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What Makes A Good Leader?

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What makes a good leader? General George Patton once said “lead me, follow me, or get out of the way”. (Kruse) Every day we are faced with decisions and events that determine our future. Many people have different views of what makes a good leader, but one thing that all good leaders possess is great communication and a positive attitude towards all of the members of the team. There are three types of leadership style, autocratic, democratic, and laissez-faire. First, we need to know what the differences are between the three different types of leadership style. Autocratic is a form of leadership that does not give employees any say into the job or business, it is a style of leadership where the leader tells you what you need to do, and …show more content…

Our team consisted of Kashaud Bowman, Trevor Butler, and our leader Annie Perrotta. Annie’s type of leadership was more of a democratic leadership where she knew the situation, but allowed both Trevor and Kashaud to make suggestions towards achieving the goals that they needed to be accomplished. Having a democratic leadership approach not only helped get the jobs finished, but it also allows the followers a scenes of belonging, and made everyone work even harder because they had involvement into the job.
When we arrived at the Allegany County Animal Shelter the director of the animal shelter greeted us with a nice smile and friendly personality. Annie quickly introduced us and told the director all about our involvement at Frostburg State University. After being introduced, and filling out some volunteer paperwork, our first task was to clean out a storage building. At first sight, the room was overwhelming and looked like it would have taken all day to clean it because the room was filled to the roof with animal curates, cages, and metal gates. Annie quickly assessed the situation and began to look at all of the things that we had to take out of the building and disassemble. Annie told Kashaud and I to start taking everything out of the building and start putting each of the materials together in an area left and the building and start organizing the cages from larger to smaller. Before long the

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