...What Leadership Means to Me? “A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves.” -Lao Tzu. A leader realizes that the success is of my team and the failures are all mine. A leader inspires a team to see the successes to come, and must hold themselves accountable if a goal isn’t met. I’ve had seven plus years of success leading the financial services and banking operations. Over the years I’ve developed a blend of real world and education leadership experiences that has molded my character. Specifically, the three following traits truly encompass what leadership means to me: Strategy, Integrity, and Change Management. Starting as early as middle school I walked a different path than most of my peers. I was placed in the Talented and Gifted Program commonly known by its acronym as TAG. That program built upon the innate talents my classmates and I possessed, however the most important lesson learned was strategy. We played chess in teams on Friday and I soon reigned victorious among my peers. At that time I viewed it as fun and games, not realizing its importance. Great leaders master the art of strategy. A leader provides the vision for an organization and must strategize to implement their visions. In one quick move, the playing field changes and a leader must anticipate what is to come and formulate a strategy to overcome those obstacles. During all four years of undergraduate...
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...Leadership to me is defined by setting a good example, making decisive decisions, communicating with others, and positively reinforcing your peers. Those are the exact skills I’ve developed from my direct involvement with soccer. Since I could kick a ball I’ve loved every aspect of soccer. After facing many trials and tribulations, one my proudest achievements is being elected team captain of the varsity team my junior and senior year. What made it so special was my role. Our team was composed of very talented juniors and seniors, but we also had aspiring freshmen hungry to learn and get better. One of those underclassmen was my little brother. As the captain of our team, I had to lead the upperclassmen during practices and games, inching...
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...results of the test your leadership style questions do not surprised me at all. I scored 76% for leadership and 24% for supervisor. These results put me in the leader category. I am not surprised with the results because I believe in motivating people and teaching them the skills required to do their job. I have had several managers say they picked me to train or teach people how to do the job because of the way I explain the process. The managers have also said that I am very thorough and patient in how I do things and how I treat the person. I am also not surprised to see that I fit the definition or explanation of the leadership style listed in the text. I am a self-starter, I find work fulfilling, and I enjoy teaching co-workers the skills necessary when they need help with achieving their goals. It makes me happy to see people develop an understanding of the job requirements and what they need to do to meet them. MGT 210 Week 7 Assignment Exercise 15-3 Get Tutorial by Clicking on the link below or Copy Paste Link in Your Browser https://hwguiders.com/downloads/mgt-210-week-7-assignment-exercise-15-3/ For More Courses and Exams use this form ( http://hwguiders.com/contact-us/ ) Feel Free to Search your Class through Our Product Categories or From Our Search Bar (http://hwguiders.com/ ) The results of the test your leadership style questions do not surprised me at all. I scored 76% for leadership and 24% for supervisor. These results put me in the leader...
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...a team environment. Leaders can lead in different styles that will motivate others, it would be important for a manager to understand their own leadership style in the workplace. Leaders can be a good or bad influence to others. According to the textbook specific traits related to leadership effectiveness such as, high energy level and stress tolerance, internal locus of control orientation, emotional maturity, personal integrity, socialized power motivation, moderately high achievement orientation, moderately high self-confidence, and moderately low need for affiliation (Yukl, 2013)." Today, there are many leaders in the world that are highly respected and followed by people in the world. Being respected by your peers also helps a leader to gain confidence to lead, motivate, and powerful. There are different leadership styles such as authoritative. Effective leaders know how to adapt to any environment that they need to lead. Authoritative style is known as bring a team together and solving problems. The leader of choice to analyze was my manager of six years at Cedars – Sinai Medical Center, who pass in 2007 of cancer. Anita Howse was the finance manager who handled the nursing finances in the medical center. During the six years she was my manager; she also became my mentor and motivated me to go back to college. Anita’s leadership style was more of an authoritative style, she was able to solve issues, motivate others, adapt to any changes within the medical center environment...
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...My Personal Leadership Experience Megan Schlafer Transformational Leadership/LS335 November 6, 2012 Dr. Mary Weber My Personal Leadership Experience The following paper will include a brief explanation of my occupational background, as well as a discussion of the circumstances, experiences, and people who I believe have helped my leadership ability. It will go on to explore my own experience and abilities in leadership roles, described by my viewpoints, and future ambitions related to leadership. Further detail will be examined of my leadership philosophies, style, and where I have put them into action. Lastly, I will conclude the extent to which I feel my leadership abilities are consistent with transformative leadership principles, as well as how these abilities will help me in the future. I will also discuss how I might strengthen said abilities in the present. Occupational Background I entered the workplace by the age of fourteen. I managed to get a job bussing tables at a supper club on the lake. I continued working in restaurants until the age of nineteen, moving up the ladder from busser, to hostess, and eventually settling on bartending. I liked restaurant work, for the most part. Truth be told, it was the money that kept me in the field. My experience was so narrow, that I had a hard time getting out of it. Management at this point in my life was never something that interested me; I was content just doing my job. I was immature, and did not...
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...leader to me is someone that can take someone and make a positive impact on an individual’s life. Not everyone can be a leader or shall I say a good leader. Everyone claims they want that title but does not have what it takes to become one. “Leadership is the art of leading others to deliberately create a result that would not have happened otherwise” –SIY Characteristics of a good leader consists of a individuals having; self awareness (you have intimate knowledge of you inner emotional state), self direction (you are able to direct yourself effectively), vision (you have greater goals that you are working towards), ability to motivate (giving the desire to want to participate and help), and social awareness (understanding who is the key influencers). A leader that I admire is a past supervisor that I had in a prior department I was in with my company. Her name was Nicole. Besides liking her leadership style which was a coaching leader her personality was caring but strict at the same time which reminded me of a parents parenting style. Not only was she concerned with what was going on inside the workplace she was also concerned about each individuals personal life and showed genuine concern as to many supervisors do not care . Their only concerned with what is going on with an individual in the business aspect. That makes me feel like a person has my best interest and will lead me in the right direction that will benefit me in the long run. With Nicole’s leadership style being...
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...Introduction This paper will highlight, in detail, my understanding of the concepts and theories of leadership and followership that I have learned over the past seven weeks. I will discuss what my former opinions were and what my ideas have transformed into after researching and explaining what makes a good leader and follower. Philosophy will also be discussed in detail and what I believe the actions one must take to achieve their goals. In this paper, I will also be discussing what my strengths are as a follower and a leader and where I still need to develop in both areas. Definitions of Leadership and Followership There are many ways to define what leadership and followership are. In Eddy and VanDerLinden’s (2006), they explain that...
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...PLAN Task 1: Identify and evaluate your current leadership abilities. 1.1 Identify your current leadership skills and qualities. Some of the leadership skills and qualities I’ve identified in me, are as follows: * Courage * Self Confidence * Intelligence * Knowledge * Punctuality * Humility 1.2 Rank your current ability in those areas. If I was to rank my abilities, I’d do it as follows: * Courage (5/10) * Self Confidence (4/10) * Intelligence (5/10) * Knowledge (4/10) * Punctuality (3/10) * Humility (5/10) * Commitment (5/10) * Patience (5/10) 1.3 Give reasons for your ranking. I think I have the courage to do things but I lack the self confidence. I believe that I’m a little on intelligence and knowledge but I still lack the punctuality. I’m always humble towards others. If I commit myself to do a work, I dont leave it until its completed. I also believe that I have a lot of patience and am always willing to wait. 1.4 Support the reasons for your ranking with evidence. Courage is what I believe I have, because it was not easy for me to travel to New Zealand, where I knew nobody. But I lack the self confidence which makes me feel somewhat shy to talk to new people. And also, I have good grasping skills and am a fast learner, which I can account into intelligence. But still, I have to learn a lot of new things which are not known to me. And I also feel that I need to be more punctual...
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...an easy task, as each one of them has been instrumental in shaping me into the leader that I have become today. They all possessed individual traits, skills, and tactics that were necessary as an effective leader. Each one also had specific theories of effective leadership that explained why I believe that they were the “best leader” that I have been exposed to. They all had leadership behaviors that could be described by certain theories of leadership that provided me with guidelines for effective leadership. The one leader that stands out the most for me is my English and Drama teacher in high school. He had been teaching for nearly 30 years when I had the pleasure to take his classes. He was the leader that brought me out of my shell and showed me that I could do anything that I set my mind to. It was his traits, skills, and tactics as a leader that helped me secure my first management job. I obtained this position when I was a senior in high school and still attending his class. Let us take a look at the specific traits, skills and tactics present in him as a leader and why they are necessary for me as a leader. We will then take a look at the leadership theories that explains why I saw him as the “best leader” that I have been exposed to. Lastly, we will take a look at his ideal leadership behaviors and the theory that best described his behaviors, along with the guidelines for leadership that it provided me. Traits The specific traits that he possessed were motivational...
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...A reflection on the Leadership learning process Yashas Alur U4556991 VCUG 2002: Leadership and Influence in a Complex World Leadership and Influence in a Complex World VCUG 2002 Yashas Alur U4556991 The Leadership and Influence course addressed numerous questions thus far. One question that was asked of me repeatedly was, “Why did you choose to do this course?” Personally, I found this question quite difficult to answer. I remember walking into the first lecture 20 minutes late, introducing myself and answering this question by saying, “I chose this course to learn about leadership skills.” It was not until the end of that first lecture that I realised how this course was unique and how it was much more than building leadership skills. The course was about cross disciplinary learning, influences of culture on leadership, developing a personal view on leadership and topics that would have never crossed my mind otherwise. I walked out of that lecture telling my friend that this is one course that utilizes a unique teaching style and one that I would get up at 9 AM on a Friday morning to attend. Prior to this course the only theoretical knowledge of leadership that I had was through a Business and Management course where I learnt about leadership styles. Geoff Mortimore pointed out the different leadership styles in the first panel. I was always under the impression that a leader chooses one leadership style in his position. Geoff that day made a strong point in that...
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...INTRODUCTION -Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality. Warren G. Bennis Warren G.Bennis is telling exactly what I am thinking about leadership. Leadership is the way to make your dreams real with the people that you are leading. I think leadership will be the most important thing in my life, because I am studying entrepreneurship and when I will be an entrepreneur my leading ability will play the biggest part of my business life. If I want to make my dreams real I need to be able to control everything around my businesses. Therefore, leadership is the way to control things around you to make your vision real. PART I: WHAT LEADERSHIP MEANS TO ME NOW, AT THE END OF THE TERM This course didn’t changed my ideas too much about the leadership, but I learned many things that I did not know about leadership from this class. On my first paper, I said “a leader should be able to speak well, because the way you speak effects the people more than everybody thinks” and “A leader should look forward and needs to plan every situation that can affect his job.” There is nothing changed about this two quotes from my first paper. I am still thinking that if you are a good speaker you can affect people around you and the words that you are using will be the meaning of your dream. So, if you can show your dream clearly to your people they will be able to follow your vision easily. Speaking is an important thing about leadership, but also this course showed me that listening...
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...foundation in the Leadership Communication textbook is that “effective leadership depends on effective communication” (Barrett, 2014, p. 4). Without effective communication, leaders accomplish little (Barrett, 2014, p. 4). The lack of communication from a leader, makes him or her not a leader (Barrett, 2014, p. 4). Mastering communication for leadership allows for leaders to move into leadership positions and lead a group to a common goal (Barrett, 2014, p. 5). Effective leadership communication requires the leader to anticipate, transmit, appreciate, understand, and craft messages to reach the wanted recipient as intended (Barrett, 2014, p. 7). Current Assessment Leadership Communication Ethos/Image Based off of the Self-Assessment of Leadership Communication Capabilities, my leadership communication regarding ethos and image are acceptable, but could be worked on as I scored a 3.5/5.0 (Self-Assessment of Leadership Communication Capabilities). This result showed me that my strengths were in relation to my understanding of how people viewed me and my willingness to improve. I am aware of myself enough to see how me leadership style is and how it affects others. But my weaknesses could hinder this, as I do not like to ask for opinions of my style and I lack confidence (Self-Assessment of Leadership Communication Capabilities). Audience Analysis and Strategy My Audience Analysis and Strategy was one of my lowest scores, scoring a 3.0/5.0 (Self-Assessment of Leadership Communication...
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...Leadership Quiz of Rashiem Page A leadership quiz can assist those that are in leadership and management positions to understand their personal leadership traits. In this lesson, we are to complete the MindTools leadership quiz and analyze the findings. I am going to discuss my agreements and disagreements with the findings and explain if I can improve my leadership abilities using the resources that were recommended by the quiz. The leadership quiz consisted of eighteen questions with a range of not at all, rarely, sometimes, often and very often. The score interpretation range from 18-34 (Need to improve leadership skills), 35-52 (Doing OK as a leader but have the potential to perform better) and 53-90 (On the right track...
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...Learning contract report On Leadership and Ethics Compiled June 2015 by Rochak Bhatta Charles Stuart University Darlinghurst, Sydney. Table of content Headings Pages Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 Leadership and ethics…………………………………………………………………………. 4 Transformational Leadership………………………………………………….. 5 Learning contract outcome…………………………………………………………………. 5 Critical self-reflection and analysis of the outcome…………………………….. 6 Knowledge………………………………………………………………………….. 6 Skills……………………………………………………………………………………. 8 Ability…………………………………………………………………………………. 9 Action Plan…………………………………………………………………………………………9 Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………………….10 References………………………………………………………………………………………….11 Introduction Leadership, Ethics, social responsibilities are some of the common terms widely used inside classrooms and boardrooms. But surprisingly very...
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...Maxwell, “Leadership is not about titles, positions or flowcharts. It is about one life influencing another.” That is especially true when you are looking at church leadership-past and present. From David to Nehemiah to church leaders of today, these leaders exercise some type of influence over the people they have lead or are leading. Aubrey Malphurs takes the definition of leadership and turns it up another notch. Leaders just don’t have influence over the people they lead. They use their influence “to influence people in a particular context to pursue their God-given direction”.[1] In other words, it is the church leadership’s job to help the people they lead to see God and His work in their lives, to understand their purpose, actively pursue God’s plan for their life, and carry that plan out effectively. Because of the heavy mandate that all church leadership carries, it is imperative for anyone who is in a leadership position to know their leadership style and their strengths and weaknesses as it pertains to leadership. The best way to do this is to do a self-elevation or use resources that will help you survey the effectiveness of your leadership. During the first half of this course, I have been given the opportunity to read about qualities that a leader should possess. Along with the reading, the author has provided audits that when taken would help me to survey my leadership style and determine to what degree I possess these qualities. This leadership audit is...
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