Leadership Journal: Personal Leadership Development Journey

This leadership journal assignment delves into the student's personal leadership journey, emphasizing the cultivation of leadership potential through self-awareness and strategic thinking. The assignment requires reflection on the student's behaviors and application of leadership skills discussed in the course. The student analyzes their ability to 'think big' and apply strategic thinking in various situations. The journal also explores the importance of maintaining positive relationships within a team to enhance performance and overall work environment. The student references key elements of leadership, including self-insight, self-awareness, and ethical values, and highlights the significance of being a role model and establishing a long-term vision for the team. The assignment underscores the importance of understanding team members' strengths and weaknesses and adapting approaches to match organizational and team capabilities. The references cited support the concepts of ethical leadership, employee well-being, and the impact of leadership on team dynamics and productivity.

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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Q. 1.
Leadership Journey is a personal approach to cultivate and enhance the leadership
potential underneath. The strengths of the respective team and the weaknesses which need to
take immediate action which could definitely benefit the leader as well as the team from
professional aspect has to be easily identified by the leader. Growing with true to the core self
– direction can result to form an enhanced capability to lead the organization by the leader.
The leaders who think big, dream bigger than others, as marked as a visionary
depiction of the leaders. The leaders have some key elements as to successfully evolve their
inner - self as a leader, they are made by themselves. There are some key aspects of the
psychological factors of the leaders they believe in (Dou, Devos & Valcke, 2015). Like self –
insight, self – awareness, self - identity, self – aspiration, self – regulation, self – approaches
and so on.
Starting from the qualities of a leader, to be aware of the typical behavior and how
leader is perceived by others is developed by the insights of a leader. Moreover if a leader
does not understand himself first, he or she will fail to understand the components of the
team. A leader points at the grounding formation to develop or action insights by the
awareness. As the commitment by the leader makes the whole team aware of the positivity
and drawbacks of the team. As well as, one needs to be a significant role model for the
followers by growing self – identity in himself. The ethical values guide the behavioural
approach to the team by the leader. The best leader is made by setting a pro-long term vision
in their teams to connect them to their context and developing reflective agendas in coaching
the team (Chughtai, Byrne & Flood, 2015). In course of time, if a leader applies the same
strategy in different situations to take control of the situation without controlling the impulses
leads to some incorrect situations by the leader himself. Approaches which match the

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organizational and team capabilities needed to be adopted by the leader to successfully
conclude a situation.
The leader who understand the strengths as well as talents of the members of his or
her respective team are also well aware of the weaknesses in the present situation (Windeler,
Maruping & Venkatesh, 2017). To assess a situation in the light of present and future aspects
no one can do this better than a leader and in order to do that a person have to have all the
qualities of a remarkable leader as to develop himself in the path of personal leadership
development.
Q. 2.
Maintaining a good relationship with the team creates a major change in the working
environment, some leaders avoid to create a good bonding with the members and this affects
the performance in course of time. Most of the full time employees spend their waking hours
in the team at the workplace, maintaining a family like environment results in an advantage in
the performance with the colleagues (Demirtas & Akdogan, 2015). The good behavioural
presence in a team can be very beneficial in terms of teamwork, employee’s morale, higher
retention rate among teammates and increased productivity. Therefore, a good relationship
has to be maintained by a remarkable leader.

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References:
Chughtai, A., Byrne, M., & Flood, B. (2015). Linking ethical leadership to employee well-
being: The role of trust in supervisor. Journal of Business Ethics, 128(3), 653-663.
Demirtas, O., & Akdogan, A. A. (2015). The effect of ethical leadership behavior on ethical
climate, turnover intention, and affective commitment. Journal of Business Ethics,
130(1), 59-67.
Dou, D., Devos, G., & Valcke, M. (2015). Exploring the effects of principal leadership,
school climate, teachers' psychological factors on teachers' job satisfaction and
organizational commitment. In 7th International Conference on Education and New
Learning Technologies (EDULEARN) (pp. 8113-8121). IATED.
Windeler, J. B., Maruping, L., & Venkatesh, V. (2017). Technical systems development risk
factors: The role of empowering leadership in lowering developers’ stress.
Information Systems Research, 28(4), 775-796.