In this week's reading, the Leadership role stood out to me most because it inspires me to be a good leader one day. According to the Essential Guide to Group Communication book, leadership is define as, "Exercise of interpersonal influence toward the attainment of goals." Then it is followed by three factors: the leader has to bring desirable outcomes, enhance credibility with the group, and should be able to inspire and motivate group members to participate.
Although the definition in the book can be a little bit tongue twisting, how I interpreted the definition of leadership is, a leader should be responsible for positively influencing a group towards achieving one common goal. A leader should be able to coach and guild their group to success by bringing desirable outcomes to the table. A leader should be the greatest role model and have credibility with the group. Last but not least, a leader should be able to entice people by motivating and inspiring them to do what they do everyday.
People in all different work fields come to work everyday to fulfill their task/ expectations to gain experience or to make money. In my opinion, it is crucial to have a great leader to lead by example- One to set the right expectation then to give praise when it's being done correctly. It will be difficult to work in a field without a leader because then, we will never know what's our progress.
Hence with a leader, we will have a set expectation on how to attain our goal and be content with a desirable outcome.
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