Q. what are the good leadership development criterions?
Leadership studies historically went hand-in-hand with studies of elites: political, financial, military, aristocratic, or cultural elites. Leadership was considered an art, for which some fortunate people had an inbuilt genius; the rest of us could only engage in admiring post-game analyses. Leadership means different things to different people.
Stodgill (1974) suggested eleven perspectives of leadership. Leadership may be defined as (a) personality or effectiveness of personality, (b) the art of inducing compliance, (c) the exercise of influence, (d) a function of group process, (e) a form of persuasion, (f) a set of acts or behavior, (g) a power of relationship, (h) an instrument of goal achievement, (i) an effective interaction, (j) a differentiated role, and (k) the initiation of structure.
A Leader's Key Functions
The leader accepts three key functions in his role:
On the other word we can say that leader have some functional & soft skill ness to develop the good leadership. These are another criterions for develop the good leadership.
Q. "Leadership is originated, not created"
Leadership means Management, control, guidance, headship and direction. In every instance it has something to do with being in charge. Having others follow your lead supervising others. And because the idea leadership of a country touches more than just politicians and goes as far as business, church, schools, community and non profit organization it is sad that there is no institution in the Caribbean islands that is dedicated to developing leaders to serve our societies.
The word leadership can refer to:
Richard M. Cyert, president of Carnegie- Mellon University and author of books and articles on organizational theory, has divided leadership into two dimensions – Consideration and Initiating Structure.
The Consideration Dimension is characterized by an emphasis on good relations. The leader is friendly, approachable and a good listener. Leadership behavior can be described as open and enlisting mental trust.
The Initiating Structure represents the leadership behavior involved in directing the organization, helping it to define its goals and structure for execution – including the ability to understand the actions others can act upon.
From these two dimensions, it is possible to generalize three basic functions that a leader performs:
Leadership has sometimes been described as taking people to a place that they would not normally go to on their own. Once a sound strategic planning process has determined what that place should be it is the leader's prime and fundamental responsibility to assure that there is cultural alignment with the vision and that the full resources of the organization are effectively brought to bear to achieve that destination.
If the leaders are wrong then people have to suffer a lot for his/her wrong decision. Due to the poor quality of leadership and management in this country, the workforce is confused with regard to the needs of the company over the employee's own needs. This confusion results in lack of motivation, direction and desire for the company to succeed, and with it go the fortunes of employees and shareholders.
Leadership means not only to give leads but also to give the proper lead in proper way. For choosing the proper way need an effective and capable people. A good leader have some quality and charters tics to be a leader such as Knowledge of the Work, Knowledge of Responsibilities, Skill in Instructing, Skill in Improving Methods, self-disciplined, good communicator, experienced, well organized, Trust, Good communicator, Decisive, Motivational, Inspirational, People focused, Visionary, Strategic, Driver of change, Charismatic , Entrepreneurial, A risk taker etc. Effective leaders create results, attain goal, and realize vision and other objectives more quickly and at a higher level of quality than ineffective leaders.
All of these qualities are not created or trained in centers. These qualities are the capability to be a leader. This quality are gained by own capacity or self-sufficient, own experience, intelligence. And all of this developed by leaders self-capacity which are not gained by trained or created. Leadership is an original or internal capacity of a man. And this internal capacity is enriched by education, experience etc.
For example: in a democratic country like Bangladesh leaders are chosen by election method. Through this method an illiterate person can be a leader. But his/her capacity to being a leader is ineffective because he/she have not the quality of an effective leader. The leader have no education background, which is the own capacity of a leader, which are not gained in one day or one year. And also, a leader can be a higher educated person but he can not motivate the people or influence the people into proper way. Because, to motivate people is an internal or self capacity which are not trained or artificially created. It's an original capacity of a man or leader.
From the above description it's easy to say "leadership is originated, not created". And for this reason I am comply with this view.
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