Leadership as a Vocation: Consider Your own View of Leadership

Leadership as a Vocation
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Leadership as a Vocation
A leader is not simply supposed to churn out orders for the staffs and the team members to follow. Rather they are supposed to be the guiding element in the team, bringing together different ideas from the team by empowering all the members and giving the group focus relative to the goals set out. It is the responsibility of the leader to see to it that all the members have a chance to contribute actively to the growth and development of the entire team. This means that they have to be committed to the growth of the group towards the goals (Ingram, 2016). All the members should have a chance to chip in, regardless of their sub-ordinance level. It is their responsibility to build on the strengths of the team and reduce the weaknesses. In light of the organization, the leader is responsible for helping his or her team achieve or even surpass the goals and objectives set out ("Transactional Versus Transformational Leaders", 2015). For the followers, the leader is supposed to make sure that the team members are empowered to take on responsibility of the team a...