DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP 11 Dynamic Leadership Name of the Student Name of the University Author's Note

Running head: DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP
Dynamic Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Reflect on your own leadership journey to date and identify key events, people and
experiences that have contributed to your leadership development and self-perceptions...............2
2. Increase self-awareness by completing a personality or leadership styles assessment...............3
3. Obtain feedback from a fellow student on your leadership journey and current challenges.......4
4. Provide mentoring and feedback on leadership to a fellow student on his/her leadership
journey and challenges....................................................................................................................4
5. Identify the influences of national and organizational cultures on your perceptions of effective
leadership.........................................................................................................................................5
6. Develop and apply communication skills for relationship building and mentoring across
cultures, functions and disciplines...................................................................................................6
Reference List and bibliography:.....................................................................................................9

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1. Reflect on your own leadership journey to date and identify key events, people and
experiences that have contributed to your leadership development and self-perceptions
I am associated with a business organization in the post of assistant team leader in
logistic sector of The Iconic. After completing my masters in business administration in
marketing, I got the direct opportunity for becoming assistant team lead of The Iconic. At the
initial stage, I had to face innumerable difficulties in making an effective rapport with my team
members due to communication barrier, cultural barrier, psychological barrier and religious
barrier. While maintaining any kind of group discussion with my team members I failed to make
individual interaction due to the lack of language flexibility. However, after facing innumerable
difficulties for becoming an efficient business leader I have decided to raise the issue with my
assistant team lead regarding the workplace hazards I have faced at that time. My assistant
manager along my operation head left immense contribution for developing my skill and
competency level of leadership.
People belonging to different geographical markets and psychological backgrounds are
intimately associated within the service process. The role of an efficient business leader is to
show equal priority and response to the people of different geographical backgrounds and
attitudes (Dumdum, Lowe and Avolio 2013). I was not efficient enough to treat every single
members of my team with equal respect and dignity. However, both my assistant manager and
operation head decided to provide me a training and development session with the help of which
I was successful to improve my communication skill as well as professional skill. My assistant
managers helped me to understand on how to overcome sudden crisis happened at the workplace
due to the lack of team performance.

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2. Increase self-awareness by completing a personality or leadership styles assessment
As per the feedback collected from my assistant manager, I got to know that I have the
lack of effective communication skill, body language and personality. In this kind of situation, I
have faced innumerable difficulties in leading a team properly and motivating the team members
towards the providing good services. However, as per the instruction of my senior managers I
gave numerous assessments on my leadership style as well as on my personality evaluation for
analyzing my drawbacks. After giving an online assessment on leadership style, I have identified
my mistakes and weak points. I need to make a change for career progression and performance
development. After evaluating the marks of personality and leadership styles assessment I got to
know that I as a leader cannot take appropriate decision within stipulated time. This particular
nature of mine affects the performance level of employees immensely.
In addition, being a person of introvert I do not have the capability to make an effective
interpersonal communication with the employees who face challenges in performing well at the
workplace. Employees are from various cultural backgrounds and attitudes. Therefore, their
culture and religious aspects became a major hindrance in making an effective interaction (Bhatti
et al. 2012). However, the leadership assessment has indicated that I am not very much flexible
to overcome the sudden crisis happened at the workplace due to the lack of confidence. As a
result, I used to show a rude approach to my team members at the time of crisis. Consequently, I
was facing challenges in maintaining an effective rapport with my team members. This is one of
the most effective reasons of providing poor performance on behalf of the employees. However,
after identifying my mistakes I have decided to rectify those drawbacks by receiving trainings
and suggestion from my senior managers.