Think of your paper from a Scholar-Practitioner point of view—as a kind of a how-to guide based on scholarly research that you would give to someone who wants to learn about leadership. Your task as a Practitioner is to write a practical and very readable, single-spaced, “how-to” paper that would advise anyone in any organization how to become a successful leader. Over the following leadership theories: Great man, Trait approach, Transactional and Transformational, Situational Leadership, Behavioral, and Contingency....EXCERPT....Leadership style theoriesIntroduction Leadership calls for a certain drive for the leader to exhibit and be willing to work on themselves. There is a need to lead by example by practicing the desired behavior intended to influence teams in an organization. In the business set up, a leader directs the colleagues and personnel with a strategy to meet and fulfill an organization's needs. Effective leadership is experienced when the ideas are communicated effectively to personnel. The desired effect is to engage them in ways the manager wants them to act. Leadership is, therefore, linked to performance, which has to be taken into consideration in any organization. An effective leader desires to achieve and meet the expectations of the board, management, and shareholders. The paper focusses on various leadership theories in explaining how to be a successful leader. It shall explain how a leader makes use of Trait, Great Man, Transactional and Transformational, Situational Leadership, Behavioral, and Contingency theories in becoming a successful leader. There is no specific trait for a leader to be successful, but it involves a set of combinations. The leader may choose to use the theories based on the situation and issue at hand to solving issues and leading the followers.   [Show Less]