Dynamic Leadership: A Reflective Account of Leadership Responsibilities and Challenges

This essay is a reflective account associated with my leadership responsibilities and challenges with the help of some effective personality traits measurements. It discusses the link between my leadership factors and the roles and responsibilities that transformational leadership follows.

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Executive summary
My leadership quality is associated with a number of leadership qualities that are highlighted in
the Gallop tests and the findings of my partners’ feedback. There are several measures in terms
of communicating with the team members that pose serious challenges to my personality
measure. However, I get a clear picture of the strengths and weaknesses of my personality traits
which this essay is going to point out. Those traits are clearly associated with transformational
leadership quality and in course of the discussion, this essay tries to develop a link between my
leadership factors and the roles and responsibilities that transformational leadership follows. A
close link between the transformational leadership and my leadership traits can be found that
proves my leadership type is transformational leadership.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Main body........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.......................................................................................................................................10

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Introduction
Leadership is considered to be one of the major aspect in current day business
organisations. The dynamics and magnanimity of the leadership quality and traits are to some
extent determined the success of the organisation. Based on this understanding, it can be
advocated that the role of the leadership in business has to be relevant with the business
objectives of the organisation and also incorporated better personal characteristics that are
intricately served the organisational environment. Engaging and influencing the employees
through motivation and positive workplace environment is also considered to be part of the job
of the leaders. As a result of that choosing proper leadership quality with positive outcome are
referred as the most important part that the leaders seek for their own success and the
development of the organisation. In this regard, this essay is a reflective account associated with
my leadership responsibilities and challenges with the help of some effective personality traits
measurements.
Main body
There are series of responsibilities that I have to follow in my organisation for not only
developing an effective team but also ensuring success to the business organisation. In this
regard, firstly I have to build trust so that each team member will trust others and believe in my
leadership quality. Trust building is identified as an important aspect for the leaders to
implement the environment of cooperation and believing on the ability of the team members. It is
associated with the communication practice where my role is to develop a transparent and fair
communication so that my team will under and execute a task properly. However, building

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communication is identified as one of the challenging part for me because of amalgamating
different interests and aspiration of individual team members.
I want to make myself fair and able enough to become a good leader. I found out that
learning is the first and foremost part for a leader so that he or she can learn good things through
experience. In this context, I can say that my sense of leadership is not a static one bogged down
with the traditional identity of leader. Rather, it is more like an evolving one that is developing
with the demand of the situation. Therefore, self-awareness programs are the most important part
of my skill development program. Accompanied with this, strategic characteristics of
personality, understanding critical problem and find out a possible solution of the problem are
identified as the most important part for a good leader to focus on. From the empirical research,
it can be find out that the role of a good leader is to set his or her vision to the future impact of
decision making (Vilner, 2017). I presume that this concept is associated with the farsightedness
and long term planning and success that as a leader I have to imbue in my personality. Therefore,
my leadership journey also helps me to manage the abilities and skills in an extensive manner
and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of my personality traits.
My personality type is also supported my understanding of leadership development for a
better and effective leadership quality. The Gallop test results shows that I have to make some
skill developing in the strategic thinking practice. The role of the strategic vision is resembled
with finding out the obstacles and prophase an alternate measure so that the problems can be
mitigated. Moreover, the strategic vision will connect itself with positivity that is associated with
the perception of making an optimistic leadership trait that could motivate and influence the
employees properly. Positivism also helps an individual to ease out the work pressure and in the
period of crisis also this positive thinking practice help to think straight. The futuristic notion of

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the Gallop test results puts emphasis on forward thinking approach. It means the futuristic
approach will lead to the development of an effective measure of delivering advanced
understanding of the projects and find out the issues in a proactive manner. As a result of that
responsibility is also considered to be an important part of the Gallop test. Based on this, it can
be stated that my responsibility is committed to rationalisation and conscientiousness. It will help
me to make good and efficient communication with the team members effectively. In addition to
this, a commanding position about leadership will also important for me to fix for getting good
leadership characteristics.
Based on the feedback provided by my colleagues and partners, it can be stated that the
capabilities of my leadership is based on my understanding of the work and find out the
alternative mode to achieve success in work. My leadership role is based on influencing and
guiding my team members to achieve success in work. In this regard, my capabilities will follow
the presence of man management and making better communication within the team so that it
will foster an effective measure of leadership quality. Apart from that the interpersonal
relationship is also figured out to be a pivotal factor for my leadership quality. The feedbacks
and review point out that I have to work more on my leadership quality so that it will be effective
enough to make an interpersonal relation with my subordinates. The interpersonal
communication is resembled with the communication within the organisation (Fox, 2018). It
seems to be a challenge for me to develop good communication within the organisation.
Therefore, it is a challenge for me to take care of my interpersonal communication traits with
each of the team members. The social skills are also depended on the performance of my
interpersonal communication skills.The more the interpersonal communication skill develops the
more it imposes a positive impact on the socialising with other employees. However, the

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emotional intelligence and the vision to embolden the future is also an important facet for my
leadership skills (Pratch, 2014). The feedback shows that I have a good vision and an optimistic
one that helps me to get positive feel among the team members. It also encourages them to
involve into the work with rapt enthusiasm. Therefore, it should be my strength to deal with the
practice of delivering a strong and transparent vision that encourages the team members and
influences them to participate in full swing.
The feedbacks helps me a lot to understand and figure out my strengths and weaknesses
that I can exploit or develop to bring more efficacy into the leadership skills. At first it is
important to distinguish the strengths and weaknesses. For instance, capability and understanding
the importance of the task are the most important part of my personality traits. On the other hand,
from the feedbacks of my colleagues and team members I come to know about my weakness in
communication skill. I have good relationship with my colleagues but the lack of communication
skills creates problem to understand the role and purpose of the tasks. Therefore, it is important
for me to develop my skills and abilities effectively. In addition to this, there are some
burgeoning development in my leadership quality in terms of envisioning the possibilities and
implement a positive nature towards developing effective means of influencing and motivating
the employees. The futuristic vision helps me to identify the value of the work and take adequate
steps required for the task to get success. In this regard, it can be stated that I have enough
personal skills to handle and manage crisis situation because it is bestowed within my leadership
capabilities to be proactive all the time. Henceforth, any kind of stringency or risk can be averted
effectively through the visionary abilities that are significantly associated with my personality
traits. Assessing the efficacy of my personality is also a crucial part of my leadership traits that
enables a clear and thorough understanding of every layers of my personality characteristics.

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Nevertheless, there are some triggering factors that I have to work on in terms of the
interpersonal communication skills and socialising with others. The role of communication is a
crucial part of better leadership quality where the leader can blend himself with the rest of the
followers. In other words, it can be argued that the role of my leadership quality lacks the
interpersonal communication with the team members. It cannot be say that I never talk with my
team members properly but the way of making conversation is really an important part for
developing good leadership quality. As a result of that it means a lot to me to emphasis on my
communication skills. As a matter of fact, it is also committed to develop a strong trust building
practice so that the entire team will perform effectively (Howieson & Hodges, 2014). It is related
to practice good emotional intelligence that me and my partners feel a bit less that it should be.
Therefore, emotional intelligence is also identified as one of the weaknesses of my leadership
traits that should be altered and developed effectively.
There are certain leadership qualities and perception of my leadership quality that are
strongly connected with the leadership theory of transformational leadership. Self-management
is the most important aspect for transformational leadership practice where the leaders are
eligible to take care of themselves well (Chitonge, 2017). It is important for the leaders to
understand the priorities because the rests of the team will depend on their guidance. Based on
the Gallop test analysis and feedbacks from my partners it can be stated that I have the capability
to identify my values and gaps so that I can take adequate measures to mitigate the issues
permanently. On the other hand, ability to cooperate is considered to be another important aspect
that the leaders have to keep a check. The transformational leaders have the ability to deal with
the team and cooperate with the team members in order to motivate and satisfy their needs. In
my scenario I have lack of ability to communicate with my team members. Nevertheless, I gauge

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the importance of interpersonal communication with my subordinates. Therefore, I try to build
up a good communication skills and collaborate with my partners, colleagues and subordinates.
Apart from that authenticity of the leadership quality is also referred as an important
aspect for the transformational leaders. The role of the transformational leaders is accompanied
with the notion of courage, integrity, vision of compassion. All those elements make a leader
effective enough to manage and encourage the team members. In respect to this, my job is to
create a strong personality with the characteristic to envision a broader picture which is best for
the organisation as well as the team members. My leadership quality highly focuses on those
factors and guide me to take adequate measures in this regard. In fact, adaptability and
introducing new ideas are the most important aspects that the leaders must focus in order to bring
efficacy into their leadership quality. Adaptability is denoted as a willingness to make deliberate
attempt to cope with the changed situation. On the other hand, the role of new ideas will lead to
meet the strategic objectives of the organisation (Peus, Braun & Schyns, 2016). As a result of
that both these two elements are highly important to me in order to shape the leadership quality
based on transformational type.
Conclusion
The above discussion is directed towards developing a transformational leadership which
is associated with characteristics of strategy, innovativeness, cooperative and futuristic vision.
The Gallop test and the feedback of the partners also help to understand the gaps and strong
points in my personality. Based on the feedbacks and personality test I confirm some of the
characteristic features of my leadership quality. For example, futuristic vision, strategic
understanding ability to find out the issues and alternative modes of managing crisis situation.

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Moreover, practicing and developing the communication strategies are considered to be one of
the promising aspect of my leadership quality that fulfils the requirements of making a
transformational leadership practice. There is a sharp resemblance of my personality type with
the transformational leadership in terms of self-reflection and making cooperation with the team
members. From this point of view, it can be concluded that my leadership traits are examples of
transformational leadership quality.

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