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 advantageou...

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...

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 w...

Sustained Change According to Brown (2011), organizational change implicates the modification of the organization’s existing structure, system, and culture where the primary focus is accelerating the company’s efficiency and effectiveness, guaranteeing its survival.  Change in an organization is inevitable.  New initiatives, new leadership, technology improvements and need to be ahead of the competition are all factors that drive ongoing changes in the way organizations work.  As one of human resources leader for Florida Hospital Central Florida Division – North Region, I belong to a semi self-managed work team.  We are composed of Directors of HR professionals leading the HR team of FH Waterman, Fish Memorial, Deland, Memorial Medical Center, New Smyrna, Flagler, and my organization, FH HealthCare Partners.  We meet bi-weekly with our Regional VP of HR to brainstorm on best practices for the region, reviewing policies and procedures, employee engagement, e...

Core Workplace Values Assessment According to Hoch and Kunreuther (2005), studies revealed that we, as individuals, are very inconsistent in recognizing or determining our choices or determinations.  They further indicated that our inconsistencies do not randomly transpire, but instead, those inconsistencies are susceptible to and are in accord with the climate of our decisions or judgments.  Furthermore, they claimed that the context of our determinations or choices is affected by our preferences powerfully and congruently. Becoming a real leader is growing to be a strong individual/person with a strong foundation of principles, values, and ethics to have the ability to support and nurture others that are weaker than them.  The real leader focuses on becoming excellent at the things that they love to do most in their life to inspire others in doing the same. A real leader inspires and motivates the people that surround them in taking action on their accord without ...

Listening             According to Peters (2009), the best strategy that an organization to be successful is for every member of the organization to be committed to strategic listening rather than a commitment to the strategic plan.  Strategic listening is listening intently to understand.  Johnson (n.d.) said that the epicenter of strategic conversations and excellent communication is listening.  When we listen to someone, it allows the speaker to simplify their thoughts and will have the ability to reflect back on their thoughts with more clarity.             Peters (2009) stated that to a certain degree, listening has a degree of importance to our profession, but he is challenging us to reflect on possibility being an 18-second manager.  Most recently on our payroll week, I was overwhelmed with payroll, new employee onboarding, and employee relations ...

Credibility             According to Whalen (2007), when leaders possess a high-credibility as a communicator, they will have more enjoyment when they experience control over their current state of communicating.  Having the power of a presentation, a leader endowed to a leader’s persuasive power.  As a leader, having credibility empowers our staff to find us a reliable source for decision making and concise information that affects them in our workplace  Having credibility can also be translated into an improved workforce performance under our supervision and fruitful relationship with our clients, vendors, and stakeholders.             Whalen (2007) had given us five pillars of credibility to enhance our credibility in the eyes of our audience.  For the purposes of this study, the following are three of the five credibility pillars according to Whalen:...