Symbolic Approach To Leadership Paper

A symbolic approach to leadership is more of a transformational leader who likes to inspire and develop their people (or within their company) to strive to better themselves for the company and for the vision (Weiss, 2015). When I think symbolic, I think someone who put something in you that wasn’t there before. Someone along the timeline of your life came in and inspired you to do more, or learn something you’ve never done before. It doesn’t have to be your supervisor though, it can be a teacher, a college advisor, or simply an individual you met on the street and told you something that made perfect sense.
On another note, being the change is fine but wanting everyone to join in can be a struggle. Goslin wrote “if students and teachers aren’t conscious about the tidiness of the school or aren’t inwardly seeking a positive role model to inspire them to act, the leader’s symbolic act is lost” (Goslin, 2012, pg. 43). In other words, everyone has to be on the same page. Yes, the individual could do it by themselves, but wanting others to want the same and have the same vision requires understanding and modeling. Having a role model that you know very well can lead you to the conclusion of “I should do the same because they already are.” That’s when you know someone has
Example: military service is not an easy commitment and it often requires a lot out of you. Climbing the ranks introduces you to not only more money but more responsibility. A leader is required to learn so much and sometimes without enough time. Learning to execute on a job you’re supposed to do requires training and application. Some people have one or the other, and sometimes they have both. The military as a whole has all four leadership frames and to continue with a career in the military requires you to learn all four and apply them