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Personal Leadership Styles Reflection

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This assignment is largely a reflection where I will analyze my personal leadership styles and reflect on how they are, or are not working. I will reflect on how I would like to change my leadership in the future based on concepts presented in the literature. I will also conduct a literature review to connect the concepts from my reflection to actual information about various leadership styles and models to build understanding. Last, I will speak to specific actions and practices I will implement in order to fill the gap between where I am now with my leadership and where I would like to be in the future.
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In the future, I plan to be a leader both in my career and outside of my career. I have chosen a bachelor’s degree in Recreation …show more content…

Often, I use a more task-oriented approach to leadership, which can be off-putting to followers. I believe that the Adaptive Leadership Approach will help me achieve my goal to start an alumni chapter because it assumes that a large number of the problems faced in leadership are embedded in interactive systems. Problems are complex, and can change and evolve as relationships do (Northouse, 2016). This model is also useful for this goal because “adaptive leadership clearly describes leadership as the actions the leaders undertake to afford followers the best opportunity to do adaptive work” (Northouse, 2016, p. 292). This idea relates to how sorority alumni chapters work, and the idea that we all have different goals and reasons for wanting to be a part of this group. This model will allow me to look at how my actions may help everyone get the most out of their time put in, and achieve their own personal …show more content…

Northouse (2016) explains that situational leadership “is a prescriptive approach to leadership that suggests how leaders can become effective in many different types of organizational settings involving a wide variety of organizational goals. This approach provides a model that suggest to leaders how they should behave based on the demands of a particular situation” (p.112). I don’t think this model can affect my development as a student because the demands of situations or classes don’t vary much. I am expected to complete readings, assignments, and attend classes as required per class. I do wonder if this model could help me in specific situations such as group projects, in order to motivate group members toward a collective

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