THREE TRAITS EVERY SUCCESSFUL LEADERS MUST HAVE.

Maryam Isa-Haslett
Aug 10, 2018
4 min read

Introduction

There are three traits that every leader must have to be successful. You can attempt to lead without them, but atleast one of four things will eventually happen if you do:

Your team will fail in completing their work
Your team members will leave
Your will be miserable that you will be exhaustion
Your team will lose respect for you

The Three Traits Required Are:

The Desire to Lead

The desire to lead. Without it, you will never be comfortable in the leader role. You will struggle everyday with the basis, and your team members will sense it in most work duties you do. If you don’t get exhausted, you fill find that work suffers and your team is unsatisfied because they can’t accomplish their work without doing your own tasks. As a result, can make them leave the team or the organisation entirely assuming you don’t leave first.

Without the desire to lead, you will not be willing to do the work that it takes to become the leader of the team. As with any job, resisting the work of leading will make it difficult to be effective and indeed impossible to find fulfillment in what you do. You want to put in effort to acquire the skills you need to motivate others or to handle conflict. Instead, you will stick with the comfortable routine of behavior you already settled irrespective of whether or not it helps you to lead.

There are a number of characteristic that can help one determine their level of desire to lead, it will indicate one’s motivation to be a leader. It will help determine your gauge in your leadership development.

I enjoy supporting others on my team and can do so in both good and bad times.

I am comfortable putting the team interest before my own interest.
When I work as part of group on any task, I ease a strong team spirit.
I enjoy playing the role of coach to help others improve their skills.
I look for opportunities to revel other team member’s successes.
I enjoy it when others seek out my ideas
I can consider my team problem as my problem.
I promote and let others take my ideas and put them into action.
I enjoy being a mentor and coach to help others improve their skills.
I can resolve conflict of my team and promote constructive discussion even when there is no agreement.

Commitment to Organization’s Mission and Vision

Commitment to the organisational mission and vision. Envisage attempting to convince others to give their best in order to accomplish something they don't believe in. That can be difficult. However, trying to change to believing in the mission and vision of an organisation when you in self don’t believe it. It is simply intolerable.

Leadership by heart are those leaders that believe in the mission and vision of the organisation. They are the ones that had the mission and vision about what the company would do, who it will serve, and what changes it would make to the industry or sector they were entering to. These are leaders that no doubt had to risks quitting their jobs at the time in order to start the business. They are leaders that took risks and personal sacrifice, such as weeks of work, long nights and ofcourse the times significant stress all for the company’s success. These types of leaders would recruit those that share the vision and believe in the mission, through coaching and helping them learn how to make decision which would move the organisation to achieve its goals. It is paramount to highlight that the more layers of bureaucracy between visionaries, and frontline staff the harder to see the mission and vision translated to the employees.

Do you know your organization's mission and vision? Can you differentiate between mission and vision statements?

A mission statement is a written declaration of organisations core purpose and focus that normally remains unchanged overtime. Properly crafted mission statements (1) serves as filter to separate what is important from what is not, (2) clearly states which markets will be served and how, (3) communicate a sense of intended direction to the entire organisation.

A Vision Statement is what the organisation aspirational would like to achieve or accomplish in the mid-term or long-term future. It is intended to serve as a clear guide for choosing current and future courses of action.

A mission is different from a vision in that the former is the cause and latter is the effect; a mission is something is something to be accomplished whereas a vision is something to be pursue for the accomplishment. Also called company mission, corporate mission or corporate purpose.

Integrity:

Integrity is simply being true to your words, being authentic in your actions and speech, and demonstrating the kind of behaviors that you would like to see your employees have. Thus, this leadership skills, is something that need to be practices to be enhanced because the benefits you can gain from developing integrity are huge in comparison to the damages you can do in any works of life. Although, it can take effort to honor your word every time and be the examples you want from your subordinates even when under personality conflict or work-related stress situation.

Integrity is also what leaders should have. Integrity in this instance has unpretentious meaning; doing what you say you will do and behaving the way that you expect your team to behave. So, if you really master integrity, you will find that it vicissitudes whole teams and even the whole organisations for good.

Think about the characteristics of a good and bad boss. What specifically were their attitudes, behavior, or traits that had you still reflecting of their attributes either positively or negatively. How do you exercise and develop your integrity? There are three main areas that one can focus on developing their integrity as follows:

Consistency:

Leaders develop this side of integrity by: