When leading a group, most people talk while others listen. But best leaders always spend more time listening to others’ ideas than talking their ideas. Agree or Disagree?
Every person has a different definition of leading a group. Some people prefer to talk while others listening, while other people like to spend more time listening to others' ideas. In my opinion, I prefer the latter, leaders should spend more time listening others' opinions.
To begin with, the discussions can be more successful if leaders listen to their members' ideas. Every single person always has a different point of view in the same things, by listening to them can we view things in a different angle and lead to a better result. For example, when I was in high school, I often need to do many groups projects, and I am the leader for most of the time. One time, we are working on a project about volcanos. We first spend about 15 minutes to think about what should we do on the project, then we will discuss it as a group. During the discussion, I find out that many members in the group often have some creative ideas. For instance, one person said that we should make some models to explain different kinds of volcanos. Another said that we should create some interesting presentation with some video showing the audience about the eruption of volcanos. Actually, I never thought of these ideas before, if I did not give them the chance to present their opinions, our presentation would be boring because it did not have those creative ideas. As a result, listening to others' ideas to be beneficial to the projects or discussions, so leaders should really give some opportunities for others to speak.
In addition, leaders can have a deeper understanding about their members if leaders listen to them. To be more specific, some people may be facing some difficulties and want to discuss with the leader. If the leader never give them the chance to speak, the leader will never understand them. Take my dad as an example, he is the leader in his company, so he often hold many meeting with his employee. During the meeting, he will ask everyone to speak, such as what difficulties are they facing in their works recently, or even their health issues. After talking to them, my dad actually find out that because the long working hours, some employees are having health problems since they do not have enough time to sleep. As a result, he soon change the working hours and solve the problem. If he did not give them the opportunity to speak, he will never know that they are having some health issues. Therefore, I think having a deep understanding of their group members is extremely important for the leaders, so leaders should definitely give them the chance to speak.
Undoubtedly, some people may say that the best way for a leader to lead the group is to talk while others listen, because if everyone give their opinion, it can cause some disorientation. However, I think that if the leader never give others a chance to speak, then what is the use for other members in the group? As a result, by spending more time listening to others' ideas can lead to a better result in the group.
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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 5, column 365, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'holds'.
Suggestion: holds
... the leader in his company, so he often hold many meeting with his employee. During ...
^^^^
Line 5, column 742, Rule ID: HE_VERB_AGR[3]
Message: The pronoun 'he' must be used with a third-person verb: 'changes'.
Suggestion: changes
...ugh time to sleep. As a result, he soon change the working hours and solve the problem...
^^^^^^
Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, first, however, if, may, really, so, then, therefore, while, as to, for example, for instance, i think, in addition, such as, as a result, in my opinion, to begin with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 14.0 15.1003584229 93% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 19.0 9.8082437276 194% => OK
Conjunction : 6.0 13.8261648746 43% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 8.0 11.0286738351 73% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 58.0 43.0788530466 135% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 67.0 52.1666666667 128% => OK
Nominalization: 8.0 8.0752688172 99% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2478.0 1977.66487455 125% => OK
No of words: 532.0 407.700716846 130% => OK
Chars per words: 4.65789473684 4.8611393121 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.80261649409 4.48103885553 107% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.50159935274 2.67179642975 94% => OK
Unique words: 211.0 212.727598566 99% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.396616541353 0.524837075471 76% => More unique words wanted or less content wanted.
syllable_count: 766.8 618.680645161 124% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.4 1.51630824373 92% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 15.0 9.59856630824 156% => OK
Article: 2.0 3.08781362007 65% => OK
Subordination: 10.0 3.51792114695 284% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 9.0 4.94265232975 182% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 25.0 20.6003584229 121% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 20.1344086022 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 36.8878516588 48.9658058833 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 99.12 100.406767564 99% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.28 20.6045352989 103% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.08 5.45110844103 130% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 5.5376344086 36% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 11.8709677419 93% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 3.85842293907 156% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 8.0 4.88709677419 164% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.346929421279 0.236089414692 147% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.113447802462 0.076458572812 148% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.120299174729 0.0737576698707 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.304652307018 0.150856017488 202% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.161032764916 0.0645574589148 249% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 11.2 11.7677419355 95% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 67.08 58.1214874552 115% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 6.10430107527 51% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 9.1 10.1575268817 90% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 9.75 10.9000537634 89% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 6.84 8.01818996416 85% => OK
difficult_words: 73.0 86.8835125448 84% => More difficult words wanted.
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 10.002688172 75% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 10.0537634409 103% => OK
text_standard: 10.0 10.247311828 98% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5 paragraphs with 3 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: conclusion.
So how to find out those reasons. There is a formula:
reasons == advantages or
reasons == disadvantages
for example, we can always apply 'save time', 'save/make money', 'find a job', 'make friends', 'get more information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
or we can apply 'waste time', 'waste money', 'no job', 'make bad friends', 'get bad information' as reasons to all essay/speaking topics.
Rates: 73.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 22.0 Out of 30
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