Effective Leadership For A Fundraising Campaign, Prison Officer, And Multi-National CEO

Leadership as an art, skill or quality

Describe about the Leadership for a Perceptions of Effective Leadership.

Leadership is an art, skill or quality that allows the leader to do the right thing that could help a company or any concern to achieve its goal. A leader can create an inspiring vision and motivates his subordinates or team members to work to visualize this vision (Northouse, 2015). He can consolidate a team and maximize the efficiency of the team. This essay will discuss various situation and people who use different style of leadership to get their work don effectively (Renko et al, 2015)

A chief of a fundraising campaign should follow a participative leadership.  A chief of a fundraising campaign needs to engage themselves in all the activities that are involved in a fundraising campaign. He needs to check the day-to-day operations, recruitment and management of the staff. He also needs to coordinate and implement the operations of the campaign. He needs to invest his resources in time and energy to create and manage the budget for the campaign. The major skills that make them successful are excellent organizational skills, balanced temperament, good communication skills and top of that leadership quality. The chief of the fundraising campaign must keep a check on the finance director, press secretary, field operation manager, campaign treasurer, the IT team, and other staff. He needs to make sure all the teams are working according to the plan and strategy (Wilson & Thompson, 2014).

There are situations when the chief of the fundraising campaign has to meet undesirable situations that might be adverse for the image of the campaign. In a situation when there are negative rumors about the campaign like mismanagement of the funds that were gathered in the previous fundraising campaign. Then investors might back out of the event, and the whole campaign might jeopardize. The chief has to gather his team quickly and chalk out a plan to combat the situation. He has pay heed to every team member so that he would be able to comprehend the perspective of every member. This exercise will enable him to formulate a concrete strategy to battle with this sticky situation. Hearing the opinion of at least one member from every department will enable him to understand the strength and weakness of the teams and formulate the plan accordingly. He can make sure that the IT team searches the people who have initiated the dissemination of the rumor on social media.  The new media team will negate the rumors and pacify the masses on social media. Chief has to sit with the legal department to come up with the legal stance they can take against the people who have initiated the rumor (Kara et al., 2013).

Participative leadership style for fundraising campaign

A participative leadership style will help the chief to make decisions by allowing his several departments to give inputs, get the clear picture of the situation, and come up with ideas to handle the situation. This style of leadership reflects that the chief beliefs in every member of his team and this, in turn, boost the morale of the team. The team gets motivated to work harder and give every idea that might be instrumental in solving the situation in a better way. The chief will be able to establish open communication among the team members and earn the faith of the team that will positively help the team to survive any storm that comes the way of the fundraising campaign (Cunningham, Salomone & Wielgus, 2015)

A prison officer should follow the autocratic style of leadership. This style of leadership will help the prison officer to make the decision alone without any interference by others. The responsibilities of a prison officer include many activities that need to be regulated with absolute authority. The supervision, management and the control of the prisoners that too lawfully, safely and securely comes under the duties of a prison officer. He needs to check the whether the staff is performing their responsibilities and duties properly. He needs to check the daily activities of the prisoners and review it on a timely basis. In short, he is responsible all the activities performed or happening with the prison premises (Bhatti et al., 2012).

Prison officers often need to tackle various kinds of situation, which are tricky to handle. One such situation is to deal with the temperament of the notorious prisoners. Prison officer needs to ensure that the prisoners do not involve in activities like bullying, assaults, substance misuse and self-harm. They prison officer needs to handle these situations strictly and then report it to the higher authorities. He needs to review the incidents and the ones involved in the time-to-time basis. In such situations, the prison officer needs to firm in his decision and make sure that his decision is the last word for the staff and prisoners. All the staff and the prisoners have to follow the directives by the prison officer. Anyone not abiding by the directives provided by the prison officer should be reported, and strict actions should be taken against them (Kinnunen, Feldt & Mauno, 2016).

A prison officer should authoritatively maintain the discipline within the prison. He should assert his decisions on his staff and prisoners. The staff or the prisoner will not be able to influence him. The reason is that this will assert his authority, and everyone is going to listen to him without questioning. It is critical for his staff and prisoners to obey his command to maintain the discipline. His job is to control and maintain discipline in the prison. He does not need to motivate his prisoners. In fact, the prisoners should not take him lightly and for that purpose, the prison officer needs to maintain his authoritative leadership in the prison premises. The prison officer is not there to motivate the prisoners. He does not need to fear that by following this (Aktas, Gelfand & Hanges, 2015)

Autocratic style for prison officer

CEO of a multi-national company should follow the transformational leadership style. A CEO has to take all the important decision for the company. He is responsible for the future course of the company in all the countries the company is operating. The CEO is responsible for all the success and the failure of the company. He needs to formulate strategies along with his team. All the departments- from HR to finance to marketing and the others- comes under his jurisdiction. He needs to formulate plans that are going to affect all the departments positively and consequently maximize the efficiency of the employees and the company. He has to check whether the plans and strategies formulated are effective implemented. He is needed to check that the plans percolate to the bottom most level of the company. He needs to keep his subordinates motivated and optimistic about their work (Choudhary, Akhtar & Zaheer, 2013).

A CEO needs to keep calm and handle all the situations faced by the company and the employees. In times of adverse situation like the decline in sales in a particular country in which the company operates, CEO needs to identify the reasons for the situation. He needs to assess the situation and formulate strategies and plans accordingly. Finally, he needs to look after that the plans are implemented as planned. He needs to motivate his employees that this is just a phase that would pass. He needs to work on his marketing team conduct survey and research to know the roots of the situations (García-Morales, Jiménez-Barrionuevo & Gutiérrez-Gutiérrez, 2012).

A CEO should always communicate with his subordinate and try to figure out their problems, issues or opinions within the company. He needs to know all that is happening in the company to be able to understand the situation and current position of the company (Snaebjornsson & Edvardsson, 2013). Only then, he will be able to find a solution to the problems that are prevalent in the company. He needs ti innovate ideas and give direction to his subordinates to be able to guide them to achieve the optimum output from them. He needs to work to increase the productivity and create the brand of the company. This will help him to meet his goals. If the CEO can win the confidence of his employees, he will be able to minimize employee turnover. He will be able to create a healthy working environment within the company. He needs to take new initiatives to for the company and use the resources of the company efficiently. This will yield the optimum results for the company (Liu et al., 2013).

This essay can be concluded on the note that various situations call for various leadership styles. Every sphere in the professional fields requires a different type of leader. A chief of fundraising campaign has to follow participative leadership style to be able to handle various situations and work along with his teammates. However, a prison officer has to follow an autocracies approach of leadership, as he cannot allow the staff and the prisoners to influence him in any way. Meanwhile, a CEO of the multinational company has to follow a transformational leadership style. He needs to be innovative and keeps his subordinates motivated. Thus adopting a leadership style highly depends on the job and responsibility of the leadership.

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