Leadership as Human Interaction
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According to Curtis, & Manning (2015) leadership has been part of human interaction since inception, and it involves attracting people, motivating and helping them find solutions to their problems. It is a social influence through initiatives and guiding to effect change resulting from better outcomes and new directions for institutions. A leader has authority over a group of people and uses that power productively for the benefit of an organization with the positive influence of people’s behavior within own control. Lawler (2005) argues that a leader serves subjects diligently without favour and ensures equality at every point of execution of duties within institutions.
According to Kelly (2006) within different capacities, leaders have various authorities, capabilities and influences that make them run their daily activities and guide their institutions where they subject authority. A leader must be that person who can support an organization and offer strategic decisions that would see institution move to the right direction even in times of crisis. When things go wrong, people always look up to the leader to show the way and next move that would see them avert any disasters. Wiley (2013) argues that there exist leaders at every level of the society and organization with different roles, authority, and influence, but the core duty in their capacity is offering support in terms of decisions and stamping authority.
Tracy (2014) argues that several events in a lifetime can declare the importance of leadership based on acts and decision that they provided to their respective groups that are outstanding for separate reasons. Different events in history proclaim that leadership entities had an utter influence on the people with their reigns full of notable events that still exists in the books to date. Control has importance in every level of the society and every aspect of life from political, cultural, and social to economic diversities of communities. Irrespective of the capacity a person is in terms of leadership, regardless of the number of people a person leads, the ultimate prospect of every group is for the leader to offer strategic directions that would overcome events.
According to Curtis, & Manning (2015) effective leaders leave a mark in history even after they no longer exist, and their acts of bravery and influence outstand and attract admiration over the times. At times, leaders have to sacrifice many personal interests to serve the people they lead to benefit the organizations that they have authority over. Leinster (2012) argues that an effective leader must have people working and offer directions in the way of doing things, serving the roles on determination of the organization. An effective leadership involves aspects through which an individual influences, motivates and enables others to contribute towards the success and effectiveness of organizational processes. They use their personal qualities and skills to offer support, control and guidance that go a long way into saving a situation.
According to Kelly (2006), effective leadership has a structure that fits the relevant organization and builds cultures that support institutional progress. Even as the level of leadership may be different from society and influences vary, there are similarities in leadership based on their roles with only the application of skills within the institutions that vary. I am a type of leader that offers guidance on the people I have authority over in the way of doing things and getting them done by involving the relevant people. According to Curtis & Manning (2015) decision-making is critical aspect of every organization and offering well-calculated decision goes a long way into giving appropriate direction for the organization and people. I tend to influence behavior in a sustainable way through a learned process that would see people not only behave differently when I am at the scenes, but throughout their tasks in the organization and their life.