This presentation is about Mahatma Gandhi his life story in relation to the leadership style and traits, and behaviors.

1. Group members: Muganthan, Shahin, Chanuka, Budika, Steve
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2. What is Leadership and Leaders?
• Leadership
The ability to inspire confidence and support
among the people who are needed to achieve
organizational goals
(Dublin 2007)
• Leaders
Anyone who is influencing the activities of
others towards the achievement of a goal

3. Characteristics of a Leader
There are three categories for a good leader
• Personal traits
• Task accomplishment traits
• Motives
• Cognitive factors
• So lets see these categories briefly and what
factors include in these categories for a good
leader

4. Mahatma
Gandhi

5. Introduction
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Born: 2 October 1869
Died: 30 January 1948(78 years), New Delhi of India
Born Place: Probandar, Kathiawar Agency, British India
Cause of death: Assassination
Education: university college London
Known for: Prominent figure of Indian independence
movement, propounding the philosophy of
Styagraha and Ahimsa advocating nonviolence, pacifism
• Religion: Hinduism
• Other names: Mohandas Karamchand

6. Is Mahatma Gandhi Good
leader?
To identify his leadership qualities lets compare
him against the leadership theories in
practice……..

7. Personal Traits
The personal traits which mahatma Gandhi
practiced in his life

8. Self confidence
Salt March
Enthusiasm
Assertiveness
Warmth
Effective
Leader
Emotionally stable
Trust worthiness

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Extraversion
Humility
Effective
Leader
Mentoring

10. Traits
Examples
Self confidence
Salt march- where he marched 388 km to the sea at Dandhi,
Gujarat and make salt for himself
Assertiveness
Mahatma Gandhi did the all things in a good and a correct way
and achieved his goal of, independence for India in 1947
Warmth
Mahatma Gandhi was good with all religions people and
understand their feelings
Enthusiasm
In South Africa’s government came to Gandhi to stop the nonviolence and they demanded many benefits to him but he refused
Get the independence from British for India
Emotionally stable From British government many influence can to stop the
campaign but he was very stable in his goal
Trust worthiness
He always walked his talk and if he give a promise he will do it

11. Traits
Examples
Extraversion
He implemented non-violence 1st in South Africa and the Indians
followed and adapted it as he told
In India when he presented his non-violence the people adapted it
without fail
Humility
Stand for the rights to Indians in South Africa and demanding
independence in India from the British emperor.
Mentoring
Mahatma Gandhi showed the way to independence for Indians
and took the equal rights for South Africans
According to this Mahatma Gandhi had a good and excellent personal traits within him
so that is the reason the Indians call him as the
“father of the nation”

12. Task accomplishment traits
The task oriented traits which mahatma Gandhi
practiced in his life

13. Courage
Internal locus of control
Effective
Leader
Emotional intelligence
Passion
Flexibility and adaptability

14. Traits
Examples
Courage
South Africa- Discrimination for black
In the train and Gandhi talked back for his rights, Stagecoach traveling
and beaten by the diver because refusing to make room for a
European passenger
Gandhi was jailed many times but he kept going forward
Emotional intelligence
Gandhi had many characteristics as self controlled, self confident,
inspiration, influence, achievement, developing others and many
more.
Passion
He had a passion to serve others though he was a lawyer but he gave
his heart to public service
Flexibility and
adaptability
When British invited Gandhi for the war conference in Delhi he went
for it and actively recruited Indians for the war effort
Internal locus of control
He never blamed other for the mistakes he took all of them to
himself.
Gandhi achieved his task by getting the independence to India and by thinking different

15. Motives

16. Power motive
Tenacity
Motives
Strong work ethic
Drive and achievement

17. Motives
Examples
Power motive
Gandhi had a socialized power motive were he could drive
the people towards a goal
Tenacity
Gandhi merged the all the people in India as one and spread
the message of non-violence among them and he told the
“for independence non-violence in the tool”
Strong work ethic
Mahatma Gandhi never took weapons to hand although his
weapons was the Non-violence
Gandhi’s legal background helped him develop great
strategies without crossing legal boundaries
Drive and achievements Before Mahatma Gandhi nobody ever thought of resisting
the British for the peace but Gandhi had a goal and vision
for the dream of independence and he achieved it.

18. Cognitive factors
The cognitive factors which mahatma Gandhi
practiced in his life

19. Farsightedness &
conceptual thinking
Insight into people & situations
Cognitive factors
Knowledge of the task
General mental ability
Creativity

20. Cognitive factors
Examples
Farsightedness & conceptual
thinking
Gandhi had a broad picture about the future of India
and how it will be and how to remake it for a suitable
place to get the independence
Knowledge of the task
Gandhi had good and a was knowledge about the
task of getting the independence this came from this
experience in South Africa and in his law knowledge
General mental ability
He had a good general knowledge and prohibited his
people to see the British as enemies although he told
them they are our friends because he knew the
power of British through the Zula war
Creativity
He was the first person to introduce
Satyagraha (devotion to the truth), or non-violent
protest
Insight into people &
situations
Gandhi had a mind set that he could travel deep into
peoples mind
Example: huge campaigns, protest, boycott

21. Leadership style
• Mahatma Gandhi practiced servant leadership
Servant leadership qualities
Good Listener
Empathy
Healing
Awareness
Persuasion
Conceptualization
Foresight
These qualities were within Mahatma Gandhi

22. Famous leaders who were inspired by
Gandhi
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President Barak Obama
Martin Luther King
Steve Jobs
Albert Einstein
Aung San Suu Kyi (Burmese leader)
Dalai Lama (Buddhist Leader)
Nelson Medela
Al Gore (vise president of US)
Ceser Chavez (Mexican American farm leader who performed
gandhi style fast for 36 days in 1988)
• Rebiya Kadeer (Uyghur's, China)

23. Conclusion
• Mahatma Gandhi was a good leader
• He was called as the father of the nation
• His birthday would be declared the
“International Day of Non-Violence”
• The day of his death would be declared
“Martyr’s Day” in India
• He was followed by thousands of followers
and worshiped him as a god

24. Reference
• Leadership with you 2008-2012, Mahatma Gandhi, viewed
date:15/11/2012
URL:http://www.leadership-with-you.com/gandhi-leadership.html
• Wikipedia, Mahatma Gandhi, viewed date: 09/11/2012 edited date:
07/11/2012
URL:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mahatma_Gandhi
• BBC, history figures, viewed date: 08/11/2012
URL:http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/historic_figures/gandhi_mohandas.
shtml
• Gandhi non-violence, viewed date: 10/11/2012
URL:http://www.socialchangenow.ca/mypages/gandhi.htm
• Garden of praise, Mahatma Gandhi, viewed date: 12/11/2012
URL:http://www.gardenofpraise.com/ibdgandhi.htm

25. Thank you…

26. Mahatma
Questions
Questions
Gandhi