The Quality Of Leadership

In addition to the skills, leaders should possess main traits and qualities which would enable leaders in in accomplishing their goals. One of the key qualities of leaders is the integrity. Integrity means having strong values, beliefs, ethics, and great character that allows others to clearly identify by you (Downard). This quality helps leaders build lasting trust and loyalty among their followers which significantly help leaders in attaining their goals. Dishonesty, on the other hand, cannot be part of a leader’s quality and deceiving or cheating followers is not a sign of leaders. Leaders have a great responsibility for their followers, society and nations and integrity must be lifetime core value of leaders whose influence can exist for centuries and even after their deaths.

Emotional Intelligence is another key quality of leaders. Emotional Intelligence is ability of recognizing, understanding, controlling and evaluating the emotions of the self and others (Salovey and Maye). One of the characteristics of great leaders is that they are well aware of their leadership style. And the leaders are aware that how their style would influence the followers. Great leaders are concerned with identifying, understanding, and managing both their own emotions and emotions of others which is known as the emotional intelligence (Crossley). This quality outstandingly helps leaders in handling extremely tough and negative events. Dude to this quality, leaders will well aware of their own feelings and feeling of their followers. This will give a better understanding of who they are and what they feel as a leader and who their followers are and what they feel. Last quality of leaders is the commitment. Leaders do not quit but struggle for what he or she has decided to achieve. Leaders know well how to manage obstacles, dilemma or adverse situation and bring back things normal and obtain their