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Winston Churchill: A Visionary Leader

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Winston Churchill Did you know that Winston Churchill was once known for being an Warmonger? Cruel as it may be. One of the most inspirational people of all time was accused. He was quite the opposite. He was a visionary idealist that had, “enough patriotism to save an empire.” Today, I will discuss how Winston Churchill was a visionary leader when he played vital role in delivering Britain by exhibiting Full Range Leadership-Inspirational motivation on the people throughout his radio communications. This, led to his ability to be adaptive overcoming a speech impediment therefore exhibiting his change management traits. Additionally, I will prove how he displayed ethical leadership when he chose to come out of retirement to stand up against …show more content…

However, I believe he portrayed inspirational motivation because of the love he had for his people. It’s also because of them that he overcame a speech impediment displaying his change management adaptability traits. His speeches wouldn’t have achieved perfection if it wasn’t for rehearsing his speeches over and over. According to “the book,“Churchill”, by Ashley Jackson, he was so passionate about motivating his people he adjusted himself to change with the times of war. His ability to overcome and manage change would resonate and help deliver Britain to victory. In one of his speeches to the people he stated, “We need to change. This is going to be painful. This is how things could be. In order to achieve it we must go into action.” Many of his speeches have been recorded and are still used to inspire TED talks/ inspirational You Tube videos and meme’s today. Previous Gov. Giuliani (NY) stated in a letter to Churchill’s Granddaughter that, “There is nothing more inspiring than the reflections and inspiration by Churchill.” According to the Thomas N. Barnes Center for Enlisted Education, it states that a, “transformational leader motivates through inspiration and articulates through his visions for the future”. That’s exactly what he did and continued to do until he was 90 years of

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BACKGROUND Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill was a British politician who was the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during 2nd world war which was in a horrible state after Chamberlain who wasn 't the greatest Prime Minister for the job considering the situation Britain were in but then was re-elected again in 1951 to 1955. Winston was born on the 30th of November 1874 in Woodstock in United Kingdom and died 24th of January 1965 in London, United Kingdom. He was 1.67m tall, he had a wife and 6 children who he loved very much and was a great father and husband. LINK TO AUSTRALIA Churchill did not really care to much about Australia 's fate when Japan 's powerful armies threatened Australia.

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This feat wasn’tsomething Theodore Roosevelt could accomplish on his own; he needed the support of thecongress and the American people. As shown in Aida Donald’s book, he expertly used his abilityto create a Pressure for Change and displayed Inspirational Motivation to gain support for thismonumental project. The Barnes Center identifies Pressure for Change, specifically throughpeace as, “peace necessitates, at least in the minds of some people, the need for reduction is sizeof military forces” (BCEE, 2014a). In this instance however, President Roosevelt createdpressure for change by showing the public the need to expand military capability to preservepeace. Additionally, President Roosevelt used the Transformational Leadership trait, Inspirational Motivation.

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I admire Churchill’s courage to fight for Britain by going to war, but I feel like he could 've done something else. It creates financial problems for all the parties involved, creates sadness, resentment, and most devastatingly: people die.   If you go to war, not only are you losing money, that could be used for schools, shelter, hospitals, and food, you are exposing the lives of innocent people. War has never solved anything.

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He was able to inspire hope in people through allusions and comparisons to the past. He was able to inspire confidence and fortitude by giving people the honest situation at hand using logos. And he was able to deliver his main message of strength and readiness by constantly referring to it within his speech. Churchill’s speech wen t down in history, not because he said what the people wanted to hear, but because he said what the people needed to hear. His honesty and rhetoric made “Their Finest Hour” one of the most crucially important and greatest speeches of the Second World War if not the past

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But in the political spectrum they were both very opposite people, Winston Churchill wanted his people to stand up for what was right and not fear tyrannical powers whereas Adolf Hitler wanted to be the power that everyone feared. Winston Churchill gave his famous Blood, Toil, Tears and Sweat speeches in 1940 he wasn’t yet Prime Minister of England but with that speech “The House gave him a 381-to-0 vote of confidence”5 caused him the gain a position that helped shaped the war and his country. Like Adolf Hitler, Winston Churchill used the people of England emotions about the current war to help boost his popularity amongst the population “what is our policy? It is to wage war, by sea, land and air, with all our might and with all the strength that God can give us”2 was inspirational words said to inspire the people to back up the war effort so England could hit Germany swift and hard to try to bring peace to Europe. A year after the war had started things were looking grim because a lot of countries had been having a hard time against the German advancement and to encourage the people to still support the war and not let them give up hope he said “Death and ruin have become small things compared with the shame of defeat or failure in duty”3 putting the events they had gone through in words like this made them realize that if they stopped now all the deaths and turmoil would have been for nothing and just a waste of time, money, and lives.

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Winston Churchill, in his informational speech, “Their Finest Hour” (June 18th, 1940) explained the military situation and rallied his people for what he probably knew was going to be a tremendous struggle against the Axis. Winston Churchill supports his thesis through, rhetorical questioning, pathos, ethos and logos. Churchill’s purpose was to inform and rally the people in order to strengthen their confidence in Britain 's military. Churchill was addressing the people of Britain as he uses a formal tone, in explaining the military situation. Winston Churchill was born into an aristocratic family, on November 30, 1874 in Woodstock, United Kingdom.

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He also proceeds to answer a question he thought would be useful to his audience’s knowledge. He says, ¨You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.¨ Churchill uses repetition in his response to the House to underline his main goal; victory.

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I personally think that we all have a bit of Churchill’s leadership style in us. I can say although on a much smaller scale I feel that I would like to think I have some qualities of Churchill. For instance, I do think that one of my strong points as a leader is being, a transformational leader through inspirational motivation. I have had many opportunities to be an inspirational motivator as a First Sergeant. For example there was a situation where our First Sergeant Council was facing stagnant growth in our base community in regards to give back to our Airmen and we needed a change.

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Being a good leader does not necessarily mean shining in the spotlight. Some of the most revolutionary and successful leaders are the ones who worked the lights. Self-awareness, self-direction, vision, ability to motivate, and social awareness are the characteristics of a good leader according to SIY Leadership Institute (SIYLI). There have been many accomplished and renowned leaders in America since (and before) the 1770’s, ones whose names are universally known and others who are unfamiliar. Of the latter is Alexander Hamilton, who showed potential since the minute he was put on earth, for no matter what obstacles were thrown in his way he forged ahead and never threw away his shot.

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Furthermore, Winston always believed that a person should always fight for what is right, and that is what he did. With Winston leading his country against Germany, he led with an attitude of bravery and confidence, similar to how the British were feeling at that time. For example, Winston Churchill gave one of his most iconic speeches on the special day of June 4, 1940, where he used his words to inspire people to stand up for the Allies. As a politician he even gave a speech to Parliament and told them he had, “nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.” (history.com) He was showing that he himself was ready to fight as well.

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Churchill effectively resonates with the audience and rallies them, through the rhetorical strategies of historical evidence, in order to ease his audience into the context of the battle and to show them the importance of the struggle, and the strategy of emotional appeal, through invoking feelings of pride, patriotism, and a sense of duty to maintain the survival of their homeland. The result was an effective delivery of the speech to the audience, which resonated and stuck with people, easily becoming one of the more important speeches in modern

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