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Leadership
For any project, the first step is to inspire people to want to work on the project. There are few more powerful motivators than inspiration. Inspiration breeds creativity, innovation, hard work, determination and other attributes that comprise the more functional elements of leadership. There are a number of different leadership styles, but the most important for getting a grand new project off the ground and building a committed team is inspirational leadership. Inspiration is the process by which the performance in people can be inspired, rather than coerced or motivated (Seidman, 2009). It is believed that inspirational leadership is the most powerful means of getting people into action.
Beyond leadership style, the plan need to be detailed, including areas of concern that may require back-up plans. Planning is essential -- the role of inspiration is to ensure that the people working on the plan give their best effort, and are trying to find ways to improve upon the plan. The project would entail pushing for improved education on key issues -- for example helping better to better understand political and economic systems. The project has a lot of nuts and bolts -- marketing plans, lesson plans, financial plans -- but ultimately it will be driven by inspiration. If the people involved do not see that they will make a difference, they will not be as committed to achieving the outcomes. So it is important that careful planning is matched by strong inspirational leadership...
With the plans and the power within to make sure that plans come to life, combined with vision and the tools necessary to do the job, the project will succeed.
Q2. Servant leadership is the concept that leaders are servants to the needs of other stakeholders, rather than him- or herself. The servant leader therefore undertakes actions that will allow others to meet their needs. Greenleaf (1970) defined servant leadership as "…the servant-first…makes sure that other people's highest priority needs are being served." Servant leadership has also been proposed as an extension of transformational leadership (Waddell, 2006). Servant leaders help followers to meet their needs, in part by guiding the followers and helping them to define those needs. Thus, they transform followers from one state to a superior one.
The underlying assumption about servant leadership is that by helping others to achieve their objectives, the organization as a whole will grow. In this respect, servant leadership is contrasted with a leader-first approach. The characteristics of a servant leader are an emphasis on transformation, personal growth, enabling, service, creating commitment and building trusting relationships (ChangingMinds.org, 2011).
The strengths of servant leadership are that it builds stronger followers. They are enabled and have the mental strength to succeed. Servant leaders typically…
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Leadership Discussions First Half Conflicting Obligations Identify at least two ethical dilemmas that occur when you are in a position of leadership. What makes the dilemmas ethical? Would you expect each person to react to the dilemma in the same way? People have different ways of reacting to dilemmas. In my position as a leader, I have encountered a situation where I had to choose tow rights. In this case, I was entangled
The measures should be quantifiable, and should be continually evaluated and adjusted. The fifth element of my five-year leadership plan is to find myself in a management position. Taking on leadership roles within low-level positions is an important first step, but by the end of the five-year plan I want to be in a management position, characterized not only by staff but also by a budget. At this point,
Project Management Project Schedule To develop a schedule for a project, we will use the concept of a project network, which shows work activities taken from the work breakdown structure and organized according to the logical flow in time and relationships governing when the work will be performed. Combining this network of work activities with estimates of the time duration for performing each of the activities, create a schedule for the project work. When
However, the sum total of the organization's output extends beyond the realm of the quantifiable. Qualitative measures also exist, and they can impact on the quality of the organization's output as well. It can be argued that even qualitative outputs will eventually impact on quantitative outputs. Ford's loss of reputation as the result of the Pinto scandal, for example, cannot be quantified but the sales and profit decreases that
Most conclusions on this approach were vague or indecisive in terms of social, psychological or mental significance (Rice, 1978, 1981; Graen et al., 1972; Ashour, 1973). Furthermore, over the years, many scholars have come to the realization that leadership is situational and hence there are many realistic settings like the environment, the employees, the resources, etc. that determine the characteristics needed in a leader as well as his/her business approach
After presenting group members with the concrete, tangible evidence of the club's usefulness to the surrounding community, it would then behoove Mario to clarify his goal of the present meeting by broaching the subject that the Club should continue after graduation. The best way of formally presenting this idea (which had been previously alluded to in the meeting via the introductory phase and the power point presentation) would be