Self-Appraisal on Leadership
As a leader in the camp, the democratic behaviour approach is used. The democratic leadership style, which is not control the subordinates/ followers but guide them to complete the task. “Democratic leaders treat subordinates as fully capable of doing work on their own” (Northouse, 2014). The suggestions are given to them and help them to reach their goals. Therefore, they gain own freedom, my trust and my support. Furthermore, they are highly engaged in tasks and decisions which may have high satisfaction and self-affirmation. A research published by the Harvard Business Review about there are six different leadership styles - commanding, visionary, affiliative, democratic, pacesetting and coaching (Goleman, 2000).
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I am sensitive to subordinates, understand what they think or what they want. Approval or consents by the followers are needed to put into operation suggestions. Backing up or supporting what other people in the group do if I can. Also, I will try to help followers with their personal problems if they need my hands. I will use my creativity to find the solution for others and speak ideas and suggestions out. Besides considering others, accomplished the work as much as we can are also important. I will emphasize the deadlines and how to meet them and suggest ways to fix problems. However, I seldom assign people to specific tasks, although I know which task they may good at or expert …show more content…
Although it is good to show emotion, it is being too emotional which create problems (Sundheim, 2013). After the test of Personality Dimensions in the Leadership course, I found out I am a Resourceful Orange who is independent, easy going and entertaining but act too quickly (Tudor, 2007). However, this type of personality will pay less attention to the details since we think that it is too complicated and troublesome. Hence, I have to learn think before act and pay more attention to the details. In the Leadership course, I’ve know more about myself and my groupmates. I think the communication methods, leadership style and the followership style (performance) will be different as the needs of different people are
I consider working as a member team, communication, active learning, and personal services to be some of my strongest assets I have to offer; while I find that I excel in relating to children and adapting to people in all environment. I am very committed to everything I do and will not stop until the job is done and done right. I believe that building relations with those I am working alongside is important for the success of any well run team.
I believe leadership is a relationship. The relationship with supervisors, subordinates, and peers is an ongoing process that takes practice to become a better leader. Along with practice we must re-evaluate our leadership philosophy throughout our careers. Upon my own re-evaluation I am renewing my aspiration and commitment to our team. I expect to focus on listening to everyone for their value added to the team, learning from all of our experiences, then lead by challenging the process and promoting a common
Self-leadership assessment is an important exercise in understanding the basic qualities that each individual has that could make them good or bad leaders for any organization. The use of contemporary theories of leadership to assess the suitability of the individuals for a given task is very important in understanding the leadership abilities of everyone, using self-assessment tool called Seven Habits Profile. Through this, individuals are able to learn about their strengths and weakness, based on their score. For this assignment, I will conduct personal leadership assessment through the seven habits profile, as well as to underscore the strengths and weaknesses of the results (Dionneet al., 2004). This is followed by formulation of SMART
The three skills are Leads, Develops, and Achieves. I try to use this method of leadership when leading others I influence and motivate them to pursue the goal. Also by leading from the form and doing setting the standard. Secondly, when developing my subordinates, I try to implement a positive environment so that all my soldiers can flourish and work as a team. A positive environment helps encourage soldiers to take the initiative and may cause them to want to work harder to gain more individual responsibility.
Leaders need to be very caring and show a genuine passion to work with others. Being passionate about the employees drives a leader to learn more about their greatest attributes and their greatest weaknesses. By learning these about each employee shows that not only does the leader what himself to succeed, but wants his employees to succeed as well. Furthermore, a leader needs to be sincerely caring on learning about its employees; it is not something that they should or can fabricate. If the employees feel that the leader does not care and they are only pretending to, then the employees will not respect the leader.
Among other things, it predicts that directive leadership is effective with ambiguous tasks, that supportive leadership is effective with repetitive tasks, that participative leadership is effective when tasks are unclear and subordinates are autonomous, and that achievement-oriented leadership is effective for challenging tasks. By taking the Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire, I know that which way suit me to lead my followers. In my case, I score 27 in participative, which is the highest of four options. As a participative leader, I do reference the suggestions from the followers for making decisions sometimes but not always. Sometimes the leaders’ behaviors depend on the characteristic of the subordinates and tasks.
2.2 Different types of leadership styles Leadership plays a vital role in order for an organization to succeed, by effectively managing and controlling employees the type of leadership style. The most universal leadership styles concern transactional, transformational, laissez-faire, democratic and authoritative. These styles are widely applied in different organizations
Leadership Analysis Introduction One of the popular definitions of a leader is, "The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers." ( ) A more comprehensive definition that highlights striking features of a leader is, "A simple definition of leadership is that leadership is the art of motivating a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal.” ( ) A closer scrutiny of the characteristics of an influential leader would many ways assist one, in recognizing those attributes in an attempt to assimilate the best in others.
Leadership Trait Questionnaire The Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ) showed that I lack in self-confidence, self-assurance, and feel that I lack in insight. I show strength in determination, being outgoing, friendly, empathetic and sensitive, I rated myself as fours in these categories and a five in the outgoing category (Northouse, 2016). It is essential to show self-confidence and self-assurance when in a leadership position.
Individual Reflective Paper Introduction Leadership, a controversial concept, has been studied for centuries. Scholars who study leadership have argued with the insight of leadership for many decades and finally promote a wide range of understandings of it. This course “values and leadership” introduces the basic principles and concepts about leadership, and provides us with some conceptual knowledge and practical approaches to be an outstanding leaders. I chose to take this course because I am interested in the topic about leadership.
This paper will examine the three leadership theories, identify how they apply to my practice, and explore how these theories interact with each other. The Trait Leadership Theory is based on the belief that a person is born with special traits contributing to natural leadership abilities. Studies of famous historical leaders have been used to identify various traits for this theory. Although the list of traits differs from study to study, there are five major traits that are consistent throughout most studies.
Introduction- The leadership and management are two important pillars of modern day business. “You manage things; you lead people” Grace Hopper (retired Admiral, U.S. Navy). On one hand managers, not only motivate people but they also set the course of direction and organize to achieve the targets.
Different scholars identified various kinds of leadership styles that affect the job performance, satisfaction and learning and development of subordinates. Warrick, D.D (1981) cited that there are no doubt variables other than a leader’s style that affect employee performance and development but leadership style plays a significant role and not to be underestimated. An awareness of leadership styles and their consequences are very important because it may either facilitate or inhabit skill development. The major theories on leadership are the traits, leadership styles and contingency theories.
In this leadership style the group will be successful since the manager takes the inputs of team members into consideration, this would help the group to communicate well with the manager and also understand what the task is to be done and how they may go about doing
If the behavior theory can identify the key determinants of leadership, people can actually train to become a leader. This is the premise of the management development plan. There are many different types of behavioural leadership styles. Each style suggests that the leadership role is based on the leaders’ concern for the people being led and the level of achievement that needs to be