Those days are gone where you serve a company for more years and you automatically get promoted and you are seen as a leader for your subordinates. Truth is if you are promoted as a manager doesn’t mean you are a leader, getting into a designation of CEO doesn’t make him a good leader.

Who is a good leader? What are the qualities a leader should possess?

A Leader is not by designation when you start thinking for the people who work with you or be with you makes a leader. We always look for people to get inspired to be like them and a leader is someone who can create that inspiration within the team and become a role model. Below are a few qualities which a leader should work on:

1. Attitude: When you take the responsibility of a team it is your task to keep them motivated and result-driven. When you have a positive mindset of the work you are doing and the results you want to attend then it will always motivate the team and work accordingly towards the next phase of work. Even in the worst situation where your team is not doing well or any other reason a leader always finds out the way and figure out how to overcome the situation and handle it. Keeping the team motivated and showing the way forward in the worst situation is the key to being Positive
2. Embrace Failure: Leaders are not only for success but also for failure, you cannot avoid failure as a leader you should accept the failure and break it down into segments and understand why it happened. The more you understand the root cause of a problem the more you be cautious when you do it for the next time. Accepting it and working towards it is something we can always look from a leader.
3. Be a good Listener: When you are a leader you work with multiple people around and it is your responsibility to work by listening to other suggestions and then move forward. We always see a better idea coming from the team than what we had in our mind so it plays a vital role in the successful career of a leader.
4. Distribution of work: A company is not successful only because of the CEO some employees worked for him and some people have struggled with him. It is important to understand when to distribute the work and get things done from the team which person in expert in what activity. Effective use of the team and knowing the right time to distribute the work is the prominent thing to understand as a leader.
5. Learn every day: No person in the universe can say I am an expert I know everything about a topic. As a leader, we should always have a desire to learn from our team member. Always try a new thing to learn daily you may not know a lot of things which your team members know so always be open-minded to learn new things daily and this makes your team comfortable once you learn from them and listen to them.

Leaders today are people who are driving the company, the team, the nation, the society being a leader is with responsibilities and more leadership skills to be advanced as people look at you as a person they want to follow.