State any four qualities of good leadership.

 QUALITIES OF GOOD LEADERSHIP

A person requires personal, psychological, mental, emotional, conceptual, technical, behavioral, and managerial qualities to be an effective leader. A leader should have a clear vision, a desire of learning new knowledge, and the capacity of understanding human behavior. A leader must be social, cooperative, and initiative. To be a successful leader, the following important qualities are required: 

a. Physical fitness: Leaders should be physically fit and in a good fit of health. They should have full of energy, vigor, vitality, and enthusiasm. They should be willing to work hard to attain the organizational goal. Physical fit leaders are well trusted by followers.

b. A clear sense of purpose: Every leader must have the ability to define and share the vision, mission, and objectives with their followers. A leader must be clear about the vision, mission, and purpose of an idea, priority, and process. If the leader is not clear, followers cannot be convinced by the leader. 

c. Good judgment: The leaders must have the ability to understand the effect of any types of changes within and outside the organization. A leader should be able to judge the environmental effect on business. Leader should have the ability to understand the follower's actions and reactions. A leader must show a sense of fair play and justice to all the employees. Being the leader of the organization, the leader should have enough capability to judge the alternative course of action that should be justified. Followers easily trust the leaders with good judgment ability.

d. Moral integrity: The leaders should have good moral character. They should own the qualities of honesty, loyalty, trustworthiness, devotion, and fairness in implementing the organizational plans and policies. Leaders should have a sense of personal choice to hold one's self to consistent standards. They must be moral self-disciplined and have strong interpersonal character. Leaders with high moral integrity provide a sense of moral discipline to the employees.

e. Self-confident: The leaders must be self-confident to achieve the predetermined goals. They must have adequate knowledge and skills to understand themselves. Leaders must have skills of analyzing their strengths and weaknesses. Leaders should have positivity in results. If leaders themselves are less confident, subordinates do not trust them. They also may lose their confidence level.

e. Technical competency: Managerial leaders should be technically competent. They should have adequate knowledge about the related jobs. Technically competent leaders make their decisions more effective. Technical competency enables leaders to guide and control followers. 

 f. Managerial qualities: Leaders must have all the managerial qualities like planning, organizing, directing, decision making, controlling, communication, etc. Leaders should be decisive. Leaders must be trustworthy. They must have enough ideas for solving conflicts and grievances of the employees. 

g. Situational adaptability: Leaders must have the ability to adapt to the changes. They should have ideas about managing environmental changes and unpleasant situations. Leaders should have qualities of flexibility for adjusting organizational activities in changing situations.

h.  Creativity: Leaders should be creative and innovative as an entrepreneur. They should have good knowledge of solving crisis situations creatively. Leaders should have enough creativity so that they can have an effective plan to start up new businesses, use available resources, manage the organizational efforts and activities, and direct the followers.