How to find your new leaders inside the firm?

       Teamwork and team-building are both very central and critical tasks. As times are changing, leadership must change as well. Today’s organizations need a new generation of leaders (e.g., flexible, meet demand, and deal with change), Fink (2009) examines and suggests the best source of future leaders are employees inside the firm, and there are four significant types of leadership traits that managers should pay attention, such as: Inspirational motivation, intellectual motivation, individual motivation (set team goals and work together), and charismatic motivation (e.g., initiates a impression of urgency or determination and objective). All Fink’s leadership traits emphasize on the issues of motivation. At any rate, Fink (2009) argues “different types of leaders are needed in different areas… There is no [one size fits all] solution, either by functional unit or by leadership style” (p.7). I totally agree. In practice, what inspires or motivates a service division varies from what inspires a marketing team. Leaders not only would like accomplishment and success, but also concentrate inspire, lead, and motivate people.

References

Northouse, P. G. (2007).  Leadership theory and practice (4th edition).    

      Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Fink, S. (2009, March). Born leaders? Leadership excellence, 26 (3). Retrieved


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