The research question I have chosen is how and why do charisma, confidence, and communication skills make a successful leader in life? Although the topic at hand is non-conventional and broad in some aspects, it is absolutely central to myself and every successful leader the world has seen. Maturing through childhood and high school brings out natural leaders in life, and unfortunately for myself I grew envious of this success rather than striving for greatness. By being a naturally curious, intuitive, and motivated person though, I became extremely interested in what makes people not only successful, but an effective and successful leader. I could comprehend that I had adopted the wrong mindset somewhere, but I just couldn't understand how some people were so naturally confident, charismatic, and socially adapt to where they could captivate groups of people with ease. So after a rather dismal prom experience I promised to myself I would fully commit to learning whatever it takes to become the person we are all meant to be -- and I did. By spending hundreds of hours researching online, reading plentiful amounts of books, and putting myself in every social situation I could imagine I am continuing to learn about our calling to lead every day. The core to what I've learned over the past years comes down to this: complete confidence and entitlement in your environment "unlocks" your innate charisma, causing you to naturally attract people to you (thus the opportunity for leadership arises). Having this charisma and confidence intertwined with successful communication skills -- perfected only through practice -- it is possible to become the insanely effective, successful leader in life.

The central claim in this article is what makes a charismatic teacher in college and what doesn't. Through a well thought out experiment the authors examine what causes "teaching charisma" that deeply attracts students to learn and take that professors class. Through the experiment it is found that a deep knowledge and love for the subject, desirable characteristics, good teaching techniques, and humor is what makes a teacher charismatic and desirable.

The values and interests at stake in this article are rather challenging to find due to the informational, rather than argumentative, nature of this article. Nevertheless, values about personality characteristics, ways to express yourself, and humor are present in this article. Also, the interests of professors and teachers are at stake because the authors are essentially saying how some are good or bad at their job.

There are multiple sources referenced in this article, and because this in an official experiment there seems to be no bias present. The authors are using the scientific method to find an issue, propose an experiment, do it, and simply report on the results. The sources used support the evidence found instead of causing any additional bias, and the authors appear to have no bias on the subject matter.

The central claim to this article is that a high-quality leader on a sports team causes not only the confidence of others to go up, but it makes the leader appear to have more abilities. By surveying almost 3,000 players and coaches in Belgium they distinguished that a leader was essential in optimizing their team's performance. 

The major values contemplated in this article is those of an effective leader -- especially on a sports team (which can be applied to really any situation). The best leader of the team was found to have incredible motivation and creativity to help the team achieve its goals, foster positive social interactions between the team, and facilitate communications between the team and external sources. This touches directly on the values and interests a leader needs to have -- and also the underlying confidence, charisma, and social skills it takes to accomplish this.

This article was published in the Sport Psychologist's journal and was written by 6 distinguished experts in the field -- all of whom teach in a university. The credibility of these authors cannot really be questioned. Also, the bias of these authors and sources should be little because they are analyzing others responses instead of their own.

The central claim to this article is how a leader with charisma fosters positive team and work environments while preventing a negative climate. The evidence used to support this claim was found by analyzing 137 bank branches and the charisma of leaders in these branches. The branches with stronger leadership, charisma, and confidence showed the most team optimism and the least team tension. 

The values and interests at stake in this article are again how leaders are effective in their workplace, how they should go about their job essentially, and the characteristics that make someone a better and more successful charismatic leader. This can offend many people because they are not open to this type of change for themselves, but the research presented here has valid authenticity.

This article was published in a Spanish journal in 2009, and the authors are from the University of Valencia -- making the article credible. Although some use of language and bias may have been lost in translation, the article again reflects on the ideas and actions of others instead of the authors (so little bias is present).

The research question I proposed here is arguable in the sense of what makes an effective and successful leader. I plan on going into what has been proven to do this (charisma, confidence, social skills), but many can make an argument how other factors are prominent in being a positive leader. There are numerous agreements among the sources I've found. For example, in every article or journal I've come across there is a common theme about the characteristics of leaders -- they are shown to have the confidence to dominate every scenario they are in, and bring along others with them. Different perspectives of the sources I've been discovering will often say the characteristics and personalities of these people are natural and God-gifted, but I argue on the contrary! Some people may be more adapt to learning traits like confidence and entitlement, but leadership is a skill that everyone can master and I plan on talking about this further in my paper. Lastly, I might need to revise my research question to be more arguable instead of informative.
