This document discusses the importance and benefits of leadership in businesses. Effective leadership is important for providing single direction, motivating employees, and increasing dedication to organizational goals. Leaders are responsible for training, supervision, and inspiring employees while protecting them from threats. Good leaders demonstrate traits like emotional stability, dominance, enthusiasm, conscientiousness, social boldness, self-assurance, empathy, charisma, and intuition. Developing leadership skills is important for having a vision, committing to the mission and employees, and accepting responsibility for success or failure.

1. LEADERSHIP IN YOUR
BUSINESS

2. WHY DO YOU NEED LEADERSHIP IN YOUR
BUSINESSES?
• SIGNIFICANCE
• A LEADERLESS ORGANIZATION IS LIKE AN ARMY WITHOUT GENERALS
• SINGLE DIRECTIONS FOR ALL EMPLOYEES
• LEADERS ARE INVALUABLE FOR THE FOLLOWING
• NEW STRATEGIC DIRECTIONS
• MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES
• INCREASE DEDICATION TO THE ORGANIZATIONAL GOALS

3. WHY DO YOU NEED LEADERSHIP IN YOUR
BUSINESSES?
• FUNCTIONS
• RESPONSIBLE FOR TRAINING
• SUPERVISION
• LEADERS MUST INSPIRE
• PROTECTING THE EMPLOYEES FROM INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL THREATS

4. TYPES OF LEADERSHIP STYLES
• LEADERS WITH COMMAND AND CONTROL
• FORMULATE IDEAS ON THEIR OWN AND DICTATE ACTIONS
• COLLABORATIVE LEADERS
• COME UP WITH IDEAS WITH ASSISTANCE OF EMPLOYEES OF ALL LEVELS
• NEITHER IS WRONG

5. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• EMOTIONAL STABILITY:
GOOD LEADERS MUST BE ABLE TO TOLERATE FRUSTRATION AND STRESS.
OVERALL, THEY MUST BE WELL-ADJUSTED AND HAVE THE PSYCHOLOGICAL
MATURITY TO DEAL WITH ANYTHING THEY ARE REQUIRED TO FACE.

6. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• DOMINANCE:
LEADERS ARE OFTEN COMPETITIVE, DECISIVE AND USUALLY ENJOY OVERCOMING
OBSTACLES. OVERALL, THEY ARE ASSERTIVE IN THEIR THINKING STYLE AS WELL AS
THEIR ATTITUDE IN DEALING WITH OTHERS.

7. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• ENTHUSIASM:
LEADERS ARE USUALLY SEEN AS ACTIVE, EXPRESSIVE AND ENERGETIC. THEY ARE
OFTEN VERY OPTIMISTIC AND OPEN TO CHANGE. OVERALL, THEY ARE GENERALLY
QUICK AND ALERT AND TEND TO BE UNINHIBITED.

8. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• CONSCIENTIOUSNESS:
LEADERS ARE OFTEN DOMINATED BY A SENSE OF DUTY AND TEND TO BE VERY
EXACTING IN CHARACTER. THEY USUALLY HAVE A VERY HIGH STANDARD OF
EXCELLENCE AND AN INWARD DESIRE TO DO THEIR BEST. THEY ALSO HAVE A
NEED FOR ORDER AND TEND TO BE VERY SELF-DISCIPLINED.

9. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• SOCIAL BOLDNESS:
LEADERS TEND TO BE SPONTANEOUS RISK-TAKERS. THEY ARE USUALLY SOCIALLY
AGGRESSIVE AND GENERALLY THICK-SKINNED. OVERALL, THEY ARE RESPONSIVE
TO OTHERS AND TEND TO BE HIGH IN EMOTIONAL STAMINA.

10. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• SELF-ASSURANCE:
SELF-CONFIDENCE AND RESILIENCY ARE COMMON TRAITS AMONG LEADERS. THEY
TEND TO BE FREE OF GUILT AND HAVE LITTLE OR NO NEED FOR APPROVAL. THEY
ARE GENERALLY UNAFFECTED BY PRIOR MISTAKES OR FAILURES.

11. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• COMPULSIVENESS:
LEADERS ARE CONTROLLED AND VERY PRECISE IN THEIR SOCIAL INTERACTIONS.
OVERALL, THEY ARE VERY PROTECTIVE OF THEIR INTEGRITY AND REPUTATION
AND CONSEQUENTLY TENDED TO BE SOCIALLY AWARE AND CAREFUL, ABUNDANT
IN FORESIGHT, AND VERY CAREFUL WHEN MAKING DECISIONS OR DETERMINING
SPECIFIC ACTIONS.

12. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• INTUITIVENESS:
RAPID CHANGES IN THE WORLD TODAY, COMBINED WITH INFORMATION
OVERLOAD RESULT IN AN INABILITY TO KNOW EVERYTHING. IN OTHER WORDS,
REASONING AND LOGIC WILL NOT GET YOU THROUGH ALL SITUATIONS. IN FACT,
MORE AND MORE LEADERS ARE LEARNING THE VALUE OF USING THEIR INTUITION
AND TRUSTING THEIR GUT WHEN MAKING DECISIONS.

13. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• EMPATHY:
BEING ABLE TO PUT YOURSELF IN THE OTHER PERSON'S SHOES IS A KEY TRAIT OF
LEADERS TODAY. WITHOUT EMPATHY, YOU CAN'T BUILD TRUST; WITHOUT TRUST,
YOU WILL NEVER BE ABLE TO GET THE BEST EFFORT FROM YOUR EMPLOYEES.

14. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• CHARISMA:
PEOPLE USUALLY PERCEIVE LEADERS AS LARGER THAN LIFE. CHARISMA PLAYS A
LARGE PART IN THIS PERCEPTION. LEADERS WHO HAVE CHARISMA ARE ABLE TO
AROUSE STRONG EMOTIONS IN THEIR EMPLOYEES BY DEFINING A VISION WHICH
UNITES AND CAPTIVATES THEM. USING THIS VISION, LEADERS MOTIVATE
EMPLOYEES TO REACH TOWARD A FUTURE GOAL BY TYING THE GOAL TO
SUBSTANTIAL PERSONAL REWARDS AND VALUES

15. TRAITS OF AN EFFECTIVE LEADER
• LEADERS ARE RARELY BORN
• CIRCUMSTANCES AND PERSISTENCE
• DEVELOPING SKILLS

16. WHY LEADERSHIP IS IMPORTANT IN YOUR
BUSINESS
• HAVING A VISION ABOUT WHAT CAN BE ACCOMPLISHED
• MAKING A COMMITMENT TO THE MISSION AND TO THE PEOPLE YOU LEAD
• MAKING A COMMITMENT TO THE MISSION AND TO THE PEOPLE YOU LEAD
• ACCEPTING RECOGNITION FOR SUCCESS

17. HAVING A VISION
• SOMETHING THAT YOU IMAGINE
• A PICTURE YOU CAN SEE IN YOUR MIND
• SOMETHING THAT YOU CAN SEE OR DREAM

18. MAKING A COMMITMENT TO THE MISSION
AND TO THE PEOPLE YOU LEAD