How Outstanding Leaders Lead With Affect : An Examination Of Charismatic, Ideological, And Pragmatic

As part of this critical assignment, it is a requirement that I reflect on my own experience as a Leader where I have demonstrated a high level of emotional intelligence, as well use theories to demonstrate my learning’s.

Leadership is a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal. The article “Leadership That Gets Results” by Daniel Goleman is an article that helps readers understand that there is not only one way of becoming a successful leader. Research indicates that leaders with best results do not rely on only one leadership style. Goleman, describes leaderships styles as array of clubs in a golf pro’s bag. Over the course of the game, the pro picks clubs based on the demands of the shot. Thinking is involved during the selection, but usually it is automatic. The pro is aware of the challenge ahead, quickly utilizes the right tool, and puts it to work. It has also been found that emotional intelligence

The book “Primal Leadership: Unleashing the Power of Emotional Intelligence” explores the role of emotional intelligence in leadership. Also, opens links between organizational success or failure and "primal leadership," the authors argue that a leader 's emotions are spreadable. If a leader spread energy and enthusiasm, the organization will thrives. If a leader spreads negativity and conflict, the organization will struggles. The authors of this book are Daniel Goleman, Richard Boyatzis, and Annie McKee’s. The following paragraph will provide short background about each author.

Throughout history, certain leaders were described as having exceptional qualities, such as charisma, that enabled them to motivate followers to achieve outstanding performances. Used wisely, it’s certainly a blessing; indulged, it can be a curse and therefore, these leaders can lead people ahead or astray. Famous leaders such as Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, and Roosevelt all shared a similar quality, charisma, which helped them rise in power and become leaders for their countries. This rise in leadership is a cause of crisis situations, distress in people, and inspirational and charismatic leaders who give promising deliverances. At the time, many leaders were struggling to rebuild their nations and as a cause, many totalitarian dictators such

Dr. John Finley and Dr. Tom Loughman provide understanding for all professions ranging from leadership researchers to management in their article, Beowulf and the Teaching of Leadership. The authors describe how charismatic leadership relates to the main character of the epic poem, Beowulf. This relationship deals with both positive and negative attributes of a charismatic leader in today’s society. They also provided enough support and claims on why Beowulf is a such a great example of being a charismatic leader.

Charismatic leaders are able to inspire emotion and passion in their followers by being optimistic and enthusiastic. Without passionate and emotional employees, an organization will be crippled and unable to face

As I look at my past, and remember all the leaders I have had, and the type of leader I have been, I cannot help and try to categorize the different types of leadership. One specific leader stands out the most, that is Alf Clark. He was a basketball coach, dean of students, and wonderful mentor throughout my high school years. Mr. Clark was the perfect example of expressive leader. I remember one day, before a practice he came up to me and asked me how I was doing. I gave him the generic answer, “I’m fine.” But, that was not enough for him, he knew that their was something going on. He knew this because he took the time to get to know me as a player and as a student. Overall, he cared about the emotions that we had because he knew that they

Scholars make further distinctions in leadership styles by elaborating on some of the components of Bass’ taxonomy. Chu et al. (2009), for example, elaborate the concept of charismatic leadership. This is a value-based style that leads to emotional bonds between leaders and followers. The latter transcend their self-interests because of their belief in a collective

In 1978, James MacGregor Burns, a renowned political theorist, penned an innovative grand theory of leadership that informed political strategy and governance for late 20th-century leaders. His seminal work, Leadership, enumerates the core principles of social psychology and political science that influence effective leadership. Psychoanalysis, motivation, and personal drives shape his theoretical framework. Why does conflict-theory impact politics? How do leaders convey a vision and mobilize support for it? Why do formative childhood experiences affect one’s political ideology and leadership style? While Burns’ normative values of leadership subtly guide this text, he primarily focuses his core analysis on the empirical effectiveness of

Antonakis, J., Fenley, M., & Liechti, S. (2011). Can Charisma Be Taught? Tests of Two Interventions. Academy Of Management Learning & Education, 10(3), 374-396. Antonakis et al starts off research by posing a question. “Can leadership, and in particular charisma, be taught? The authors set out to prove in fact that training can training managers a specific set of charismatic leadership tactics not only improves their charisma, but their effectiveness as leaders. Charismatic leadership is defined as by Antonakis et al as being a sub element of transformational leadership. In the first study researchers assigned 34 middle managers from a Swiss company into two groups randomly. One group received training in charisma and the others received no training. The group receiving training were trained in principles on charismatic leadership. In the second study focused on 41 MBA students enrolled in a leadership course at a Swiss public university monitor charismatic leadership. The students were videotaped giving a 4 minute speech addressing problems within the company while also giving a plan of action to staff. After, speech was done, each participant received training in charismatic leadership and was asked to deliver the same speech 6 weeks later by videotape. Results reveal that improvement and effectiveness as a leader were made in both research groups. This study concluded that feedback is important to the growth and development of leaders and must be provided to

Bryman, A., 1993, ‘Charismatic leadership in business organisations: some neglected issues’, Leadership Quarterly, vol. 4, no. 3, pp. 289-304.

Emotional intelligence is an important characteristic in becoming a good leader. “Emotional intelligence is the ability to manage oneself and one's relationships in mature and constructive ways” (Kinicki & Kreitner, 2009, p.137).Being a good leader entails more than just being smart; leaders need to be able to connect to their employees emotionally and empathetically. Organizations today not only look for leaders with the skills, but leaders that can emotionally connect to employees to obtain the organization’s goal. “Leaders have always played a primordial emotional role. No doubt humankind’s original leaders-whether tribal chieftains or shamanesses-earned their place in large part because their leadership was

Particular traits and characteristics are what allow leaders to lead and inspire. For starters, charisma correlates with maturity. It is a measure of one’s maturity and character. It also coincides with humility. Charismatic leaders know exactly how to listen to employees concerns which in return encourages employee loyalty. With that brings the quality characteristic of inspiration. These leaders have the ability to inspire just about anyone. They also possess positivity, optimism, and passion for a cause and attract like-minded people to them easily. (Roberts, C., Demand Media) In addition, one of the most important skills charismatic leaders dominate in is communication. Charismatic leaders are known to have exceptional communication skills. They are both verbally persuasive yet are still able to connect to their followers on a deeper, more emotional level. They are able to persuade an appealing vision in return stimulates strong emotions. Because of their outstanding communication abilities the whole organization opts to follow these leaders passionately and leaves no room for opposition for the leader.

“What do effective leaders do to remain effective?” was a question that I proposed to my Leadership Application Program Speakers Round Table Class. In response I received a number of answers from personality traits to emotional intelligence. Leadership is a word that can be defined in many different ways. In the article “Leadership That Gets Results” they take the time and breakdown the six different steps of leadership, the six styles are coercive, authoritative, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting and coaching. The late David McClelland, a noted Harvard University psychologist, found that leaders with strengths in a critical mass of six or more emotional intelligence

Researchers have proposed several characteristics of leaders described as ‘charismatic’. The widely accepted characteristics of charismatic leaders are (Bryman et al., 2011, p. 90-91):