Leadership Self Assessment

This article discusses the importance of self-assessment and personal reflection in leadership. It explores the concept of leadership vision, potential blind spots, and provides strategies for self-improvement. The article also highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the author's leadership style and offers insights on effective leadership.

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Contents
Contents......................................................................................................................................2
Introduction on self-assessment and personal reflection...........................................................3
Leadership Vision......................................................................................................................3
Potential blind spot.....................................................................................................................3
Self-assessment..........................................................................................................................3
Strength in my leadership style/capacity....................................................................................5
Gaps between your current leadership style/capacity................................................................6
4 concepts I learned from the paper...........................................................................................6
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................7
References..................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction on self-assessment and personal reflection
In this modern era's international business environment, employees try to follow their
leader to get inspired and motivated by them. This can help them to get a positive result from
their work. In addition, to be more effective in this particular area, it is very important for a
leader to achieve self-awareness. To get success in this field, a leader needs to consider the
ways in which they can achieve the topmost position. It is not their smartness about the
business, but the whole package, which includes their strengths and weakness. Self-
awareness always helps a leader to know about the gaps in their leadership style. It can
improve their flaws and make them more effective in their field. The study thus highlights on
my self-assessment and it further focuses on my strength and weakness as a leader and the
assessment of leadership style.
Leadership Vision
A leader can easily upgrade their skills and know the importance of it. A leader
always tries to motivate their employees' towards positive outcomes and try to take an
effective part in the decision-making process of the organisation (Cummings et al., 2018).
Thus, my vision is to focus on the self-assessment of myself as a leader of the organisation
and thereby become an effective leader.
Potential blind spot
The potential blind that I observed is that I am insensitive of my behaviour on others
at times and it becomes difficult for me to avoid conversation.
Self-assessment
From the analysis, it can be opined that I tend to be a democratic leader. I mainly have the
quality of a democratic leader and thus follow democratic leadership. Although learning self-
awareness is not that easy but if I am able to understand self-awareness, then the

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understandings can help me to improve my leadership skills and can give a positive result.
There are many ways to learn or adopt better leadership skills and those are:
1. Be aware of strengths and weakness: it is the first strategy of learning self-
awareness. People always need to know their strengths and weakness. Thus, self-
awareness can help me to improve my flaws and support me to upgrade my
strengths too. One should be very honest about identifying their strengths and
weakness, thereby; it can help in growth and improvement. If I can identify my
exact weakness, then I can easily work on that and can improve those areas with
better solutions.
2. Stay aware of the business environment: Being a leader, it is very helpful to stay
updated with the environment. It can help me as a leader to know about other
people's strong skills. Along with that, a leader should focus on their goal. There
can be many things within the business environment, which can distract a leader.
In such a case, self-executive can help a leader to identify the critical areas and
help them to concentrate on their goal.
3. Remain open-minded: as a leader, I stay curious and should have the propensity to
learn something new. I try to welcome unique thoughts and stay open to new
ideas. It also helps me to keep myself as well as others motivated. When a leader
leads a team, he should understand this point and should accept all ideas of their
team members.
4. A leader should understand their areas. A leader always has a boundary and it is
very important to stay within that boundary while doing the effective work. While
assessing myself and understanding myself as a leader, I found that boundaries
help me to know how to behave with my team member and when to react. As a
leader, I try not to misuse my power and should not take advantages of others.

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5. In addition, a leader should stay motivate and should be capable of finding out
every possible way to fix any type of issue in the organisation or in the team. I
have observed a number of tough situations while leading a team or organisation.
However, I tried to stay calm and tried handling the situation with smartness.
Strength in my leadership style/capacity
To become a great leader, I should identify all of my strengths and weakness. It can
help me to improve the different areas no matter what my weakness or strengths are. Being a
good leader in life and a good leader in an organisation is not very easy (Günzel-Jensen,
Hansen, Jakobsen & Wulff, 2018). Hence, I try my best to get all possible outcomes. From
the particular test, I can easily understand my strengths, which can help me to become a good
leader in future, and those are:
1. Good communication: communication is the key point behind a successful leader. A
leader should always have better communication skills, which can help them motivate their
team members or employees. My employees can easily understand what their leader or I want
to convey. This indicates that I have good communication skill. It is helpful to improve the
performance of employees. Therefore, I consider this is my strengths in leadership.
2. Social skills: a leader should have better social skills, which will help them to create a
better environment in the organisation and create a better relationship with their team
members too (Tortorella, de Castro Fettermann, Frank & Marodin, 2018). My social skills
help to motivate my employees and can allow me to gain respect from others. Therefore, I
can also consider this as my strengths from the test.
3. Listening skills: Before becoming a good leader, a person always needs to have better
listening skills. When a leader has better listening skills, they can easily understand the issues
of each employee. However, I do fail at times to listen to my colleagues or another member.

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This causes the communication gap and eventually, the outcome of a task degrades. Thus, I
can assess that I have a loophole in this quality.
4. Confidence: a good leader always need to be confident about his skills and work. It is
very important to show the confidence proudly so that potential business associates and
partners can trust the judgement of the leader (Cheung, Yeung & Wu, 2018). Confidence is
the one, which gives me more power to lead my team or work harder and motivate others to
get the best result in all possible ways. Therefore, it also considers as my strengths.
Gaps between your current leadership style/capacity
From the particular test, I can identify all my weakness, which are obstructing me to
become a good leader in future. Decision-making ability is very important for an effective
leader. It can also help an organisation to get make a better decision which can give more
profit and help them to expand their business all over the world. However, I do not have a
proper decision-making ability. When a situation arises in my life, where I need to make a
quick decision, then at that time I feel confused. Thus, I consider this as my weakness. In
addition, I do not have the ability to identify exact issues and find out a better solution to
those. I do not have that ability or skills which can help me to identify the issue and help me
to find out the effective solution. This also creates a problem in the way of becoming a good
leader.
4 concepts I learned from the paper
A leader should know how to keep the working culture better and create a better
environment within the team or organisation (Zhang, Cao & Wang, 2018). I understood that
understanding the organisational culture could help me to improve the performance of
employees as well as the organisation. I further learned that being a leader one needs to take

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the responsibility of all flaws of my employees and try finding out solutions to improve those
flaws.
A respected leader should demonstrate discipline within their personal life as well in their
professional life. The particular level of a leader’s discipline is tied very closely to the moral
character and integrity of a leader. If a leader can learn this, then they can get more respect
from their surroundings.
Conclusion
Therefore, from the paper it can be concluded that with the help of better training, I
can easily improve these areas and when people have the confidence they can easily get their
desired result.

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