...determining my answers (Scharlatt 17). The information I gain from completing the exercise will help develop a plan on how to use each influential tactic to better influence those around me (Scharlatt 19). There are eleven different tactics used to gain influence. These are rational persuasion, consultation, inspirational appeals, collaboration, apprising, ingratiation, exchange, personal appeals, legitimizing, pressure, and coalition tactics. Rational persuasion includes logical explanations and factual and detailed evidence (Scharlatt 17). Consultation includes being open to ideas from the requested and thoughtful responses from me regarding those ideas (Scharlatt 18). Inspirational appeal includes showing how the request meets that person’s goals and is clear and appealing for that person to support (Scharlatt 17-18). Collaboration includes my ability to provide the necessary resources to complete the task and reduction of difficulty to ensure success (Scharlatt 17-18). Apprising includes explanation of long-term benefits of opportunities to learn a new skill (Scharlatt 17-18). Ingratiation includes my enthusiasm for the task and confidence that it can be completed in order to appeal to that person’s self-image (Scharlatt 18). Exchange includes my agreement to help with future projects and regular work in exchange for their help (Scharlatt 18). The Personal appeal includes my promise to repay this individual for doing a favor for me and my dependence on my working relationship...
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... According to the Miriam-Webster Dictionary; Leadership is the office or position of a leader, the capacity to lead and the act or an instance of leading. My personal definition of leadership is “one who has the capability to lead a group or organization. By doing so, such person’s decisions are not solely based on his/her ideas and opinions only. A leader listens, supports, represents, never gives up and most of all is a role model to his subordinates. He have the ability to motivate and empower others to achieve a goal”. There are individuals who may agree with my definition and there are others who may add or subtract. Whatever the case may be; this justifies one fact about Leadership which is; everyone have their own way of how leadership is defined. Everyone have their unique Leadership styles and characteristics. There are many characteristics and qualities that come to mind when I consider a leader in my life and the influence that they have had on my values, skills and knowledge of what makes an effective leader. In gathering these various characteristics and qualities, I have a portrait of what an ideal leader can and should be. This paper will examine the characteristics of a leader that I would be willing to walk through the streets of Bagdad for, even if all I have was a squirt gun. My Ideal Leader falls under the category of Team Leadership. In Team Leadership; the leader has special responsibilities for functioning in a manner that will help the group or organization...
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...Leadership Basics Defined Morris E. Shepherd Jr. Columbia Southern University Introduction Leadership is defined by the Military as: The process of influencing others to accomplish the mission by providing purpose, direction, and motivation. Many of the most influential people in history have served time within their countries military and have gone on to become influential leaders of their country, such as: Napoleon Bonaparte, George Washington, and Alexander the Great. By taking an example of how the military has produced countless leaders many companies can use this example to help create both a positive and productive working environment. Today many of the larger fortune 500 corporations require their executive staff members to read the book The Art of War by the Author Sun Tzu. Although this book is primarily a strategic military manual it clearly amalgamates military strategy and leadership principles in order to successfully win a war or in modern times to be a financial success. Key factors that can determine a successful leadership environment Organization is a key element in being successful. When ideas are properly thought out and planned things will always flow smoothly. While it may or may not seem plausible, organization is a very important factor in being successful. For example, whenever an important project is due whether it is for school or work, the first thing that a person would...
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...Leadership Style LDR/531 June 2, 2015 Leadership Style In order for an individual to be an effective leader they must have certain characteristics such as inspirational, focused, visionaries, strategic decisive, persuasive, open to negative and positive feedback, and likeable. Some leaders are able to leave memorable impression, by paying close attention to their surrounding for changes that may occur while, staying one step ahead. An effective leader is considered someone that can work through adversity and prevented the same mistakes from reoccurring. I chose Oprah Winfrey as an effective leader due to her qualities and characteristics, leadership traits, influential etc…. Oprah has made a name for herself all over the world by being admired, trusted, and respected. This paper will discuss Oprah Winfrey’s leadership characteristics and examples of leadership qualities. Mrs. Ferguson (mentor) and I will discuss leadership theories, styles, my leadership style, improving my effectiveness. Admired Leader Oprah Winfrey is a leader that I admire a great drill due to her skills and leadership traits. Oprah has proved to have what it takes to be a leader by her intelligence, honesty, self-confidence, and integrity. She has been in the business over 30 years and still going strong, her net worth is over $2.7 billion. Oprah’s unique style has encouraged her team and made it possible for her vision to be executed. Oprah believes in three branches of leadership; vision, team...
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...Fuhrman 9 May 2012 Leadership Paper Over the course of my life, there have been many influential people that have influenced me and made an impact on my life in some way. However, of all these people, there is one person that stands out in my life as more influential than any other. This person is my dad Jerry. My dad has been influential in my life because he has always been there for me every step of the way and has always encouraged me. Simply put, my dad possesses many qualities of a leader. One leadership quality that my dad possesses is that he is intelligent. He has demonstrated this quality to me because I have taken notice that he always makes the best decision possible when he is confronted with a problem. He also helps me to make my own decisions when I have a problem of my own. A second leadership quality that my dad has is that he is cooperative and works well with others. For example, my dad and I are always working together on things around the house. I know that my dad has good cooperative leadership skills because he is always working with others during his job, and he works well with others to complete his tasks at work. Third, my dad has initiative to complete his work. Instead of someone having to tell him what needs done, he just goes out and does whatever work needs to be completed. This has had a major impact on my life because I also take initiative to complete my work. I feel that a good leader has to have initiative and take control of what needs to...
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...Effective Leaders Abstract Leadership is the process of using power and influence to navigate followers to achieve a specific goal. The purpose of this paper is to explain that effective leaders must hone specific traits that are indispensable for managing organizations successfully. This paper explores the techniques, approaches, and practices that make leaders powerful, influential and efficient. Additionally, to help define effective leadership, a case study is analyzed based on personal experience of cooperating with a district supervisor who employs effective leadership strategies. While analyzing the leader’s behavioral patterns and implemented strategies, it should be concluded that her organizational loyalty is extremely strong because the manager has succeeded in controlling the working environment along with current changing management trends. Introduction The leader who served as a model for exemplary leadership was my district manager Janet Poriot at Saks Fifth Ave stores where I started as an intern. Later, I entered in a manager training program and she directly supervised me, acting as an overseer of all trainees. She was a driven, compassionate, motivating, empowering team player that made quick and effective decisions. Furthermore, she had a powerful influence on me and played a key role in structuring my management...
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...realistic goals and to believe. Women in Cable Telecommunications (WICT) announced today the results of the 2009 WICT PAR Initiative. Involvement to Professional Knowledge and Abilities WICT is an amazing organization because it offers various resources such as immense leadership opportunities, which focus on the growth of woman in the cable industry. Webinars, seminars, virtual courses, social networking, and motivational speakers are some resources that WICT offers. WICT is an influential organization, which facilitates women into leaders in the cable and telecommunications business. Pursues women to move ahead from their current position and influences women through established guidance programs and services. WICT creates influential women who renovate our industry. Since its founding in 1979, WICT has remained steadfast in its resolve to advance the position and influence of women through proven leadership programs and services at both the national and local level (WICT, 2011). Creating Leaders. Together. WICT embraces a spirit of collaboration...
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...Leaders are found in all walks of life, not just in politics or big businesses. Preparing myself to be a better leader to those around me seems to me, to be another outlet to serve others. I believe this includes constantly learning how to be a better leader. Leadership includes many facets such as effective communication, appropriate motivation and visionary innovation. I am working to improve in each of these areas of leadership, but a college education will only help me sharpen these skills and help me to develop new ones. One of the many leaders I look up to in my life is my mom. My mom is prime example of selfless service. Before I was born my mom taught high school science for several years and was even teaching at the community college level but she quit work and sacrificed her career because she wanted to give me the best chance in life. My mom has homeschooled my brother and me since Day 1 and has taught us not just how to spell and add, but also what selfless service looks like. I would not be where I am today if it wasn’t for my mom. Someday I hope to be a mom like her, willing to give up so much to teach the next generation what true greatness...
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...Roles and Functions Holly Ryan HCS/325 Cynthia Bubb January 27, 2013 Managers have many responsibilities in a health care setting. Managers are any person in a company who maintain and is obligated for the labor actions for other people (Lombardi & Schermerhorn, 2007). This paper will recognize the four major duties of a manager in health care, the duties that appeal to manage other people or myself in a past job, the most influential role for a manager in a health care and a leader in the modified health care business, and an essential perspective in relation to health care administration that I would want to obtain by utilizing this management course. The four major duties of a manager in health care are organize, plan, control, and lead. Organization is a method of giving out duties, establish income, and arrange and, coordinate the projects of people and teams to impose a plan. A manager seeks to comprehend and give structure to the diverse routine in the job. They organize many things. When a manager plans his or her planning this is the method of setting the stage for conduct purpose and establishing what measures need to be taken to perform them. With a plan a manager distinguishes chosen job outcomes, decision making and levels the course for people to accomplish the outcomes. Control is the method of calibrating job execution, compare outcomes to goals, and take proper measures. With control a manager sustains functioning communication with individuals...
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...Hunter Tierney Pope Francis: Why He Leads The Way He Leads Book Report 9/22/15 This book was very influential and made many points that carried a tremendous amount of weight. Having been the first literature I have read about the Pope, I am truly amazed with the amount of change he has been able to impose on the Catholic Church. When thinking of Catholicism I envision centuries of practices that have not changed but when it comes to Pope Francis he envisions change and is acting on it. After reading this book I truly believe that he is going to be the change that the Catholic Church needs and that he will be able to have a positive impact not only on the followers of the Catholic Church but all people on our Earth. What I found to be most intriguing about the book was the amount of examples it was able to include regarding the various aspects of leadership and what makes an effective leader in today’s world. These aspects were carried with the Pope from his entire Jesuit journey that was laid out in the 1500’s by Ignatius of Loyola. I found the back-story of Ignatius of Loyola’s creation of the Jesuit order of priests to be very intriguing. Ignatius of Loyola was one of the many examples that strengthened this books representation of how Pope Francis’s leadership traits translate into other walks of life. He demonstrates such positive attributes that can be utilized by people across the world. I found the most powerful part of the book to be the description of the Pope’s...
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...(Omilion-Hodges, 2015). In order to be a good leader you should have a variety of good qualities. As a leader you are interested in empowering others, value the importance of communication and respecting the opinions of others. Also, should be comfortable in being your own person and not try to emulate others style of leadership but simple use them as a guide to better yourself. The two leaders I chose to discuss are Oprah and rEGINA SMITH (my mother). Both of these women are very influential and have strengths and weaknesses that helped shape them into who they are now. Oprah is truly an inspiration. Her drive and motivation to never give up and encourage others is unbelievable. What a value the most in Oprah is how confident she is when speaking, she is so confident and believes that her words will make a difference in the world. Her performance when in front of an audience is intriguing and the emotional connection that she has with them is phenomenal. Oprah is able to make that connection with people because she tells stories and bring up topics that are relatable and life lessons can be learned from. When being a leader you have to have love and passion for what you do at all time. One of the reasons why I admire Oprah so much is that she is always willing to help others and she has a tremendously good heart to where she’ll do anything to hinder the hurt and pain this world tends to cast upon us. According to George (p. 58), “Authentic leaders genuinely desire to serve others through...
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...Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a man of unusual charm and great optimism and unbelievable fortitude, and for these reasons I have chosen him for my example of a good leader. Franklin Delano Roosevelt also known as FDR, was elected President when the world was in crisis. The United States was reeling from the effects of the Great Depression and needed a strong and powerful leader. The people of the United State placed their trust in FDR and elected him our 32nd President. FDR exhibited many leadership styles but I think his three strongest were charismatic, participative, and transformational styles. As a leader in a time of crisis FDR’s charismatic leadership allowed him to inspire and motivate a country that was suffering from the catastrophic effects of a Great Depression and watching the balance of the major world powers prepare for another war. As a charismatic leader, FDR displayed the ability to understand what was happening within the United States as well as the rest of the Western World and to empathize with his followers. FDR empowered his subordinates to seek out the best methods to end the depression he worked with cabinet leaders yet allowing them to seek out and propose the best solutions to the banking crisis. FDR’s New Deal would be some of the first major steps taken to reverse the effects of the depression. FDR knew that fear was this country’s greatest enemy and he needed to address the nation. His Fireside Chats allowed FDR’s exceptional communication...
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...an overwhelming plethora of books, academic journals, periodicals, and scientific studies dedicated to this very topic seeking to understand the makings of an effective leader. Research performed in the late 70’s by leadership expert, James M. Burns, moved the institution of leadership beyond the flawed wisdom of identifying leaders based solely upon those who seemingly possessed the ‘traits of effective leaders’. In actuality there are a specific integration of concepts that need to be in play beyond the archaic characters traits to be deemed an effective leader. For this reason organizations should seek to understand what makes a leader effective such as the leader’s level of power and more importantly his ability to wield that power to influence and motivate fellow employees. This paper serves to discuss the difference between the highly effective leader and the less effective leader, beginning with endorsements from respected leadership experts, followed by my personal leadership experience, and concluding with Scholarly Framework The plethora of research on studies seeking to discover the specificity of what makes an effective leader has given rise to the discovery of distinct behavioral characteristics that collectively form an effective leader. One doesn’t automatically become an effective leader because of a promotion to a lead position, it is realized through achieving a delicate balance of leadership concepts in regards to power, the ability to influence, his...
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...strong identities and leaders, very few women have made their mark as an influential being; however, Queen Elizabeth is known as one of the most influential and powerful women in history because of her strong character and leadership and her ability to connect with her audience. In1588 England was caught under a major rivalry with Spain. Queen Elizabeth decided to present a very powerful speech to her troops on the battlefield, with the soul purpose to give them hope and to strengthen their British patriotism. The subject of her speech was to ensure her people that she would not give up on them and would, “…live or die amongst [them].” The powerful message was executed with an informal and motherly tone. Many techniques and certain characteristics helped construct this speech that managed to give courage to thousand of troops. One of the most important techniques that Queen Elizabeth uses in her speech is her swift code switching. Her tone is informal and very colloquial, establishing a strong connection between her and her troops. Her use of language gave a sense of equality and unity. She establishes trust between her audience when she repeatedly uses “we” instead of “you” or “me”, sounding compassionate and selfless, “…but I assure you, I do not desire to live to distrust my faith and loving people”. Using Ethos Queen Elizabeth manages to create a strong confident character, one that the audience will easily connect and look up too as a great leader. The moment when Queen...
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...Combat Medic, Leader, Mother, Wife: Characteristics of ME 17 June 2012 Introduction to Sociology: Sociology 211 Dr. L. Susan Williams Introduction and Definition of Key Terms What is status? In modern society, status is how society decides what pedestal to place you on. Society can also determine your status on your profession. Celebrities, teachers, doctors and lawyers are placed on a high pedestal and held to a higher standard. Garbage men are looked down on and sometimes not even held to a standard because of their profession. According to Witt (2011:103), status “is the social positions we occupy relative to others.” Status isn’t just what your profession may be. Being a woman, man, Caucasian, Asian, student, or gardener is a status. There are different types of status. A person can have an ascribed status, which is basically a status that a person is born with such as male/female or race. A person can also have an achieved status, which is a status that a person can change such as student, wife, or occupation. With each status that we hold, we also have roles to play. “A role is a set of expectations for people who occupy a given social position or status” (Witt 2011:105). For example, we expect teachers to be great with students and lawyers to know the law. Unfortunately, this is not always the truth. For the duration of this paper, I would like to share important ascribed and achieved statuses that I myself hold in society. Status and Roles ...
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