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As so many people and website talk about leader and leadership. But truly, how much do you know about leadership? and do you think you have the leadership characteristics and traits?

So here are 24 traits a leader should have. Find out more whether you are practicing such skills.

Direction – relates to a leader’s abilities to provide motivation

1 Vision - able to create and project beneficial images
2 Concept - able to give the best explanation of most events
3 Focus - is goal oriented

Drive to execute – relates to motivation

4 Ego - drive defines oneself as significant
5 Competition - has the desire to win
6 Achiever - is energetic
7 Courage - relished challenges
8 Activator - is proactive

Relationships – relates to capacity to develop relationships with others

9 Relater - can build trust and be caring
10 Developer - desires to help people grow
11 Multirelater - has wide circle of relationships
12 Individual perception - recognizes people’s individuality
13 Stimulator - can create good feelings in others
14 Team - can get people to help each other

Management systems – relates to management abilities

15 Performance orientation - is goal oriented
16 Discipline - needs to structure time and work environment
17 Responsibility/ethics - can take psychological ownership of own behaviour
18 Arranger - can coordinate people and activities
19 Operational - can administer systems that help people be more effective
20 Strategic thinker - is able to do ‘what if?’ thinking and create paths to future goals
21 Weaknesses - selectively show their weakness by exposing vulnerability, they reveal their approachability and humanity.
22 Intuition - Rely heavily on intuition to gauge the appropriate timing and course of their actions
23 Interpretation - Their ability to collect and interpret soft data helps them know when and how to act.
24 Tough empathy - Inspirational leaders empathize passionately – and realistically – with people and they care intensely about the work employees do.

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