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Personal Experience: Are You A Mystic Leader?

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Student Name: Lubinski, Theresa

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1. What is your style of developing others? Are you a shaman, a priest, an elected leader, a missionary, or a mystic healer in your approach to teaching? How did you develop your style?

Student Answer: This is a difficult choice for me. I possess qualities from two different types of leaders. After thorough research, I feel that the missionary and mystic leaders are similar to the democratic leadership.

The first one, the missionary, is goal oriented (Curtis & Manning, 2015). I set myself goals for my professional and my personal life. Setting goals for myself personally was never easy until I reached …show more content…

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