Assignment of Effective Leadership
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Running head: EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPEFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPName of the student:Name of the university:Author note:
1EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPIntroduction:Leaders are the individuals who have the responsibility of developing the path through whichother members of the team would easily attend their organizational goals and be benefitted intheir career. They are responsible for setting the direction for the team members, help in buildingan inspiring vision and also create some new innovative options which help in meeting theorganizational goals easily (Odomeru and Ogdobonna 2013). By their commitment towardsorganization and also to their team members, they sought to take the position of guides (Wang etal. 2014). They need to possess important leadership skills which help them to lead the teamsproperly. This assignment has helped me to realize some of my strengths and weakness as leaderand therefore I have jotted down the strategies that I will take to overcome the weakness andemerge as an efficient leader.Strengths of leadership:Communication:Of the different strengths that I have identified form the leadership challenge is that Ihave strong communication skills. Speaking clearly to the team members and in effective toneand body language is very important (Li, Mobley and Kelly 2013). While communicating, Inoticed that I was able to rightly follow the tone which was not dominant but was capableenough to instill excitement among the team members in achieving the goals. I noticed that Ihave well developed listening skills which helped my team mates to express themselvesproperly. Their innovative ideas were taken by me as effective feedback which is also appliedtogether along with my own knowledge so that they also feel respected and loved by theorganization. I gave them enough scope to maintain transparency and open mindedness in their
2EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPdiscussion over the project which made them happy and satisfied. As a result, the work outputwas rapid and was both high on quality and quantity.Confidence and positive attitude:While tackling an entire team, other good characteristics that I realized from myleadership style is that I was confident about my will power which helped me to overcomevarious barriers. While handling the team, I faced several challenges like all the members of theteam were not equally competent. Although at first, I felt drained out but I had the confidence inmyself to not let myself and my team down. I have a very positive set of mind which neverallows me to avoid or escape any situation. Rather I face the challenge and try to overcome themwith my teammates with strategic planning. I follow the principle that if the leader stays calmand confident, the energy will flow into the team members as well and their confidence will beneglected in the work they provide. I try to be their role model for confidence and positiveattitude which will eventually encourage them to act similarly in their tasks (Michell 2013). Mypositive attitude had helped to maintain a perfect balance between playfulness, humor andserious work which had made the team members overcome burning out and being steady on foot,happy and contented.Creativity and inspiration:Creativity is an extra ordinary skill that needs to be harbored by every leader asadditional characteristics of leadership (Carmelo et al., 2013). I have seen to possess propercreativity which I tend to apply in many unconventional ways to achieve a hard target. Often Ihave seen that there are indeed some decisions which are not clear cut and following thetraditional pathway does not being satisfactory results. In such situations a creative mind of the
3EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIPleaders becomes extremely helpful. During critical situations, team members often look for theleader’s guidance and I also faced a similar situations. However, I had a high creativity levelfrom the university years which had helped me to handle many difficult situations effectively. Asa leader, I helped my teammates by thinking out of the box and helped them by providing asolution which although not professional but helped us to overcome the challenge (Van wart2013). Additionally, my teammates provided a feedback that my way of inspiring them had madethem motivated. My sense of positivity, maintaining equity among members of all levels,operating on a bonus system, generating enthusiasm for hard work encouraging for high qualitywork and others had also resulted them to be highly inspired and made them aligned withorganization’s mission and vision.Weakness of my leadership:Multiculturism:I have realized that I am quite poor in managing culturally diverse team. My teamcomprised of a number of team members who are coming from different cultures. Although Iknew that multicultural teams have positive influences on the company’s productivity, yet foundmyself incompetent in handling the members of different cultures. I could not foster the sense ofa collaborative team work among the members and could not even develop a sense of belongingfor each other. The members were seen to disrespect each other’s cultural preferences and didnot respect each other. Even I also found that I had developed a sense of biasness against eachother which affected y delivery of care and suggestions for my team members. I noticed that ablame game prevailed among my team members for which the productivity was ultimatelyhampered. I also had no ideas about the different cultural traditions, their inhibitions, their
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