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Ead-501 Benchmark - Leadership Style and Philosophy

Krystal Robinson analyzes her leadership style and philosophy as an emerging educational leader. She identifies that her leadership style is a blend of servant leadership and transformational leadership. As a servant leader, she aims to prioritize the goals and needs of others. As a transformational leader, she wants to motivate others by appealing to ideals and inspiring them to achieve higher standards. Her leadership philosophy focuses on meeting the psychological, individual, academic, and social needs of all students through collaboration with colleagues to enact meaningful change.

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Ead-501 Benchmark - Leadership Style and Philosophy

Krystal Robinson analyzes her leadership style and philosophy as an emerging educational leader. She identifies that her leadership style is a blend of servant leadership and transformational leadership. As a servant leader, she aims to prioritize the goals and needs of others. As a transformational leader, she wants to motivate others by appealing to ideals and inspiring them to achieve higher standards. Her leadership philosophy focuses on meeting the psychological, individual, academic, and social needs of all students through collaboration with colleagues to enact meaningful change.

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Leadership Style and Philosophy

Krystal Robinson

Grand Canyon University


Leadership Style and Philosophy

Being in a leadership position is an absolute privilege. It is a privilege to lead a group of people.

This opportunity comes with responsibilities that are imperative to an organization's success.

Most times when individuals get into leadership positions, they tend to change. Most of their

change happens to be positive whether it may be an increase in knowledge or an advancement of

skill sets. Another thing that is important to have, keep, and enhance as they grow as a leader is

their leadership style. Many leadership approaches have found their way into our lives and are

here to stay. When I think about myself in a leadership position, I imagine that I have a blend of

many leadership styles.

Leadership Styles

While trying to develop my own philosophy as an emerging educational leader, three

leadership styles were analyzed. Transformational leadership, servant leadership, and

transactional leadership are three major styles of leadership. One leadership style is servant

leadership. Servant leadership may seem contradictory because it challenges our conventional

beliefs about leadership and is a unique approach. Another leadership style is transformational

leadership. Northouse describes this style of leadership as a style in which leaders help followers

reach their full potential. This approach addresses the values, emotions, ethics, standards, and

long-term goals. It requires leaders to assess teachers’ motives, satisfy their needs, and treat them

as fully human beings (Northouse, 2015, 216). Transactional leadership is another style that is

becoming quite common. This style of leadership says that leaders will exchange things of value

with followers to advance their own and their followers’ agendas (Northouse, 2015, 226).
A Cohesive Blend

After assessing and evaluating the previously mentioned leadership styles, no one style

fits every situation. When I think of myself in a leadership position, I am a blend of the servant

and transformational styles. Both leadership styles have portions that relate to the type of leader

that I aspire to be and some that do not apply. Aligning my beliefs, experiences, and overall

philosophy with just one leadership style would not be possible. As a leader, I wish to be partly a

servant. I hold the goals, needs, and success of others high. This aligns with my belief that

leaders should take care of the needs of others. Also, I plan to share power and control while

hoping to drive engagement with high morale and strong ethics. Another leadership style that I

aim to possess is transformational. This type of leadership is described as having a leader that

could uncover what motivates others, executes plans that inspire them, and just a good general

knowledge of those you are leading. My belief that individuals should do the right thing because

it is simply the right thing to do falls in line with this.

Student’s Academic and Social Success. Acting with fairness and integrity to ensure a

system of accountability for student’s academic and social success is imperative to the role of a

leader. There are many ways in which this can be shown to others. One of the simplest ways to

carry this out is to treat everyone feels special and important. Treating everyone with respect and

holding everyone accountable and to the same standards avoids the issue of showing favoritism.

This would require me to be absolutely objective. Decision making, delegations, awarding, and

rewarding would have to be done on the same playing field. Just as children learn from watching

others, I would have to model fairness and integrity. This would display an intense sense of

moral responsibility in my actions. I would expect the same in return from my staff and students.

Accountability for students' academic and social success could also be displayed by consistently
enforcing school policies. By following these things routinely, integrity would become custom

for us.

My Philosophy. My philosophy of effective and inspirational leadership as an emerging

educational leader will change as I learn, practice, and develop upon my skills as a leader. I

believe that leadership should be focused on effective outcomes for children. As an educational

leader, this should be psychological, individual, academic, and social needs of all children. We

should be creating a community that fosters elevated expectations but still considers the care

needed for all students. Not all students are alike and have the same needs and values, so

educators need to be inspire growth within our students. In order to take care of the

psychological, individual, academic, and social needs of all children, a collaborative force would

be required. A collective force would make meeting the needs of students easier. Even though an

individual could be essential in transforming an individual or organization, it would be beneficial

to have a joint force. It would be complex for one person to enact change without the support of

other colleagues. As a leader, I want to prepare for complexities, foster meaningful change, and

create environments filled with motivation and success.


References

Clarence, M., Devassy, V. P., Jena, L. K., & George, T. S. (2020). The effect of servant

leadership on ad hoc schoolteachers’ affective commitment and psychological well-being: The

mediating role of Psychological Capital. International Review of Education, 67(3), 305–331.

Belyh, A. (2019). How to Determine Your Personal Leadership Philosophy. American

Association for Physician Leadership. https://www.cleverism.com/leadership-philosophy-guide/

Greenleaf, R. K. (1998). The Power of Servant-leadership. Berrett-Koehler Publisher, Inc.

Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership (8th ed.). Sage Publishing.

Van Dijk, D., Kark, R., Matta, F., & Johnson, R. E. (2020). Correction to: Collective

aspirations: Collective regulatory focus as a mediator between transformational and transactional

leadership and team creativity. Journal of Business and Psychology, 36(4), 735–736.

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