I often have my MARC classes do an exercise where I ask them to get quiet for a few minutes and visualize someone in their life who has been a good leader. I ask them to write down the traits their good leader has. Then we collect those traits on a piece of flip chart paper and go through it together. I did that recently on my last day of a class, and the 19 trainees gave me the following traits of good leaders, written here for the most part the way they told them to me: P