Critical reflection Assignment PDF

Running head: CRITICAL REFLECTION
CRITICAL REFLECTION
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Seminar 3 part 3:
This seminar was about leadership in the global context and how this can be utilized in
the cross-cultural ambience of the international organizations in the recent world. With the
changes in the business after globalization, the definitions and responsibilities of the leaders in
the business have changed a lot. They used to focus on developing their leadership skills to
manage the organization having lower cultural diversity and knowledge but now develop his
capabilities to manage business in different places with different cultural values. The
involvement experience in this seminar to me was greatly fascinating as this seminar has
emphasis on the contingency approached of leadership so that this ca values the time as well as
effort in own hand and the employees develop knowledge, skills and empathy while working
under their leaders.
My responsibilities at the seminar was to choose the leadership styles of the leaders
according to their personalities, behavior and skills and their methods of motivating their
followers. Through this learning process, I have identified my own leadership skills though
proper understanding of my own capabilities and personalities. I am passionate about gaining
success but do not prefer to do it alone. I want others to follow my directions so that they also
can get the opportunity to understand their own talents and apply those for the all-inclusive
growth. I am supportive and try to see different incidents through different points of view. This
makes me popular and the followers have accepted by choice in the past. I am not a dominating
person therefore, I am more humane than autonomous. I can relate my leadership style to be the
type of E. In this changing global context, I have identified that the Leader D will be the most
effective one as his ability to allow others in the decision-making process will mitigate the cross-
cultural issues in one hand and the employees, supply chain and other related stakeholders will

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be motivated on the other hand. This experience from the seminar I have gathered learning of
three ways of global leadership. The stop and think part have hugely helped me building my own
understanding of the needs to be a global leader. The structure of the learning material provided
has proper way of conveying the knowledge to the students like me who have I previous idea of
operation with any company or any organization as a leader. Despite the fact I do not have any
practical understanding or experience of working with a global organization but I have gone
though many media reports news and articles regarding the leadership skills and needs for
smooth operation process of the companies. In this regard I have followed that this seminar and
the material given are completely in tune with the trends and needs of the organization in the
current global context.
For example, the article published in the Forbes magazine namely ‘Four Core
Competencies for Leading Culturally Diverse Teams’ details the needs for the skills of cultural
awareness to include different working styles and perspective similar to the discussion in the
learning materials is in the seminar. Again, in the article published by Caruso (2018) points out
why we need emotionally intelligent leaders which details the needs of the global business for
motivating employees and increase integration of the organization. From the Mendenhall et al.
(2017), I have gained knowledge that creating an inclusive culture the organizations need to
focus on leading across cultural, economic, social, national, and political boundaries
simultaneously which is similar to the martials provided in the seminar.
In this seminar the GLOBE project has effectively helped me to identified how important
the cross-cultural skills have become important for me. Through this project I have learnt the
different leader styles, different approaches like situational and normative. I never thought about
this aspect because I had never found through such issues of cross-cultural leadership needs in