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 naturally curious, intuitive, and motivated though, I became extremely interested in what makes people not only successful, but an effective leader. I had the ability to 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. Finally, after years of confusion, I promised to myself I would fully commit to learning whatever it takes to become the leader we are all capable of being. 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 through practice -- it is possible to become the insanely effective, successful leader most admire.


The central claim in this article is what makes a charismatic teacher in college and what does not. Through a well thought out experiment the authors examine what causes "teaching charisma", and how that deeply attracts students to learn and enroll in the professor's class. Through the experiment they found that a deep knowledge and love for the subject, desirable personality characteristics, good teaching techniques, and humor is what makes a teacher charismatic and desirable in the classroom.

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. Also, the interests of professors and teachers are at stake because the authors are essentially implying how to do a teachers 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, conduct it, and report on the results. The sources used support the evidence found instead of causing any additional bias.

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 the authors and researchers involved distinguished that a leader was essential in optimizing any team's performance. 

The major values contemplated in this article are those of an effective leader -- especially on a sports team. The values found for an athletic leader can also be applied to leaders in a majority of situations. The forefront 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 six distinguished experts in the field -- all of whom teach at a university. The credibility of these authors on the subject cannot be questioned. Also, the bias of these authors and their sources are little because they are analyzing and reporting on others responses rather than 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 managers with leadership roles in 137 national bank branches. There was a direct positive correlation between the bank managers' charismatic and confident leadership with an optimistic team environment. 

The values and interests at stake in this article are 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 could offend some 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 -- which makes 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 (therefore little bias is present).

The research question I proposed is arguable in the sense of what makes an effective and successful leader. I will debate the character traits and methods -- such as charisma, confidence, social skills -- that are proven to propel someone into a leadership roles, and also take note of the argument against the importance of these traits. Also, there are numerous agreements among the sources I've found. For example, in every article or journal I've read there is a common theme about the characteristics of leaders: they are shown to have the confidence to dominate every scenario they need to, 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.

