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5. Communication skills: A leader should be a good communicator. He should have
the capacity to clearly explain his ideas and make the people to understand his

ideas. He should be not only good speaker but a good listener, teacher, counsellor
and persuader.
6. Motivation skills: A leader should be an effective motivator. He should
understand the needs of people and motivate them through satisfying their needs.
7. Self Confidence: A leader should have high level of self-confidence. He should

not lose his confidence even in most difficult times. In fact, if the leader lacks self-
confidence, he cannot provide confidence to his followers.
8. Intelligence: A leader needs to be intelligent enough to analyse the pros and cons

of a situation and take a decision accordingly. He also needs to have a vision and
fore-sightedness so that he can predict the future impact of the decisions taken by
him.
9. Decisiveness: Leader should be decisive in managing the work. Once he is
convinced about a fact, he should be firm and should not change opinions

frequently.
10. Social skills: A leader should be sociable and friendly with his colleagues and
followers. He should understand people and maintain good human relations with
them. However, we should remember that all good leaders may not necessarily

possess all the qualities of a good leader. In fact, it is not possible for any
individual to have all the qualities. But an understanding about these qualities
helps the managers to acquire them through training and conscious efforts.