...Effective Leadership in the Workplace First name Last name My University Effective Leadership in the Workplace What is leadership? Leadership or being a leader can be described in many different ways, but overall it means having to capacity to lead. In every business or organization they become effective and remain effective because of their leaders and their ability to inspire and lead. “Leadership has nothing to do with seniority or one’s position in the hierarchy of a company. Too many talk about a company’s leadership referring to the senior most executives in the organization. They are just that, senior executives. Leadership doesn’t automatically happen when you reach a certain pay grade. Hopefully you find it there, but there are no guarantees.”, (Forbes.com, 2013). Overall, being an effective leader and successful manager in the workplace involves many skills such as having a strong commitment to the job, top-notch communication skills and what is not considered by most, a personality. You can start with what is commitment? According to Webster’s dictionary it means: the attitude of someone who works very hard to do or support something. Dedication and commitment goes a long way in the workplace. In a mid-term counseling with my Commanding Officer, CDR Jimmy Neutron, he stated, “that the main reason I stand out and I am a successful leader is because I am committed to getting the job done, I am one of the first ones to show up and usually one of the last ones to...
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...and gave aid to rebels battling Soviet-backed Marxists from Nicaragua to Angola. Those efforts were critical in the ultimate collapse of the Soviet empire and essentially ended the Cold War. 2. Reaganomics: Reagan’s mix of across-the-board tax cuts, deregulation, and domestic spending restraint helped fuel an economic boom that lasted two decades. Reagan inherited a misery index (the sum of the inflation and unemployment rates) of 19.99%, and when he left office it had dropped to 9.72%. President Obama take note: Under Reaganomics, 16 million new jobs were created. “In his lifetime, Ronald Reagan was such a cheerful and invigorating presence that it was easy to forget what daunting historic tasks he set himself. He sought to mend America's wounded spirit, to restore the strength of the free world and to free the slaves of Communism.” That's how Lady Thatcher started her great eulogy of Ronald Reagan, summarizing in one sentence his personal qualities and his great achievements. This combination of highly admirable personality...
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...leadershipELAF 683 LEADERSHIP FROM THE BOARDROOM TO THE CLASSROOM: EFFECTIVE PRACTICES IN BUSINESS AND EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP Introduction Purpose and Direction for the Paper: This paper intends to discuss leadership from a business perspective leading to effective practices that are both documented in business and educational leadership. It will present a historical perspective on leadership from the kings of the 16th Century to a discussion on theory (administrative and leadership). The paper will transition to discuss effective practices and common characteristics of effective leaders tying the concepts from business thought to educational leadership. Finally, a discussion will be presented detailing current educational and economic trends for schools for the 21st century and a summary of the leadership that will be required. A Business and Educational Leadership Perspective: A Required Change Niccolo Machiavelli, the 16th century author of The Prince (1981), stated, “The whole Kingdom . . . is governed by one man; everyone else is his servant” (p. 22). Since its first printing in 1516, The Prince has been the inspiration for many managerial texts and has been utilized as a guide for leaders throughout the centuries, including several today. In a Machiavellian or so-called “top-down” managerial philosophy, a chief executive officer (CEO) defines and controls the power of the organization. The workforce serves the mission as determined by management, which oftentimes has...
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...learn which brands are seen as the most innovative in FMCG, Retail, Finance, Automotive, Technology and Charity, as well as how you can influence how consumers feel about the innovation your brand displays – without relying on products. Incite, the market research consultancy, has produced its Innovation League Table for 2013, revealing who’s got the right formula, as well as how brands can apply new strategies to excel at innovation. Incite surveyed 3,000 UK consumers both unprompted and then based on over 500 popular brands to rank their perceptions of the UK’s most innovative brands. For the first time since its inception, the study also measured the degree of perceived innovation in marketing communications to investigate consumer attitudes towards what makes a brand innovative and how this relates to its overall perception. We know that marketers have the power to drive innovation, but in order to woo consumers, brands need to understand the underlying factors that are perceived to drive innovation in order to apply it to their brand. Is it about inspiring advertising? Making consumers’ lives easier? Being first to market? This report arms marketers with the insight to give their brand the innovative edge over their rivals. Innovation is the biggest lever for differentiation in a landscape where savvy consumers have innumerable choices, but it takes many forms. The findings of this study guide brand marketers through the innovation...
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...for Michael Schneider’s B492/MAN4143 Contemporary Leadership Challenges online course. Leadership is a very broad term and has many definitions depending on the situation. If you ask anyone what it means to be a leader, you will likely hear something unique every time because everyone has his or her own idea of what leadership is. Even though the definitions may vary, the general sentiments remain the same: Leaders are people who know how to achieve goals and inspire people along the way. Leaders will have a vision of what can be achieved and then communicate this to others and evolve strategies for realizing the vision. They motivate people and are able to negotiate for resources and other support to achieve their goals. Many people view management as leadership but it is not. Leadership comes from influence and influence can come from anyone at any level and in any role. Being able to help lift others up and work together toward a common mission will build influence. True leadership comes when those around you are influenced by your life in a positive way (Helmrich, 2016). Leadership is about positively impacting others through example and enabling a continuous rippling effect. To me leadership reflects in everyday actions and behaviors. Being a leader is not a one-time thing, it is a life-long commitment. Leadership is service empathy and clarity of vision. Being a leader is the ability to not just have a vision but to act on the vision and engage others...
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...Volunteer Activity MGMT300 Leadership Table of Contents Introduce your activity………………………………………………………………2 How/why was this activity chosen? Did you “stretch your boundaries?” ………….3 Discuss your experience as it relates to at lease four of the unit topics……………..3 What did you learn about yourself that will enhance your own leadership potential from this experience, and why?...........................................................................................7 Volunteer Activity- The Underwear Affair Introduce your activity The Underwear Affair is an event that takes place in Edmonton, Calgary and Vancouver to help raise money for cancers below the waist, such as prostate, ovarian, and colon. Participants have the option to register for a fun five-kilometer walk, ten-kilometer walk, or a citywide “booty hunt” also known as a scavenger hunt. People participating in the events are encouraged to strip down to their underwear, or wear ridiculous costumes and attire. After the walk, run and scavenger hunt is over, the festivities continue with a hot meal, drinks and dancing for all participates and families. This year was the seventh annual Underwear Affair in Edmonton; approximately 1100 people participated in the events raising $625,000 dollars for the Alberta Cancer Foundation. This money will help support vital research, treatment, care and early screenings at the Cross Cancer Society and 16 other cancer centers in Alberta. In the...
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...Leadership & Managerial Qualities Abstract Managers and leaders, whether managing firms, their own organizations, or a platoon must have a good understanding of their habits and leadership traits. Managers and leaders take full responsibility in their communication with their employees to enhance organizations. The way they communicate to their employees ensures whether their team will respect them and work for them, or possibly run the business into the ground. Through truthfulness, optimism, future thinking, and the ability to communicate, managers are the leaders in organizations that keep businesses running smoothly in day-to-day operations. Manager Qualities and Leadership Throughout my life, I have been blessed with the opportunity of being in the presence of exceptional and effective leaders. Many different experiences like being a combat marine for eight years and while serving five years deployed for the OIF, (Operation Iraqi Freedom) and OEF (Operation Enduring Freedom) campaigns. During that time I was given great responsibilities and duties which helped give me the direction and skills that have made me become an effective leader and manager. It is essential for a person to be able to communicate and he/she must be humble. One might question how these two seemingly different characteristics or qualities relate to being a leader, but you must note that without these two qualities effective leadership is lost. Communication is everything...
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...and Selecting Quality Security Employees for security job position Contemporary Issues in Security Management Abstract For years, recruitment and hiring methods have been deemed by dated by human resource managers but are realizing that different strategies and methods are need to attract millennials. Hiring qualified personnel has become an essential component in an organization foundation. This paper will explore multiple articles that provide techniques on how to recruitment and hire candidates from college graduates, apprentices, and novices to the security profession and presents key components of innovative approaches and traditional human resource techniques, and training policies that will meet any small or large business goal of highly hiring qualified candidates. In addition, it will highlight techniques, practices and, lessons learnt in enhancing a company’s ability to attract, hire, retain, and improve human resource practices, improve human resource development and human resource capabilities in today’s security career field. Keyword: Employees, Hiring, Human Resources (HR), Security Recruiting and Selecting Quality Security Employees in the security field Currently there is a high demand for security professional specializing Cybersecurity, Personnel Security, Physical Security, and Industrial security and many other security jobs. The issue is attracting, hiring, retaining people that have the education...
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...The Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically, Eve... http://www.forbes.com/sites/glennllopis/2013/02/18/the-most-s... Glenn Llopis, Contributor I share the immigrant perspective on leadership & workplace innovation LEADERSH I P | 2/18/2013 @ 9:22AM | 1,440,230 views The Most Successful Leaders Do 15 Things Automatically, Every Day Leadership is learned behavior that becomes unconscious and automatic over time. For example, leaders can make several important decisions about an issue in the time it takes others to understand the question. Many people wonder how leaders know how to make the best decisions, often under immense pressure. The process of making these decisions comes from an accumulation of experiences and encounters with a multitude of difference circumstances, personality types and unforeseen failures. More so, the decision making process is an acute understanding of being familiar with the cause and effect of behavioral and circumstantial patterns; knowing the intelligence and interconnection points of the variables involved in these patterns allows a leader to confidently make decisions and project the probability of their desired outcomes. The most successful leaders are instinctual decision makers. Having done it so many times throughout their careers, they become immune to the pressure associated with decision making and extremely intuitive about the process of making the most strategic and best decisions. This is why...
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...MANAGEMENT VS. LEADERSHIP Management vs. Leadership Leadership can be defined as the ability to direct the operations, activity, or performance of others. A leader is an individual who leads, guides or inspires others. A leader is someone who will take charge of a group or be vocal amongst others. However, to be a leader, one must not only have the ability to take charge or be vocal, but also must have the respect of others in the group, team, or organization. With leadership, perception is the better part of reality: Being a good leader may be difficult if followers do not perceive the individual as one (Altar 2006). A leader must know what his or her followers think. Most important leaders will say that leadership ability is the single most important personal attribute that one needs to succeed. Leadership has many facets to its name. Some of the most important leadership skills are communication and relationship building. One trait that is not characteristic of a good leader is dominance. When a leader tries to dictate, they will lose respect from others. A commanding style of leadership in not recommended, but rather have one who can win hearts and minds. In the present, many organizations are putting their employees through different leadership development programs. "Companies with effective processes for assessing individual leadership development needs were significantly more likely to have recorded an increase in sales and net income between 2003 and 2004" (Switzerland...
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...Branson has been tagged as a 'transformational leader' by management lexicon, with his maverick strategies and his stress on the Virgin Group as an organization driven on informality and information, one that's bottom heavy rather than strangled by top-level management. Although Branson says his success was not planned, and it just happened, he has said that he has 10 secrets to success: 1. You've got to challenge the big ones. 2. Keep it casual. 3. Haggle: everything is negotiable. 4. Have fun working. 5. Do the right things for the brand. 6. Smile for the cameras! 7. Don't lead "sheep", herd "cats". 8. Move like a bullet. 9. Size does matter. 10. Be a common, regular person. He was 9th in the Sunday Times Rich List 2006, worth just over £3billion. He is the No 1 Admired Businessman in Britain, and 2nd choice amongst youth for Prime Minister (after Tony Blair)[3]. He has a cameo appearance in the new Superman film, credited as "Shuttle Engineer", alongside his son Sam, with Virgin Galactic-esque commercial suborbital shuttle at the center of his storyline. He will have a cameo in the upcoming James Bond film Casino Royale as well. Although Branson says his success was not planned, and it 1. Introduction on team work 2. Richerd philosophy of team work 3. Example of team work 4. Some picture demonstrate team work Words of Wisdom Branson on building a business Don't bother doing something unless you're radically...
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...LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION LEADERSHIP FOR INNOVATION How to organize team creativity and harvest ideas JOHN ADAIR London and Philadelphia Publisher’s note Every possible effort has been made to ensure that the information contained in this book is accurate at the time of going to press, and the publishers and author cannot accept responsibility for any errors or omissions, however caused. No responsibility for loss or damage occasioned to any person acting, or refraining from action, as a result of the material in this publication can be accepted by the editor, the publisher or the author. First published in Great Britain in 1990 by the Talbot Adair Press as The Challenge of Innovation This edition published in Great Britain and the United States by Kogan Page Limited in 2007 as Leadership for Innovation Reprinted 2007 Apart from any fair dealing for the purposes of research or private study, or criticism or review, as permitted under the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988, this publication may only be reproduced, stored or transmitted, in any form or by any means, with the prior permission in writing of the publishers, or in the case of reprographic reproduction in accordance with the terms and licences issued by the CLA. Enquiries concerning reproduction outside these terms should be sent to the publishers at the undermentioned addresses: 120 Pentonville Road London N1 9JN United Kingdom www.kogan-page.co.uk © John Adair, 1990, 2007 The right of John...
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...Assessing Your Leadership Style to Achieve Organizational Objectives EILEEN NEWMAN RUBIN Research has shown that there are more than 30 differently named leadership styles, ranging from micro-management to hands-off, each with its own proponents. Six, however, stand out as most com- monly found in business: authoritarian, democratic, transformational, laissez-faire, servant, and situa- tional. A review of the experiences of six leaders who embody these styles reveals that each mode of operating has its pros and cons; there is no sin- gle best approach. Being aware of one’s leadership style and that of others makes it possible to lever- age strengths and compensate for weaknesses and to properly match individuals to a particular role or task—for the good of the entire organization. ©C 2013 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Whether they are involved in politics, corporate America, or a nonprofit endeavor, the style in which managers and other professionals exert their lead- ership can determine the outcome of their efforts. As the American businessman and political fig- ure Erskine Bowles said, “Leadership is the key to 99 percent of all successful efforts” (Kruse, 2012). But what is the best leadership style to use? There is no simple answer to this seemingly simple ques- tion. One’s leadership style depends on several fac- tors, including the personality of the leader, the or- ganizational culture (and the many subcultures that may exist within it), the personalities of the people...
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...What Is Servant Leadership? Servant leadership is a philosophy and set of practices that enriches the lives of individuals, builds better organizations and ultimately creates a more just and caring world. While servant leadership is a timeless concept, the phrase “servant leadership” was coined by Robert K. Greenleaf in The Servant as Leader, an essay that he first published in 1970. In that essay, Greenleaf said: “The servant-leader is servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve, to serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to aspire to lead. That person is sharply different from one who is leader first, perhaps because of the need to assuage an unusual power drive or to acquire material possessions…The leader-first and the servant-first are two extreme types. Between them there are shadings and blends that are part of the infinite variety of human nature.” “The difference manifests itself in the care taken by the servant-first to make sure that other people’s highest priority needs are being served. The best test, and difficult to administer, is: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society? Will they benefit or at least not be further deprived?“ A servant-leader focuses primarily on the growth and well-being of people and the communities to which they belong. While traditional...
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...oversight. There is a legal responsibility to do what is right by the customer – if you produce a product knowing that there is a high risk of harm to the consumer, you will be eventually be found out, prosecuted, and held liable. Organizations have put a high priority on ethics, which can be hard to balance in the highly competitive business world. But with the advancements in technology and social media, consumers are highly aware of how an organization behaves – and this information travels the world quickly. There is little tolerance in most companies for unethical behavior that threatens the mission, vision, values, strategy and goals of the company, not to mention the consumer base. 2 Describe how and why ethics can and do guide managers’ decision making process (10 Points) Individual ethics, and the organizational ethical climate, do a great deal to guide the decision making process. If a company has the climate of utilitarianism, the manager will base their decision on what will do the most people the most good. For example, if there was a choice between two options as outlined below: Option A – has defect rate of 50%, can suspend production for 1 month to fix defect costing $350,000 to reduce defects to <5% Option B – has defect rate of 50%, can release product and expect liabilities to reach $200,000 A utilitarianism company manager would pick Option A – fix the defect to keep happy consumers and take the short term hit on cost for the long-term...
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