Many people think that some individuals are naturally good leaders. Others think that people can learn leadership skills. Discuss both views and give your opinion.
It has often been said that good leaders are born, not made. However, an opposing opinion also exists, which is that the skills required to become an effective leader can be acquired from experience and training. In this essay I will examine both of these viewpoints and provide my opinion on the subject.
Depending on the situation, it may be argued that certain leadership skills are inherent and cannot be learned. A clear example of this type of skill is high intelligence and other cognitive skills. If a person hopes to become a leader in a business or academic environment, they will need to master some challenging subject matter before they can be accepted as a leader, and to do this they will need a certain degree of inborn intelligence. The abilities that made Steven Hawking a leader in theoretical physics were there at birth. Another inborn leadership trait is extroversion. Many famous presidents, like Barack Obama and Nelson Mandela, were extroverts. It is generally accepted that extroversion and introversion are inherent aspects of our personality.
However, there are certainly a wide range of leadership skills that can be acquired throughout our lifetime. Among these we can include the ability to communicate effectively, the ability to motivate people and maintain a positive attitude, and a sense of duty and responsibility which inspires trust in other people. All of these can be practised and perfected through theoretical study and through real-world experience.
In my opinion, the range of characteristics which make a great leader is too wide to be able to definitively state whether these skills are inherent or learned. Much will depend on the situation and on the particular individual. Overall, it is most likely that the greatest leaders possess a combination of both types of skill set.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, however, if, may, so, in my opinion
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 21.0 13.1623246493 160% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 13.0 7.85571142285 165% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 7.30460921844 137% => OK
Pronoun: 27.0 24.0651302605 112% => OK
Preposition: 36.0 41.998997996 86% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.3376753507 96% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1540.0 1615.20841683 95% => OK
No of words: 298.0 315.596192385 94% => More content wanted.
Chars per words: 5.1677852349 5.12529762239 101% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.15483772266 4.20363070211 99% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.97932155379 2.80592935109 106% => OK
Unique words: 168.0 176.041082164 95% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.563758389262 0.561755894193 100% => OK
syllable_count: 500.4 506.74238477 99% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.60771543086 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 5.43587174349 92% => OK
Article: 5.0 2.52805611222 198% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 0.809619238477 247% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 4.0 4.76152304609 84% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 16.0 16.0721442886 100% => OK
Sentence length: 18.0 20.2975951904 89% => OK
Sentence length SD: 51.3978051574 49.4020404114 104% => OK
Chars per sentence: 96.25 106.682146367 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 18.625 20.7667163134 90% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.5625 7.06120827912 36% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.38176352705 91% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.01903807615 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 8.67935871743 138% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 1.0 3.9879759519 25% => More negative sentences wanted.
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 3.4128256513 88% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.199969010882 0.244688304435 82% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0590245413742 0.084324248473 70% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.031816480054 0.0667982634062 48% => Sentences are similar to each other.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.120279985317 0.151304729494 79% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0131350871234 0.056905535591 23% => Paragraphs are similar to each other. Some content may get duplicated or it is not exactly right on the topic.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 12.2 13.0946893788 93% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 44.75 50.2224549098 89% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.44779559118 118% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.5 11.3001002004 102% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.71 12.4159519038 102% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.87 8.58950901804 103% => OK
difficult_words: 82.0 78.4519038076 105% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.2 10.1190380762 91% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.7795591182 83% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 61.797752809 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.5 Out of 9
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