Prompt # 1: What It Takes To Be A Leader

Leadership is a wonderful quality for anyone to have because not everyone possesses leadership qualities and skills; however, a person can learn to have leadership qualities if he or she has the desire. A good leader has many excellent qualities such as; a leader has followers, knows how to encourage the workers, can get results by implementing strategies, can create a vision for the company, and

Qualities of being a leader require a specific amount of traits. To be a leader is the ability to gain the attention of your audience and become an idol to them. Being a leader can be tough, it takes perseverance, communication, and speak your mind when need be. Also responsibility, being able to own up if you’re wrong about something and not lead your group in the wrong direction. Leaders also never give up when it gets tough, because being a leader isn’t always going to be easy. That’s what makes a leader.

Leadership is the ability of a person to influence people toward the attainment of a particular goal. Leadership is a people activity, not like administrative paper shuffling or problem solving. It is a dynamic force and involves the use of power. Out of the forces of leadership come four powerful characteristics: supportive, directive, participative, and achievement-oriented leadership. Although these types of characteristics are not considered ingrained personality traits, they reflect types of behavior every leader is able to adopt depending on the situation.

Leadership includes, "teamwork, healthy work environments, defining and displaying a clear vision, commitment to continuous lifelong learning, teaching and mentoring, creativity and flexibility, energy, excitement and

Leadership is a characteristic that encompasses numerous qualities that are unique to each individual. Over the years I have learned what it means to be a leader and to posses these qualities. I have also learned that each individual has a unique perspective on what it means to be a leader and this perspective is developed over years of failures and success.

Leadership is helping a group or groups of people come to a shared goal; this goal may be an activity or done simply by influencing people to cope with changes (Al-Sawai, 2013). It is also found that “leadership focuses on relationships, using interpersonal skills to persuade others to work toward a common goal” (Yoost & Crawford, 2016, p. 166). The theories listed above describe excellent traits in a leader, I will elaborate on a few leadership theories.

According to Bass (1981) leadership can be defined in different ways: It is an act of influencing activities of an organized group in its quest to set goals and also to achieve certain goals. He also defined leadership to mean the influence that somebody exercises in a situation by means of communication in order to attain a specified goal. However in order to be a leader you require a variety of qualities. There is no one specific quality that makes one person a better leader; it’s more of a compilation of traits building an ideology as to how you as leaders handle situations. The traits I try and to reflect on as are; Self-assurance, maturity, high energy, team orientation, and charisma. As a leader I try to incorporate these traits along with the philosophy of an old Chinese Proverb; Tell me, I’ll forget, show me, I’ll remember, Involve me, I’ll understand. This reminds me that not everyone learns of understands situations the same way, I must as a leader be-able to reach the masses to have followers.

Ultimately, leadership means different things to different people. Fundamentally, leadership is inspiration to encourage change in a positive and meaningful way. Typically, a good leader will possess: ambition and drive that causes others to want to follow; a positive attitude during the good and bad times; a keen sense of people, their skills, desires, and abilities; a prime example of cooperation, trust, and openness; and the highest of moral character (Taylor, 2014). Truly, there are three key qualities of an effective leader in this day and age, which are integrity, job knowledge, and people-building skills (Manning & Curtis, 2012).

Leadership is defined differently according to one’s field and/or personal beliefs. According to Howard (2005) leadership is a form of “communication that involves coaching, motivating/inspiring, directing/guiding, and supporting/counseling others (pg.385).” Leadership leads to a production of outcomes for the goals that have been established in an organization (Howard,2005). In accordance Arnold, Connelly, Walsh, and Martin Ginis (2015) state that someone who is a leader influences tasks objectives and monitors the behaviors that help to complete these objectives. Howard (2005) states that leaders have four characteristics that include providing direction, creating trust and hope, and taking actions and risks. According to Tiuraniemi (2008) a leader should self-assess both their performance as well as their personality. Being self aware of what their team members think of them, allows a leader is able to do better at their job because they are able to change their behaviors or way or leading if they see fit (Tiuraniemi, 2008).

Leadership is a process of leading a group of people in achieving a common goal. Leaders, leading the team, are highly motivated, organized, creative, trustworthy individuals who are capable of influencing others with long-term vision and goals. According to the Lussier & Achua (2010), there is no universal definition of leadership because leadership is complex, and because leadership is studied in different ways that require different definitions. Leadership is the influencing process of leaders and followers to achieve organizational objectives through change. Leadership always occurs in a group and focuses on achieving a common goal. Leadership requires lots of characteristics among which eagerness; creativity and never-ending desire to find something new or learn something new are the most important one.

A leader is someone has the capacity to influences a group of people to achieve a goal. Leader commands a listening ear at first and gradually progresses over time. Leader leads by example and other are motivated to follow him. Leader must visualize his goal and possess persuasive skills and ability to influence follower. There lies a strong relationship between leadership and integrity. Integrity is combination of honesty and moral qualities entrusted with responsibilities. When someone takes responsibilities for their own action, he gains power. This is how the power and leadership coexist. Leadership possesses the following attributes-vision, courage, humility, focus, strategic planning, thinking and innovation.

Leadership truly begins with understanding your strengths and is a continual process of learning how to use those strengths to influence others (Griffiths, 2014). To understand leadership the word leader has to be examined. Webster describes a leader as a guide, a person who has commanding authority or influence. Additionally, a leader must possess specific qualities and characteristics to be classified a great leader. I will future delve into these qualities and characteristic as well as discuss my own personal leadership strengths and weaknesses.

Leadership is the set of managerial skills or directives that an individual has to influence to a certain group of people, making this team work with enthusiasm in achieving their goals and objectives. It is also understood as the ability to have initiative, manage, promote, encourage, motivate and evaluate a project effectively and efficiently within the administrative process of the organization.

Leadership can be defined as “the capacity to influence people by means or personal attributes and or behaviours to achieve a common goal”. CIPD. (july 2014). Leaders manage the delivery of a vision and they also build teams so that they are more effective at reaching goals and visions.

Leadership is a trait that helps others around them. The major leadership traits are made up of intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, and sociability. As a personality assessment like the Myers-Briggs can use to measure a leadership trait for specific positions. Being a leader would require setting a vision for your goal and challenge that goal. Displaying leadership is impossible without a team, but for a team to function together as a whole, a leader would require great communication skills which help inform and motivate the team along the way. An example