Development Of Effective Leadership Skills

Running head: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
Effective Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

1EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
Q. Make a list of the people that you know (or know of) who you consider to be effective
leaders. Choose two of these people and determine which leadership style to the ascribed to.
Did they have specific leadership traits, did they use the contingency approach to
leadership, and were they charismatic leaders?
The most effective leader that I have come across personally in my life is my mother. She
has been very inspiring and dynamic from all perspectives. She has brought me up from
childhood single handedly as my father passed away in my childhood. There are some other
leaders in the world that I can talk about leadership. They are Florence Nightingale, Adolf Hitler,
Nelson Mandela, John Kennedy and Oprah Winfrey.
Florence Nightingale
The first leader I have chosen to discuss about in this paper is Florence Nightingale. She
is revered as the modern day nursing and she completely changed the sanitation methods in
hospitals (Agnesscott.edu. 2020). She was in inspiration to all the people at a time when the
healthcare system was not run properly at all. Two greatest achievements that Florence
Nightingale had in her life were reforming the hospital settings and pioneering in the nursing
profession (Hao & Yazdanifard, 2015). Her leadership style was very effective for her followers.
She was mother like as she cared for all the ill people and showed apathy.
On the other hand, she was very professional in her approach also. She began the record
keeping practices by gathering the required data. The story of her life was truly amazing because
most women of her time in the Victorian period neither attended higher studies not went for
professional careers (Agnesscott.edu. 2020). There were many barriers in front of her as a
woman but she overcame the odds and pioneered te nursing profession. It was truly due to her