Final Personal Leadership Portrait Report

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Final personal leadership portrait
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One leadership styles and corresponding leadership theory for personal leadership
effectiveness
Based on my unit readings and my MLQ assessment results that I believe best align with
personal leadership effectiveness, I would like to select the transformational leadership style and
the corresponding transformational theory. I have selected this because I believe it aligns well
with the personal leadership effectiveness. I have selected a transformational leadership style and
theory because it builds trust. This type of leadership initiates trust within the organization
(Hackmann, 2012). I believe in this leadership style and corresponding theory because it
promotes integrity within the organization. It influences the behavior of both employees and
employers in the organization (Padilla, 2015). Based on what I have learned from the presented
MLQ, I have realized that it is only this leadership style that encourages others in the
organization. It involves the motivation of the staff in the organization (Hutchings, 2017). I
believe motivation can be informed of rewards and promotions. Besides, I have learned that this
style of leadership promotes innovation and creativity in the business. It stimulates the level of
intelligent by opening up the minds of the entrepreneurs. I have learned that this leadership style
is the best ineffective personal leadership because it develops and coached peoples regarding the
new and potential ideas in the business. In my opinion, it enables leaders to understand others in
the business or organization.
Communication style for personal communication effectiveness
I would analyze the coaching communication style based on the unit readings and the
results of my MLQ communication style self-assessment. I believe this coaching communication
style best align with personal communication effectiveness. Based on my self-assessment, it has
scored high rank as compared with others in the transformational leadership style. This type of

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communication style involves interacting with the individual members to get their issues and
coach them (Wong, 2009). I think this is the best communication needed for effective
communication because it involves direct members' interactions. This communication style will
result in effective communication in either organization. I think using this communication style
does not involve communicating with the group of members but individuals. I this is one of the
best and effective communications that should be enhanced in any business organization. For
effective communication, I need to apply this type of communication to make sure that the issues
at the personal level are discussed and solved. Although I think this can be associated with the
general communication to the group, I think talking directly to individual members to know
issues affecting the members of the organization one are leading a personal level.
Leadership strengths and growth opportunities
The major strengths of my leadership are that through the application of transformational
leadership skills, I can convince my associates regarding the improvement of the potential. The
best thing about the leadership style is that I have already built trust with my associates and
therefore they will trust my suggestions. I think this type of leadership high my moral and ethical
standards because associates have to believe my influential changes and suggest that I make.
This is one leadership style that will promote my growth as a leader in the organization. It
enables me to have growth outcomes regarding the influence of my associates towards what is
important (Puffer, 2014). It opens my mind towards identifying the new opportunities in the
market and how I can convince my associates to utilize the available opportunities to achieve my
set goals.
Communication strengths and growth opportunities

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My coaching communication style will enable me an identity and enable me to deal with
the issues affecting my associates. Through coaching communication style, I have an opportunity
to get in touch with the individual members in the organization I am serving. I will be able to
identify the capacity of the individual members in the organization. With will offer me a great
opportunity to identify some of the areas that need some improvements for the performance of
the organization I am operating. Through coaching and interactive communication, I will have
the strength to interact with the individual members and guide them where necessary. Instead of
dealing with the group, this will allow me to deal with individual members for effective
leadership.
What I would do and Strategies I will use to ensure that I am optimally effective in each of
these areas
Communication and interpersonal effectiveness
Through the application of transformational leadership, I will give my associates to
explain their issues. Through this, I will be able to identify some of their claims and their
demands in the organization. Interacting with them especially through coaching approach will
enable share with my associates. This will create trust and a sense of closeness with my
associates hence effective communication and interpersonal communication level.
Ethical leadership
Transformational leadership is all about building trust with the associates (Jackson,
2010). Through sharing with my associates direct and close at a personal level creates a lot of
respect and trust among us. Once the trust and respect are developed between me and the
associates, this would offer me an easy leadership process because we shall all having unit and
sober discussion about matters.

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Effective diversity management
This involves getting 100% of the 100% employees’ time and this will result in 100%
performance (Waterhouse, 2017). This is directly associated with the trust and unity created by
the transformational type of leadership (Pemstein, 2019). Once trust between me and an
employee is developed, it will be easy for me to take 100% of the employees’ attention and
maximize their performance to 100%.
Effective change management
Through a transformational type of leadership, it will be an easy task for me to initiate
any change. Since the leadership involved discussion, I will be able to share the need for the
changes with my associates. They will feel involved in this change within the organization. The
changes in the organizations will be supported by 100% of the associates simply because they
are involved and they gave trust with me. I think trust with the leader is the most important thing
for the success of the changes in the organization.

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References
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Padilla, A. (2015). Portraits in leadership: Six extraordinary university presidents. Rowman &
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Pemstein, D. (2019). Who Rules the World? A Portrait of the Global Leadership
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Puffer, S. M. (2014). Understanding the bear: A portrait of Russian business leaders. Academy of
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