University of Phoenix
MGT/521
Tim Leyes, Sr.
December 14, 2015

Career Connection: Leadership and Your Career Paper

Leadership is all about constructing and collaborating a vision and being able to find a team capable of helping you achieve the vision. Constructing a vision, is imperative in leadership to be able to motivate and unite people. The ability to effectively communicate concepts verbally and in writing are essential to developing superior leadership skills. At any given time we may find themselves in different roles where leadership skills are vital to achieve what has begun. The ability to be objective when dealing with people under your leadership is a critical and vital trait of a good leader. Developing your own style of leadership is dependent upon you becoming a viable leader. Identify one theory that appeals to you the most
Kinicki and Williams (2015) stated, “There is no one best style that will work in all situations. This is the point of view of proponents of the situational approach (or contingency approach) to leadership, who believe that effective leadership behavior depends on the situation at hand”. This type of theory is better suited to the position I currently hold at my job. Becoming a good leader, regardless of the method, revolves around how you interact with others. How we interact is in a state of constant change due to advances in technology and innovative techniques.
Establishing defined, sensible, measured, attainable expectations will help your employees understand what you are trying to accomplish with your vision. Being able to interact, help and empower another coworker can be achieved using the situational theory. We all unique and use different strategies to accomplish a desired task. As a leader if you are in a position to help someone flourish then you