Leadership Challenges Essay

The EMS Leadership Challenge: A Call to Action was written by Mitchell R. Waite, Ph.D. “Dr. Waite earned his doctorate from Walden University in Applied Management and Decision Sciences with a specialization in Leadership and Organizational Change” (Double Diamond Leadership Authority). He has written three books pertaining to leadership, Fire Service Leadership: Theories and Practices, The EMS Leadership Challenge: A Call To Action, and 400 Days: A Call To Duty. Dr. Waite has an extensive background of leadership in the field. He served our country as a commissioned officer in the United States Army Reserve. Where he was both a medic and a Combat Engineer Officer (Double Diamond Leadership Authority). Dr. Waite also served as Fire Chief…

The Leadership Challenge is a book written by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner. The book authors provide five practices that they feel should follow to improve and enhance their leadership skills. Whether or not a person is in a managerial or supervisory position, certain values or qualities are required by said person if they are to provide exemplary leadership. The authors state that it is incorrect to believe that great leadership is only found at the highest levels of an organization or…

Rachael, You are correct when you stated in your second paragraph that the best practices for servant leadership should build up employees, growing them in their strengths and abilities while creating an environment that encourages great customer service. In addition to the “best practices” that constitutes a secure employee environment, the focus of servant leader managers in organizations needs to shift from processes and outcomes to people and the future, which presents a threefold…

Leadership is both a science and an art. Good leadership requires an accurate sense of self, a well-communicated vision, the ability to earn the trust of others and the capability to take effective action. In order to “build your house of leadership” your actions must inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more. (Duren, Lec. 2). Throughout the semester, I have learned that some of the five Kouzes and Posner leadership practices in The Leadership Challenge come naturally to…

Through reading “The Leadership Challenge” by James Kouzes and Barry Posner, I believe it has given me many new perspectives and approaches to leadership along with heightening my knowledge on what I already know. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to give a clear summary of what I have learned and what stood out the most to me from the book “The Leadership Challenge”. I will begin my summary discussing five concepts from the book that I found to be important. Secondly through my discussion…

The actions that it’s going to take for me to be a leader in this challenge is to lead by example, because “leaders must be willing to exercise influence” (Mumford et al., 2000, p.22). I don’t intend to isolate myself from the environment, but I can make sure that I don’t participate in negative discussions about specific people, and when it goes in that direction, to make an effort to steer the conversation towards something else. If I gossip about people, then I am creating a negative…

The Leadership Challenge The Leadership Challenge book provides great perception on ways to become a better leader. The author will review lessons learned from the first three chapters and provide insight on how some of the leadership qualities have been displayed in her life. When Leaders Are at Their Best At the start of The Leadership Challenge book in the first chapter, it discusses a success leadership story that generates thought into what the author has done in her own past and…

identify adaptive leadership, and the situational challenges that leaders could face: technical challenges, adaptive challenges, and both technical challenges and adaptive challenges. Moreover, I am going to identify six leader behaviors in the process of adaptive leadership. Also, I am going to illustrate these concepts by applying it to an issue that I have observed on the school that I have worked. The issue that I have observed in the school that I have worked is non-use of technology for…

Working for a very large organization, you expect there to be some good level of leadership to help and direct you in the right way. I was under the impression that there was good leadership in the organization, but was shocked to learn that leadership was nothing close to this. The leadership team was not in any organized format to where the employees are able to go and get assistance. The one main person, who did not have any leadership skills, was my co-worker who I worked with on a daily…

partnerships public private alliances and meta leadership public health officials assure the public health. Effective leadership is based on…