Leadership Style Assignment 2022

Running head: LEADERSHIP STYLE
Leadership Style
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Notes:

LEADERSHIP STYLE1
Greatest Personal Weakness and measures to overcome the same
Back in March 2015, I was involved in a project where I was acting as the leader of tech
team. The team that I was leading was a team of 6 individuals, which consisted of people from
engineering backgrounds. This was a new type of project that I was dealing with, and hence, I
was a bit unprepared. However, my experience of being part of project management made me
think that every member of the team would be able to comply with activities in the project in the
same degree of effectiveness as me. The project was associated with the development of an iPad
application that would serve a purpose for the sales agent of Citibank. It was my role to preside
over the operations in which the six professionals would work towards the development of the
application within the given timeline.
My expectations gave rise to the problems that bobbed down the performance of the team
in the first stage. I was a personally driven individual who has always been able to meet the
deadlines, go the extra mile and grind, to achieve the expected outcomes. Furthermore, I used to
go beyond my working hours to complete the tasks that I was supposed to. It was my fault to
expect the same from the members of the team who were from different backgrounds. Hence, I
used to assign various tasks to the members that they had to perform. I realized that I used to
allocate regardless of their competencies.
After the failure of the performance of the team, the activities experienced hindrances as
a result of which the management decided to intervene. The project manager informed me that
the leadership style that I was following was resulting in the lackluster performance of the team.
According to the manager, I was developing the laissez faire leadership style.