Personal Model of Leadership: Skills, Traits and Tasks for Effective Leadership

This report discusses the creation of a personal model of leadership with reference to ethics, teamwork and psychology. It covers the main idea of leadership, important skills, traits and tasks for effective leadership, core values and assumptions in leadership style, and the goal to achieve with the PML. The report also discusses the positioning of PML in the industry, relationship in the business organization, and culture of the organization.

Leadership Skills
Report-Personal Model of Leadership

Executive Summary
The assignment here is based on creating a personal model of leadership with reference
to the three major areas of leadership. Leadership in actual is the research area and
practical application of skills to motivate, lead and inspire the team to reach the
organizational objectives. Leadership is flexible in nature; therefore a person has the
freedom to create his own leadership style or to adopt one which can be beneficial to
the organization and the employees. As a leader my approach is to always look at the
horizon and empower my team to realize the vision of the organization.

Table of Content
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................... 2
Personal Model of Leadership.................................................................................................................... 3
Ethics................................................................................................................................................................ 3
Teamwork...................................................................................................................................................... 3
Psychology...................................................................................................................................................... 4
Main Organization Idea of Leadership.................................................................................................... 4
Skills, traits and task important to a leader.......................................................................................... 4
Skills.................................................................................................................................................................. 4
Traits................................................................................................................................................................. 5
Tasks................................................................................................................................................................. 6
Core values and assumptions in Leadership Style.............................................................................6
Positioning of PML in the Industry........................................................................................................... 7
Relationship in the Business Organization............................................................................................ 8
Culture of the Organization.......................................................................................................................... 8
The goal to Achieve with the PML............................................................................................................. 8
Point of difference in the Leadership Model......................................................................................... 9
Recommendation and Conclusion............................................................................................................. 9
References........................................................................................................................................................ 11

Introduction
Leadership is both a research area and practical skill encompassing the ability of an
individual or an organization to guide, lead, transform, motivate and encourage the
team and the organization to achieve its mission. Globalization and tech revolution has
transformed the business ecosystem, which calls for the leadership to be highly flexible
to deal with any contingent or unfavourable situation. An individual becomes a leader
on the basis of his personal attributes and the resilience, determination, perseverance
and commitment he shows towards the organization. A leader in true sense is an
individual who by virtue of his words, his leadership style, and relationship building,
bonding skills and vision takes the organization towards the goal of sustainability
(Northouse, 2018).
A personal model of leadership has to be developed with reference to at least 3 major
areas of leadership. The report will further entail the main idea or issues in one’s own
leadership style and also describe the most important traits, skills and tasks to become
an effective leader. Leadership is based on core values, the report will provide an
overview of the core values and assumptions to arrive at the PML. Towards the end, the
report will also discuss on how to personally apply the leadership model in present
scenario.

Personal Model of Leadership
Becoming self-aware is one of the pre-requisite to become a good and effective leader.
Every individual is raised in a different culture, which culminates different value in the
individual, eventually leading to differencing leadership styles. Thus, it is most
important to first introspect oneself and then instruct, inspire and lead other people. My
top 3 personal values which create a foundation for my leadership are ethics, teamwork
and psychology. All these values help me in defining my leadership in true essence, and I
base all my judgement, decision, behaviour and attitude on these values.
Ethics
Ethics can be understood as the fundamental principles of decent and cordial human
conduct. In simple words it is a system of moral principles for a human being. Ethics
primarily define how people take their decision and lead their life. Ethics of a person
can be both self-created or based on one’s cultural influence, values and beliefs. My
ethics are a reflection of my upbringing and the values my family sowed in me. My
ethics are guided by the ethical theory of utilitarianism. The theory of utilitarianism
says that one should always take decision based on the concept of “Doing Greatest Good
for Greatest number of People”. I base all my decision around this theory, and with this
reasoning I often make decision which is beneficial for the entire team, or the
organization. Besides this, I also practice ethics in my workplace, and refrain from
making decision which would be morally wrong on the compass or highly unethical in
realization (Gorton, Alston & Snowden, 2018).
Teamwork
I am a big promoter and believer of the concept of team work; I strongly believe that an
individual cannot achieve the feat working alone as can be achieved by a team working
together. I started valuing teamwork, right from my early school days. I always used to
think that I am really good at soccer, and can alone make my team win. But, after a few
failed attempts I realized that I am nothing without my team and so are my
contributions. Ever since, I made teamwork as an important pillar of my life and started

valuing the contribution and importance of people in teamwork. This value I took
forward and started implementing in all my personal and professional endeavours.
Thus, teamwork for me is another value which defines my leadership style (Huda et. al.,
2018).
Psychology
Psychology is another arrow in my quiver of leadership values. My psychology is always
future looking; I always tend to look at the horizon to come up with something which is
radical and innovative in nature. This is exactly the same thing I intent to apply in my
workplace, treat my team as innovative and creative team. I tend to engage them in
unconventional ways of working which positively impacts their productivity in the
organization.
Main Organization Idea of Leadership
My main idea of my leadership is based on translating my vision into the culture of the
organization. I believe that if the entire organization is working towards a clear vision
which will lead them to achieve their mission, nothing like it. This entire thinking
becomes the focal point of my leadership, based on which I tend to create my own
leadership style. In a way my leadership is influenced by transformational style of
leadership, which implies transforming the organization by leading the change in
business organization. I am of the opinion that change is inevitable, more so in the
present changing times, thus the leader has to always keep looking for changes in the
processes or techniques which would increase the effectiveness of the employees, in
turn increasing the productivity of the organization (Ford & Hrding, 2018).
Skills, traits and task important to a leader
Skills
Effective communication
A leader has to effectively communicate with the internal and external stakeholders of
the organization, and to ensure that openness in communication becomes the culture of

the entire organization. Effective communication helps in building a strong connect with
the followers, who then abide by the instruction of leader to work towards the goal of
sustainability.
Relationship Building
Followers of a leader are developed when they feel a strong connect with the leader,
believe in his values and resonate with his personal attributes. It is important for a
leader to build strong relationship with the employees or the followers, this relationship
building exercise will make the followers walk the path alongside the leader. This strong
relationship also acts as a platform for enhanced support and cooperation.
Motivation
As defined earlier, a leader is a person who motivates and encourages his team to
perform with enhanced productivity towards the goals of the organization. It is the duty
of the leader or the innate quality or attribute which makes him a great leader. I believe
that it is important to ascertain the need for motivation in the human being, on the basis
of which different motivation theories can be applied for the maximum advantage of the
employees. I personally try to understand the root cause behind the demotivation of my
employees and accordingly work upward to motivate them (Oc, 2018).
Traits
These traits define the leadership, on the basis of which a leadership develops his skills
to become an effective leader. Some of the most important traits of a leader are:
Positive Attitude
A leader in no situation should lose hope, feel demotivated and stop believing in his
dreams and vision, in the absence of which the followers lose faith in leadership and the
entire organization collapses. Thus, leader must and should always have a positive
attitude towards any kind of challenge or a business situation he faces. The positive
attitude of a leader helps in creating a positive work environment in the workplace.
Innovation

I believe that one of the very important traits of an effective leader is to always look
towards the future and use innovation as the means to create solutions for the future. It
is this trait which helps the leaders to explore the avenues of business, for instance, Jeff
Bezos is an innovative leader. He by the virtue of innovation creates products and
services which are beneficial for the company as well the community.
Confidence
Confidence is a physical attribute as well as trait of a leader which defines his success in
his leadership journey. By exuberating confidence in one’s speech, action, conduct and
behaviour a leader can easily infuse confidence in the rest of the team. It is this
confidence of the leader, which gets infused within the entire organization (Burnes &
Hughes, 2018).
Tasks
 A leader has plenty of important tasks to perform in a business organization, one
of which is to give direction to the followers or the organization to achieve the
mission.
 Another important task of a leader is to empower the employees by the virtue of
giving them the power of decision making and hold them accountable for their
actions.
 A leader has to ensure that there are no dull moments in the team, and he can do
this by engaging with the workforce, encourage and motivate them to work
tirelessly for the business organization.
 Another important task of a leader is to effectively communication with the
internal stakeholders, who then can work on the instruction to reach the end
goals (Alvesson & Jonsson, 2018).
Besides this, there is other important function which leader performs. His tasks can be
seen as his efforts to take the organization to achieve the goals of sustainability.

Core values and assumptions in Leadership Style
The core values which are important part of my leadership as defined in the earlier
section are:
 Ethics
 Psychology
 Team work.
Some of the assumptions which I took before deciding on the leadership style are:
 The employees are looking for a change, and they too believe that Change is
inevitable in business, and always projects towards something positive.
 Another assumption I took was that employees in the organization are well
aware of the goals they have to reach, and are working in accordance to the
vision of the leader.
 Another very important assumption here is that, a culture of openness in
communication prevails in the business organization.
Positioning of PML in the Industry
I am working in an e-commerce industry in the capacity of a social media manager. My
industry is the one which has evolved the most in the last decade, primarily due to
workforce diversity, globalization and technological revolution which has disrupted
many of the existing business models. My leadership style which is based on the values
of Ethics, Psychology and Team work is a right fit for my industry. For instance, ethics
play an important role in managing the customer relations and also while working with
a young team. It is thus extremely important to seed the values of ethical behaviour in
the young organizations. Psychology, as I mentioned is to look towards the future, this
would help in brining innovation and creativity at the workplace. Another value which
fits well with the highly innovative and fast paced industry. Last, but not the least value
of teamwork fits into any industry, because a lot of people are working towards
common goals, hence it is better to leverage these positive synergies in form of
increased productivity in the organization. Thus my Personal model of leadership is a

definite help for me in the e-commerce industry, as both my values, skills and traits are
contingent and can be moulded in changing circumstances (Crevani, 2018).
Relationship in the Business Organization
My relationship with my peers, colleagues, subordinates or the top management is
extremely cordial and based on mutual respect, trust and admiration for each other. It
makes me a very likable person in the organization; people really find it easier to speak
with me in isolation. They values me belief, my value system and other personal
attributes which define my personality. Thus, this strength in relationship will help me
to easily implement my leadership style in the organization, and the employees can
easily connect with my personal values, which can then be used to set a culture in the
organization (Randel et. al., 2018).
Culture of the Organization
The three aspects of the culture which will be reflected using my leadership model are:
Ethical Behaviour and Conduct towards All-As mentioned earlier, my approach in life
or my decision in life are based on the utilitarianism theory of ethics. Hence, I always try
to serve the greatest number of people and do greatest good for all. This value as a
culture will be translated in the organization and the employees will follow and imbibe
ethics in both their personal and professional life.
Future Looking Culture-My leadership style will build a culture of visionary and future
looking approach in the organization. This will lead to numerous innovation and
creativity in my business organization, which in turn will bring us closer to the ultimate
goal of sustainability.
Hyper loop of Positive Synergies-As mentioned earlier that I strongly value
Teamwork and consider

The goal to Achieve with the PML
As mentioned earlier that I strongly value Teamwork, Psychology and ethics in my
leadership style, and I would like to put in the same values in the entire organization.
The idea here is to create a corporate entity which uses ethics in taking any decisions,
and always thinks of the possible consequences become taking any decisions. Another
aim of mine is to create importance of team work and explain to the employees why
team work can help in achieving or reaching the organisational goals effectively.
Another goal of mine is to create a future looking vision in the organization, where
every person is looking for creating innovative and creative solutions in the future
(Hoch et. al., 2018).
Point of difference in the Leadership Model
I am a kind of leader who does not get involved too much in the working of the teams, I
gave them enough of freedom, responsibility and accountability towards their work.
This model of Laissez Faire works only in cases where the leader relies and trusts the
employees and the executives too much. However, in reality this does not happen, one
really has to keep a hawk eye on the proceedings of the employees and always work
towards making the process and productivity better. It has to be ensured that the
productivity of the organization increases by the virtue of effective leadership which is
based on the pillars of teamwork, psychology and motivation. These three values over
which my leadership style is based which help in achieving the goal of sustainability,
whilst creating a positive working environment in the workplace where everyone is
working in harmony towards the accomplishment of the shared goals (Tu et. al., 2018). I
will personally apply this new PML by giving an explanation to the working force on the
inherent values in my leadership and how the organization and the employees will
benefit from it.
Recommendation and Conclusion
Focus on Being Employee Centric

Richard Branson of Virgin Atlantic says that a leader’s role and job is to take good care
of the employees, it is then these employees automatically take care of the organizations
customers. Thus, my leadership style has to be employee centric in nature, with all
policies and procedures centred on making the lives of employees easy with more
engagement and enhanced productivity.
Change Management
As a leader, it is extremely important to understand the fact that businesses are at the
mercy of changing business scenarios and circumstances. Thus, there is no possibility of
status quo and organization has to bring many changes to stay competitive and move
towards its ultimate goal of sustainability. Thus, in order to bring change into my
leadership style, I will have to focus on reducing the resistance of the employees
towards the change by virtue of employee empowerment. Only then, the organization
can accept and implement the change in most effective manner.
In order to bring the report to a logical conclusion it can be said that there is no best
leadership style, and a leader has to toggle between different leadership styles or create
one of his own to achieve the objectives of the organization. My personal value which
defines my leadership are Psychology, Ethics and Teamwork, it is these values which
guide my leadership style and forms an essence of my behaviour and conduct in the
organization.

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