Leadership: Annotated Bibliography

The title leadership repertoire highlights the necessity of cultivating efficient leadership qualities to evolve as a good leader. Repertoire refers to a reservoir or storage, hence this present chapter profoundly discusses and characterizes the key features a leader has to possess. The four required characters of a leader are like visionary, affiliative, coaching and democratic. But pacesetting and commanding are used with special care.
To begin with Shawna Leroy incident, rules were implemented in a wonderful manner in the beginning which thereafter bolstered the the pace of the work. The commendable qualities of a leader are explained in a wonderful manner. How does visionary ideas reverberate? The author provided a wonderful example of Bob pittman who redefined the main mission of the janitors that enhanced them to work in a customer friendly manner and ultimately implemented to work in a supportive manner.

How visionary is evolved?

The concept of emotional intelligence competence (self-confidence, self-aware ness and empathy) play a role in transformation of a common man to a leader. Transparency, believing in your vision elevates confidence even in your co-workers that drives you reach at the goals astutely. Many leaders in the business applied the same strategy and are still using the same to ensure the growth of an institution both academically and in private organizations. Does coaching improve the efficiency of the employees? From the story of Ogilvy one has to accept the theme that personal coaching enables to form good bond between leads and the employees. It works in a perfect manner in everybody’s life as personal motivation helps a lot in improving our emotional response. Coaching enhances the employee responsibilities and motivate them to achieve the

targets.
How a coach is different from others? A good coach is a very good counsellor too. Thus coaching enables self-awareness and empathy both in the leader and the employee.
Affiliative leaders are the ones that are capable to establish a good rapport between leader and the employee. Affiliative leaders work to enhance and satisfy emotional needs despite the work goals. This character enables them to form a strong bonding between employees and the leaders. What is a democratic way of leadership? How it can be achieved? In our context, Sister Mary followed a good level of morale; the key feature of being democratic on the other hand it did happened in priest’s case. In democratic approach the leader ask for and accept the suggestions from the eminent employees maintaining a good rapport between the leader and the other employees. Democratic leaders are good listeners and therefore good communicators too.