What is leadership? Explain the effective characteristics of a leader.
What will be an ideal response?
Leadership is a process of social influence to move individual and groups toward goal achievement. Leadership involves the following:
1) Sharing a vision and engaging followers in that vision
2) The ability to move an organization to a higher level of performance by transforming vision into significant actions
3) A relationship, as opposed to the property of an individual
4) An observable, learnable, set of practices and skills
5) An integration of theory, process and practice, and the realization that what is effective in one situation may be ineffective in another
The following are the effective characteristics of a leader:
1) Challenging the process
2) Inspiring a shared vision
3) Enabling others to act
4) Modeling the way
5) Encouraging the heart
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