Effective Business Leadership and Team Dynamics

This assignment delves into the crucial role of effective business leadership. It examines how strong leadership can guide teams during emergencies and fosters a positive relationship between leaders and employees, creating a sense of belonging and ownership within the organization. The discussion also touches upon the importance of adapting leadership styles to different situations and individuals for optimal results.

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Leadership
If we observe minutely in our society, leadership is everywhere. Personally, I view
leadership as being about genuineness and personality (Fairholm, 2009). Leadership is all about
straining to change something and perfecting it than it was. After that change has worked with
responsibility, that thing acquires admiration. Leadership is everywhere; in offices, in
institutions, at our homes and many more. A great leader is a self-driven individual who assists
voluntarily. By assisting my own brother with his school studies, I am exposing leadership
quality. There are good leadership qualities which include; giving back of feedback in a
responsible way, meeting with others to discuss, creating roles and working with patients in
groups. During group works, that is when students acquire knowhow of social and being a
responsible person, feelings for different personalities and other cultures, and also understands
how group efforts can be influenced by leadership character (Kolzow, 2014). As I was relaxing
at home trying to think of great leaders, I happened to see my mother busy with home chores. I
found in her a great leader after observing her for some minutes. My mother never losing sight of
the vision she had for her children is what I thought to myself, providing a secure atmosphere
where her own kids could grow in prosperity. Mothers can be seen as busy in various house
activities, looking for supplies today for planning required by their kids tomorrow, and on top of
that, examining the demands to structure their professional lives. However, despite the many
demands, mothers never forget about the visions of their children.
Organizational Leadership.
In the business world similarly, there is various demands that are made for considering a
leader. The same way our moms showed us, however, these should not throw away our focus
from what is important or needed for our businesses to grow and prosper. Patience is required for
a good leader in making of a desired conclusion. Tolerance is one of the qualities which we all
identify about our mothers. Raising of a child cannot be compared to a text book situation the
same because there is something that will show up on the way and destroy the already laid plans
(Rosén, 2014). Mostly, it is always as a result of the child not doing what they are instructed;
sometimes it can be as a result of a kid getting sick on the day that you have tight schedules at
the job. But in whatever the case, mothers have learnt how to deal with the above situations since
they are aware that their hard work will one day be recompensed.
It is of no effort to show little interest or patience in a hard job that requires long term
philosophies when businesses concentrate repeatedly on gathering periodical forecasts
(Nanjundeswaraswamy T. S, 2014). However, the same way mothers act so nice via their tasks,
best things comes to patient people. A leader who is good motivates his/her team to always rely
on themselves. Mothers also happen to be experts in motivating their kids to be always self-
reliant when they are growing up. An individual requires learning by observing how our moms
work; from taking care of their children’s clothes to asking their children to tidy up their rooms.
One should be fascinated by the will in mothers to see how their kids take up the jobs that used
to be done earlier by their children as they grew up into responsible adults.
Being a mother is not an easy task that a person can imagine about as being an important
role to gain an insight on how to lead or instruct others (Rosén, 2014). It was seen that a

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relationship between a mother and her child is completely different from that of an employee and
his/her employer. In addition, the relationship with our mothers helps us to understand our life
course. It is from our mothers that we can observe the value in us and help us in moving towards
our roles as leaders in our various organizations.
Emotional and Moral Intelligence.
Emotional intelligence is one of the most important aspects. Emotional intelligence in our
scenario here plays a great role in our lives. The leader of a team in an organization or in a
certain project is expected to be productive regardless of the challenges he/she is facing when
trying to lead the team to be successful. This kind of perception is important since it tries to
describe the human interactions that we face in day to day life. Cooperation with people
surrounding you is important regardless of who you are or what you do. People must work as a
team, they must request for help and most importantly guide other human beings. The above
responsibilities can only be done with the knowledge of the human feelings (Nykänen, 2011). It
is the above situation that I deal with when relating with my colleagues, friends and also family.
My belief to best communicate to the concept is comparing it with how I used to connect with
others when I was in primary school up to date. I used to find it very difficult to communicate
with older people when I was a kid because I didn’t have a clue on how to tackle them. However,
nowadays I can freely talk to everyone.
In order to enhance organization/business performance and leadership success, moral
intelligence is one of the important aspects to consider from any leader’s point of view. At the
beginning we studied about Emotional intelligence, then came Moral Intelligence. Moral
Intelligence can be defined as the ability to clearly differentiate right and wrong. One of my
friends was telling me about his employer and said that his employer wanted to construct a duped
work place where he could get good moral Intelligence through tutoring work force to follow his
humane principle examples. The boss usually tells his employees to stop mere justifications after
ignoring deadlines or for not coming to the workplace on time and other activities influencing
the workplace negatively (Kelman, 2016). My friend’s boss insists that each employee should
care for each other with admiration and kindness. He also reminds the employees that everyone
does wrong and not to be shallow minded of one another’s shortcomings.
Trust is required to the flourishing of any teamwork. Each member of the team must
prove that he/she can be trusted; grow their trust via performance and communication skills, and
also work hard to keep that trust. Each member should strive to believe in his/her team members
in order to set a promise to their team and its major aims, invest their skills in the team with
those objectives in their mind and feel free to talk about the issues that could be influencing their
team (Nanjundeswaraswamy T. S, 2014). A quiet and tranquil atmosphere of the team allows
members to share data and create a strong bond within the team members. A good example is my
football team that massively relied on teamwork. The match had started and the opponent team
managed to score a goal. Adam and Cole started blaming each other for the scored goal and we
lost the match as a result. We managed to organize a rematch against the same team after a
month and did my best to explain to Adam and Cole that if they cooperated and work together,
we could win the match. Luckily, they adhered to my advice and when the game started; they
cooperated and we emerged as victorious.

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From my own perception, in every personality of any leader, ethics must play the major
role. Agreeing to the main goal of any organization is try to prove that in a situational type of
leadership is not being manipulated. Professional team members should try to comprehend that
being told to do something is not being manipulated for it leads to a company being more
progressive and successful. In short, in an organizational situation, a professional member should
at no any time think as being manipulated (Bolden, 2010). A professional should try to measure
and try to know how relative it is to the vision and the mission statement of the company. A team
member should not take anything personal and try to look at the bigger picture. This reminds me
of subject in last week which was emotional intelligence and how it could help differentiate
between manipulation and situational leadership. This can consistently lead to achieving the best
only and the potential plans for the company (Kelman, 2016). A good example of situational
leadership is that of surgeons inside an operation theatre. When surgeons are inside an operation
theatre particularly dealing with crucial operations and emergency cases, that is what we term as
situational leadership. When a doctor is leading his/her fellow doctors in a theatre of operation,
he/she is referred to a specialist in surgery. However, in case of situation that is urgent calling or
during the operational issues, surgeons are required to make instant decisions regarding the state
of the patient. The most fascinating fact about situational leaders is their ability to bend with the
situation that is already at hand.
Recently, people came to know that bullying in workplaces have been going on for many
years. However, Anti-bullying movements existed in the United states from early as 1990s which
implies that many workers have since been bullied all along. Workplace bullying can be defined
as the repeated unfavourable and unethical treatment of a person by another in a workplace. This
involves behaviour meant to belittle others through humiliation, rudeness, sarcasm, overworking
an employee, threats and violence (Kolzow, 2014). The big question that arises is: Who in a
leadership position is supposed to know and can be able to differentiate between assault, bullying
and harassment? Assault and Harassment are known to have resulted from several serious
incidents. In various work places, workers are bullied in long-term jobs by their managers,
subordinates, other workers or by a client whereby a good leader is supposed to defend for their
workers’ rights and not allow the right for the customers to not respect or even abuse the
employees. The research also goes on to the short-term jobs like construction or the arts;
whereby the supervisors have power over their employees. In both long-term and short-term
jobs, the employees have been proved guilty of harassment, bullying others, assault or
discriminating. All of us agree that bullying exist in our lives even before going to the workplace
(Coder, et al., 2014). As a matter of fact, it started when we were young, we can all remember
our high school days whereby we were either bullied or we were bullying. Actually, I was
bullied in secondary school and I recall very well getting a punch and losing a tooth. The funny
part is that the person tells my friends that he is embarrassed to face me after what he did but I
am happy because he admitted he was wrong. The main reason that makes an individual to bully
others is to hide his/her weaker side. Another reason for an employee to bully another is avoiding
to be responsibly accepting their ill character and the consequences.
Human beings are altered by supremacy. We know of leaders whose only interest is to
consider personal promotions. Leaders have always been like that way. Then we start thinking
why few people are corrupted while others are not, or what is concreting the driveways of
corrupted men and their females’ credit cards.

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Conclusion.
In conclusion, I would say that this course has been an enlightening experience. I learnt
that good business leadership can enable a team to stay focused in times of emergency. I also
learnt that a wide and attractive relation between a boss and his/her employee implies that they
are being accepted as important part of the organization and building up a feeling of being an
owner among members. Growth of leadership is important since organizations hire leaders of
their character. Leadership expansion can take advantage of output and promote synchronization.
People must use suitable leadership style to direct teams and individuals.

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