The document discusses the personality traits and leadership styles of an effective leader. It identifies key traits such as physical appearance, vision, intelligence, communication skills, objectivity, responsibility, confidence, empathy and being people-oriented. It then describes several leadership styles including autocratic, bureaucratic, democratic, laissez-faire, transactional and transformational. Transformational leadership is highlighted as often being the most effective style in business as it inspires high productivity and engagement from team members.

1. PERSONALITY TYPES OF A
LEADER
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2. A LEADER HAS GOT MULTIDIMENSIONAL
TRAITS IN HIM WHICH MAKES HIM
APPEALING AND EFFECTIVE IN BEHAVIOUR.

3. PHYSICAL APPEARANCE
A leader must have a pleasing
appearance. Physique and health are
very important for a good leader.

4. VISION AND FORESIGHT
A leader cannot maintain influence
unless he exhibits that he is forward
looking. He has to visualize situations and
thereby has to frame logical
programmes.

5. INTELLIGENCE
A leader should be intelligent enough
to examine problems and difficult
situations.

6. COMMUNICATIVE SKILLS
A leader must be able to communicate
the policies and procedures clearly,
precisely and effectively. This can be
helpful in persuasion and stimulation.

7. OBJECTIVE
A leader has to be having a fair outlook
which is free from bias and which does not
reflects his willingness towards a particular
individual.

8. KNOWLEDGE OF WORK
A leader should be very precisely knowing
the nature of work of his subordinates
because it is then he can win the trust and
confidence of his subordinates.

9. SENSE OF RESPONSIBILITY
Responsibility and accountability towards
an individual’s work is very important to bring
a sense of influence. A leader must have a
sense of responsibility towards organizational
goals because only then he can get
maximum of capabilities exploited in a real
sense.

10. SELF-CONFIDENCE AND
WILL-POWER
Confidence in himself is important to earn
the confidence of the subordinates. He
should be trustworthy and should handle the
situations with full will power.

11. HUMANIST
This trait to be present in a leader is essential
because he deals with human beings and is
in personal contact with them. He has to
handle the personal problems of his
subordinates with great care and attention.

12. EMPATHY
It is an old adage “Stepping into the shoes
of others”. This is very important because fair
judgement and objectivity comes only then.
A leader should understand the problems
and complaints of employees and should
also have a complete view of the needs and
aspirations of the employees.

13. LEADERSHIP STYLES
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14. AUTOCRATIC LEADERSHIP
where leaders have a lot of power over
their people. Staff and team members have
little opportunity to make suggestions, even if
these would be in the team's or the
organization's best interest.

15. BUREAUCRATIC LEADERSHIP
Bureaucratic leaders work "by the book."
They follow rules rigorously, and ensure that
their people follow procedures precisely.

16. DEMOCRATIC/PARTICIPATIVE
LEADERSHIP
Democratic leaders make the final decisions,
but they include team members in the
decision-making process. They encourage
creativity, and team members are often highly
engaged in projects and decisions.

17. LAISSEZ-FAIRE LEADERSHIP
This French phrase means "leave it be," and it
describes leaders who allow their people to
work on their own. This type of leadership can
also occur naturally, when managers don't
have sufficient control over their work and their
people.

18. LAISSEZ-FAIRE LEADERSHIP
Laissez-faire leaders may give their teams
complete freedom to do their work and set
their own deadlines. They provide
team support with resources and advice, if
needed, but otherwise don't get involved.

19. PEOPLE-ORIENTED/RELATIONSORIENTED LEADERSHIP
With people-oriented leadership, leaders are
totally focused on organizing, supporting, and
developing the people on their teams. This is a
participatory style and tends to encourage
good teamwork and creative collaboration.
This is the opposite of task-oriented leadership.

20. TRANSACTIONAL LEADERSHIP
This leadership style starts with the idea that
team members agree to obey their leader
when they accept a job. The "transaction"
usually involves the organization paying team
members in return for their effort and
compliance. The leader has a right to "punish"
team members if their work doesn't meet an
appropriate standard

21. TRANSFORMATIONAL
LEADERSHIP
As we discussed earlier in this article,
transformation leadership is often the best
leadership style to use in business situations.
Transformational leaders are inspiring because
they expect the best from everyone on their
team as well as themselves. This leads to high
productivity and engagement from everyone
in their team.