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    1) The author describes their leadership philosophy as blending transformational and servant leadership styles. They aim to help others succeed, prioritize their team's goals over their own interests, and empower their staff to reach their full potential. 2) As a leader, the author wants to inspire their team through charismatic influence and build trust within the school community. They strive to lead with integrity, fairness, and inclusion. 3) The author was inspired by past administrators who improved their schools through supporting teachers and prioritizing students' needs. They seek to emulate these servant leader qualities in their own leadership.

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    Leadership Philosophy

    Cassandra Young

    EAD-501

    September 23, 2020


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    For me, the drive to help others succeed and advance in their goals drives the decisions I

    make daily to make sure I am always reaching my goals and making sure my happiness is my top

    priority. For as long as I can remember, I have achieved high goals, which have driven me to

    make hard choices that have changed my life and look at the type of person I want to be and the

    people I choose to be around. Knowing that I am worth all the goals I set for myself has given

    me the drive to put my professional goals first and rise to the challenge to make myself better. I

    want to be someone who looks up to in their educational journey and who makes a difference

    within my school community. Therefore, I always strive to lead my team to success. 

    Knowing that I want to lead my community and serve them to the best of my ability and

    research leadership styles, I find that I blend a transformational and servant leader. These two

    styles of leadership capture who I am as a person, as a leader within my school community, and

    as an educator. When looking at the characteristics of a transactional leader, I did not identify

    with this leadership style as much. These leaders tend to be focused on short-term goals rather

    than long-term, tend to be inflexible, and are opposed to change. According to the article "What

    is Transactional leadership," structure leads to results. When an employer gives you something

    you want in exchange for something they want, there is no intrinsic motivation needed with a

    transactional leader (STU Online, 2014). I find that those aspects of this style do not fit my

    personality or the kind that I show my team as a leader. However, when looking at

    transformational leadership, my leadership style fits how they want to transform and lead with

    charismatic influences. When researching servant leadership, I found that I much more as a

    leader within these parameters. I have a desire to build people up and empower them. As a

    servant leader, one is “serving instead of commanding, showing humility instead of brandishing

    authority, and always looking to enhance the development of their staff members in ways that
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    unlock potential, creativity, and a sense of purpose” (Tarallo, 2018). As a leader, our job is to

    help someone see what more they can do beyond what they know and make sure that they feel

    like they have a place to belong in the community.

    Being a mixture between a servant and transformational leader, working directly with my

    team of teachers and fellow administrators to ensure all students are getting their academic and

    social needs met will be the first step. Doing this with integrity and fairness will be a learning

    process for me, and I have learned from my mentor that I can understand how you take personal

    feelings out of decision-making as a leader. According to an article on transformational

    leadership, an element of this type of leader is a model of high ethical behavior but ensures there

    is still pride in one’s work and trust among staff. Learning to promote integrity and fairness to

    the school community will be worked from the bottom up. That way, all staff members feel

    included. As a staff and school community, we are only as strong as our weakest link.

    Over the past few years, I have watched how some leadership can lead a school with high

    turnover rates and low-test scores to a higher-performing school and minimal turnover rate. They

    have inspired me to watch how they have changed the culture to change the mindset then and

    support me in a tough time of teaching. Within the text of Leadership, servant leaders put their

    followers' good over their self-interest and show solid moral behavior to their followers. The

    leaders that remind me of a servant leader, of which I strive to be, led by stepping in the trenches

    and supporting their teachers to be the best they can be in a time that is not traditional for a

    teacher. Watching the show that no matter what they feel about a topic or an idea, pushing

    through and giving the best they can inspire a team to do that as well. By reminding us of no

    matter what, they stand behind us in our teaching and do right by the students for learning. But

    by also putting their needs aside and putting the needs of the staff ahead of their own, making
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    our goals a reality. I have also been watching other administrators in the building to see what I

    can gain from them and what characteristics they have that the teams struggle with.

    Communication and honesty about situations tend to go far in our building which, as a leader, I

    want my team to be aware of what is going on in the building for them. I know that my

    adventure as a future leader is just starting, and I am already seeing what works for teams and

    what does not. I know what type of leader I want to be or don’t want to be. 
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    Reference

    STU Online. (2014, November 25). What is Transactional Leadership? How Structure Leads to

    Results. St. Thomas University Online. https://online.stu.edu/articles/education/what-is-

    transactional-leadership.aspx

    Tarallo, M. (2018, May 17). The Art of Servant Leadership. SHRM; SHRM.

    https://www.shrm.org/resourcesandtools/hr-topics/organizational-and-employee-

    development/pages/the-art-of-servant-leadership.aspx

    Transformational leadership. (n.d.). https://www.langston.edu/sites/default/files/basic-content-

    files/TransformationalLeadership.pdf

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