, par.19). Even though everyone has his own vision of a good leader, several qualities are repeated. Those qualities are humility, collaboration, clarity, passion, communication, responsibility, confidence and honest judgment.
• Humility is an essential quality of a Level 5 leader that equalizes him with the employees. “True leaders have confidence but realize the point at which it becomes hubris” (Farrell, par. 19). Humility is the quality of a leader which distinguishes the whole organization from good to great (Collins, par. 6).
• Collaboration. “It is essential for leaders to form effective teams, to cooperate with others, and to work collegially” (Crossan, Gandz, Reno and Seijts par. 14). Great employer should be able to organize the work of the organization in a way that every worker feels himself a part of process. It could be achieved through “offering new challenges, seeking for the ideas and contributions providing them with recognition for their contributions’’ (Farrell, par. 17).
• Clarity. First of all, there should be clarity in a goal setting: all the employees should clearly know what they are working for, how they will achieve the goal and what will be their reward. Also leader should clearly know ‘‘who [he is] and what is the most important to [him]’’ (Farrell, par. 12). Usually leaders fail when they try to become ‘‘all things to all people, or try to do too much of their area of excellence. Clarity helps [him] say ‘yes’ to the right things and ‘no’ to others’’ (Farrell, par. 12).
• Passion is a strong feeling of enthusiasm or excitement for the work you are doing. Occupation that brings person satisfaction is the good source of motivation. So, if the worker enjoys what he is doing, it’s unlikely that he will perform poorly. Passion often inseparable from the drive, which is very important for a leader, because it shows his initiative to participate in the work and determination to reach the goal (Crossan, Gandz, Reno and Seijts, par. 12). Leader should be able to ‘‘put the mission and the goals of the organization ahead of [his] own self-interest’’ (Kruse, par. 10).
• Communication. Proper communication style with the subordinates is a foundation of a favorable working environment. True leaders share their vision and actions with their coworkers (Farrell, par. 16, 22). Employer should not only share his ideas, but also be willing to listen about the demands and proposals of the subordinates. Also leaders with a developed communication skills are good in persuasion and stimulating others to hight performance. Effective persuasion makes workers believe in employer’s creditability and their own importance (Farrell par. 10). The accurate feedback and timely recognitions positively affect workers’ performance and stimulate them to the further challenges.
• Responsibility. An executive should be responsible for his employees. According to the concept of ‘‘The Window and the Mirror’’, window stands for the external factors being a cause of different events and the mirror shows that everything happens just because of the boss (Collins, par. 4). Usually people blame others for the failure and give a credit for themselves for success. However, the great leader should be able to take responsibility for company’s failure and and be willing to promote subordinates for its success. Some of the leaders want to develop sense of responsibility in their subordinates and give them empowerment. Empowerment makes people responsible for the results of their decisions.
• Confidence is a leader’s feeling that the group can perform well and succeed in achieving the goal. Confidence works perfectly with an ability to persuade people because an employer should be able to persuade his subordinates that they are doing the right things which will lead to the company’s success.
• Ability to judge honestly. Judgement has a central place in developing leader’s character because it balances all his other qualities and determines what is ‘’right’’ and what is ‘’wrong’’ (Crossan, Gandz, Reno and Seijts, par. 22). Leader should objectively evaluate the performance of each employee; he is not allowed to set priorities over employes, everyone should be equal in terms of honest assessment.
‘‘Some elements of character, especially basic personality traits, are inherited’’ other qualities that were described above could be developed in leader throughout the entire life (Crossan, Gandz, Reno and Seijts, par. 25). Of course, person who has inborn predisposition to become a leader has shorter pass to success but it doesn’t mean that person without proper qualities can not become a great leader. So, all the necessary behavioral traits could be developed in a person in case we wants to become a successful leader.
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