5 core qualities of a good leader

Most of us unfortunately, tend to lead a life of a follower. This tendency of following instructions without questioning had been ingrained in us by our poor education system, which is designed to produce industrial workers. 

Midst of rapid rat race in corporations, we mostly find managers of numbers rather than leaders. however there are few qualities, which radiate out of a good leaders. those qualities separates them from crowd.

In this blog we have listed 5 qualities of a good leader in modern world.

1)Art of story telling: 

Influential way of communication has always been main weapon in arsenal of a leader. Story telling is a classical way conveying  thoughts, ideas, beliefs and values. 

From long time we are teaching moral values to our kids with stories; but some how we tend to ignore the power of it. We have almost forgotten that all the ancient scriptures are nothing but values and life lessons conveyed with stories. Point here I wanted to make is storytelling is a powerful tool to influence followers. 

It is observed that we tend remember or get convinced, when the lessons are ingrained with emotions. Story is nothing but play of emotions and imaginations.

Good leaders are good storytellers too.

2)Empathy:

A good leader is often a empathetic person, Before leading his subordinates/colleagues he should be able to understand what they are going though, how they think. Metaphorically a leader should put himself in shoes of his followers.

Even though Its important we rarely find leaders who are empathetic. Most of modern corporate mangers often fail to understand their subordinates but pass orders.

Empathy is under rated but extremely important quality of a leader.

3)Adaptable : 

A leader often has to lead his/her subordinates in unknown situations. If situation demands he/she has to lead from front with example. For that one has to be a quick learner and adapter.

So leader should be extremely adaptable with quick learning capabilities.

4)Allocation of resources: 

Optimal allocation of resources is important for efficient management. resources could be anything we use, it could be any commodity, money people or even time. Choosing right person for right work allocating right time for it is key.

5)Original thoughts and opinion oriented:

Leaders are always original and structured thinkers. Their ideas, decisions and opinions are often derived by their values and beliefs. They are not driven by success, fame or by money. but those will be definite/obvious products of their work.

their thoughts often will be clear and rational. With this they try to lead their team by example not paying attention to unnecessary noise.

Bottom-line:

There could be other various traits of a leader; but it broadly fall under above five. With these qualities leader becomes effective team player with vision in mind.  I believe leadership is a trainable skill; we can all be leaders in our own way by becoming little more of above 5 ideas every day.