Define leadership in your own words.

What will be an ideal response?


Student answers will vary but should demonstrate understanding of the qualities possessed by good leaders, including the ability to help people develop their own initiative and good judgment, enable them to grow, and help them become better contributors. Students may also speak to ideas of Millennial leadership characteristics, including transparency, authenticity, relevancy, autonomy, and flexibility. Student answers may address the fact that organizations need people at all levels to be leaders. They need leaders throughout the organization to do the things that their people want, but also to help create and implement strategic direction. Thus, organizations place people in formal leadership positions so these leaders will achieve not their personal goals, but the organization's goals.

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