Why Should Anyone Be Led By You

In addition to assessing the information to be disclosed, anticipated response is another method disclosers utilize to determine whether to reveal their private information. Typically, individuals only disclose when they have confidence in an accurate prediction of the audience’s response (Greene, 2009). Other scholars (Jellison & Riskind, 1977; Jourard, 1971b; Omarzu, 2000; Taylor, 1968) have examined the rewards by which disclosers are motivated. Omarzu (2000) named five social rewards: intimacy, or the pursuit of closeness; social control, wherein the audience can bestow benefits or rewards for disclosure; social approval, or attempts to increase acceptance and liking; relief of distress, during which individuals talk about problems and negative emotions to relieve stress; and lastly, identity clarification, which helps to clarify self-knowledge. As individuals’ goals change and they desire differing social rewards, the disclosure changes either in content or in the targeted audience (Omarzu, 2000). In the present study, individuals disclose private information to a large, diverse

First and foremost, I see myself as the type of leader who is, committed to ensuring the success of the organization that I represent by, making sure that those that I lead have the support, training and resources needed to meet this success. I also see myself as the type of leader who is compassionate but firm. I believe that the bottom of organizational hierarchy is only as good as the top has made preparation for.

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I would like to be a leader at camp because it is a great opportunity to welcome new students, to develop my leadership skills, and to share my experiences with new and returning students. I would make a good leader because I am respectful, friendly, outgoing, I work well in group setting, and I am responsible. I also bring experience from volunteering with younger

At the ripe age of 18, a coworker shared what he expressed was very important advice. He said, “The more people know about you, the more they will use against you.” It came from an important book he read while in the military, “The Art of War,” by Sun Tzu. At that time, I took it as good advice to reflect on. I didn’t know how to apply his advice right away and as my experiences grew I knew I would encounter the quandary of do I share the whole story, a portion, or nothing at all. Years later I would return to his guidance again and again and ask myself, am I sharing too much? Am I not sharing enough? How much should I share about myself with others? There are management and leadership implications for swinging the pendulum too far from

During the course of leadership, my philosophy of being a leader changed from managing people to leading them. To be a leader means to help people solving problems, being decisive and taking responsibility for decisions, creating teams, having individual approach to people using emotional intelligence, connecting superior’s needs with subordinates’ outcomes in pleasant, effective environment. It is also essential for a leader to know himself well. Knowing own personality it is easier to communicate effectively and achieve goals depicted above. Leader should also be fair, patient, and stoic as giving good example creates high standard of working environment. Leader should also understand environment to create good structure of the

Who am I as a leader? That is a tough question to answer. I would like to think I am a lot like Margaret Thatcher, but I am not. I admire Margaret Thatcher because of her perseverance and staunchness. She was known for ruling with an iron thumb. In my opinion, I think she was one of the greatest woman leader of my generation. She was known to be tough, but society still look at women as less equal to men. Therefore, women have a tougher time to develop leadership roles, which Mrs. Sandberg, COO of Facebook, addressed in her video.

Our third speaker Mike Cox said it so clearly when he spoke about “Never lose your creditability, do not gossip,” and “You are leading up…understand your audience and those you work with” (M. Cox, class presenter, September 28, 2015). Mr. Cox understood and practiced Model the Way by “Setting the example by aligning actions and shared values” (Kouzes, Posner, p. 42).

Leadership cannot be universally defined or measured, which makes it challenging to completely understand. Bad leadership is even harder to grasp, because most individuals see the aftermath of their actions, but fail to see that the leader must have possessed some good leadership traits. The topic of leader is interesting because even though more information is needed in this area of study, the topic has been studied for thousands of years. Where once only a few studies were conducted, thousands are present now. They cross examine each other and analyze different aspects of leading. The most interesting feature of leadership studies is learning about a leader’s followers. This has just become more universally studied, but has proved to be useful in understanding the success of leaders. It is also interesting because it helps explain why certain people are drawn to others and gives some reasons why a single individual can create so much change and effect large masses of people. The purpose of this paper is to research and answer the thesis question of why bad leaders can seize and stay in power, not solely in one time period, but throughout all of history. By the end of the paper the readers should be inspired to think about the leaders they follow, access why they are drawn to that leader, and decide if their leader is using their power for good.

Everyone is a member of different organizations in different occasions, and human activities are set up on relationships (Homans, 2009, p. 1), so that relevant researches about relationship began decades ago (Vangelisti & Perlman, 2006, p. ix). Leader-member-exchange (LMX) theory is a kind of leadership style, which pays attention to a dyadic relationship between leader and member (Graen & Cashman, 1975; Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995, Breevaart, Bakker, Demerouti & Heuvel, 2015; Wilson, Sin & Conlon, 2010). There is a long time history that people began to research the relationship between a leader and follower, and how the relationship can impact on leaders and follower selves (Graen & Uhl-Bien, 1995). Most of previously researches

Throughout the semester we have been challenged to understand leadership and all of its many styles. When you ask the average person what leadership is; they most likely will feel like the answer is common sense, and say something like, to lead a group. This is how I used to think before taking Foundations of Leadership. After completing the course, I have come to the realization that leadership is much more than just leading a group. Leadership in itself if very complex and it can look very different. Leadership is not just one thing there are many styles, theories, practices, and approaches to leadership. Knowing this I challenged myself to pick someone to interview who before taking this class I might not have considered them to be a

Some people experience the powerful conversations demanded by private leadership (e.g. performance appraisals) as uncomfortable. Consequently, leaders may avoid some of the private leadership behaviors (Scouller, 2011), which reduces their leadership effectiveness. Scouller argued that the intimacy of private leadership leads to avoidance behavior either because of a lack of skill or because of negative self-image beliefs that give rise to powerful fears of what may happen in such

When human beings establish a relationship with another human being a regulated amount of information is passed between the sender and receiver. If you are in a work environment you will be less vulnerable towards your co-workers and have friendlier interactions with them. You will tend to be more vulnerable with your boss and have less self-disclosure about personal information. As a society we like to set our standards high, authenticity within objects, emotions, and our relationships is essential to our satisfaction. Society takes authenticity and expects originality from it, we want nothing hidden from us as we hide from others. This reflects on self-perception and the perception of others. In the article “Instagram, Barbies, and a Theology of Authenticity” Brandon, Hurlburt states “ How can we be real with people if we can't even be real with God?” (Par 2) This statement says to me if you can’t be real with yourself how can you be real with the people you interact with in our daily lives. Being real with yourself is not the ability to disclose the information to who we want to hold a relationship with, but the ability to understand and accept our flaws as human beings. We have to balance our relationships out and regulate what information is disclosed; some information disclosed to certain people could cause friction in other

I took a couple of the color personality quizzes and according to the first color personality quiz I was a Red. I agree with this, I am an great leader. I am a great leader I make sure everyone 's opinions and ideas are heard. I also make sure every person gets an opportunity to speak and have a say about what goes down on the paper or computer. When I am a leader of a group people sometimes say that I am a excellent leader. If teachers give me a task I can be highly effective. I will be highly effective if a teacher gives me a task I try to make sure that the task is done fast ,but make sure the task is right. I took another color personality quiz and the result from that, it says I am Brown. I agree that I am brown I love the outdoors

In the final section of How to Win Friends and Influence People, Carnegie discusses the best way to approach the more uncomfortable topics when it comes to handling and managing people. This section will instruct prominent business leaders on how to correct others and give them orders. While being able to win friends and favors is essential to business, there will be times when more sensitive matters must be handled as well. This section is equally as important as the others in becoming a well-rounded leader.