Leadership Observation Paper

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“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way” - John C. Maxwell Leadership is a set of beliefs, patterns, and behaviors that influence the functioning of a group in helping them achieve their task (2016). There is no special handbook, magic trick, or tutorial that will teach you how to be a leader. A leader is anyone that is willing to take the time and effort into applying their own skills to help a whole group with their set goals. For our observation project we chose to observe the SGA board members. There were 10 members in this group, all of which had respect and were very friendly towards one another. This part of the paper will discuss the leadership within the group. First off, the leadership style was very Laissez Faire, which means, it was a “hands off” type of leadership (2016). The “leader” of the group was still present but she let other members give opinions and make decisions without only relying on the president's …show more content…

The president of SGA was very punctual, timely, detail oriented, and she was the person that gave a lot of information. Punctual, because both observations, she always started the meeting on time, right at 6 P.M. Timely, because she kept the conversation flowing a good portion of the time and it rarely got off the task they were focusing on. Detail orientated because when something was unclear she always made sure to clarify and collect important details. The other important part about her leadership that was actually really great was that when she was done talking about what she had to say, someone else began to speak, when they finished what they had to say, the next person would go on to speak. I thought that was very good and kept things strictly task orientated the entire

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