Intro
Are you ready to move on to the next level? Are you tired of being passed for promotion? Are you ready to be that leader that everyone admires? If you answered yes, this is the guide for you. This leadership development guide is formulated to develop first-line supervisor’s leadership skills. This 26 day leadership development guide will provide valuable information and daily tips to improve your leadership skills. Every day we will provide you with a daily challenge that will include focusing on a leadership trait and an end of day evaluation to measure your progress during this 26 day leadership development guide. At the end of this 26 day leadership program you will become improve your personal leadership abilities and become a
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Today you will complete a table identifying your strengths and weaknesses. This is a helpful activity, every person should know their capacities and their areas of improvement. Although most people will focus on weaknesses, understand that your strengths are as equally as important as your weaknesses. When describing your strengths and weaknesses, try writing down anything that comes to mind. After writing try to arrange it by using attributes instead of sentences. For example, if the people around you can depend on you, you can simply described this as authentic or trustworthy. If you tend to not listen to anyone that has opposing views, then it can be described as close-minded. Your strengths and weaknesses are important because they make up who you are, how you operate, and ultimately give you an understanding of what jobs are the right ones for you. By knowing your strengths you can choose activities that allows you to unleash that ability and by knowing your weaknesses you can understand your potential limitations or areas that need improvement. Most people spend time focusing on their areas of improvement but the time should be spend focusing on your special abilities you already have. By doing so it will boost your
In both my work experience and volunteer activities, I have had to work with other people. I consider this a strength of mine because I have good communication skills when working with other people. I am also able to work either as someone under a leader or be the leader myself. 2. Area of Weakness Skill/Area
It’s very likely that you usually pay more attention to your shortcomings than your strong points. You customarily devote yourself to overcoming your limitations.” (Gallup, n.d., p. 5). This statement is very true; I am a very motivated individual, and I am always trying to better myself. I am a person that does not focus on my strengths, but on my weaknesses that I need to improve.
One of my strengths is in creativity. I am person who excels greatly when I am able to be creative and have freedom to think outside the box. However, that can also become a weakness because for assignments that are more limited and structured I to find to be challenging. Another strength I have is being able to learn quickly from my previous mistakes. There are times where I mess up or do something wrong, but my plan is to put those failures to good use.
After knowing what my weaknesses are, I usually try to solve them and improve my skills. For example, I’m not a highly flexible and positive person, so I seek out to individuals who are flexible and positive in their lives and ask for their advice. Another strength that I have is that I usually have a positive outlook of my improvement, because I have seen examples of those who overcome their hardships and become successful in life, so I believe that if I try hard enough, I will be able to overcome my weaknesses. I’m also confident with my listening skills and my ability to focus on others and make them feel heard. I like to start on works and projects early so that if anything comes up, I will still have time to handle it.
When I began my journey in search for a secondary education that would fulfill my desires I did not know where to begin, but I did know one thing: I wanted to get out of state. I was ignorant and believed that I was too good for the state from which I was raised in; I wanted to leave everything behind and see what the world had to offer. I kept this mindset for months upon months until my worrying parents finally managed to coax me into looking within Illinois for my education--it is at this point where I would stumble upon Illinois State University. I had heard multiple friends express their interest in ISU many of whom would call dub it their dream school. By researching ISU further, all of my misconceptions about in-state schools were dispelled.
A2d. Discuss two short-term SMART goals that will help improve your leadership practice. The first leadership skill I will develop is that of “sharpening your saw” (Covey, 1989). It is vital as a leader, especially as a new manager, to learn and develop leadership skills and better understand leadership practices. To sharpen my saw I will read or study a scholarly article or book for 30 minutes a day, 3 days per week for the next two months.
1. Pick what you consider your greatest strength. Be sure to discuss the overall facet (e.g., extroversion) as well as its sub-facets (e.g., assertiveness, gregariousness). How do you think this strength will help you in your future career?
Another strength as a writer is i 'm good at ending my conclusions, restating my main point, and connecting my paper to my own life experience. As a writer when i 'm typing i look for little mistakes i may be missing such as periods, apostrophe and commas. My weaknesses as a writer is i but too many ideas that isn 't needed in my paper. I go off track and put things that aren 't related with what i 'm writing or trying to prove. This is one of my common errors.
By taking the aptitude test for strengths and weaknesses I learned that I am a fairly strong leader and that I have a very high percentage in most all the character traits that were listed. My top five strengths are purpose, communication, balance, determination, and self-motivation. I scored a 94% on the purpose section and I do not disagree with the results. Having purpose means that I always try to be busy but I also have all my goals set far ahead.
1. Describe an example of your leadership experience in which you have positively influenced others, helped resolve disputes, or contributed to group efforts over time. I consider myself a leader, i believe this because i am the type of person that feels like if i am not the one to do it then it will not be done the right way. Whenever i would work in groups i would designate myself to be the one to do the harder assignment, because i only trusted that would take it serious, not anyone else. Also, whenever i do anything that involves a team, i like to take control, because i feel like i am the best one to work under pressure or i can choose the best solution for any situation.
In fact, leadership is an art rather than a science. The process of learning leadership is a hand-on experience, which focuses on practice instead of concepts itself. This course provides me a chance to gain more insight about leadership and it helps me develop my new image of leadership. Meanwhile, I also use the theories in our textbook as a framework for self-assessment of my leadership skills and try to develop my own leadership style during the
Personal strengths are actions or tasks that a person can perform well. These strengths comprise talents, skills and knowledge. A person uses these traits and abilities in his daily life to accomplish tasks, relate with others, and to achieve goals. Everyone has their own set of strengths. Our personal strengths are that vital aspect that makes us unique as individual, and it is part of the value we offer to the world around us.
WHERE DOES THIS STUDY POSTION ON? This study defines Leadership is as system of interaction between leader on the one hand, and followers and situations on the other hand. Leadership refers to leader inducing followers to act for certain goals that represent the values and the motivations – the wants and needs, the aspirations and expectations – of both leaders and followers. Whenever I use the term ‘leadership’ in this study it means political leadership.
Little research is done in the field of leadership training and development, it is essential to see how our society produce the best leaders through training and development. Ethical Leadership Development brings about good leaders in the community. One of the documents that define Leadership Development is the United States Army’s Field Manuel 6-22. The Field Manuel 6-22 (2015), which defined leadership development as “the deliberate, continuous, sequential, and progressive process founded in Army values that grows Soldiers and Army Civilians into competent and confident leaders capable of decisive action” (P. 1-1). In addition, leader development is achieved through the lifelong synthesis of the knowledge, skills, and experiences gained
Strengths: As a student one of my strengths is organization. I can say I can keep my school materials and notebooks organized in a way that I and others can comprehend. The reason I can say I am organized is because, I have hardly ever had in the past or present any issues with trying to find homework or assignments because I always kept my materials for each class organized and in a place I could easily find. Another strength I have is social skills. I can believe that I communicate with others well in a group.