Leadership Style
Bret Jacobsen
Western Governors University

Leadership Style
A1. & A2. Style and Philosophy Impact/Evaluation: The practicum site administrator most often utilizes a transformational leadership approach, where she likes to be out among the stakeholders, including parents, teachers and scholar’s, providing a hands on methodology to leadership while being involved with those she works with. The site administrator sets the example, by modeling what she expects others to do. Additionally, the administrator likes to put coworkers into a position where they feel confident and comfortable solving their own problems and solutions without being micromanaged, which creates ownership. Her door is always open and she is willing to help if needed, but prefers to let stakeholders be professional and do what needs to be done. According to Smith (2017), a transformational leader creates an empowering culture that includes, values, shared vision, intrinsic needs and covenants. The principal rarely becomes authoritative in her leadership approach, but has had to use it on occasion when direction was necessary. In my opinion, you seem to get a much better outcome when stakeholders are given time to reflect and come up with their own solutions or ways to accomplish a certain task, which empowers the individual, and brings about …show more content…
In those circumstances, I have demonstrated a supportive leadership style in educating teachers and students and have had to make tough decisions in the best interest of the students in keeping them safe. Students have the right to a safe, productive educational experience, and I have done everything in my power to enable that experience for all students in my charge as an