Qualities of A Leader

Recently, reading Entrepreneur, I came across a quote from the Editor-in-Chief, Amy Cosper that definitely spoke to me. " Great leaders create great companies, and great companies have cultures that emphasize and reward excellence." In order to create anything great rather its company, a non profit, or even a community service project it must be lead. To be successful it needs to be lead by someone possessing great characteristics of a leader. For me there are several qualities that anyone planning to lead should posess. It's one thing to have people willing to follow your lead, but it's another to be able to know how to cultivate those people.

• Relationship Builder: A leader should be someone who is able to build personal and professional relationships. He/She knows how to network and make their  network grow and work for them.
• Trust. Leaders should be trust worthy.  Their employees, members, and etc should be able to trust their judgment in making decisions.  This person has a built-in great line of examples from daily life that exemplifies their behavior as a trustworthy individual. In addition, a leader has to be a trusting person.  He  has to be able to believe in the individuals on his team. He/she must believe they have built a team  that will help carry out the mission under many different circumstances.
• Respect.   A true leader earns respect by giving respect to all those around them. They are respectful to everyones opinions and beliefs and leads based on understanding of others.
• Appreciation.
• Risk Taker. A leader is someone not afraid to take necessary risk to help grow their projects and work. They are able to make decisions that  others aren't willing to make .
• Understanding
• Confidence
• Ability
• Communicative
• Hopeful
• Sincereity

By Shercole