Welcome to the Engineering Leadership Development Blog! 

This site has been designed as a resource for students in the Clark School of Engineering at the University of Maryland at College Park. Leadership comes in different styles and many define leadership in different ways. Look at Itay Talgam, who reinvented a decade-long conducting career in Israel to be a conductor of people in business, talk about different types of leadership styles.

What is your definition of Leadership?

Leadership is...

1. The behavior of the individual…directing the activities of a group towards a shared goal.
2. The influential increment over and above mechanical compliance with the routine directives of the organization.
3. Exercised when persons…mobilize…institutional, political, psychological, and other resources so as to arouse, engage, and satisfy the motives of followers.
4. Realized in the process whereby one or more individual succeed in attempting to frame and define  the reality of others.
5. The process of influencing the activities of an organized group toward goal achievement.
6. About articulating visions, embodying values, and creating an environment within which things can be accomplished.
7. A process of giving purpose (meaningful direction) to collective effort, and causing willing effort to be expended to achieve purpose.
8. The ability to step outside the culture…to evolutionary change processes that are more adaptive.
9. The ability of an individual to influence, motivate, and enable others to contribute toward the effectiveness and success of the organization.
10. A relational and ethical process of people together attempting to accomplish positive change.

(Komives et al, 2006)