Master of Science in Leadership RG 5043

A Different Kind of Leader       Winston and Patterson (2006) described leadership as shaping the followers’ values, attitudes, and behaviors towards risk, failure, and success.  They further indicated the leadership is creating and sustaining peace in the organization-not a lack of conflict but a place where peace grows.  Whenever a leader influences the followers’ values, the followers develop the willingness to be more agreeable to the leader’s initiatives and trust that the leader will lead his/her team to success.  When the team is successful, it brings pride and self-confidence to every member of the team.  When every member of the team are confident, well-engaged and empowered, peace within the organization is sustained and inevitable. Dubois et al., (2015), studied the different leadership styles such as transactional leadership, situational leadership, and transformational leadership that would be most appropriate or advantageous for healthy and successful project managem

Cornerstone of Speaking Many organizations like my current employer benefit greatly when their workforce can collaborate to achieve organizational goals and have the capacity to get to know each other and understand how to work cohesively.  Understanding my leadership or management style is beneficial to gaining knowledge of my strengths and weaknesses.  My management or leadership styles depicts my perspectives and what I value most.  Having self-awareness will aid me in our communication with the people I work with or those around me.  Knowledge of who I am is a form of empowerment to advance in my personal or professional pursuits. 013             Based on Treasure’s (2018) recommendation, to improve my future presentations, I will follow the four cornerstones of effective communication, H onesty, A uthenticity, I ntegrity, and Lovee .  First, when I deliver my presentation, I need to invoke h onesty where my message(s) is delivered clearly and transparency.  Second, my audienc

Secret Structure             Excellent storytellers use the technique of reminding their audience of the status quo and then lead the audience to a better pathway revealing a conflict that requires a resolution.  According to Duarte (2012), the tension that conflict brings helps the storytellers in persuading their audience to a new behavior moving them in the pathway from what is to what could be.  University of Leicester’s Student Learning Development (n.d.) department recommended that the ideal structure of presentation must include an informative and welcoming introduction, an understandable series of main events that are staged in a sequence that is logical, and lastly, purposeful and clear ending or conclusion.             Based on Duarte’s (2011) recommended techniques, I would start my future presentation just the way she described it as establishing the what is.  By introducing of how I become who I am today through by my upbringing then at the same time present my vision