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Submitted by Judithgermain

May 06, 2009

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Some people sit and pontificate about whether leaders are made or born. The true leader ignores such arguments and instead concentrates on how to become better at leading people. In this article, we are going to discuss five leadership traits that people look for in a leader. If you are able to increase your skill in these five traits, you will make it easier for people to want to follow you. The less time you have to spend on getting people to follow you, the more time you have to spend refining exactly where you want to go and how to get there. Read the full article

Comments (2)

Ian Mac Millan,

May 06, 2009

The difficult one in this list is competency. What should you be competent at? The doing or the leading? Or a bit of both? Very easy to get caught up too much in the doing, and loose the space/distance needed to be an effective leader.

Judithgermain,

May 07, 2009

Hi Ian. I believe that leaders should be competent at leading, there are very few positions that require the leader to be highly skilled 'in the tasks that his team completes'. Issues tend to arise when the leader isn't credible with his team.