Leadership is not just a combination of charismatic qualities but the ability to solve issues at a critical moment. The makeup of leader should emphasize emergency management. It is common and customary of society to paint a leader as a person who balances resources and data in order to give out positive results. This essay seeks to evaluate the ability of leader to make sound decisions under pressure, manage dire disasters, prioritize the order of needs, and utilize resources effectively to cover up the disaster.

Decision Making During Disasters

 A leader should have both technical and teamwork capabilities. First, the leader coordinates various factors relevant to the situation. More so, he or she can make many workers achieve a single objective (Johnston, & Marshall, 2013). In other words, creating cohesion among people enables a quick way of countering the emergency hence cohesion makes decision making of a leader effective.

Prioritizing needs

Needs vary depending on the disaster at hand. The objective of any leader is reduction of an emergency from graduating into something more catastrophic and unmanageable. The leader can control an emergency by defining the problems and identify the needs in line with the context of the incident (Johnston, & Marshall, 2013). For example, in case of a fire, the immediate need is evacuating the building using the emergency exit. The second requirement is containing the fire from spreading.

Resource management

In most crisis, a leader has to deploy resources, in terms of finances or human labor. Resources indirectly provide the support needed to manage a disaster (Johnston, & Marshall, 2013). Some researchers are of the opinion that strategies without resources are not workable. Thus, strategies go hand in hand with resources.

E-activity

During Hurricane Katrina, Mississippi governor Barbour received praise for his quick but effective decision making skills(Johnston, & Marshall, 2013). He was able to mobilize people and raise $24million for relief. In addition, he used the media as to inform the public on the impending danger if they failed to evacuate their residents. In summary, a leader must focus on the main priorities during a crisis. Secondly, they should raises awareness, mobilize resources, and coordinate activities.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

References

Johnston, M. W., & Marshall, G. W. (2013). Sales force management: Leadership, innovation, technology. Routledge.