Session on soft skills. The essential personality traits of a successful leader.

1. Personality Traits
Of Successful
Leaders

2. Hello!
I am here to present a soft skill session
on “What are the personality traits of a
leader?”
You can find me at:
irfanulhaq.farooqi@confiz.com
I am Irfanulhaq

4. Personality Traits
of a Leader

5. ““The myth of management is
that your personal values are
irrelevant or inappropriate at
work.”
― Stan Slap

6. Personality Traits of a Leader
▷ Oration
▷ Confidence
▷ Ambition
▷ Inspirational
▷ Psychological Openness
▷ Appetite for Learning

7. 1.
Oration
The style or manner in which a formal speech is
given.

8. ““The success of your
presentation will be judged not
by the knowledge you send but
by what the listener receives.”
― Lilly Walters

9. “Oratory is the power to talk people out of their
sober and natural opinions.” – Joseph
Chatfield

10. 2.
Confidence
A feeling of self-assurance arising from one's
appreciation of one's own abilities or qualities.

11. ““With confidence, you have
won before you have started.”
― Marcus Garvey

12. "Confidence is a habit that can be
developed by acting as if you already had
the confidence you desire to have." – Brian
Tracy

13. 3.
Ambition
Desire and determination to achieve success.

14. ““If the leader is filled with high
ambition and if he pursues his aims
with audacity and strength of will, he
will reach them in spite of all
obstacles.”
― Carl von Clausewitz

15. “Ambition is the germ from which all growth
of nobleness proceeds.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

16. 4.
Inspirational
Providing or showing creative or spiritual
inspiration.

17. ““Average leaders raise the bar
on themselves; good leaders
raise the bar for others; great
leaders inspire others to raise
their own bar.”
― Orrin Woodward

18. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you
said, people will forget what you did, but
people will never forget how you made them
feel.” —Maya Angelou

19. 5.
Psychological Openness
The willingness to allow yourself to be influenced
by other people and to share your ideas openly.

20. ““I always say be humble but be firm.
Humility and openness are the key to
success without compromising your
beliefs.”
― George Hickenlooper

21. “If you can embrace being wrong; if you can
be free of illusion; if you can question
everything; including yourself; that’s
openness.” – Unknown

22. 6.
Appetite for Learning
Desire of knowledge or skills through experience,
study, or by being taught.

23. ““Leadership and learning are
indispensable to each other.”
― John F. Kennedy

24. “The most important thing about education is
appetite.” – Winston Churchill

25. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness
Leader

26. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness

27. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness

28. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness

29. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness

30. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness

31. Inspirational
Oration Confidence
Ambition
LearningOpenness

32. Take Away Message
Love your work with a can do attitude, be confident and
inspire your colleagues with your ambition towards
success and welcome any lesson each day from
anyone.” – Irfanulhaq Farooqi

33. Thanks!
You can find me at:
irfanulhaq.farooqi@confiz.com
Skype: irfanulhaq.farooqi.confiz