Leaders Learn By Leading, And They Learn Best

“True leaders create more leaders” This quote is from a song by La'Reonte Wright. He is a hip-hop artist who raps on very diverse topics such as the Mike Brown shooting and how we should expand our minds and better ourselves and last, but not least, grow as people and as leaders. Leaders create more leaders by mentoring those they are working with.

What is your initial reaction to the question, Are leaders born or can they be taught?

Rosabeth Moss Kanter, Harvard Business School professor, have written that “Leaders are more powerful role models when they learn than when they teach.” They teach and inspire the young through their actions as the idiom would say: a picture is worth a thousand words. Role models have an important influence on the lives of children at a young age and that is shown through the collection of poetry, the Chinese-American struggles and achievements in the last one-hundred fifty years, and the experiences of Scout and Atticus Finch in the To Kill a Mockingbird.

This report is to provide the ways in leadership and learning through organisational learning theories and examples of organisational, social and personal areas. Reflection of organisational theories to the leadership and learning is the main issue of the report and it will help to understand how the organisational theories will work in real circumstances.

A leader is often described as an individual who has the ability to motivate, inspire, and lead others to work toward a common goal. A good leader must possess specific attributes, such as integrity, confidence, creativity, commitment, and inspiration. A true leader is someone who leads by pure example and has a driven purpose. I’m confident that I’m a natural born goal driven leader, and I possess many leadership qualities that I’ve developed and demonstrated over my high school career.

What is my leadership philosophy? I examined what is most important to me as a leader. The term leadership has such a complex range of understanding that it cannot be generalized for everyone. I must determine who I am as a leader. I asked myself, what is it that shapes a leader? How do you determine what is a leader? Will these factors sum up to create something larger than myself as a leader? As I reflect on the understanding of the definition of leadership. To me leadership is not just having individuals to follow, just having a title, or achieved by following a few principles or beliefs. Leadership has complex properties embodied in the term. To me, the embodiment of leadership is ultimately having the courage to make the right choices. The right choices are not just what everyone wants, or how engaging, or even when empowering others. It is how a

Throughout my life I have been placed in many leadership roles from a young age and have learned from each of these experiences. From being a chairman of my elementary school’s talent show all the way until I became my high school’s chapter of Mu Alpha Theta Vice President I have had roles of ranging responsibilities and success. The leadership role that I learned the most from was the one that I view to have been the least successful. In Mrs. Quale’s history class in eighth grade I was placed in charge of a learning group in which we would be self teaching through planned activities and setting our own pace for the quarter. I was purposefully placed in a group that needed help in the class because of both their grades and their behavior in and outside of class. I went into this role and assignment with a bad attitude and did not place any trust in the people working with me, making the project toxic from the beginning. As a result, I learned the detrimental effects of leading without stewardship, failing to encourage group synergy, and

My philosophy is based off of my experience and upbringing. I care about what I’ve been through and where I am from. I care about your experiences and where you are from. The hope is, that despite the differences, we can come together and complete the mission. And that is ultimately what is important – the mission. Everything will come back to this and I will ask, “How does it affect the mission?” I believe that relationships are key to the job that we do as Soldiers. We take care of the Soldiers below us and above us. We need others to help us to accomplish the mission. Very rarely can we accomplish a task without the help of others. I challenge you to nurture those relationships. Look for ways to develop

Every day in the military, we have the opportunity to grow as leaders. Working with people from different backgrounds and life experiences often leads to disagreements and confrontations. Not all disagreements and confrontations are bad though. People often grow more in the difficult times, and when forced to work through difficult situations, than in the good times. When we cannot change a situation, we must look inwards and force ourselves to adapt. The fact is, during a long military career, you will be forced to work with people who have different leadership philosophies than our own. When this happens, there are two options: find a way to work together, or be frustrated your entire time. There are distinct experiences, specifically during my time as a 1SG, that forced me to adapt to a situation, and grow as a leader, and use these lessons to help others grow as well.

DuBois projected the image of a confident, hostile, and reserved individual. In contrast, Garvey initially came across as easy-going and flamboyant. However, he flaunted his blackness wherever he went. Black pride and black identity were the cornerstones of his philosophy, and they vibrated through everything he said and did.

There are always chances and possibilities to become a good leader regardless the odds against you, gender, age, race, education, previous experience, etc. This paper defines what leadership is and it explains the relationship between leadership and influence. It also highlights the importance of finding opportunities to develop skills and creating strong to become a good leader. It is also emphasized the power of influence that comes from motivating your team, to improve performance and satisfaction and that setting a clear goal is mandatory for good leadership. The conclusion summarizes all the topics under discussion.

One very important aspect of being a good and effective leader includes valuing your employees and being able to convey to each employee the value that they have to you and the company as an individual. Christine Comaford wrote The Value of Valuing Employees discussing the importance of valuing each employee and discussing six specific “pitfalls” leaders portray when it comes to valuing employees. The pitfalls include, failing to respond to employee emails, failing to provide feedback-positive or negative, acknowledging people only when they make mistakes, failing to celebrate victories, showing favoritism, and burning out employees.

There are many definitions of leadership. The Oxford dictionary defines leadership as “the action of leading a group of people or an organization.” Yet effective leadership is much more than that. A leader can be the CEO of an organization, or a high school student who leads his or her group to success behind the scenes. A leader might lead through official authority and power, yet just as often great leaders lead through inspiration, persuasion and personal connections.

According to Ulrich D., Zenger J., & Smallwood N., (2013), “Leaders build not only individual commitment, but also organizational capability. Hierarchical capacity alludes to the procedures, practices, and exercises that make esteem for the association. Leaders require the capacity to make an interpretation of hierarchical heading into orders, vision into practice, and reason into procedure”.

Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal (Northouse, 2013, p. 5). Professionals often argue whether a person is a born leader or if they develop into a leader. The premise of these questions is to determine what qualities an effective leader possesses, uses and implements when guiding others. This is an argument that will never end because there are some leaders who will develop and there are some that are just born with the intangibles that are needed to become a successful leader.