Six Traits Associated With Leadership

• Leader:

"Someone who can influence others towards the achievement of goals".

Six Leadership Traits:
1)  Drive:
              Leaders show a high effort level. They have a high desire for achievement, they are ambitious, they have a lot of energy. They are tirelessly persistent in their activities and they show initiative. 
2) A desire to Lead:
              Leaders have strong desire to influence and lead others. They demonstrate the willingness to take responsibility. 
3) Honesty and Integrity:
            Leaders build trusting relationships between themselves and followers by being truthful and by showing high consistency between word and deed.
4) Self-Confidence:
          Followers look to leaders for an absence of self-doubt. Leaders, therefore need to show self-confidence in order to convince followers of their rightness of goals and decisions.
5) Intelligence:
          Leaders need to be intelligent enough to gather and interpret a large amount of information and they need to be able to create visions, solve problems and make correct decisions. 
6) Job-relevant Knowledge:
         Effective leaders have a high degree of knowledge about the company, industry and technical matters. In-depth knowledge allows leaders to make well-informed decisions and to understand the implications of those decisions.