- Courage. Being willing to take risks. Leadership is not for the faint hearted. It is for people who are willing to fail, fail and fail again until they get the desired result. A leader would never hide behind the shadow of, “it may not work”. Leaders will rather do it and fail than not do it at all.
- Vision – Knowing where you are going. Before one can lead someone else to a place, they have to know where they are going, right? Leadership will be futile without a vision. Every leader must be a visionary. He must always see ahead of the people he leads so that he can guide them on the next step to take.
- Competence – being good at what you do. People trust people who are excellent at what they do to lead them. Because people will always come to you for advice, you have to be more than average in what you lead people at.
- Humility – giving credit to others. Quite a number of leaders find it difficult to be humble because of the privileged position that they occupy. Pride is a characteristic of a bad leader. A leader that will work is humble. Being humble will let you praise others when you ought you and give credit to your team member will a milestone is achieved.
- Collaboration – working well with others. A great leader does not work outside his team. For you to be a leader. There has to be people that you are responsible for. That fact simply means that you have to seek your team’s ideas and work with them to be able to achieve results.
- Passion for God- loving God more than anything. A leader that loves GOD will lead like GOD does; with love. God doesn’t lead high-handedly. He comes to our level to relate with us. He hears us and speaks to us. Passion for God will guide you to do things like God.
- Integrity – doing the right thing. No one should ever have a reason to doubt a leader.
- Authenticity – being truthful and reliable. A leader’s yes should be his ‘yes’ and a leader’s no should be his ‘no’. The people above you should be confident in your ability to tell them the truth at all times. It is the job of a leader to earn trust and stay at that position of trust.
- Purpose – being made for or “called” to the job
- Discipline – ability to stay focused and get things done. When a leader lacks disciple, a lot of things will go south. For an organization to function properly, a leader must be disciplined enough to discipline his under-leaders. He must be able to keep his focus and help his team members keep focus and achieve a lot too.
