Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

            According to McKee et al. (2008), resonant leadership may not be a common practice of leadership, but it is a plain common sense.  Leadership is an individual’s capacity to translate his or his vision into materiality while empowering others.  A leader has the power to influence the emotional states of the individuals that surround them.  To achieve goals that are challenging and complex, leaders need to develop their social and emotional intelligence.               Reflecting on my responses from the exercise, I discovered that I am a resonant leader, but I need to find a balance between overworking myself due to being too emotionally invested and at the same time be authentic and genuine to myself finding a balance between work and personal life.  According to Puddicombe (2012), our mind whizzes away like a washing machine that keeps on turning trying to deal or process varied emotions that are complicated and confusing. Those conflicting emotions are distractors that

Yukl, G. (2012) described leadership as the process of influencing others to understand and agree about what and how things are accomplished.  “It is the process of facilitating individual and collective efforts to achieve shared objectives” (p. 7).  I t is of utmost importance to discuss various ways of how leadership is defined to analyze and assess the effectiveness and different approaches to leadership.  Yukl (2012) indicated that leadership has many diverse modes of denotation at various individuals where behavioral scientists and practitioners believed that leadership is a vital phenomenon that it can be defined variously.   Definitions of leadership are mostly reflecting the assumption that involves a process whereby intentional influence is exerted over other individuals in guiding, structuring, and facilitating activities and relationships in a group or organization (Yukl, 2012). Leadership needs to provide their workforce opportunities to accomplish more challenging task

            According to Brown (2011), a strong culture can be depicted by an organization’s fundamental values shared by the leadership, employees, and stakeholders.  When the majority of the members share the company’s core values, the greater their steadfastness thus resulting to a stronger culture.  A strong culture could produce in employees and stakeholders passionate engagement is creating and supporting the organization’s vision, mission, and values or norms.  The organization’s culture impacts its growth, finances, level of risk-taking, internal communication, and innovation.  Strong culture establishes what the clientele’s expectations are from the company and if they can together create a healthy business relationship.             I can certainly relate with McChrystal and McIngvale on the leadership approaches they have taken to the success of their team.  As a leader, I am accountable for the creation, development, and leading a team to the highest standards of perform