The Three Most Important Traits of Leadership

What is leadership? Leadership is described as the ability to lead. The best leaders are also known as role models. Leadership encompasses a wide range of skills and qualities including effective communication and negotiation, delegating tasks and duties, motivating people, providing the needed vision, maintaining high productivity levels and getting results. Leadership is a learned skill, an acquired skill, both an important and often unappreciated skill.


In order to understand what leadership really is let us define leadership in simple terms. Leadership is defined as the ability to effectively lead. This definition clearly defines leadership, as no one can 'lead' unless they are capable of doing so. Leadership is a skill and therefore, requires training and development. This means that, one must become a leader in order to lead.

Leadership is an acquired skill and therefore, not something that one is born with. However, there are key elements of leadership that one can learn and develop. The most important of these key elements is vision, which is defined as the preparation for, the accomplishment of, or relative capture of a particular vision or goal by others through influential influence. Vision is crucial because without it, any attempt to lead would be pointless because it would lack a clear direction or agenda.

In order to be effective, leadership requires effective leadership, which again, is not something that is either born or just learned. Effective leadership requires certain traits. Some of these traits are self-confidence, self-esteem, and effective communication. These traits are known as emotional intelligence. Emotional intelligence is closely related to social intelligence and people with high levels of social intelligence tend to have high levels of emotional intelligence. This means that, effective leadership requires effective leadership.

An additional aspect of leadership is employee engagement. Engagement refers to the combination of the theory and the practice of making an impact on the employee's well-being and productivity. In employee engagement, the idea is to create an atmosphere that encourages and motivates employees to become engaged in the work environment. Employees that are engaged have higher productivity because they are happier, more involved, and more willing to try new ideas and innovative products. The definition of "engaged" differs slightly from the definition of leadership, but the important difference is that an employee must want to be engaged or else there will be no motivation to try out new ideas or participate in team building activities. There is also an element of recognition involved when an employee is considered to be engaged rather than simply competent.

In addition to the traits that I mentioned above, leadership has nothing to do with being able to read the future. It has to do with managing people. Managers are charged with the responsibility of understanding what motivates their employees as well as understanding what the characteristics of good leaders are. While these things may be difficult for some managers to comprehend, there is a variety of different theories out there that address these issues in detail.

This brings me to the last thing I would like to discuss is the third element of leadership: employee engagement. Again, I cannot stress enough how important employee engagement is to maintain a happy and successful work environment. If employees feel engaged within the company, they are much more likely to engage in everything that goes on within the company as well. Employee engagement is one of the leading indicators of overall productivity and success in any organization.


In conclusion, I would like to say that the three main theories I have discussed in this article do not necessarily encompass each other. Each theory can be useful for different purposes. No single theory can accurately define leadership in all circumstances. However, I believe that if you master at least two or three theories, you will be ready to start providing an accurate definition for yourself. I hope that you will find this information helpful.