Leaders of today's society are tasked with leading their team to accomplish goals and tasks laid out. The best of leaders are individuals highly respected for their abilities by both, within the team and outside it. Due to the very nature of difficulties of this role, there are good practices that have been proved to enable oneself to be an effective leader and one such practise is to be open to criticism and acknowledge valid opinions and reasonings provided by their team. With that in mind, I agree with the prompt that the best leaders are those who encourage feedback from the people whom they lead based on the two reasons provided below.
No one is perfect, everyone has flaws unique to themselves similar to their good qualities. These are generally attributed under broad categories such as honest, straightforward etc. but all qualities - good or bad, are a gradual development on a person's psyche based on their life experiences. For example, a person who is considered candid would have been taught from childhood that "lying is bad" etc. and also, he or she may have experienced situations where they felt that did the right thing by being honest; experiences such as these groom a person's character and continue to grow throughout their lives. In that regard, leaders are no expection, they may have been tasked to lead a team based on their management skills or personal qualifications but, everyone has a starting point somewhere. No matter how well prepared they may have been through the courses they have taken on leadership skills, seminars they have attended, practical exposure is always the best teacher. And, one of the best ways to become a more effective leader and judge your personal progress to be open to criticism and value your team's opinion. After all, at the end of the day, a leader's role is to serve as an advocate, bring out the best output of the team as a whole and guide them to their goals and results.
Leaders who are open to critisim are thought of to be more engaging with their team and leave the impression of being responsive and understanding rather than the mark of being dictatorial, almost. Studies from time to time have proven and suggested that a leader who engages with their team during team meetings in terms of gathering opinions and advice or small chit chat in and around office have been considered more friendly, likeable and approachable by their team. This allows the team to work in a more stress free and comfortable environment that brings out the best cooperation and best results.
While it can be argued that being too open to criticism may cause you to mislead as it may give off the impression that you are too suggestible and people under your command may take advantage of this trait. One must learn to balance the both, as in, be open to criticism while at the same time, know when to put their foot down during stressful and demanding situations. After all, a leader should also be well versed in the arts of dodging workplace politics and serve as a moral guiding compass to their team in times of distress.
To sum, the best leaders are those who encourage feedback from the people whom they lead, while it is recommended for them to be open to criticism and opinions given, they should learn to balance both sides of the scale so as to not appear suggestive in nature.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 560, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'persons'' or 'person's'?
Suggestion: persons'; person's
...nest; experiences such as these groom a persons character and continue to grow througho...
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Line 3, column 1176, Rule ID: POSSESIVE_APOSTROPHE[1]
Message: Possible typo: apostrophe is missing. Did you mean 'leaders'' or 'leader's'?
Suggestion: leaders'; leader's
...on. After all, at the end of the day, a leaders role is to serve as an advocate, bring ...
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Line 9, column 221, Rule ID: SO_AS_TO[1]
Message: Use simply 'to'
Suggestion: to
...earn to balance both sides of the scale so as to not appear suggestive in nature.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, may, so, well, while, after all, as to, for example, such as
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 35.0 19.5258426966 179% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 11.0 12.4196629213 89% => OK
Conjunction : 29.0 14.8657303371 195% => OK
Relative clauses : 19.0 11.3162921348 168% => OK
Pronoun: 54.0 33.0505617978 163% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 91.0 58.6224719101 155% => OK
Nominalization: 7.0 12.9106741573 54% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2788.0 2235.4752809 125% => OK
No of words: 585.0 442.535393258 132% => OK
Chars per words: 4.76581196581 5.05705443957 94% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.9180050066 4.55969084622 108% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.56099627232 2.79657885939 92% => OK
Unique words: 281.0 215.323595506 131% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.480341880342 0.4932671777 97% => OK
syllable_count: 857.7 704.065955056 122% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 5.0 4.99550561798 100% => OK
Subordination: 5.0 3.10617977528 161% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 7.0 4.38483146067 160% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 29.0 23.0359550562 126% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively long.
Sentence length SD: 54.741118001 60.3974514979 91% => OK
Chars per sentence: 139.4 118.986275619 117% => OK
Words per sentence: 29.25 23.4991977007 124% => OK
Discourse Markers: 3.75 5.21951772744 72% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 10.2758426966 136% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 1.0 4.83258426966 21% => More facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.20097732793 0.243740707755 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0678539049009 0.0831039109588 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0801489960004 0.0758088955206 106% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.136498578589 0.150359130593 91% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0630856337819 0.0667264976115 95% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.7 14.1392134831 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 50.5 48.8420337079 103% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 13.4 12.1743820225 110% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 10.98 12.1639044944 90% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.56 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 129.0 100.480337079 128% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 13.5 11.8971910112 113% => OK
gunning_fog: 13.6 11.2143820225 121% => OK
text_standard: 14.0 11.7820224719 119% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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