IDEAL LEADERSHIP

 

    An ideal leader is the most unfortunate person on earth, He feels the pains of his people, bears their sorrowful stories and their sicknesses, he finds solutions to their problems and respects his subjects' feelings. Being a prestigious leader beyond a child-play or a position to toy with, it requires a lot of sacrifices and only the strong and courageous individual can take. Leadership position is likened to be called flesh and blood career because there is a little different between a leader and a hen, a mother hen has all it takes to protects, provides and guides it chicks, so a leader must have what it takes to do what his subjects want.

    For an individual to be called an ideal leader, it is a difficult task in managing heterogeneous number of people to set a unified goal and make progress. In order for one to become an ideal leader, there are some traits that individual must possessed because they are the sacrifices to make in course of helping others to achieve their common goal, these traits are :

1. Integrity

A leader or leadership must be honest with their subjects In order for them to attain success in their career or tenure. C.S Lewis said " integrity is doing the right thing even when no one is watching.

2. Accountability.

For accountability, an Ideal leader needs to follow the advice of Arnold Glasow when he said, “A good leader takes little more than his share of the blame and little less than his share of the credit.” Being accountable and leading by example is one of the quickest ways a leader can build trust with their team. 

3. Communication

As a head of an organization or country, a good communication drives the subjects to the leader. The subjects will be able to unburden their heart to the leader when he has a sincere interest in their opinion. They'll be inspired, feel heard and begin to know, like, respect and trust the leader. Effective communication will magnetically drawn people to leaders.

4. Resilience

One of the way to recognize an ideal leader is how he performed in difficult time, how they roll up their sleeves and help one another. It is this feature that helps to react to situation with calmness, collected manner and focus on solutions rather than on problems. 

5. Influence

Excellent leader influence his followers in such a way that the leader will not be given respect but they will earned it. A leader can influence his subjects by making others feel important, work toward commonly shared goal, ask for suggestions and advice from the subjects, make a good rapport with them and connect with subjects emotionally.

6. confidence

True leader are the ones that don't just talk about their problems but come up with a solutions fearlessly. If a leader lack confidence in a leadership role, subjects will spot that quickly. So a leader must belive in himself , the organization or country will be able to manage any stressful situation.

7. Humility

Thomas Merton said " pride makes us artificial and humility makes us real". Being humble and vulnerable with team or subjects will make a leader much more relatable and effective. If leaders were concerned about promoting themselves , their doom lies ahead.

8. Vision

An excellent leader clearly set the organizational map and exercise keen decisiveness. Decision-making is one of the key to new idea and the leader should ensure the team members know the bottom line and understand the goal and the mission in front of them.  

    Therefore, an ideal leader is an individual that motivates, inspires, relates and accommodates his subjects, irrespective of their colour, sex, origin, height and status., for the purpose of achieving a common goal. If a leader lacks any of those features, he is acknowledge to be a defective and an failure. A quotes also states " a great reader is a great leader", so an ideal leader can also improve his performances by reading motivational quotes and making use of them.