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Running head: DYNAMIC LEADERSHIPDYNAMIC LEADERSHIPName of the student:Name of the individual:Author note:
1DYNAMIC LEADERSHIPIntroduction:Effective leadership can be defined as the particular art by which particular individualscalled leaders can motivate a group of people so that they can act towards achievement of acommon goal bringing huge success to organizations. Leaders can be defined as the models whohelp employees to learn proper ways of working and thereby guide them in their pathways tosuccess helping them to develop the ability to work beyond their expectations and achieveorganizational success (Green, 2017). Leaders are the persons whom the employees look up to invarious types of critical situations an crisis and thereby follow their advised pathways to thriveand overcome the barriers effectively. Researchers have found out that every leaders need tohave proper leadership traits which include proper decision making trait, risk taking attribute,high level of awareness, proper focus and accountability. Moreover, leaders also need to havehigh level of empathy, optimism, confidence, inspiration as well as honesty (Jaques, 2017). Allthese traits help leaders to effectively manage and lead team effectively. The followingassignment would be a reflective paper though which I will be reflective my leadership skills andanalyzing my weakness and strengths. Accordingly, I will work on my weak attributes anddevelop them into my strengths so that I can become an expert leader in my future career.Preferred leadership style:On closely analyzing the trends of leadership in the 20th century, I have come acrossmany leaders who were mainly autocratic in nature. Autocratic leadership was mainly the bornthat were followed by most of the organization in that century where the leaders believed intaking very little input from the employees on the floor. Moreover, autocratic leaders are alsoseen to make decisions on their own views and never consider the views and experiences of theemployees. Such leaders like to practice complete control over the group of the employees and
2DYNAMIC LEADERSHIPnever take feedback or provide feedback to the employees for their betterment (Truitt et al.,2017). However, researches have stated that such leadership results in increased employeeturnover and poor employee morale. All these result in poor productivity of the team and resultsin delaying of meeting the organizational goals and values. Therefore, I believe that I shouldnever adopt the skills that were followed by autocratic leaders. In place, I would mainly like todevelop the attributes that are shown by transformational leaders. Transformational leaders areseen to provide inspirational motivations which involve providing a vision of the future to theemployees and thereby motivating them to perform beyond expectations (Antonakis & Day,2017). Such leaders are seen to provide intellectual stimulation that mainly helps in replacing oldassumptions, traditional approaches and traditions with novel thoughts. The leaders are also seento provide individualized consideration in order to handle about the needs as well as skills of hisor her followers and thereby help them not only by counseling and encouraging them but by alsotrying to solve their issues. Such leaders no longer put themselves at the first place but ratherthey provide more importance to knowing what is best for the organization. Such leaders areseen to provide a clear vision to the employees about the future that helps in motivating people toexceed beyond their capabilities (Dubois et al., 2015). I have noticed that this type oftransformational leadership skills have mainly helped in developing proper skills among theemployees and helped in resulting in lower employee and customer turnover costs. Therefore, Iwould mainly try to develop the attributes of transformational leadership skills so that I caneffectively lead teams that are only emotionally bonded. I would also enable employees to beenthusiastic to work beyond their capabilities.
3DYNAMIC LEADERSHIPBenefits of effective communication skill:I believe that I have to develop proper communication skills so that I can build effectiveteams. With proper communication, I can make the employees feel empowered so that they canwork beyond their capabilities and achieve the goals easily. Proper communication with theemployees would help me to make them understand the real vision and mission of theorganization. At the same time, they would be able to understand the goals and objective of theteam that will help them to devise a procedure to meet the goals (Sethuram & Suresh, 2014). Inmany organizations, employees are often seen to be confused or have no idea about what theyare trying to achieve which in turn affects the productivity of the organization. By propercommunication, I can also help in drawing a proper picture by which my team members will beable to know where they are present in the position in conducting the task. When leaders andteams are communicating with each other at a constant level, they are often not surprised by theweekly project updates and even by annual reviews. Effective communication also helps indeveloping employee morale. Researchers suggest that when employees see that leaders are notcommunicating effectively, they feel that secrets are kept. Many employees feel that they are leftout or are not respected and wanted by the organization or that their suggestions and feedbacksare not effective (Sultan, Khan & Kanwal, 2017). These make them feel disappointed orunhappy. Many members also feel angry or disappointed that creates a negative workplace thataffects morale and productivity. When team leaders communicate effectively, team members feelthat they are getting the whole picture that makes them feel informed and respected. Therefore, Ibelieve that I should provide constructive feedbacks and at the same time accept theirsuggestions and feedbacks so that effective communication can be ensured.
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