Characteristics Of An Effective Leader

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1.0 INTRODUCTION
Anyone could be a manager or supervisor of a team but the person that leads that team was the leader. This was because leadership was not always through position or authority but through inspiration, persuasion and personal connections. The leader had the ability to have people to follow them and took instructions in order to create a specific result.
Extensive research had been undertaken on leadership behaviour since the 1920s. In early theory of leadership, Carlyle (1907) said that “Great leaders are born, not made”. To some extent, it was true for past great leaders. However, learning how to be a more effective leader was within everyone’s grasp – whether we leaded a multiple teams or an entire company.
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A leader was the person who makes decision or the most important person in a group (Cambridge International Dictionary Of English, 1995). A leader was a person who leads or a person who followed by others ( Reader’s Digest Oxford Complete Wordfinder, 1995). In general, a leader was a person who lead the group, officially or unofficially appointed by the group.
1.4 Characteristics of leader
A good leader must possessed certain characteristics or traits in order to be an effective leader. According to Roe (2003), the leader had several characteristics :
1. Emotional expressiveness
This characteristic related to use of verbal or non-verbal signals. Typical examples of this type of behaviour were direct eye contact, reaching out and touching friends when talking and an engaging tone of voice.
2. Self Confidence
The charismatic individuals displayed a complete confidence in the correctness of our position. This means that we had an almost unshakeable belief in our method and vision.
3. Self-determination
This suggested that an individual who does not conform to pressure from those in power but were driven to follow a “calling”. To reach this, we were likely to give up almost everything material in exchange for achieving our …show more content…

Through the establishment of this school, Eco Superior Anasiative (ESA), the government could produce a well-trained and good leader. Meanwhile, in Malaysia, leaders were appointed by the voice of the people through the democratic process. But the chosen leaders do not have a formal training of leadership skills and knowledge. Compared with France, would-be leader would going through some of the learning process before being appointed or elected to be the legitimate leader. From there we could see the different approach of the formation of a leader, a leader who was ready and trained to lead their subordinates versus untrained appointed

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