My Leadership Style: Reflective Essay

Running Head: My Leadership Style
My Leadership Style
Reflective Essay
System04104
9/17/2019

My Leadership Style
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Introduction
Leadership is not only necessary to manage or organise people in an organisation rather
leadership skills required in the personality of an individual that force the person to take the
charge of the situation and move forward. According to my opinion, a leader is a person that
should have ability to select between right and wrong choices. Leadership is the ability of a
person to set standards for others and motivate them with the set standards and personality
traits (Brempt, Boone, Witteloostuijn, and Berg, 2017). A successful leader always cares
about the interest of others and guide people in right direction to achieve the individual or
organisational goals. This paper helps me to analyse my leadership style and describes what
the strengths of my leadership styles and about my weaknesses. This paper will also help me
to identify those areas that can help me to grow in future and to become a good leader in the
area of my profession. The paper also includes a self-assessment report that will help me to
use my inner traits and personality traits to achieve success as a leader in future.
Good leadership is required for very organisation to control and manage people in such a way
that encourage and motivate towards the organisational goals (Schein, 2010). It is really
beneficial for an organisation when a leader guiding and directing the behaviour of
organisational people in the work environment. Leadership is an art that enables a person to
influence and guide people in right direction and when required motivate the people to give
their best (Cunliffe and Eriksen, 2011). I believe that a leader must have capabilities to
understand the feelings and needs of people and must have capabilities to deal with any
adverse situation with patience and tactics. As I was the captain of my college football team, I
have observed that leadership is not limited to guiding people rather a leader should also
involve in tactical planning and formulating strategies and ensure participation of all the
people of the team to get victory over competitors. When I analysed my personality with the
reference with various leadership theories and styles, I found some interesting facts about my
leadership skills that I never aware off about these undiscovered skills and personality traits
of myself. As a team captain of my college football team, I have experienced that a leader
should have abilities to lead other team members from the front. For example, during training
practices I usually arrived on time so it can motivate other people and encourage them to
arrive in the training session at scheduled time. Apart from this, a leader must be trustworthy
and honest to its people. If a leader will not hones it will mislead other people in the team or
in any organisation.

My Leadership Style
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There are various theories and leadership styles has been discussed in past from popular
experts, writers, and researchers on leadership. After reading all the types of leadership style,
I have correlated my leadership style with some famous leadership styles and theories. A
leader is a person that how he influence the people and their performance in the group.
(Source: Banks, McCauley, Gardner and Guler, 2016)
The situational theory which is given by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard best explains
the role of a leader in an organisation when a leader managing the performance of others. The
situational leadership style analyses the leadership based on two factors that are task
behaviour and relationship behaviour. Under this situational leadership style, a leader adopts
the different leadership style for different situation (Conger, 2015). It generally varies on the
nature and circumstances of work. After analysing, the situational leadership style, I have
found that it does not work in reality where large numbers of people are working together.
Apart from this, the two type of behaviour of a leader in this style creates more conflicts and
confusion in people who follow the leader for the different work or tasks (Hoch, Bommer,
Dulebohn, and Wu, 2018). For example, for some organisational works leader can generally
divide the work among the people and in some cases, the leader encourages, motivates, and
listen the query of employees to perform the jobs. When I asked about my personality to my
friend Mr. A, then he told me that I am very desperate about getting success. He also told me