Reflective Essay on Leadership and Organizational Learning Theories

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Reflective Essay
Reflective Essay: ‘Leader is one who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way’
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12/27/2018

Reflective Essay 1
Reflective Essay
This reflective journal is for demonstrating my critical as well as interdependent thinking
skills. I will evaluate, analyse and imply my knowledge of organizational learning theories.
My reflection over my past experiences in the context of leadership will provide an exclusive
life-long learning as well as aids to my future career growth. As we all know about that
famous saying given by Mr John C. Maxwell, ‘a leader is one who knows the way, goes the
way, and shows the way.’, hence my reflection will be based on this leadership quote of
(Maxewell, 2007) . In this way, with the help of reflective writing on leadership as well as
organizational learning theories, I will demonstrate my critical thinking skills for my career
development as well as personal growth.
The leadership quote on which I want to reflect is originated in January, 2006 and it has a
meaning that leader is one who influences rest to be successful as well as to accomplish their
goals (Maxewell, 2007). A leader is one who inspires rest to attain greatness and a leader can
be anyone from the surroundings includes friends, parents, teachers or sometimes own-self.
In my opinion, leadership can be determined by the status of authority held by a singular in a
group, for fulfilling the purpose of acquiring pre-set general objectives. Besides, I felt that it
is an opportunity for an individual to demonstrate his or her achievements. Being a leader at
my workplace, I used to be an inspiration for my sub-ordinates as I brought the group
together while at the same time creating good things out of nothing. I learnt as well as
implied an important thing from my supervisor in the organization where I worked that a
leader is one who creates the sense of leadership into the group members for making them
feel authorize. It means that I learnt from my past experiences and analysing skills that being
a leader is not a bed of roses because it demands development of group of characteristics
which allows an individual to take the center of attention of the group (Maxewell, 2011).
Now, I would like to quote an incident of my own life while working in an organization as i
learnt the importance of the vision for a leader through that incident. While working with my
organization I could not ever get the purpose of long meetings. Later on, when I spent a long
tenure with my company then I realized that those meetings were used to conduct in to
communicate the mission as well as vision of the company. Then I realized that vision is the
most important characteristic of effective leadership (Goldman, 2012). An organization can
gain trust as well as efforts from their employees or we can take this as a good leader can win
the trust of his or her followers only by having a great vision. Moreover, I learnt from my
supervisor that an apparent vision can make any difficult goal achievable. Furthermore,
having a vision and communicating it to your followers are two different things, as a leader
must share his or her vision with their followers in a way that they get moved through it
(Savage-Austin & Honeycutt, 2011).
According to me, an individual is either takes birth as a leader or grows skill set as well as
capabilities in order to become a leader. In this context, I was elder enough to apprehend my
mother's words, as she always used to tell me the wisdom words like, All of us are guardians
and are in charge of our wards, as the expert is a guardian as well as accountable for their
subjects; the women is a guardian as well as responsible for her house and children; the men
are guardians as well as responsible for their family; and hence in this way all of us are
guardians as well as responsible for our wards (Wheatley, 2011). Moreover, my mother used
to tell me three major components of the leadership include knowing, going and showing of