Johnny Walker's Leadership Style

Coaching leaders help employees by identifying their unique strengths and weaknesses. They encourage employees to establish long-term goals. Coaching style is used least often because many leaders don’t have time to teach people and help them grow. Studies have shown that leaders who have mastered four our more especially the authoritative, democratic, affiliative and coaching styles have the best climate and business performance. I believe in order to master the art of leadership we need to comprehensively understand human behavior and have the ability to adapt. Leadership styles can lead to different types of success, as mentioned in the article leadership will never be an exact science. But neither is it a complete mystery. I believe that the business environment is continually changing, all leaders have to respond. Leaders must know when to use the right style at the right time to gain success. Although not all skills are equally effective leaders could use multiple styles at one time to gain success. For example leaders could use the authoritative style to mobilize people towards a vision while at the same time creating bonds and harmony through the affiliative

If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” (BrainyQuote). These wise words were spoken by President John Quincy Adams. When I first heard these words I immediately thought of my manager, Paige. She is the true definition of a leader. She has worked for numerous healthcare organizations over the years and through each company she had crafted her leadership style. She joined my company, Hanks Pharmaceuticals four years ago and in that time she has changed the dynamic and culture of 3 different departments. When she first came to Hanks, she was a manager in our onsite Pharmacy. She then volunteered to be a part of a program that rotates managers to different departments for a year at a

John Wooden too many is known as a successful basketball coach. He coached for Kentucky High School, South Bend Central High School, Indiana State Teachers College, and his most successful one, UCLA. He was known for teaching good habits to his players and that is what he used to be successful in his games and be an effective leader. In his book “Wooden on Leadership: How to Create a Winning Organization” he talks about how exactly he developed the steps to being successful. He gives us some of his experiences that he had and how it has hurt him or helped him and then explains to us how we can use it to be ourselves. It is from this that I learned that to be a successful leader, I should follow his steps. The ones that caught my attention where Good Values Attract Good People, Emotion Is Your Enemy, and Seek Significant Change. With these steps I realized that there was so much I could do to be a better leader.

Concern for production speaks to how a leader accomplishes organizational goals and objectives while concern for people pays attention to the staff in the company or organization that are chartered to reach goals (Northouse, 2013). The Leadership Grid is established by drawing the horizontal axis representing the leader’s concern for results and the vertical axis representing the leader’s concern for people. A score is assigned for each of these dimensions with a range from 1 (minimum) to 9 (maximum) concern. Plotting the respective scores from each axes provides a look at various leadership styles. There are five styles of leadership identified: Team Management, Middle of the Road Management, Impoverished Management, Authority-Compliance, and Country-Club Management (Northouse, 2013).

Since the beginning of recorded history, leadership has been one of, if not the most important elements in the success or failure of an endeavor. This is whether it involved a prehistoric hunting party or ruling the Roman Empire. Today, leadership is recognized as a vital factor in an organization’s quest to be productive and profitable. For an organization to be competitive and achieve optimum success in the 21st century, it is vital that they employ effective leaders that will be able to communicate their vision and goals, motivate their employees and develop trusting and loyal relationships with its stakeholders. There is no one or best way to accomplish this mission. There have been numerous leadership theories and styles which have been developed over time which can enable leaders to choose which method would be most effective for them in establishing collaborative working relationships and a respectful team environment in a group setting (Landis, Eric A; Hill, Deborah; Harvey, Maurice R, 2014).

“A good leader, with good ideas and exciting directions, can generate enthusiasm, support, and cohesion,” Tubbs, (2012, p. 225). Coach Meyers is a good example of this because when he started with Ohio State in 2011 the team was not eligible for any BCS bowl games because of the actions of the previous coach and several players. Coach Meyers had to keep

Many effective leaders inspire the loyalty of their followers whether it’s something negative or positive that’s coming their way. In many businesses, hospitals, and schools, steps are being taken to find ways to solve the problem. Simply ignoring a problem leads to dissatisfaction. Sometimes it may seem like an unrealistic expectation for a superintendent to have all the solutions, but it is human nature that the followers look to the leader for

Leaders have a profound effect on employee performance because they shape workers’ perceptions of the working environment. Consequently, some leadership styles are more effective with meeting particular objectives. Although personal attributes dictate a leader’s natural leadership style, effective leaders recognize the benefits and limitations of each style, understand the impact a style will have on the organization’s environment, and are capable of developing and incorporating a variety of styles to ensure the desired outcome is achieved.

There are several questions presented by the author, which include the following. How effective are leaders and managers in the workplace? How effective is the development of coaching skills for leaders and manager? How can leaders and mangers use coaching skills in the workplace? How do leaders and mangers know when to coach and when to

Throughout the American workforce there are endless numbers of managers and supervisors who are responsible for supervising and leading workers. Whether it’s a manager of the electronics department in Walmart, or the CEO of Union Pacific, supervisors are tasked with leading their coworkers and managing in an effective manner towards a common end goal. The manager I interviewed for this research assignment was my father, Patrick McDermott. Pat is currently the Supervisor of Customer Service Technology at OPPD, also known as Omaha Public Power District. He has been in this supervisor position for approximately five years, and a lot of what his job entails relates to what we have learned in this management course thus far.

With a professional goal to be exceptionally good at anything he puts his mind to, George is the perfect example of one who motivates others through example, hard work, and understanding the needs of those he works with. He also makes effective use of such actions as communication, constant feedback, and honest performance management; actions Baldwin & Bommer consider key components of successful leadership. George considers constant coaching, feedback, and discipline through love and support the only way to “encourage good behavior and stop the bad.” And as someone who believes an email is just as good as a gift card in providing motivation, George firmly believes his employees work more efficiently when he takes the time to invest in their development; no matter the form of praise taken. Whatever walls are often built between employees and executives are nonexistent among George teams, who are always allowed opportunities to make decisions and contribute to the group effort. Although high level decisions are made by the executive team, George makes it a priority to formulate strategic, day-to-day operations with his team’s involvement. When faced with conflict, he is quick to find the root of the problem; ignoring the inclination to judge in order to give everyone the benefit of the doubt in being

The article I chose attempts to define a leader, the types of leaders, and the ways in which a person can be an excellent leader. The author, Tom Decotils, lists three types of leaders: An appointed leader or someone who is a leader in name, an accepted leader or a leader in practice, and an authentic leader. Decotils suggests that when obtaining a leadership role, one must strive to be an “authentic leader,” whose focus is on results by moving followers forward through teamwork and insisting on personal excellence. (Decotils, 2015, para. 1) Decotils states that an authentic leader has good intentions, grit, and a constant yearning for improvement. (Decotils, 2015, para. 5) Additionally, an authentic leader must have a good

The first self-leadership strategy that Johnson used to help achieve his objectives was building and maintaining a high self-worth and self-confidence. Johnson maintained a high self-worth through his publications. He knew he was making a difference in the lives of African Americans. Believing it was his job to give African Americans a place in society through the use of his publications. While maintain a high self-worth he also had to keep his self-confidence. He did this through only surrounding himself with people that believe in his dream, and from the self-coaching advice that he gave himself. Through these two methods he was able to keep a positive attitude and the right motivation to push to the end goal. The next self-leadership strategy

An effective leader influences their employees in a desired manner to achieve goals and objectives. Different leadership styles can affect an organization’s effectiveness and performance. The objective of this paper is to analyze the review of literature on various leadership styles over the past years and how effective and ineffective different leadership styles are in the workplace.

I believe you learn about leadership by acting as an example. You should be prepared to do the things you are asking others to do by getting on your hands and knees, if need be, and get your hands dirty. This engraves a picture into the mind of an employee or subordinate to what type of a manager you are. In this paper, I will cover the role a manager plays in an organization describing four functions of management: planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. I will then describe three traits: conceptual, human, and technical, which an individual must possess to become a successful manager within an organization and how they fit in with the four functions.