Module 1 Resonant Leaders Reflection Blog: What is Great Leadership? Melissa Burns

 Module 1 Resonant Leaders Reflection Blog

What is Great Leadership?

Melissa Burns

Leader who brought out the BEST in me

Leader who did not bring out the best in me

My Coach

He finds the way to communicate a lesson with patience and resilience.  

He prioritizes my safety and health and makes me slow down when necessary. 

He wants me to be the best and is not concerned about his own ego or pride.

He feels invested in my success.  

He is a friend.    

My Mentor 

He seems to always be putting on a show.  

He is inspirational and has amazing energy.

He is happy when I do what he expects and supports me when I follow the path he wants for me, but he sabotages me when my path is not aligned with his expectations.  

He drinks too much and says hurtful things that I think are meant to be tough love but just hurt.  

 

This exercise is a part of MSLD 641 with ERAU and the video by Dr. Boyatzis (Boyatzis, n.d.).  

The key difference between these two leaders that I can see is that one is self-centered and self-serving while the other is not.  An effective leader cannot be self-centered.  Dr. Boyatzis discusses who we try to emulate and when I look at my two examples, I see more people trying to emulate the less effective leader around me.  Why?  This leader is self-serving and has been extremely successful.  He has a way of getting people excited and motivated and does an amazing job at this and projects the image of an amazing leader.  I have had a very different experience with him as I have been more intimately mentored by him and have found that while he is a great leader to the masses, he did more harm than good to me as a one on one mentor.  I hope to be more like my coach who may not lead the masses and have a big public image, but who is a far more effective leader one on one.  I am not sure that this was the desired outcome of this exercise, but it is the experience that I have had.  I believe that being in a public position as performers, and in a high risk and high ego sport like aerobatics, creates a unique dynamic and situation to observe leadership.  There are plenty of people in the lime light who appear to be the leaders of the sport, but they are not necessarily the ones who are truly leading and making a difference.  My coach is creating leaders of tomorrow and my mentor is creating more egotistical self-centered and self-serving minions who are poisoning our sport.  

The relationship aspect matters more than the public image.  I have certainly struggled with going between these two ideas and I hope that I have found myself letting the ego go and settling more into a more selfless and relationship based resonant leader.    

References

Boyatzis, R. (n.d.).  Module 1 Resonant Leaders Video.  Case Western Reserve University.    

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