Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? A good leader should spend more time listening to other people's ideas than taking his/her own ideas.
In today's competitive world, one of the most essential needs for businesses to consolidate their position is having a good leader. There are too many viewpoints about what features a manager should have to be a good leader. In this regard, one of the contentious questions is whether a leader should listen to his/her employees and welcome their ideas or should take his/her own idea. I strongly believe that a good leader is a great listener. In the following paragraphs, l will shed light on my rationales.
The first remarkable reason to be mentioned is that listening to employees' opinions gives a leader an opportunity to have some simple ideas which he/she can either combine them or make some changes to them to finally come up with a brilliant idea. In other words, a successful leader uses the thinking potential of his/her employees to make a good decision in an acute situation. Take my personal experience as a convincing example. Last year, my company encountered a serious crisis that I had never experienced. I felt upset due to not having any ideas. For the first time, I spoke with my employees and wanted them to contribute their ideas to overcoming the crisis. Unbelievably, after two days of brainstorming ideas, we reach a perfect one which was the key to solving the problem. Had I not listened to their ideas, I could not have managed the crisis.
The second reason which deserves some word here is that providing a situation for employees to give freely their ideas, leads to making a positive atmosphere in the company which significantly influences the employees’ productivity. According to the study conducted in a distinguished university, if employees are permitted to give their opinions, they will have better feelings towards their leader, who listen to them patiently, and the company, which they work in. This brings out a good work environment that boosts employees’ self-esteem, flourishes their creativity as well as they believe in their potentials. The study also demonstrated that due to a good work atmosphere, employees confidently work with much enthusiasm and interest, resulting in thriving the company.
In conclusion, all the aforementioned reasons lead us to the conclusion that listening to employees’ idea is one of the monumental features which a manager should have. This is so beneficial for both leaders and employees, and even, on a big scale, the society. I highly recommend that managers take into account this golden point to benefit from numerous positive effects of it.
Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, finally, first, if, second, so, thus, well, as to, in conclusion, as well as, in other words
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 12.0 15.1003584229 79% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 8.0 9.8082437276 82% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 13.8261648746 58% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 15.0 11.0286738351 136% => OK
Pronoun: 50.0 43.0788530466 116% => OK
Preposition: 51.0 52.1666666667 98% => OK
Nominalization: 5.0 8.0752688172 62% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2130.0 1977.66487455 108% => OK
No of words: 417.0 407.700716846 102% => OK
Chars per words: 5.10791366906 4.8611393121 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.5189133491 4.48103885553 101% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.98545452382 2.67179642975 112% => OK
Unique words: 223.0 212.727598566 105% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.534772182254 0.524837075471 102% => OK
syllable_count: 656.1 618.680645161 106% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.51630824373 106% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 10.0 9.59856630824 104% => OK
Article: 5.0 3.08781362007 162% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.51792114695 57% => OK
Conjunction: 2.0 1.86738351254 107% => OK
Preposition: 8.0 4.94265232975 162% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 20.0 20.6003584229 97% => OK
Sentence length: 20.0 20.1344086022 99% => OK
Sentence length SD: 59.9101619093 48.9658058833 122% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.5 100.406767564 106% => OK
Words per sentence: 20.85 20.6045352989 101% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.15 5.45110844103 94% => OK
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.53405017921 88% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 5.5376344086 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 14.0 11.8709677419 118% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 3.85842293907 104% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 2.0 4.88709677419 41% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.227098351154 0.236089414692 96% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0701898928506 0.076458572812 92% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0811750355287 0.0737576698707 110% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.154107803842 0.150856017488 102% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0977531133493 0.0645574589148 151% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 13.1 11.7677419355 111% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 51.18 58.1214874552 88% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 6.10430107527 144% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.1 10.1575268817 109% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 12.36 10.9000537634 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.72 8.01818996416 109% => OK
difficult_words: 108.0 86.8835125448 124% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 10.002688172 80% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.0 10.0537634409 99% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 10.247311828 88% => 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: 83.3333333333 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 25.0 Out of 30
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