1. Personality and
Leadership
BY
Chelva Suthankan (BSC, PGDM, MBA)

2. Personality,
Why it is
important ?

3. What are the
components a
person made of ?

4. Personality
The three principal raw materials
of personality
– physique, intelligence and
temperament
– are determined both by
heredity and by conditions
subsequent to birth.

5. What do you need for a fuller
life and complete personality.
Healthy body
Healthy mind
Healthy thoughts
Will power
Work efficiency

6. Points for an Ultimate Personality:
1. Appearance.
2. Intelligence.
3. Smartness.
4. Trustworthy, High integrity and Responsibility.
5. Knowledge, in depth.
6. Management
7. Effective Communication & Efficiency.
8. Economic independence.
9. Morality / Character.
10. Being beneficial / advantageous.

7. Strong negative aspects to
spoil personality:
· Unhygienic
· Hurting attitude.
· Useless approach.
· Non-beneficial communication.
· Untrustworthy, Irresponsible, Lack of integrity.
· Below average performance.
· Powerless egoism.
· Financial indiscipline.
· Mismanagements.
· Uncontrolled burst of negative emotions.

8. Improving Positive
Thoughts
Identifying Positive Environment
Changeable / Unchangeable
The surrounding you live in
Make it happy
Don’t hate life but enjoy it

9. Key Points for Positive
Thinking
 Self Confidence
 Self Esteem
 Adjust with the environment
 Tolerance (Success, failure)
 Managing emotions
 Facing challenges – not hide or leaving life
against challenges

10. Key Points for Positive
Thinking Con’t
 Refrain from unnecessary practices
 Educating the society
 Rational Thinking
 Respecting ethics and protecting
them
 Improving management skills
(resource, time)
 Communication

11. Believe and Trust Your self
You want to be confident and feel
confident.
True self-confidence isn't an
overnight acquisition.
It takes dedication to realize you are
a good human being that is worthy
of respect and love.

12. Leadership
Personality uplifts
individuals to
leadership

13. Do you want to be a
leader?
Why?
Why not?

14. A relationship
through which one
person influences the
behaviour or actions
of other people
Source: Mullins (The Nature of Leadership)

15. Can you name me
few people who
inspired people

16. MicrosoftMicrosoft
Coca ColaCoca Cola
Wal-MartWal-Mart
ToyotaToyota
Lehman BrothersLehman Brothers
UnileverUnilever

17. Inspire people
Build relationships
Take risks
Have followers
Inspire people
Build relationships
Take risks
Have followers
LeadersLeaders
Enact the plan
Use their authority
Manage risks
Have subordinates
Enact the plan
Use their authority
Manage risks
Have subordinates
ManagersManagers
In reality, both are closely linkedIn reality, both are closely linked

18. Leadership types…
AuthoritarianAuthoritarian PaternalisticPaternalistic
DemocraticDemocratic Laissez-faireLaissez-faire

19. What factors would
influence the
leadership style????

20.  Personal value
systems
 Individual’s
experience
 Confidence in
followers
 Nature of the
problems
 Type of organisation
(size, structure)
 Effectiveness of
teams and groups
 Skills and experience
of followers
 Pressure (time, costs)
Internal Factors affecting
leadership style

21. External Factors affecting
leadership style
o The political and legal environment
o The economic environment
o The social environment
o The technological environment
o Changing nature of conditions

22. Gender and LeadershipGender and Leadership
 The number of women managers is rising but
still relatively low in top levels.
 Stereotypes suggest women are supportive
and concerned with interpersonal relations.
Similarly, men are seen as task-focused.
Research indicates that actually there is no
gender-based difference in leadership
effectiveness.
However, women are seen to be more
participative than men.

23. Qualities of
Good
Leaders

24. Integrity
is the integration of outward actions and
inner values.
A person of integrity is the same on the
outside and on the inside.
A leader must have the trust of followers
and therefore must display integrity.

25. Dedication/passion
means spending whatever time or energy is
necessary to accomplish the task at hand.
A leader inspires dedication by example,
doing whatever it takes to complete the
next step toward the vision.
By setting an excellent example, leaders
can show followers that there are no nine-
to-five jobs on the team, only opportunities
to achieve something great.

26. Openness
means being able to listen to new ideas, even if
they do not conform to the usual way of
thinking.
Good leaders are able to suspend judgment
while listening to others’ ideas, as well as
accept new ways of doing things that
someone else thought of.
Openness builds mutual respect and trust
between leaders and followers, and it also
keeps the team well supplied with new ideas
that can further its vision.

27. Fairness
means dealing with others consistently and
justly. A leader must check all the facts and
hear everyone out before passing
judgment. He or she must avoid leaping to
conclusions based on incomplete evidence.
When people feel they that are being
treated fairly, they reward a leader with
loyalty and dedication.

28. ?