Leadership Review

When I think of a charismatic leader I’m reminded of a football coach that I had in high school. By having this coach while I was in high school became a very valuable asset as I have grow and matured from those times, everyday I think back to the things that he told us. This man took a group of kids that should not have been playing football and turned us into one of the most successful teams in the state. Because of his charisma and belief in us we were able to achieve things that we would have not with out him. Coach was very demanding of us but as a group we believed him and did what he commanded because he had been there and we knew it. To be a charismatic leader like coach you have to have emotional intelligence, coach understood his emotions and knew ours, and one must have a very positive attitude. People will feed off of your attitude, if you are positive about a situation you followers will be positive about a situation, if you are negative, your followers will be negative. By having this emotional intelligence he was able to inspire us because knew what we needed to hear and feel to perform at the best of our ability or above or ability. It takes emotional intelligence to inspire people to the fullest capacity; one must be able to read their own emotions and the emotions of other to have the greatest impact on an individual. This is explained better by being self-aware and having social awareness. These are the main components of emotional intelligence that a charismatic leader must have to be effective with this style of leadership. There is a personality trait that is essential to the traits needed to be a charismatic leader, and that is being extroverted. Extroverted is defined as being outgoing, sociable, talk able, and energetic. Is a person is quiet and afraid to speak up around new people and is not willing to be talkative and sociable around people this person is not a charismatic leader and will not be successful if they attempt this leadership style.

When I think of a transactional leader I’m reminded of my boss that supervised me over the summer. He was exceptionally good at completing the necessary task completed to make sure that everything ran smoothly. He was very good at making sure that tasks that were handed down to me or others were explained in very great detail, and when we did an exceptional job he was very good about making sure that we received the proper rewarding for a exceptional completed job. He was very good at recognizing which of us was the best at a certain task and would make sure that we assigned to that task. My boss this summer was a very great person to work for and I could not have asked for a better boss, and this was because of is transactional leadership skills. As a employee I always knew what was expected of me and I knew exactly what was needed to get things done. My summer boss had great emotional stability, which I believe is a trait that is need to have this style of leadership; he was calm and controlled and made sure to have control of himself and the situation to the best of his ability. Conscientiousness was another personality trait that my summer boss had that made him very effective, he was very responsible, dependable, very persistent, and very achievement oriented. This made my job a lot easier because I knew that he was going to be there everyday and would be working hard and as a follower I did not want to let him down, this is because I knew that he would not let me down.

I had a job at a landscaping company back home when I was in high school and my boss then is a perfect example of a transformational leader, he was very innovative and let us employees on the job site make our own decisions. In this type of business he could not be on the job site all