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Leadership Abilities And The Ways

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1. Leadership abilities and the ways in which we influence others can come about in many ways. From a young age, I was not presented with many ideas of good leadership. I was raised in a dysfunctional family, by two lesbian women that fought constantly, and had a father that I wouldn’t have known existed if it weren’t for annual phone calls on my birthday. With all of this surrounding me, I was a quiet and introverted “watcher” of a kid. What I watched taught me infinite knowledge about bad leadership and the effects actions can have on a person physically and emotionally, though I never saw the effects on me. As there was no leadership representation within my family, my first true influence on my leadership style would have entered …show more content…

I thoroughly believe that we cannot motivate an individual. What motivates an individual is deeply rooted and personally unique to the individual. As a leader, I can only hope to inspire, through words, actions, appearances, or any other infinite combination of variables, in order to trigger an individual to act. I never motivated, but more connected with one of the deeply rooted motivators for that individual. Whole heartedly I believe that is manipulation, but with no negative intent, but an intent aligned with the values and goals of the organization we represent. As a leader, we can only hope that we manipulate enough to trigger motivation, and that each individual we lead, recognizes the path needed to succeed.

3. At a young age, I had a baseball coach that saw more in me than an introverted kid that fought often, got into as much trouble as possible, was in and out of juvenile detention, and did the minimum to get by in my education. In fact, this team was full of young athletes with many of the same issues. With baseball as a backdrop, we were given standards on how to act, how to speak, how to dress, where to be and when to be there, integrity, respect, pride, and most controversial for young athletes, how often to get our hair cut and what it should look

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