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Describe the leadership attributes you aspire to. Include your reasoning for why you selected these attributes as they relate to your role in public health.598 words Managing public health organizations, problem solving, and crisis management require a competent leader who possesses certain personal attributes and skills specifications that improve the effectiveness of leadership in promoting participation and commitment among team members to achieve set objectives (Merson, et al., 2012). Being a well-oriented leader and a decent listener requires a strong, committed team with defined and shared goals. The public health leader should emphasize building a strong team with defined and shared goals to maintain involvement in multidisciplinary health promotion that facilitates the delivery of health services for patients. entire community. Lawton et. al. (2013) argued that coordination with the health promotion team requires a strong leadership model to be able to manage the health framework. Each leader must work as a member of the entire team to keep the wheel of the process and achieve a competent level of leadership. Greenblatt (2014) believes that a manager who regularly uses aggressive or coercive ways to motivate employees, in vital circumstances, spirit and enthusiasm will be lost. As a result, such unmotivated employees are not expected to put much effort into the required task. Indeed, the list of leadership attributes is endless, but the qualities that meet the requirements of the task, as well as most employees, are as follows: Communication is a two-way street, so to be an effective communicator it is dignified listening and virtuous language are necessary (Sprenger, 2014). Sharing information with employees motivates t...... middle of paper ......., (2013) "10 Key Attributes of Successful Leaders", Business Acceleration Infocenter, available at: http://thevarguy .com/business-acceleration-infocenter/10-key-attributes-successful-leaders, (accessed April 9, 2014).O'Toole, J., (1995) “Leading Change: Overcoming the Ideology of Comfort and the Tyranny of Custom,” Jossey-Bass Publishers, available at: https://www.minneapolisfed.org/publications_papers/pub_display.cfm?id=3694&, (accessed April 6, 2014). Sprenger, M., (2014) “Eight Attributes of a Great Leader' The Leadership Brain For Dummies”, The Leadership Brain For Dummies, available at: http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/ eight-attributes-of-a-great-leader.html, [Accessed April 7, 2014].Merson, M.H., R.E. Black, and A.J. Mills, (2012) “Global Health: Diseases, Programs, Systems, and Policies,” Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning, pp. 690-699