The 2 Key Characteristics of Good Leader

Do you want to be a great leader? Is it easy or difficult? If you have some traits about leadership, you can be a great leader in your organization. Of course, to become a great leader is not easy. However, if you try to communicate actively with your co-worker, subordinate workers, and other managers and get a strong passion about your job and organization, you can be wonderful leader in your organization.

First, to become a great leader you have to communicate actively with everybody in your organization. The best important responsibility of leader is to achieve organization’s ultimate goal for development and improvement of organization. According to the article form Blagg, D & Young, S (2001) suggest that leader have to spend the bulk of their time communicating, tell the hard truths, and listen carefully to audience such as workers. Basically all organizations have a lot of members or workers, some sub-groups or teams, and head quarter or leader to accomplish organization’s goal. All organizations need active communication between organization members including worker, manager, and leader. Leader has to perform key role during the communicating between members. Consequently, a good communication skill is one of the best important characteristics of leader.

Next, to become a good leader you must have a strong passion about your job and organization. If some people do not have a passion about their job, they cannot achieve certain outcome in their organizations. Especially, the passion of leader in a organization is very important for organization’s development and improvement. Byrnes, J (2005) insists that to be successful leader, you must have both a passion for improving your organization and the capability to drive your efforts through to completion. Also, he suggest that to become successful leader, you have to identify and seek out a work situation right, how will he or she feel real passion. Not only common workers but also leader need to have passion about their job to achieve their goal. Especially, leader who charges key duty for organization has to have a strong passion about his or her job and organization.

Some sociologists who support traditional theory about readership claim that sometime to decide vary critical problem in organization by leader’s individual determination is effective method to avoid organization’s risk and danger. However, a organization is not leader’s individual possession. Leader also commits some mistakes. Anytime, organization’s critical problems are decided by many member including leader, workers, and other manager together. Consequently to develop organization needs active communication leading by leader and involving organization members.

In conclusion, if you want to become a great leader, you have to have a good communication skill and an enthusiastic passion of your job. First, to be a great leader needs to communicate actively with organization members because of all organization consist of many members and teams. Also a wonderful leader has have to get a strong passion of his or her job and organization because the passion about job and organization is one of the best essential element to achieve organizational key goal. Although to be a great leader is not easy, you can do it if you have a good communication skill and passion of your job.

[References]

Byrnes, J. (2005). The Essence of Leadership, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge for Business Leaders.

Blagg, D., Young, S. (2001). What Makes a Good Leader?, Harvard Business School Working Knowledge for Business Leaders.