Traits, Power, and Leadership Style of a Multicultural Leader, Barack Obama

Leadership Paper: Barack Obama
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The world has many leaders whose leadership styles and characteristics are different. These leaders choose to be democrats and autocrats. Democrats choose to involve their subjects in their leadership, while autocrats are hard on subjects. The individual leaders' characteristics can be informational, motivational persuasive, coercive, or legitimate. One of the notable multicultural leaders globally is Barack Obama, an African American politician, author, and lawyer who was the 44th President of the United States. He was a member of the Democratic Party, a privilege he held after building his social, political, and economic life as a teenager. This piece discusses Barack Obama as a leader. It argues that Obama was a Democratic leader whose power was legitimate, charismatic, and persuasive. He is a multicultural leader who is a role model to African American origin and other oppressed society members like the LGBTQ groups.
Obama was born on August 4, 1961, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in the United States. He worked as a community organizer after graduating from Columbia University in 1983. Obama enrolled in Harvard Law School in 1988, where he became the first African student president. After graduating from Harvard Law School, he became a civil rights attorney and a lecturer teaching law at the University of Chicago Law School for 12 years from 1992. Obama turned to elective politics in 1997, where he represented the 13th district in the Illinois senate until 2004 when he was elected in the US senate. Barack Obama won the Democratic Party ticket for the presidential election in 2008, beating Hillary Clinton. He won the election with his running mate Joe Biden, the current US president, also beating the Republican Party candidate John McCain. Obama led the US until 2017.
Obama's leadership was successful and had a significant impact on multicultural relationships. This success is attributed to Obama's charismatic character, effective communication skills, visionary nature, and cultural sensitivity (Madiba, 2020). The charismatic leader uses their communication skills and persuasiveness to influence others. Barack Obama significantly influenced the people of the US and the world. His speeches had a great impact on his audience. In an interview with Ben Tiggelaar, an author and a visiting professor at IE Business School, Obama said that the secret to being a great orator is telling your story (Tiggelaar, n.d.). Charisma contributed heavily to Obama's leadership influence. His speech moves the crowds every time he speaks because he tells stories that people can relate to.
Another characteristic that made Obama a great multicultural leader is his excellent communication skills. Obama's oratory skills and other communication skills are unmatched. When he addresses his audience, he attracts attention through his fluency and smooth transition of ideas. Obama always talks with logic and uses his facts well to unmatched delivery, targeting and influencing his audience (Leadership lessons from Barack Obama, 2021). Obama also uses non-verbal cues like maintaining eye contact and using signs to compliment his excellen...