Leadership Reflection

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Leadership Reflection

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Reflection is an important tool to understand the role of leadership. Leadership is used to
manage people and influence them to work towards accomplishing the goals and objectives. In
every project or management, leadership is an essential part of motivating the people and
enhancing them for completing the task in an effective and efficient manner. It is a potential in
human being to influence others for doing the task. To understand the behavior of other effective
leaders has to constantly reflect on their leadership behavior. This reflection is focused on my
own experience of leadership. Reflection on leadership helped me in learning the theories and
areas for my development of skills (Shoemaker, Krupp, & Howland, 2013). As a leader, I took
an initiative to manage and motivate a team for doing better work. Leadership has been an ever-
changing conception for me. Effective leadership is required at each level of an organization.
Reflective leadership practice will help in becoming an effective leader.
I understood that leaders are required to influence the behavior of other employees so that
the common goal will be achieved of an organization so that the employees are co-operating with
each other for fulfilling the objective. It is a group process that involves two or more people
together who interact with each other as the leader is required to lead a group of employees
(Daft, 2014). The importance of leadership in an organization is for creating the work
environment effective for the employees as the leaders have to maintain a good relationship with
the employees and understanding their point of view for creating a positive work environment in
the organization.
According to Sara Harton-Deutsch(2013), reflective leadership requires a leader to be
effective for doing the work with the presence of mind and share the thoughts with others and
ask them to consider it in their life as well. The qualities of a good leader were discussed. A good
leader must have a pleasant personality as it attracts people; the leader should always be friendly
and authoritative to inspire other employees to work hard as he does. Communication and
motivation skills are required for being a good leader (Bel, 2010). A leader should take a
decision after concerning and listening to subordinates so that they inspire employees to work
and share their reviews at the workplace.
The critical reflection on the leadership styles and analyzing the leadership skills that
helped me in doing group work. Leadership according to Parker (2008) helped in the working
team as teamwork is an element of leadership and that must be considered in successful

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leadership. As I believe that responsibilities in leadership are that a leader has to be clear about
the task to be done and how to be done then the only the leader will be able to guide the team to
perform the task. Many leadership studies revealed that a leader has to do the planning for
accomplishing the task and identify the resources which are required and provide to the
employees and guide the team that how to achieve the target. A leader always has to keep the
moral high of the group by giving the brief of the task on a regular basis. Team building is
important for every leader within the members, by regularly communicating with the team and
coordinate with the team during the process (Johansen, 2012).
Reflective leadership takes place every day and not only at workplaces but in all places
around us. In any situation, a leader can take the initiative and take the charge to handle the
situation. It can be at home, at work or it can be any place. Leaders are not born but because of
the credibility so that people want to follow them (Goleman, Boyatzis, & McKee, 2013). In this
report, my leadership learning and strengths will be included. And how I used these qualities in
my daily routine work and it affected my life at various places and situations. It helped me in
developing conceptual framework for practice.
According to author Garvin (2006), every leader problem-solving quality is required to
handle the situation. To tackle the problem it is very important to do the task effectively and
efficiently (Kerr, Garvin, & Heaton, 2006). The most effective quality that requires any leader to
differentiate from other people is strategic thinking. In every individual, vision is the most
important aspect to succeed in life.
My objective of learning leadership is to integrate the qualities within my own personal
for creating my leadership styles. It is very important for me as a leader to love the work which I
am is doing and to learn new things it is important for me to take the initiative. I always try to
keep myself motivated by finding new techniques of doing the things and always take the
ingenuity to learn the new things in new ways and always find the new techniques for doing the
task in a different way so that helps in doing the task easily in less time (Rosete & Ciarrochi,
2005). For keeping me motivated and others I always try to keep positive vibes for the people
who are with me.