Chapter 7 Response - Late sorry!

I think the great man theory is valid and outdated. I think there are certain inherent skills and personality traits that make a person more easily able to follow, more charismatic and thus followed. I think that leadership can also be taught to an extent. Obviously being leadership minors we are being taught how to be good leaders and what good leaders do. 

I am a very big believer in the situational approach to leadership. I think that every person should have their own style and secret set of strategies they use, but every situation is different and should be approached differently. I think by doing a situational approach, it sets each act apart and makes it special in a way. 

An example of my personal leadership situational approach would be when i taught Catechism classes to second graders. Being that i was in high school and closer to their age than middle age women, they treated me differently; more like a friend. I had to change my approach to be more flexible and light hearted to try to reach them at a level they can understand. Normally i am very scheduled and task oriented. Second graders do not think in such a way so in that situation i had to take my schedule and adapt it to their time frame and roll with it. 

Good leaders have their traits and know how to use them when appropriate in any given situation.