Dead Poets Society

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Introduction:
Throughout time it has been sought out to identify what makes a good leader. An all boys prep school with high standards and prides itself on its ability to mold their students. A new staff addition who does not follow in their ancient history traditions of education. The new teacher uses different teaching techniques to inspire and educate his students breaking them out of their shells. Many different resources indicates various answers. Some qualities are but limit to strategic, responsible, intellectual, focuses, developer, and analytical (Rath, 2007, p.18-23). Throughout the movies “Dead Poets Society” there are many clear examples of leadership. Within this paper there are various analysis of management, leadership issues, …show more content…

Motivation and empowerment were two driving forces from beginning to end. Mr. Keating throughout this movies uses motivation to teach his students and empowers them to become who they are at the end of the film. Providing them with self esteem. To be a successful leader it is important to motivate their staff to work, using empowerment and promotion of self esteem, not force of fear. Throughout Strengths Finder, from Gallup there were various themes that were touched upon. It is important to focus on strengths as a manager/leader and to apply your strengths to provide a successful work environment for their employees. It is shown within Strengths Finder that a manager that ignores you and focuses on your weakness can be detrimental their company. Employees work best when managers focus on their strengths due to it decreases the odds of an employee to be miserable on the job (Rath, 2007, p. iv). With in the film some strengths that were exhibited …show more content…

Mr. Keating had used communication to energize, and to make the classroom environment exciting and vivid. This is important to provide ones employees or students. Without good communication employees have no direction and are provided no motivation (Rath, 2007, p. 65).
Connectedness- Throughout time we time to forget why we do what we do and just go through time as robots. Within this story it was demonstrated that as students we are all individuals that are connected one way or another. Any leader or manager that provided the sense of connectedness to one another and to work will provide a quality work environment. This will provide confidence within a group and for individuals (Rath, 2007, p. 73).
Harmony- Similar to connectedness, the theme of harmony was re-occurring throughout this film. Mr. Keating’s students all had different interests, backgrounds, and dreams. This strength that Mr. Keating provided was harmony amongst these young men were a place of harmony and a network for these men, a judgment free zone (Rath, 2007, p.

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