The Learning Journal:
Week I – Leadership Defined and Approaches

Tran Quang Ngan
MSLNU15007
Intructor: Dr. Teresa Goode

The Concepts versus Discussion
Last week, I have joined the 3 classes of first course: Developing Your Leadership capability. This course help us to define and explain more clearly about how to react as a leader, what traits or skills we need to be as a leader.
The first class amazed me about how leadership impact through a long period of times. People know how important leadership was and to be a process of influences people to achieve goal was defined according to Northouse, P. G. (2013). Leadership: Theory and practice. Leadership is a term for me, cannot understand directly but it’s a long time to realize how leading people become different. Sometimes, we realized leadership people by a specific form called assigned leadership, who has power and ability to affect other people than to be a real leader or emergent one. So, as Vietnam current situation, we faced with high inflation rate and having a bulky apparatus of government. That means we do have lot of assigned leaders but just a few of them can be emergent leaders.
Furthermore, leadership also divided into position power leadership and personal power leadership. And for the example above, Vietnam tends to be more about position power leadership. Dr. Teresa has given us the traits approach which is to identify and a guidance to be great leaders. In class Ms. Sang said that the most important major leadership traits is determination which can give people some characteristics like initiatives, persistence, dominance and so on… but beyond that, we can practice them as a skill. I remember what Dr. Teresa asked that, “How can we achieve the self-confident?” and Mr. Phu Le gave a no better answer that we can practice and prepare. So, we can feel better when we are in a situation need to be more