By: Joseph Akim Gordon
The management of an organization or institutions must have sound leadership because it is through good leadership the goals or objectives can be achieved.
Therefore, leadership is a process of management that influence an individual or a group of people ‘s behavior for achieving specific goals, it is personal quality of an individual, and leadership is defined as someone who can influence others who have managerial authority, the main objective of a leadership is to influence so that important goals can be achieved.
Leadership is the ability to persuade others to seek defined goals with enthusiastically, this is a human factor that binds a group together and motivates them toward the goal. It is also a factor in development and success of an organization, it includes personal quality of an individual we can as well define a leader as someone who has managerial authority, who can influence and has managerial authority. The leaders must possess and develop certain qualities for influencing and getting the best result from their subordinates.
There are varieties qualities however leadership qualities can be classified into two categories that is personal qualities and managerial qualities. Personal quality includes managerial have personal traits, self-confidence a good leader must have self-confidence and strong will power and must remain enthusiastic and cheerful in the case of obstacles, otherwise he/she cannot enjoy the trust of his subordinates.
A good leader must be flexible, should be able to accommodate other viewpoints and alter his decision if needed. A leader should have ability to take lead and initiative, a leader will often face uncertainty and complexities which requires the leader to take decision promptly, must have quality of imagination, creative abilities and courage to face realities boldly and peacefully. The leadership must be dynamic personality; he/she should be charming and cheerful personality, good health, cool temper conversational ability and decent behavior. he requires tremendous and vigor for hard work, the dynamic personality so that it would be helpful for him attaining good and better performance. The leader must have intellectual capacity he/she must be more intelligent than the subordinates, think logically analyze the situation accurately, interpret the problems clearly.
In many cases people struggle for leadership not necessarily to deliver services, but to serve themselves the resources that should be utilized for the purpose of development but divert the resources for their individual interests that is why most of our projects do not succeed.
Mismanagement of resources, employment of cadres with least qualification and experience.
Project is planned to resolve some inadequacies. Project management requires honest managers who can implement all the components according to the plan, which include monitoring and evaluation. This ensures that the implementation is according to the available resources and time schedule. It also notes that the impact of the project is realized by the targeted beneficiaries and are contented with the output.
The donors will be willing to renew such a project because they are satisfied with the outcome.
Usually, projects are initiated to solve certain unpleasant situation; if the situation got resolved as a result of implementation, then such projects can be regarded as successful.
For this reason, a project can succeed when adequate resources are provided this include human and material resource both complement each other, this means that you have adequate material resources and inadequate human resources and vice-versa, if you have a competent manpower without adequate resource the project will not succeed, so, both resources must be all available.
All our development programs failed because of high level corruption diverting resources for other personal needs makes us in many cases not able to succeed to implement project successfully.
In conclusion it is only through a dynamic, transparent honest and flexible leadership that can drive the project to successful conclusion in every aspect of development there must be transparency, accountability in this manner if a project fails the manager must be accountable.