...LEADER PROFILE Leader Profile 1 The person who has influenced me the most in my life is my mentor, Stanley (Stan) King, CPA. He is the reason why I am a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) today. I have known him all of my life and have admired him as long as I can remember. Stan is known as a man of great integrity and credibility. In the Leadership Challenge book1, it discusses what people look most for in a leader is someone who is honest, forward-looking, inspiring and competent. Stan has all of these qualities and characteristics which is why he is well respected among his peers, subordinates and those who know him. I feel as though Stan has both types of leadership characteristics; transitional and transformational. Stan is the type of person who helps others by creating options, opportunities, building commitment and facilitating relationships. I think that he has a charismatic way of inspiring others to achieve and succeed. He treats others with respect regardless of their position. He is very confident in his own abilities and not afraid when to let people know he does not know the answer. If he does not know the answer, he will try find it let you know about it and provide the resource for your records. This is a form of credibility and developing competence not only for himself but for others as well. As a leader, below are the areas in the leadership scorecard that I believe Stan rates: 1 Kouzes, J. & Posner, B. (2008). The leadership challenge (4th ed...
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...Leader Profile Paper Kimberly Linton November 21, 2014 HRE 3723 Introduction: 1. Who did you choose to interview and why did you choose him/her? Throughout her life, my youth director and mom Nicole Linton has been an exemplary leader. She was always involved as a leader in organizations throughout high school and college. She has been a member of her church for 30 years and now serves as the youth director. Chapter 1 – The Nature and Importance of Leadership 1. Why is leadership important in your (organization, community, team, etc.)? Mrs. Linton believes leadership is important because “young children need guidance and a good example to follow so they don’t fall to the wrong paths.” 2. Why do you think it is important for students such as myself to learn to lead? She believes that it is important for students to learn how to lead because it will open up doors for our futures. She also says “you have to become the leader that you want your children to look up to.” 3. One of the things we study is the many roles that leaders play in their organizations, communities, teams, etc. Could you give me an example of when you have been a: a. Figurehead She says, “When I got accepted to college I think I was a role model for the children and to let them know that someone just like them could get to where I am going.” Coming from our home town and seeing people go to college and be successful is a big inspiration. b. Spokesperson She...
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...executives—not just those in America—recognize that one of their biggest challenges is closing the vast gulf between the potential and the realized talent and energy of the people they lead. As one GEO put it, "We have a large workforce that has an appetite to do a good job up and down the ranks. If we can transform them—tap into them through effective leadership—there will be an awful lot of people out there doing an awful lot of good." 62 Harvard Business Review May 2014 Of course, managers don't intend to be poor leaders. The problem is that they lack a clear understanding of just what changes it would take to bring out the best in everyone and achieve high impact. We believe that leaders can obtain this understanding through an approach we call "blue ocean leadership." It draws on our research on blue ocean strategy, our model for creating new market space by converting noncustomers into customers, and applies its concepts and analytic frameworks to help leaders...
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...limitations of traditional leadership style, Blue Ocean Leadership believes leadership to be a service which people either buy or do not buy. It proclaims the idea that if people value the leadership styles then they will become committed and act accordingly. Blue Ocean Leadership focuses on the acts and activities performed by leaders to motivate their team, unlike the traditional leadership where it ought to change the values, behavioral style and qualities which are not entirely possible. Moreover, Blue Ocean Leadership also emphasizes on inputs about what leaders should do from the people facing market realities like frontline personnel which will add not only to form accepted leadership profiles but also to minimize cost. Unlike traditional leadership, Blue Ocean Leadership believes in distributive leadership to various management levels. The core value is to maximize corporate performance at all levels i.e. top, middle or frontline. To achieve its basic objectives in practice, the Blue Ocean Leadership follows four steps. Firstly, the leadership dealt with analyzing the leadership reality within the firm. This suggests the analysis to understand where the leader acts strong or falls weak in order to bring appropriate changes. Leadership Canvases i.e. analytic visuals about management’s investment of time and effort are developed based on the perception of bosses and subordinates....
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...Professional Development Plan Kate Bethea LDR/531 June 22, 2015 Dr. Dave Aiken Professional Development Plan Management develops a plan that will address the characteristics of their team. With this plan, management can better lead their team by using each's personality characteristics. If such plans are used effectively, they can also determine a team's strengths, weaknesses, their skills, any improvement areas, and to help members of the team reach professional goals. Throughout this essay, such a plan will be developed to for "Learning Team D” and address the team member designated as manager. DISC Assessment In week, one of organizational leadership each member of “Learning Team D” completed the DISC Platinum rule. The DISC Platinum rule is a behavioral style assessment that breaks down an individual’s predominate behavior styles; dominate, interactive, steadiness, and cautious. There are sixteen sub-styles that further attempt to explain the results. "Learning Team D" is comprised of three members, and not one of them has the same style. One of the team members predominate style is dominated, one member style is cautious, and the third member is steadiness. Those who have the dominate style are driven self-starters who are fast-paced, goal oriented, decisive in their actions and decisions, and are more at ease when they have freedom to manage themselves and others. A cautious style is slower-paced and task-focused, they are cautious in their decisions and actions...
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...2 and DQ 3 LDR 300 Week 2 Team Assignment Leadership Profile Part I LDR 300 Week 2 Individual Assignment Leadership Theories Matrix LDR 300 Week 3 DQ 1, DQ 2 LDR 300 Week 3 Team Assignment Leadership Profile Part II LDR 300 Week 3 Individual Assignment Leadership and Power Paper LDR 300 Week 4 DQ 1, DQ 2 and DQ 3 LDR 300 Week 4 Team Assignment Positive Leadership Theories Presentation LDR 300 Week 4 Individual Assignment Positive Leadership Summary Table LDR 300 Week 5 DQ 1, DQ 2 and DQ 3 LDR 300 Week 5 Team Assignment Leadership Profile Part III LDR 300 Week 5 Individual Assignment Leading Diversity LDR 300 Final Exam ………………………………………………………………. LDR 300 Final Exam FOR MORE CLASSES VISIT www.ldr300edu.com How would you define successful leadership? What standard do you apply when evaluating leadership success? Is it possible to predict success based on organizational cultures or other factors? Provide examples to support your answer. What methods exist to develop leaders in an organization? What methods does your organization use? Why? Have any methods been counterproductive? In what ways? In The Art and Science of Leadership, Nahavandi writes about the dark side of power. Provide an example. What organizational factors contributed to the leader’s behavior? What were consequences of the behavior? What obstacles exist for leaders involved in participatory management? What methods may a leader employ to overcome these obstacles? What are some reasons...
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...What is leadership profile and what it means to you as an individual? What makes a great leader? These are questions that have been asked and researched for years. I’m going to try to explain my theory on what leadership profile means to me. Leadership profile is the way you view a leader from your observation of how they lead. Research has been conducted by Evans., and Matthew (2016) at Development Dimensions (DDI) International exam database of assessment data for more the 15,000-plus leaders in 300 organizations, 20 industries and 18 countries and the results reported high –resolution leadership including numerous findings about leadership skill and readiness. There is no one pattern of how these patterns work but you can rest assure they...
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...Personality and Career Choice Personality profiles are used by organizations as a method of evaluating an employee’s personal attributes, skills, and values. The results of the personality profiles are also used by management to evaluate an employee’s work performance. It is important to know how to analyze a personality test, and to know how to interpret the results. The purpose of this paper is to offer insight regarding the relationship between personalities and organizational behaviors, to provide some insight regarding the correlation between personality types and leadership styles, and to identify behavioral approaches within leadership roles. Personality and Career Choice Personality can be defined as a mixture of distinctive traits of an individual, and manner in which that individual interacts with and responds to others. According to the text, “Personality is an important individual characteristic to understand. It helps us identify predictable interplays between people’s individual differences and their tendencies to behave in certain ways.” (Schermerhorn, J. R., 2012, p. 29). Personality traits are characteristics that define a person’s behavior or attitudes towards something or someone. Personality profiles assist managers in evaluating whether or not an applicant has the desired personal attributes, skills, and values that the company is seeking for a leadership position. According to researcher Yukl, G., (2012), “To be highly useful for...
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...system requires manual integration of data and management of different-different processes. • Company requires different systems for Human Resource Information management, Project management and client & Product management. • Searching and tracking of information becomes complex and time consuming. Need for New System:• The new system requires to integrate systems for Human Resource Information , Client management and Project management at one place. • It makes data manipulation of projects & employees easy and fast. Its Less time consuming and provide efficient searching. FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION:• User Specification: 1. Administrator 2. HR Manager 3. Recruitment Manager 4. Marketing Manager 5. Project Leader 6. Team Leader 7. Employees / Team Members Users Specification:1) Administrator:• • Administrator can create and manage clients, projects and users. Administrator can also allocate/change project manager and manage account. 2) HR Manager:• • HR manager...
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...system requires manual integration of data and management of different-different processes. • Company requires different systems for Human Resource Information management, Project management and client & Product management. • Searching and tracking of information becomes complex and time consuming. Need for New System:• The new system requires to integrate systems for Human Resource Information , Client management and Project management at one place. • It makes data manipulation of projects & employees easy and fast. Its Less time consuming and provide efficient searching. FUNCTIONAL SPECIFICATION:• User Specification: 1. Administrator 2. HR Manager 3. Recruitment Manager 4. Marketing Manager 5. Project Leader 6. Team Leader 7. Employees / Team Members Users Specification:1) Administrator:• • Administrator can create and manage clients, projects and users. Administrator can also allocate/change project manager and manage account. 2) HR Manager:• • HR manager...
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...Organizational Culture Profiles In many organizations, one typically finds that corporate culture affects everyone. Culture is important because it can influence human behavior, can be difficult to change, and its near invisibility makes it hard to address directly. The MIG’s current and preferred culture shown in the OCAI in Appendix A focuses on some core attributes of the organization. The OCAI is a key component to help the MIG understand and conceptualize its organizational culture, its nature, determinants and predictions, as well as the relationships among culture's diverse set of variables. Organizational culture is widely considered one of the most significant factors in bringing about organizational change and modernizing public administration and service delivery (Jung et al., 2009). The Competing Values Framework (CVF) four quadrants of culture are clan culture, adhocracy culture, market culture, and hierarchy culture. These are extremely useful in organizing and interpreting organizational phenomena (Cameron &ump; Quinn, 2011). The OCAI produces an overall organizational culture profile as a guide for leaders to initiate change in each of the four quadrants. There are many ways to look at organizational culture: as a means to provide leaders with tools to measure various aspects culture, and to get a view of where the organization is and where it needs to be. Organizational culture profiles are interpreted from at least six standards of comparison: type...
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...The best leaders: Are friends with their subordinates but make decisions on their own Compete with their own direct reports and make sure they are better than others Speak honestly, but take into account others’ status Use indirect language and metaphors rather than get straight to the point Avoid taking risks American readers are probably scratching their heads: what kind of a leadership profile is this? How can a leader ignore his direct reports when making key decisions? What happens to credibility when you’re constantly massaging the message? The brief profile above came from a survey of Chinese managers as part of the research program called the GLOBE project. Of course, there are also parts of the Chinese ideal leadership profile that are similar to the American profile, but it’s usually the differences that get managers in trouble. In a recent survey of senior executives in 100 global corporations, conducted by Worldwide ERC, 95% of the respondents reported that national cultures of the places they do business in play an important or very important role in the success of their business mission. So much for a “flat world.” In any part of the world, leadership is about influence. There are many ways to influence others: Directing them, rewarding them, inspiring them, or giving them ownership of the decision are but a few examples. The leader’s task in a multicultural world is to influence direct reports, project teams, supply chain partners...
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...PROFILES IN LEADERSHIP POSITION The term leadership is most often used, without base or foundation is usually given to people of high political status or within a military structure. The term leader in the Military is a high rank or position in which it involves soldiers under such authority or supervision. Base on this power and leadership in the military are certain expectations attributed to specific positions. For example, to be a sergeant of a squad, he or she is expected or demanded to be the reference point for their Soldiers. In the same way, they’re supposed to guide them in time of peace or times of conflict and war. Being a military leader is expected to be a point where all the soldiers can get up and acquirer knowledge...
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...Professional Development Plan Kenneth Metcalfe LDR/531 April 5, 2016 Brian Polding Professional Development Plan Working in a learning team is challenging because of the different dynamics of the individuals assigned to the team. Each individual has different characteristics, strengths and weaknesses. As the team leader the application of the following professional development plan, based on the team member’s DISC behavioral assessment, will provide a means to identify the individual’s strengths, weaknesses, and outline a means the team leader can use to communicate with each behavioral style. The plan will also explain how an understanding of the strengths and weaknesses of the styles provides direction for improvement to achieve personal career goals. The individual’s assessments place the members into three of the four styles; Cautious Style, Steadiness Style, and Dominance Style. Since additional members may be added to the team or included in future learning teams, the professional development plan will also include the Interactive Style. Understanding the differences between the behavioral styles is instrumental for a team leader to know “how to engage others whose own DiSC styles may be quite different” (Sugerman, 2009, para.9). Team DISC Overview A company named Kudu Industries and Murray Janewski developed the DISC assessment to determine an individual’s strengths, weaknesses, as a means to identify how to communicate more effectively (Sugerman, 2009)....
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...i PERSONAL LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN For ARIC W HALL Completed in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements of OM 7170 – The Developing Leader Capella University August, 2004 Address: City, State, Zip: Phone: E-Mail: Instructor: Ina von Ber, PhD ii Abstract Title Personal Leadership Development Plan for Aric W Hall Abstract This leadership development plan is tailored for its author and is not a research paper in the traditional sense. The author begins with his personal framework for leadership. Included are the results of several leadership assessment tools, information from coaching and personal feedback, and insights into the author’s goals for career and leadership development. The report concludes with a few thoughts on future development and evaluating the progress of personal development. Hall, p. i Table of Contents Table of Contents Introduction Leadership Framework Assessment Assessment Tools EQ In-Action Profile Campbell Leadership Descriptor Myers-Briggs Type Indicator Coaching & Feedback Developmental Activities Evaluating Progress Appendix: My Assessment Outcomes Bibliography i 1 1 4 4 4 6 7 8 9 10 13 14 Hall, p. 1 Introduction Everyone needs to have a career development plan. In my case, that should include a leadership development plan. This particular plan begins with a leadership framework that encapsulates what I value in leadership. I am also happy to report that a large portion of the leadership assessment data incorporated herein...
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