MAHARISHI VIDYA MANDIR SENIOR

SECONDARY SCHOOL

ENGLISH ALS PROJECT

NAME : Jayadharani. M

STD : XII

TOPIC : What are the requisite traits

for a good leader

 INDEX

Bonafide Certificate

Acknowledgment

Working Plan

Research

Questionnaire

Feedback Responses

Report / Essay

Group Reflection

Bibliography
 MAHARISHI VIDYA MANDIR
SENIOR SECONDARY SCHOOL ILUPPUR
CERTIFICATE
2021 - 2022

This is to certify that Jayadharani. M

studying in Class XII Sec A1 has successfully

completed her ALS based Project Portfolio

for the academic session 2021-22 under

the guidance of Ms. M. Renuka. She has

adhered to the timeline specified by the

Board for the planning, preparation and

submitted the project portfolio within the

stipulated time.

PRINCIPAL
I EXPRESS MY GRATITUDE TO OUR PRICIPAL
MS. R.MALLIKA AND ACADEMIC CO
ORDINATOR MR. M.SAITHARUN OF OUR
INSTITUTION FOR CONTINUOUS SUPPORT AND
ENCOURAGEMENT.

I EXPRESS MY SINCERE THANKS TO MY

ENGLISH TEACHER MS. M.RENUKA FOR ME TO
COMPLETE THIS PROJECT SUCCESSFULLY.
 WORKING PLAN
We selected the topic "What are the

requisite traits for a good leader" under

group A category 'interview'. Since the

situation is not favorable for an usual

interview due to COVID 19, we chose to

use digital forms. We first studied about

leadership and its requisite qualities for a

good leader with the help of a few books

and websites which gave us an idea to

create valuable questionnaire.

Then we prepared a set of questionnaire.

Then we collected responses through

online mode from people of various age

groups. We carried out this process in the

Forms App to exchange our questionnaire

and to collect responses. A variety of

responses brought us to the conclusion

that different people have varying

opinions and views

 RESEARCH
Leadership is the action of leading a group of people or an
organization. Leadership, both as a research area and as a
practical skill, encompasses the ability of an individual,
group or organization to "lead", influence or guide other
individuals, teams, or entire organizations. The word
"leadership" often gets viewed as a contested term.
In the past, some researchers have argued that the actual
influence of leaders on organizational outcomes is
overrated and romanticized as a result of biased
attributions about leaders.
Leadership, although largely talked about, has been
described as one of the least understood concepts across
all cultures and civilizations. Over the years, many
researchers have stressed the prevalence of this
misunderstanding, stating that the existence of several
flawed assumptions, or myths, concerning leadership
often interferes with individuals' conception of what
leadership is all about.
1. Leadership is innate
2. Leadership is possessing power over others
3. Leaders are positively influential
4. Group members resist leaders
One of the more recent definitions of leadership comes
from Werner Erhard, Michael C. Jensen, Steve Zaffron, and
Kari Granger who describe leadership as "an exercise in
language that results in the realization of a future that
wasn't going to happen anyway, which future fulfills (or
contributes to fulfilling) the concerns of the relevant
parties...".
Most theories in the 20th century argued that great leaders
were born, not made. Current studies have indicated that
leadership is much more complex and cannot be boiled
down to a few key traits of an individual. Years of
observation and study have indicated that one such trait or
a set of traits does not make an extraordinary leader. What
scholars have been able to arrive at is that leadership traits
of an individual do not change from situation to situation;
such traits include intelligence, assertiveness, or physical
attractiveness.
People with these traits often tend to wholeheartedly
pursue their goals, work long hours, are ambitious, and
often are very competitive with others. Cognitive capacity
includes intelligence, analytical and verbal ability,
behavioral flexibility, and good judgment. Individuals with
these traits are able to formulate solutions to difficult
problems, work well under stress or deadlines, adapt to
changing situations, and create well-thought-out plans for
the future.
Leadership differences affected by gender.Meta-analyses
show that people associate masculinity and agency more
strongly with leadership than femininity and communion.
[113] Such stereotypes may have an effect on leadership
evaluations of men and women.
Many distinct conceptualizations are often lumped
together under the umbrella of leadership performance,
including outcomes such as leader effectiveness, leader
advancement, and leader emergence (Kaiser et al., 2008).
For instance, "leadership performance" may refer to the
career success of the individual leader, performance of the
group or organization, or even leader emergence.
 What are the requisite traits
for a good leader
Response 1 :-
1. Name
Answer: Rakshana M

2. Age
Answer: 15

3. Mobile Number / E-mail ID

Answer: Achu212@gmail.com

4. A leader can be described in many ways according to you,

how should an ideal leader be ?
Answer: He /she should be one amoung people to get a better
understanding on common people needs and deeds.

5. Whom do you admire as a leader ?

Answer: Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose

6. Why a leader is necessary if everyone can do their own job?

Answer: To organize all the different ideas and to utilize
everyone's work for success.

7. As a citizen, will you accept that homemakers have the

qualities to become your 'leader'. Why?
Answer: Yes. Definitely homemaker has the ability to become a
leader. Because they manage financial problems, family
development, bringing up the enlightening future generations
even some of them were handling their own career at the
same time.

8. Have you ever thought to become a leader? If yes what

would be your cheif concern?
Answer: Whenever I happened to see orphans sitting in
platform avoided by their family. I thought to become their
leader who could support them as one of their leader.

9. In your opinion what are the most required qualities to

become a good leader?
Answer: Patience, good understanding, problem solving
ability and courage to lead.

10. How should a good leader react to internal chaos in his /

her team ?
Answer: On one side he / she should support their members
by teachings and on other side he / she should take action
according to the situation against own members if it was
wrong.

11. How do you expect your leader to be? Just to lead you or
need to accompany you. Which type you prefer and why?
Answer: Both. A leader should be able adapt to the need of
the people according to the situation. But I prefer the one
who is accompanying because in this manner leader would
able to get better understanding on people.

12. Is there a successful family support behind every

successful leader? How?
Answer: If a leader is successful I am sure there is a
support of a family behind the sucess. The family
support will give a boost and courage positive vibes.

13. A leader struggles so much, and they sacrifice

themselves at times to save their mates, what's your
thought on this?
Answer: Yes absolutely it was a great thing. But instead
of sacrificing themselves they should try to solve the
conflict at any cost. As we cannot loose a good leader.

14. Leadership traits are often obtained by experience.

Is it true ?
Answer: Yes absolutely. Life is full of experience.
Experience makes as learn everything we encounter.

15. Suggest leadership qualities for your future

generations.
Answer: Thoughtful, steady mind, supportive, self
confidence and hardworking in a smart way.
Response 2 :-

1. Name
Answer: M. Chandrasekaran

2. Age
Answer: 43

3. Mobile Number / E-mail ID

Answer: 7598282092

4. A leader can be described in many ways according to you,

how should an ideal leader be ?
Answer: Honest

5. Whom do you admire as a leader ?

Answer: APJ. Abdul kalam

6. Why a leader is necessary if everyone can do their own

job?
Answer: To lead and to unite everyone.

7. As a citizen, will you accept that homemakers have the

qualities to become your 'leader'. Why?
Answer: Yes, they were the 'all rounder' in the family.

8. Have you ever thought to become a leader? If yes what

would be your cheif concern?
Answer: No.
9. In your opinion what are the most required qualities to
become a good leader?
Answer: Critical thinking.

10. How should a good leader react to internal chaos in his /

her team ?
Answer: Analysing the situation .

11. How do you expect your leader to be? Just to lead you or
need to accompany you. Which type you prefer and why?
Answer: Accompany bacuse he was one amoung us who
should get know our pains and needs.

12. Is there a successful family support behind every

successful leader? How?
Answer: Yes, family teachings can improve ones quality

13. A leader struggles so much, and they sacrifice

themselves at times to save their mates, what's your
thought on this?
Answer: No they should not sacrifice themselves.

14. Leadership traits are often obtained by experience. Is it

true ?
Answer: True

15. Suggest leadership qualities for your future generations.

Answer: Honesty is the best quality
 Response 3 :-
1. Your full Name
Answer: Jagadish Dhruva

2. Your age
Answer: 17

3. Your phone number / email ID

Answer: Intellectualguy143@yahoo.com

4. A leader can be described in many ways. According to you,

how should an ideal leader be?
Answer: An ideal leader should be an intellectual thinker and
have his standards high regarding any
criteria or criticism he face, he needs to know the fact of up
coming any problems he is facing.

5. Whom do you admire as a leader?

Answer: IAS Irai Anbu, the book he wrote called Saga Varam was
my favourite book I have been reading,
Being a IAS officer, writer,motivational speaker he impressed
me!

6. Why is a leader necessary if everyone can do their own work?

Answer: For a external force, like in law of inertia
An object said to at rest if it at rest only moves but an external
force is applies to it...they act an external
force that is needed for constant move of life process.

7. As a citizen, will you accept a homemaker to become your

"leader"? Why?
Answer: Of course leader is someone who multi task and
homemakers do it frequently
They inherit the best trait to became leader
8. Have you ever thought to become a leader? If yes, what
would be your chief concern?
Answer: Leader....my chief concern will a friendship among
group members and punctuality and
perfection in the work I'm assisted for
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9. In your opinion, What are the most required qualities to
become a good leader?
Answer: Self caring and other caring, being aware of
surroundings, growing towards right things
10. How would a good leader react to internal chaos in
his/her team?
Answer: Be calm you'll get answers within you, no one is best
teacher rather than you, to be a teacher
or scholar it doesn't mean you need to know down all but to
make comfortable and that's a good
leader react towards his internal chaos.
11. How do you except your leader to be? Just to lead you or
need to accompany you? Which type
would you prefer and why?
Answer: Both leading sometimes and accompanying
sometimes there things which needs both
12. Is there a successful family support behind every
successful leader? How?
Answer: Not at all, many people's came up in a harsh
conditions to make them up like, ChristianRonaldo CR7 who
grew in a very poor family and now famous football player
and Justin bieber a famous where his dad felt his mom at 17
making her pregnant but his mom doesn't abort him that
make
her as best mom ever
13. A leader struggles so much, and they sacrifice
themselves at times to save their mates, what's
your thought on this?
Answer: It's an essentially quality of a leader, when we are
putted in an certain position we have our
own duties that what make a leader and a team member
different if everyone wants to be same there
is no need of a leader
14. Leadership traits are often obtained with experience. Is
this true?
Answer: Experiences are best trait to make matured one's
mind and I accept it.
15. Suggest leadership qualities for the future generations.
Answer: A Suggestion is do whatever you feel good that
satisfy your soul but before doing remember
two things:
•“The thing you are doing should not affect someone in their
past, present, or future while thinking
about what you did
•“Do help every human and organism and plan2 ofngs with
whatevers amount you can help them
even thou it's little bthe heart of one's decides it's small are
big.
Response 4 :-
1. Your full Name
Answer: Kailesh k Vasu
2. Your age
Answer: 22
3. Your phone number / email ID
Answer: Kailesh11@gmail.com
4. A leader can be described in many ways.
According to you, how should an ideal leader be?
Answer: Should be best example to the society and helps in
assessing peoples issues clearly
5. Whom do you admire as a leader?
Answer: I admire my Zoology Sir Mr.Das
He is one of my inspiration in provoking my eagar towards
the field of micro biology as I got a clearance
in my decision
6. Why is a leader necessary if everyone can do their own
work?
Answer: Everyone can do their work but a work needs a plan
plot to do, leaders are someone who is
giving plots to follow
7. As a citizen, will you accept a homemaker to become your
"leader"? Why?
Answer: I respect my mom as a leader she is more talent in
finding my lacuna and filling it up, and she
can say about my moods and manage it perfect, she is good
manager without even studying BMA
8. Have you ever thought to become a leader? If yes, what
would be your chief concern?
Answer: I've thought numerous times, just because I don't
like to be dependent on someone, my chief concern would
be independent and listening to others
As you need to know being independent means I'll ingore
everyone's ideas I'll listen and I'll the decision
taker, I don't need none to interface my decision there
9. In your opinion, What are the most required qualities to
become a good leader?
Answer: Be yourself, and develop a tactics to manage whatever
situations who are tangled with
10. How would a good leader react to internal chaos in his/her
team?
Answer: To know the art to make it clear by making both the
parties what's actually best or mingling
their ideas into one
11. How do you except your leader to be? Just to lead you or
need to accompany you? Which type
would you prefer and why?
Answer: A listener ....he should listen everyone's choice and
decided to come into a conclusion
12. Is there a successful family support behind every successful
leader? How?
Answer: Speaking positively,
Having a good family will definitely a plus point but its not
necessary that everyone has it...
And family is secondary
One's own will to do is necessary there...
There are peoples who's achieved with family support and
without family support atlast it's all in one's
will to do
13. A leader struggles so much, and they sacrifice themselves
at times to save their mates, what's
your thought on this?
Answer: It's true, the one who sacrifices seems a lot in assess,
but if it's really worthy to do, they will
doing to whatever beyond scarification,
Like Acceptations it's painful when you need to accept
something you haven't did but they will do it
14. Leadership traits are often obtained with experience.
Is this true?
Answer: Yeah, experience is needed many people have a
contrast thoughts like do age really matters
maturity?
Age, maturity, experience are all collected phenomenon
so different age leads different experiences
15. Suggest leadership qualities for the future
generations.
Answer: Just don't be dependent, today's world will hold
you when you are worthable for this society,
Maybe its OK to no concern their concept but a bitter fact
is we still live as a society so it's OK let's prove
what we can prove ...
After all trying never had a limitations
 Response 5 :-
1. Your full Name
Answer: Lavanya S
2. Your age
Answer: 36
3. Your phone number / email ID
Answer: 9444225044
4. A leader can be described in many ways.
According to you, how should an ideal leader be?
Answer: A good individual praised by good elders.
5. Whom do you admire as a leader?
Answer: Gandhi ji his non violence towards ahimsa is
assuming.
6. Why is a leader necessary if everyone can do their own
work?
Answer: To guide the separated together into a group making
them below one canopy of success.
7. As a citizen, will you accept a homemaker to become your
"leader”? Why?
Answer: Being a homemaker, I do many works also I'll do my
works in my likeable way I do like to be a
leader.
8. Have you ever thought to become a leader? If yes, what
would be your chief concern?
Answer: Affection towards peoples, spreading positivity.
9. In your opinion, What are the most required qualities to
become a good leader?
Answer: Confidence, patience, being with good peoples,
respecting elders words.
10. How would a good leader react to internal chaos in
his/her team?
Answer: Dealing the work and relating with actually done
work those work you have done before.
11. How do you except your leader to be? Just to lead you or
need to accompany you? Which type
would you prefer and why?
Answer: A good supporter
12. Is there a successful family support behind every
successful leader? How?
Answer: Yes, family is very much important in dealing with
success
13. A leader struggles so much, and they sacrifice
themselves at times to save their mates, what's
your thought on this?
Answer: It hurts at the start to sacrifice things and people
often won't sacrifice things because its
present but future is success many haven't sure about it...
So they fear to sacrifice things but leaders are someone
who believe in future success so they sacrifice
with plannings.
14. Leadership traits are often obtained with experience. Is
this true?
Answer: Yes experience is must is obtaining trait.
15. Suggest leadership qualities for the future generations.
Answer: Be Bold enough to conquer your problems, nothing
is bigger in front of you, it's only your
imagination making it bigger.
Response 6 :-
1. Your full Name
Answer: SNEHA.S
2. Your age
Answer: 18
3. Your phone number / email ID
Answer: manjulasneha230@gmail.com
4. A leader can be described in many ways.
According to you, how should an ideal leader be?
Answer: Honest, straight forward
5. Whom do you admire as a leader?
Answer: Indra Gandhi, Jhansi Rani, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam
6. Why is a leader necessary if everyone can do their own
work?
Answer: Leader can guide person to work properly.
7. As a citizen, will you accept a homemaker to become your
"leader"? Why?
Answer: Yes, because homemaker take care of the family in
all the situation so that homemaker can
become leader.
8. Have you ever thought to become a leader? If yes, what
would be your chief concern?
Answer: Yes, to help the people to basic fundamental rights
and fight for their needs
9. In your opinion, What are the most required qualities to
become a good leader?
Answer: Self-awareness, confidence, ethics.
10. How would a good leader react to internal chaos in
his/her team?
Answer: Remain calm.
11. How do you except your leader to be? Just to lead
you or need to accompany you? Which type
would you prefer and why?
Answer: Honest
12. Is there a successful family support behind every
successful leader? How?
Answer: Yes, father & mother manage the family to run
as a successful leader
13. A leader struggles so much, and they sacrifice
themselves at times to save their mates, what's
your thought on this?
Answer: I think that's their duties
14. Leadership traits are often obtained with experience.
Is this true?
Answer: Yes, absolutely
15. Suggest leadership qualities for the future
generations.
Answer: Honest & confidence
 ESSAY
Requisite traits for a leader

A leader can be described in many ways, they aren't

scaled according to popularity but the qualities they

possess, leader is praised by good individual who

brings clearance in someone's thoughts focus on

developing others...

Many peoples admire leaders who posses good

Traits that one needs to have, leaders like APJ Abdul

Kalam, Jhansi Rani, Indra Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi,

are always peoples favourite patriotic leaders, but

also peoples consider those they know personally

are also they leaders Father, Mother, Teacher, and a

personal Friend who they know personally but not by

the over-all world are their Leaders...

A Leader is necessary even though peoples can do

their job, leaders help subordinates to excel at their

work and every aspect of life by expressing

confidence in their abilities, they listen to their group

mate's views and gather together to form a group of

one ideal positive conclusion that needs to be

carried over for a Achieving result.

Many people themselves considered to became a

leader as being a leader is one's great Trait to

express their great view, chief concern regarding

that affection towards mates, being independent,

self confidence and self-esteem is any aspect of

life...

A good leader posses calm effect in dealing

his/her own choas.

To be a leader for someone has different

situations sometimes it needs accompanying and

leading in both case accordingly to situations.

A leader may raised in both successful and

unsuccessful conditions has they have their own

will to grow it all depends upon their quality to

achieve further in life.

A leader struggles so much and they sacrifice

themselves at times to save their mates, it felt has

a common phenomenon to be as it's the duty of a

leader position to get good conclusions at last of

works they are assigned.

As speaking that a leader is obtained by

experience, has experience is the best teacher to

complete any task

Some suggestions regarding Leadership

qualities for future generations were

accepting success and failure neutrality,

adapting ability to any situations, acceptance,

adjustment, trust
 GROUP REFLECTION
Our group consists of five members. Each one of us was
good individually at different sections like analyzing,
designing, organizing, encouraging, intellectual. We
spent our time mostly in analyzing the issues and
creating the questionnaire which is more valuable. It
developed a bond between us. We had a good
communication which is reflected in our project. We
worked effectively together. We understood each of our
strengths and made sure they were used properly.
While receiving many responses, we shared them
among our group to get a better understanding on
different views and opinions from different people. We
learnt a lot during this project, we co-ordinated very well
with others and finished the project with ease.Our goal
was to produce as many ideas as possible. We listened
all the ideas carefully and then we mentioned all the
ideas sheet so we don’t forget them or they don’t get
lost.
By using this approach we improved our group work a
lot and did some creative modifications as well.
In conclusion, we feel as if we built trust in our
team.This has demonstrated that a team is more than
the sum of its component parts. Crucial to what we did
was assessing and recognising our strengths and
contacts and bringing them together to create
something more powerful than any of us individually.
 BIBLIOGRAPHY

WEBSITE :
WIKIPEDIA

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leadership#

BOOKS :

Leaders on Leadership: Insights from Corporate

India

-All India Management Association

Leadership: A critical text

-Western, Simon

Leadership: Limits and Possibilities

-Grint, KeitArt

The Art of Leadership: Small Things, Done Well

-Micheal Loop