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Summative
Raul Saez Jr.
Liberty University
Author Note
Raul Saez Jr.
I have no known conflict of interest to disclose. Correspondence concerning this article should
be addressed to Raul Saez Jr.
Email: rsaez@liberty.edu
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Groups/Group Processes and Takeaways
Robert Dees describes leadership as a team sport. Effective leaders forge alliances
and build teams (2013, p. 166). The concept of groups and teamwork has been around
since the beginning of time. One of the hardest parts of the class was working together as
a group. In the beginning the group all shared the same goal, but it was difficult for
everyone to come together to get that goal accomplished. That goal was always simply to
provide a quality body of work that is on a graduate level. While some students struggled,
other were working hard to do what was right by the group and the assignment. In the end
the work was too much for some of them to overcome. So, instead of coming to together,
the group fell apart, without much notification, by G4 Forum 4 (Module 5), the group
went from 5 to 2. The last two members worked well together and did their best to get the
job done. At this point in the class these last students only had each other to lean on.
Group projects are hard in an online setting. Student go to school online because
they have other responsibilities in their lives, 40 hour work weeks, families, kids and so
many other things. Online students make time for school when they can, sometimes that
time is late at night or early in the morning. While making yourself better is a priority
sometime other in your life or more of a priority. Having to rely on others to get the job
done right is difficult when it effects your grade. When teammates quit on the group, it
makes it hard to put forth the best product. What was left of the group in the end, worked
hard and should be proud they overcame the lack of support from the others who left and
finished.
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Resilient Leader Topics
Robert Dees discusses several concepts and characteristics of leadership. An
effective leader must be able to influence individuals to reach for specific goal. The
leader will reach that goal by motivating, effectively communicating, and providing
proper direction. Organizational management pertains to the principles of planning and
problem solving as it relates to organizational goals through effective leadership. Vision,
integrity and resilient leadership are the three concepts of leadership that Dees discuss
that will relate to organizational management and leadership.
Vision
Having a vision is a perspective concept that can be described as having or
positioning ones objective, goal or purpose toward developing or improving capacity and
capability as motivations (Mohd Adnan, & Valliappan, 2019). Having focus of the end
results is a concept that all leaders must understand. Knowing what the goal is and how to
reach it is the first step in being an effective leader. According to Dees, “the absence of
vision is a serious deficiency in any organization, team, or individual. This absence steals
motivation, direction, and unity” (2013, p. 159). Followers will not trust a leader who is
leading them blindly, they want to understand the results that they are striving for.
Effective leaders have to project the meaning and purpose of the direction to the team
regarding the direction the organization is headed, and their followers will embrace that
vision as their own.
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Integrity
Choosing to act with and be a person of integrity is part of a lifelong journey of
doing the right thing and being the best you can be (Miguel, 2018). Integrity and trust
have a direct correlation when in it come to influencing their followers. Integrity is
sometimes valued by followers and the most important characteristic a leader can have.
A leader who lack integrity will struggle to have loyal followers. Followers will overlook
other poorly performed leadership concepts if their leader has solid integrity and
trustworthiness. In order to be successful as an organization, it must be led by individuals
who are consistently demonstrating integrity, in return it’s employees with trust in the
organizations vision to achieve the end goal.
Resilient Leadership
Resilient leadership is hard to define with simple words. Robert Dees says that
resilient leadership can be defined by, "leading with excellence over time through the
realities of success and failure in the tough marketplaces of life" (2013, p. 46). Being able
to bounce back after getting knocked down is also another complex way of defining it.
Leaders with a high level of resilience are able to respond in positive ways to crises their
organizations may encounter and, by exhibiting that resilience and those positive
responses, are able to increase the level of resilience of those around them (Eliot, 2020).
No matter what words are used, being an effective leader in both times of failure and
crisis will demonstrate to followers that their leader possess the ability to reach the
organization’s intended goal.
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References
Dees, R. F. (2013). Resilient leaders. San Diego, CA: Creative Team Pub.
Eliot, J. L. (2020). Resilient Leadership: The Impact of a Servant Leader on the
Resilience of their Followers. Advances in Developing Human Resources, 22(4),
404–418. https://doi.org/10.1177/1523422320945237
Miguel, Melinda M, CIG, PMP, CFSA, CICA,C.C.C.I., C.B.M. (2018). Integrity and
leadership defined. The Journal of Government Financial Management, 66(4),
52-53. Retrieved from http://ezproxy.liberty.edu/login?qurl=https%3A%2F
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