Leadership & Team Dynamics

Ruining head: LEADERSHIP
Leadership & Team dynamics
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Leadership is one of the most useful building blocks needed for the sound development
of an organization. It must be noted in this similar context that to become an able leader shortly
and also initiate a proper organizational and working culture in the organization it is very
essential for the leaders to have a long term vision of the gold and the objectives of the company.
At the same time, it is the leaders who must make sure to take care of all the welfare interests of
their team members
Leadership experience
There have been several instances where I have been able to find out the areas of strengths and
the areas of weakness that are present in me.
What was going on?
It was the time when there was a team presentation going on in the organization that I
joined during my internship, I was made the team leader of that team. I was under huge pressure
and I did not know how to manage the pressure properly. I was given a huge amount of work and
had to work very hard even after the completion of the official shifts. However, I was no able to
take up this pressure and often lost my self-control. As per the MBTI personality test, my
personality type is the ESTJ or the Guardian type. I always think about the perception
others would have of me. This is both good and bad for me at the same time. I have realized that
I always try to do my work perfectly so that my teammates and also the managers do not have
any bad or any kinds of negative impacts about me. At the same time, I often become conscious
and try to keep myself away or aloof from the crowd. This, in turn, results in a bad
communication power, In this way, I am not able to communicate with my teammates or with
any of the other employees.

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Expressing emotions is also a major problem for ESTJ. I find it tough to show my feelings or
emotions. I am very much inclined towards the practical figures and facts. This often makes me
overlook the welfare or the feelings of my team members.
Who was there?
There were the teammates, the assistant ram leader and also myself who were appointed
as the team leader at that time.
When was it
It was during the year 2016 when I was doing my internship in one of the well known
MNCs in Australia. I was a student of the business and management studies and took up this role
as part of my internship project as I felt that this would give me a very good opportunity to build
up my career and also get the good qualities of a leader.
How did things turn on
Things were very helpful as it helped me to learn about the ethical principles that one
must carry on during being a leader. I learned that to carry on a sound leadership the
transformational leadership theory must be followed. In the beginning, I was trying to get all the
work done by making the employees or the teammates listen to whatever. As per the opinion of
Afsar and Umrani (2019), to get all the work done, it is essential to develop a prior order and
disciple in the organization I thought that to make the team-mates disciple and make them obey
my decisions I must appear very strict with them (Ghasabeh, Soosay & Reaiche., 2015). I felt
that the team members were getting angry and were disappointed with me. They did not want to
listen to me and said that they want their opinions to be heard and also considered while taking
any business decision. After taking the reports from the feedback sheets and the personality tests

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I realized that I have some communication issues and I do not easily like to communicate with
others. This often makes me unapproachable. However, I realized that I must start following the
participative leadership theory so that I can make all the employees take part in the business
decision-making procedures (Kiweewa et al., 2018). This will help to understand the employees
and also encourage them to take part in the business decision-making the process.
Personal values and assumptions
The important behavior that I took here in this situation as a leader is -
Acting friendly with the team members was one of the initiatives that I took up. This is because
as far as the result is concerned I have seen that I am not good at listening to the opinion of the
employees or the team members. I have started developing a horizontal communication system
so that all the employees can approach their leaders and then carry on the communication system
in a proper way. This has helped in encouraging the team members in becoming much more
active and also productive towards the increasing of the overall production of the organization.
As a leader, I started developing a set of criteria that would help the team members to know
about the actual set of roles and responsibility that they must carry on to positively contribute
towards the organization
I also decided of making an effective communication system so that I can define my roles
and responsibilities properly in the team. As I was not much well versed in the act of proper
communication system, I realized that to be a good leader I have to develop myself as an
effective communicator as well.
I developed the strategy of initialing the welfare of all the employees. In other words, the
welfare of all the employees was the lookout of the leader. Thus I realized that I will be able to