Describe the leadership attributes to which you aspire. Include your reasoning for why you selected these attributes as they relate to your role in public health.598 wordsManaging public health organizations, problem solving, and crisis management requires a competent leader who possesses certain personal attributes and specific skills that improve leadership effectiveness by stimulating participation. and the commitment of team members to achieve set goals (Merson et al., 2012). Being a well-oriented leader and good listener requires a strong, supportive team with defined and shared goals. The public health leader must emphasize building a strong team with clear, shared goals to maintain involvement in multidisciplinary health promotion that facilitates the delivery of health services for the entire community . Lawton et. al. (2013) argued that coordination with the health promotion team requires a strong leadership model to be able to operate the health framework. Each leader must work as a member of the entire team to maintain the wheel of processes and achieve a competent level of leadership. Greenblatt (2014) believed that a manager who regularly uses aggressive or coercive ways to motivate employees, in vital circumstances, spirit and enthusiasm will be lost. Respectively, such unmotivated employees are not expected to devote much of their time to the required task. In fact, the list of leadership attributes is endless, but the qualities that meet the demands of the task and satisfy the majority of employees are as follows. :Communication is a two-way street, so to be an effective communicator requires decent listening and virtuous speaking (Sprenger, 2014). Sharing information with employees motivates...... 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, MH, RE Black and AJ Mills, (2012) “Global health: diseases, programs, systems and policies”, Burlington: Jones & Bartlett Learning, pp... 690-699