Trait, Skills, and Behavioral Approaches to Leadership

Trait, Skills, and Behavioral Approaches to Leadership

For this assignment, analyze and discuss your personal leadership style. Based on your experiences, current readings, work experience, education, and use of self-assessment instruments describe what you think your personal leadership styles are. Include the following in your response:

• Describe how you prefer to lead.
• Discuss the setting in which you can apply or have applied this type of leadership.
• How has the use of these styles of leadership helped or hindered you in the past?
• Explain how you can improve your leadership.

Directions:

• Write a three-part essay (i.e., an essay that includes an introduction paragraph, the essay’s body, and a conclusion paragraph) that addresses the assignment’s guide questions. Do not address the questions using a question and answer format.

Your well-written paper should meet the following requirements:

• Be three to five pages in length, which does not include the title page, abstract or required reference page, which are never a part of the content minimum requirements.
• Use Saudi Electronic University academic writing standards and APA style guidelines.
• Support your submission with course material concepts, principles and theories from the textbook and at least two scholarly, peer-reviewed journal articles unless the assignment calls for more.
• Review the grading rubric to see how you will be graded for this assignment
• Here some information,
  

  Leadership Traits

  What makes an effective and successful leader? While the profiles of leaders vary significantly, there are some common traits:

  • Optimism and self-confidence,
  • Honesty and integrity, and
  • Drive.

  LEADERSHIP SKILLS:

  1- Technical Skills

  2- Interpersonal Skills

  3- Conceptual Skills

  Leadership Style that i wish to write about is (Transformational Leadership).

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Answer preview

According to Howell, & Costley, (2006), leadership is an act of leading of leading other people and mobilize them towards achieving a common vision. An effective leader influences other people through communicating the visions and goal. By so doing, a leader builds other people commitments towards achievements of his or her goals and ideas.  According to Howell, & Costley (2006), there are different approaches that the leaders employ in their leadership spectrum. They can use trait approaches, skills approaches or even behavioral approaches.  Behavioral approaches entail building a relationship between a leader and the followers or group members, and the behavior of a leader towards other people is the crucial element (Eagly, Johannesen-Schmidt, & Van Engen, 2003). …

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