The best leaders are those who encourage feedback from the people whom they lead

The prompt suggests that the best leaders are those who encourage feedback from the people whom they lead. I mostly agree with this claim and will elaborate on the necessary points to defend my claim.

Firstly, the most effective leaders consider the positive and negative feedback from those whom they lead. Take for instance a manager at a business who asks his employees for feedback about how things are being ran currently. The manager could gain helpful insight from his employees about what aspects of the job they enjoyed and the other parts of the job they disliked. The feedback that he or she recieves could help managment decide if they want to continue running things the way things are or if some changes need to occur in order to make things run smoother. This will help keep the employees happy and could improve the productivity of the business.

To expand on the point, let's say that this business is a commercial gym and the employees are personal trainers. The personal trainers are giving negative feedback about how tracking their clients' workouts on paper is ineffective. This would open up a discussion about how it could be more effective if it were logged through a phone application. The manager could then bring up the subject matter to corporate and bring this to fruition. In turn, this makes both the clients and the employees happier and increases the gym's profit. A Harvard study showed that the more clients engaged with these fitness training phone applications, they are more likely to stay adherent to training.

Although, in contrast to my position, it is true that it is possible to lead in the most effective way possible without encouraging feedback from those that they lead. An example of this would be a well-experience leader of a military bootcamp. If the bootcamp leader encouraged feedback from the people whom they lead, many of them would complain about how things are ran and how things should be ran differently. Feedback from soldiers being trained is fight in war is often not encouraged, and could even be punishable. A study from Harvard in the 1970's revealed that 95% of the participants of military bootcamps were afraid to give anything other than positive feedback to those in command. However, if the bootcamp participants could submit anonymous feedback to their leaders without fear of retaliation, it could change the way things are done.

In conclusion, although it is true that it is possible to be one of the best leaders without encouraging feedback from those they lead, in most cases it could benefit the entire team to encourage those they lead to give criticism or praise.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 592, Rule ID: THIS_NNS[2]
Message: Did you mean 'this fitness' or 'these fitnesses'?
Suggestion: this fitness; these fitnesses
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Line 7, column 370, Rule ID: BEEN_PART_AGREEMENT[1]
Message: Consider using a past participle here: 'run'.
Suggestion: run
...hem would complain about how things are ran and how things should be ran differentl...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
first, firstly, however, if, so, then, well, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, in contrast to, in most cases, it is true

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 25.0 19.5258426966 128% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 16.0 12.4196629213 129% => OK
Conjunction : 13.0 14.8657303371 87% => OK
Relative clauses : 13.0 11.3162921348 115% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 33.0505617978 151% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => 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: 2209.0 2235.4752809 99% => OK
No of words: 448.0 442.535393258 101% => OK
Chars per words: 4.93080357143 5.05705443957 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.60065326758 4.55969084622 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.58863811945 2.79657885939 93% => OK
Unique words: 203.0 215.323595506 94% => More unique words wanted.
Unique words percentage: 0.453125 0.4932671777 92% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 653.4 704.065955056 93% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 7.0 6.24550561798 112% => OK
Article: 9.0 4.99550561798 180% => OK
Subordination: 3.0 3.10617977528 97% => OK
Conjunction: 1.0 1.77640449438 56% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.2370786517 99% => OK
Sentence length: 22.0 23.0359550562 96% => OK
Sentence length SD: 40.8760015168 60.3974514979 68% => OK
Chars per sentence: 110.45 118.986275619 93% => OK
Words per sentence: 22.4 23.4991977007 95% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.4 5.21951772744 123% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 15.0 10.2758426966 146% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 2.0 5.13820224719 39% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.444638316844 0.243740707755 182% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.148577349387 0.0831039109588 179% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.212534519664 0.0758088955206 280% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.313844437912 0.150359130593 209% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.17029960438 0.0667264976115 255% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.0 14.1392134831 92% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 57.61 48.8420337079 118% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.92365168539 39% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 10.7 12.1743820225 88% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.61 12.1639044944 95% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.62 8.38706741573 91% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 100.480337079 82% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.8 11.2143820225 96% => OK
text_standard: 11.0 11.7820224719 93% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 62.5 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 3.75 Out of 6
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