What make you a good leader ? I've never been a leader in a team work. But I sometimes think about being a leader one day and it gives me a question what make you a good leader. Who was the ideal leader in my experience ? I think of a friend of mine who was a team leader when we worked together a couple of years ago. It was a sales job at the touristic market overseas and it was challenging for me because I had never been a sales person before as I have tendency being shy to talk to strangers. When I saw her at first, she seemed confident and positive . And she was very cheerful to team members and she had never got us down even if our sales was not good enough . Most impressive thing was that she always led by example. Before she gave order , she set an example herself so our co-workers began to follow her way with respect like she respected us. Eventually our team work was fantastic and our revenue reached the peak. My ideal leader type is to be soft seemingly but be powerful in my word.