Leadership personality traits that would make you a winner.

Five major traits underlie personality, according to psychologists. They are introversion/extroversion, openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness and neuroticism. But leaders have to be clever with their traits because of the personalities that they relate with. Here are some traits a leaders could do well to have:
1. Empathy with your customer or clients: The ability to relate with your customers at their own level of reasoning and understanding their challenges and plight.
2. Management and leadership skills: There is a large array of management and leadership skills which would be tackled in another write up.      
3. Ability to handle stress : Working under pressure is something that all leaders should be able to handle. The more people and resources you are responsible for handling, the more pressure will be on you.
4. Respect for people: Leaders who oversee resources and human beings are expected to be able to respect people the relate with. Since respect is reciprocal it enables people to respect them too.
5. Dynamism and positivism: The ability to change and adapt to situations is a leadership trait that is very essential for success. So is positivism or seeing things in a positive light no matter how gloomy they are. A leader has to sell hope to his people.
6. Networking skills: Relating with people in different professions or callings is an important trait that every leaders should have. Since leaders do not and cannot know everything, they have to be able to harness their relational skills to enhance their ability to achieve their goals.
7. Political sensibility: Every organization, country or group has its politics. The leader should have as an important trait the gift of being able to delve into the politics of his environment and use it to his advantage and to that of his goals and aspirations.
8. Having sufficient presence: A power aura and a dignifying presence is an advantage to leader who wishes to influence his environment for good. If he has this attribute, even in his absence, a leaders influence would still be felt. 
9. A sense of humor: A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down. If a leader has humor as an attribute he also has the ability to sell ideas that are bitter and unpalatable on the short run but could benefit people on the long run. A sense of humor makes it easier to relate with leaders who handle critical and serious issues. 
10 Being sensitive to the environment: What happens in the environment is an important part of leading. How do we relate with what happens around us. Events and activities that unfold around us would affect our leadership positively or negatively depending on how we relate to such activities.
11. Adapting to the style ; Leaders have to learn to adapt to styles and demands of the environment they find themselves in. A particular way of speaking, dress codes, protocols and traditions are often observed by good leaders so that they can be accepted in the places they go to.