Leadership Essay

1). Mr. Span identifies the issues that a lack of trust in leadership can impact their employee’s performance. According to Mr. Span (2015), “Trust is the foundation of any successful relationship, both personal and professional, and when it’s broken, it is extremely hard to repair. When employees feel they can’t trust leadership they feel unsafe, like no one has their back, and then spend more energy on self-preservation and job hunting than…

Leadership is a class I’ve always been interested in being a part of. Growing up, I was always taught to be a leader. My parents have always told me “You don’t choose to be a leader, you slowly evolve into a leader.” It’s always stuck with me and I’ve learned that I must set goals and go through struggles in life in order to learn from them. Those small things have allowed me to transform into the person that I am today. Being in leadership would help me grow as a person and allow me to obtain…

BNSF’s organization effectiveness surveys demonstrate that consistent focus on leadership development has made a demonstrable difference. According to BNSF Railway Co. (2016), the company has achieved significant improvement in numerous business metrics, including: safety (sixty-eight (68) percent reduction in employee injuries since year 2000), customer service (thirty-nine (39) percent improvement in overall customer experience since 2006), retention (low turnover at 7.6 percent including four…

One of the most important things in the world today is leadership. The world has approximately seven billion people and one can just imagine how chaotic it would be if there were no leaders. A world with so many people needs all kinds of leaders, government leadership to govern countries in different geographical areas around the world, religious leaders to guide followers spiritually, and leadership in organization and business to keep them afloat and help guide the world economy, just to name…

Introduction This post is a review of a peer-reviewed article titled The Relationship between Personality Type and Leadership Focus by Grant Sieff and Louis Carstens printed in the South African Journal on Human Resource Management in 2006. This article presented the theory that extraverts are more adept in focusing as leaders as opposed to introverts, based on the tests conducted on the relationship between personalities and focus of leaders who participated in the research (Sieff & Carstens,…

adopt and adjust specific styles of leadership to assist in mission completion. This book report will compare and contrast the leadership styles and characteristics of SFC Rob Gallagher and SFC Jeff Fenlason from authors Jim Fredericks’ “Black Hearts: One Platoon’s Descent into Madness in Iraq’s Triangle of Death”, explaining how their similar but different styles of leadership helped and or hindered their units’ mission failures and success. To begin, the leadership styles identified by both…

Assignment Three Kathleen O’Connell Palm Beach State College Servant Leadership Orientation In learning about leadership, oftentimes, we see an overlap of characteristics. Drawing on past experiences gained from working in hotel operations, it is clear that the overlap or rather mixture of a number of traits are needed in leadership roles. The four aspects involved in servant leadership include: authoritarian, servant, stewardship and participative (Daft, 2015). Having been…

the past, a common leadership style would be authoritarian where the leader makes all the decisions. However, in the past few decades many emerging theories involve…

Each year since becoming a principal, I work with my school council to develop leadership qualities for our school. The council works together to determine how and if these qualities need to be revised and updated based on the current needs of the school, studnets, and staff. Altough these identified qualities should exemplify what the leader of the school should possess, they are used to find a replacement principal. This year, I have changed school and have most recently gone through this…

Servant Leadership Philosophy Throughout over a decade in the military, I have striven to embody the idea of the servant as a leader as my core leadership philosophy. However, this unorthodox leadership style is often hard to pair with the rigidity of the modern Army. Command relies on the dissemination of tasks and their timely execution. But in order to ensure there is confidence in the orders being given, and that teams can function together to accomplish the mission, leaders must first…