Reflective Assessment on Leadership Abilities

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REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENT
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1REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENT
Leadership is considered to be one of the major aspects in global business practices due
to high competition in the business orientation. It is globalisation that makes the business
companies to maximise their profit in a great extent by putting emphasis on the leadership skills.
From the research of Uusi-Kakkuri and Brandt (2015) it can be derived that the role of leadership
in business creates a meaning and goal for the employees in order to conduct the business
practices effectively. As a matter of fact, the leaders are also responsible to put great deal of
impact on the employees through motivation. It will bring high proficiency and effectiveness into
the organisational performance that usher high strategic advantage in the competitive market.
Based on this understanding, this reflective essay is going to conduct a personality test of my
leadership quality and analyse it to understand the strengths and weakness within my leadership
ability.
As far as the Idealised influence is concerned, my leadership abilities in that aspect is
quite high with a score of 9. It means my followers or my subordinates possess immense respect
on my leadership quality and they choose me as their role model. It is surely a very aspiring and
encouraging measure that make me feel proud and focused to gain their trusts in a more
extensive manner. According to Weng et al. (2015) the role of the idealised influence is to make
a commendable practice for encouraging and motivating the employees. An interesting and
significant fact is that the subordinates does not follow the leader blindfoldedly rather comparing
the key characteristics of the leader with their own aspiration so that the leadership can help the
employees to develop their career. Moreover, Huang, Weng and Chen (2016) asserted that the
role of idealised influence fosters a code of conduct that influences the staffs ethically.
From the research of Hetland et al. (2018) it can be stated that inspirational motivation
plays a significant role in terms of facilitating adequate measures for the employees to take their

2REFLECTIVE ASSESSMENT
job roles seriously. Bottomley et al. (2016) opined that it is important to make the staffs
understand the importance of their profession so that it will generate high efficiency in their
performance. In this regard, my Inspirational motivation score 10 and represents a high sense of
inspiration towards the employees so that it will motivate them to work professionally. In fact,
my inspirational motivation also argues to maintain a good relation with the employees so that
they are easily get inclined towards their profession and work efficiently. It is also beneficial for
the business companies to gain adequate advantage from the highly motivated employees and
execute better strategy for future business practices. My vision is also took a pertinent aspect in
this respect that guides the employees towards the right path of development in terms of both
individual and organisational.
Intellectual stimulation is identified to be one of the major aspects for the business
enterprises for updating the business activities with change in the demand. In globalisation it
becomes essential to incorporate high intellectual measure so that it will be effective to meet the
expected outcome (Peng et al. 2016). As a matter of fact, intellectual stimulation requires a
flexible organisational environment where the employees can ventilate and utilise their
innovative ideas extensively (Breevaart and Bakker 2018). In response to this, my Intellectual
stimulation measure is scored 9 that means it is very high. I believe in high utilisation of the
intellectual possession of the employees so that the organisation will get beneficial. As a matter
fact, the employees also get satisfied to think openly and in a creative manner. Therefore, the
intellectual stimulation is essential for both the development t of my organisation and also helps
the employees to nourish their intellectual minds profoundly.
As far as the individualised consideration matters, I feel that team work is more important
than focusing on the individual interests of my team members. Therefore, my Individualised