ACCA SBL Syllabus A. Leadership - Visionary Leadership - Notes ^{7 / 10}

Leadership traits for Strategy Implementation and Change:

Vision
Clear direction about what needs to be done;

Communication
Listening to what others have to say and enabling them to gain trust in you

Passion & Motivation
Inspiring others to work harder through passion and making others see the purpose & value in what they do

Flexibility
Adapting one’s leadership style to the circumstances in which one has to lead.

Criticisms of leadership traits

1. Possession of all the traits is impossible

2. There are too many exceptions

3. Good leaders may have many of these qualities but possession of them does not always make one a good leader

4. The traits are so ill defined as to be useless in practice