"I may be a women but I have the heart of a man. I am my father's daughter and I not afraid of anything". The movie Elizabeth showed many examples of Transformational Leadership. Elizabeth showed that she had a concerned for her people when she went in front of all the bishops and started that their needed to a "Single Church of England". In order to make her point stronger she practice and try to find the best way to stressed that this act was going to help her people. The biggest ideas that was expressed through out was making sure that Elizabeth married someone. Throughout the movie she would talk about her nation rather than a man for herself. At the end of the movie she made a transitions and declare that she was now married to England.
In order to be a good leader she asked her people what they feel about a certain situation and what they would if they needed to make a decision.
When thinking about the movie, I remembered the speaker and the themes in Leadership which are Reflective,Ethics, and Diversity. I do not see Ethics and Diversity falling into this situation because of the power a queen holds, but there was a lot of time taken to her to reflective on many of the decisions that she had to make. The speaker take about going with your gut feeling which is something that the Queen did. When all the people stated she had to get married, she knew that she did not want to be married but respected her people and welcome in the idea to think about if she would.
The movie showed that many people did not want Elizabeth to be the queen and some even tried to kill her, but she did everything that she could to be the best leader she could and in the end she was known as a great queen.
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Elizabeth rocks!!!! I liked your comment about her being refletive. Can you imagine being taught to believe that you are a worthless woman unless you are married and produced children? Here was a woman, who was considered "illegitimate" (back then such a scandal!). She overcame a lot! I am sure she reflected a great deal over whatever decision she had to make.
The movie did spend a significant portion of the plot of the movie on the fact that Elizabeth was not married. Yes she claimed at the end of the movie she was married to her country.
I bet Elizabeth was very reflective when it came to her ordering of the slaying of Mary Stuart, Queen of Scots for treason. Yes, she had exchanged letters with Spain that she would like the Queen dead but her council (do not remember his name) after she was dead realized that she had been set up. I am sure the Queen was very reflective over her orders and how she stuck to the law.
The most prominent moment of the movie for me was before her troops set out for war, she met them on the battlefield. Giving them hope and pride for their country and that they would meet on the fields in victory.
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