Leadership Portfolio Report - Leadership Module, University Name

This leadership portfolio provides a comprehensive analysis of leadership concepts, including the nature and importance of leadership, personal traits, and characteristics of leaders. It delves into charismatic and transformational leadership, exploring various leadership behaviors, attitudes, and styles. The portfolio examines contingency and situational leadership, leadership ethics, and social responsibility, as well as communication and conflict resolution skills. It also touches upon international and culturally diverse aspects of leadership. The author reflects on personal experiences to illustrate leadership strengths and weaknesses, incorporating examples and insights from well-known leaders like Bill Belichick, and inspirational messages. The portfolio is a self-assessment that aims to identify areas for improvement and to develop a personal mission statement for effective leadership. The portfolio also includes task-oriented leadership behaviors and emphasizes the importance of communication and team building. The author discusses their leadership traits, skills needed to develop, and an analysis of a well-known leader. This work is contributed to Desklib, a platform providing study resources for students.

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Leadership Portfolio
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Table of Contents
CHAPTER 1: The Nature and Importance of Leadership...............................................................2
CHAPTER 2: Traits, Motives, and Characteristics of Leaders.......................................................4
CHAPTER 3: Charismatic and Transformational Leadership........................................................8
CHAPTER 4: Leadership Behaviors, Attitudes, and Styles..........................................................10
CHAPTER 5: Contingency and Situational Leadership................................................................13
CHAPTER 6: Leadership Ethics and Social Responsibility.........................................................15
CHAPTER 12: Communication and Conflict Resolution Skills...................................................18
CHAPTER 14: International and Culturally Diverse Aspects of Leadership...............................20
References:....................................................................................................................................24

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CHAPTER 1: The Nature and Importance of Leadership
Personal mission statement:
"I want to develop the critical leadership skills for me to help me get the best of organizations"
The Nature and Importance of Leadership
Leadership experiences Leadership is about implementing academic
thoughts at the most appropriate time at both the
institutional and the professional level (Bolman &
Deal, 2017). It is important for academic students
as well as to the professionals that they possess an
utmost level of leadership skills to help them justify
their candidature at the various levels of life. This
is like ways important to me as well for being a
skilled professional.
I have realized the necessity of developing the
leadership skills in me after being through the
several journal and book articles on the leadership
skills. This section is related to the first chapter of
the text which is ‘The Nature and Importance of
Leadership’. The chapter discusses the nature and
importance of leadership which has also helped me
to reflect on my personal experience regarding the
same matter.
I had a lot of experiences regarding the leadership
shortfalls in me while being into my first

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organization, the company where I worked for
nearly a year. I will discuss one of the experiences
that I had there. I had been assigned a task to find
out the error in stock details. The manual entries
had differed to the data captured in the tally
software. The task was not that difficult and could
have been done without much of a worry.
However, it was not a good experience to me
indeed. I not only failed in providing the details but
also had clashed with labors in the stock area.
Labors have had fewer concerns for matter which
was being highlighted by the company's manager.
Despite being absorbed in nature, I shouted at them
for their careless approach. Hence, they decided not
to cooperate in my task. I ended up finding the
errors in stock details.
The above experience that I have shared does
reflect on a few very important points like I should
have the relevant leadership traits in me. One of the
leadership traits is “prioritizing the
communication” (Antonakis & Day, 2017). Instead
of prioritizing the communication with labors, I had
a clash with them. I just jumped on to my point of
view. However, it could have been better if I had
relied on communicating with the labors. This may
have taken them in confidence which could have

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helped in establishing a bond between me and
labors. The picture could have been quite different
then. The single ignorance in terms of leadership
traits has influenced my performance as a stock
manager.
The incident has helped me to think on my
credibility as a professional stock manager. This is
the reason why I am looking to improve my
professionalism in regards to effective
communication. This is necessary for my career
ahead in the accounting firm as this will only open
up ways to get to the higher positions like the
senior supervisor.
CHAPTER 2: Traits, Motives, and Characteristics of Leaders
Traits, Motives, and Characteristics of Leaders
Personal leadership traits There is an ample number of leadership traits;
however, I possess only a few of them. The
leadership traits that I have are tough-mindedness,
enthusiasm, dominance, self-assurance and
compulsiveness.

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I am tough-mindedness as I can feel relaxed even
in challenging situations. I do not feel lost under
any circumstances. However, I have struggled in
my last organization but I have never found me
blaming the surrounding circumstances. I have
rather focused on identifying the loopholes in me.
I have enthusiasm which is also evident in my
work attitude. I want to complete my task within its
assigned deadline.
I am dominant; however, it sometimes happens for
wrong causes as I have found me in one of the
experiences that I have shared my communication
skills. I was dominating the labors in the
experience that I have shared. However, the
situation had needed a rather different approach to
effective communication skills.
I am good at self-assurance which is also evident
in the experience that I have with my previous
employer. I had then tried to find the errors in stock
on my own. It just reflects I have confidence on
self-assurance which is the one that has encouraged
me to improve my professional career to develop
the leadership traits in me.
I am also compulsive which is evident in the
example of my experience of working in my
previous organization. I had literally lost my

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control while interacting with the labors. It had cost
me then as I was not able to find the error in stock.
Leadership traits that I need to develop I need to work on few leadership traits that I am not
expertise with. Those few traits are leading with
passion, prioritizing the communication and
commitment to team building (Fairhurst &
Connaughton, 2014).
I need these traits, so that, I could groom my
professional career to become competitive in my
zone of the industry. Leading with passion is
something that never lets one down at every level
of life. It is the same way beneficial also at the
professional level. Passion to accomplish my roles
& responsibilities will make things easier and
provide a different set of perspectives like
challenging tasks will become easier and enjoyable
as well. Nevertheless, patience level is being tested
at the private levels.
Commitment to team building is another trait that
I need to develop. I have realized on several
occasions in past that I lack in team-building
capability. The very fact has influenced the
outcome of inspection that I had conducted in the
stock area to find the area of errors in the stocks.
Prioritizing communication is one of the traits
that I need desperately. If I had the element of

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appropriate communication skills in me, I could
have reacted differently to the incident which
occurred during the inspection conducted in the
stock area.
Analyzing the Traits, Motives, and
Characteristics of a Well-Known Leader
NFL coach, Bill Belichick is highly being known
as one of the greatest coaches of NFL (Rathwell,
Bloom & Loughead, 2014). There are several
points which distinguish Mr. Belichick from rest.
Such distinguished points are attitude &
personality, enabling everyone to thrive to success,
communication skills and team building capability
(Rathwell, Bloom & Loughead, 2014).
The leadership skills that Bill Belichick has
exhibited throughout his NFL career do indicate an
urgency to switch the various kinds of leadership
traits. Such leadership traits do not just separate
one from another but also produce a resonant
impact on his or her career as well as the associated
team.
CHAPTER 3: Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
Charismatic and Transformational Leadership
Charismatic leadership skills in me Charismatic leadership can be defined to have three
distinguishing characteristics like behaviors of

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presence, behaviors of power and behaviors of
warmth (Johnston & Marshall, 2016). I am good at
delivering charismatic leadership skills at the
workplace where I had worked in past. Whenever I
meet my colleagues, I have a very smiling
expression on my face. I do this to make them feel
that they are important to me. I am also confident
of fulfilling the expectations which my supervisors
have set for me. I can say that my body language is
very calm and composed. I usually appear
confident to others which is important also to
spread a positive message to the team.
Additionally, my colleagues had also liked me
though I had few flaws like it happened while I was
inspecting at the stock center.
Finding Inspirational Messages on a Social
Networking Site
This is really encouraging and helps to develop the
much-needed leadership traits which could be
important at the organizational level (Tourish,
2014). One of such examples is as below that has
impacted me as a person and as a professional:
The inspirational message was regarding the self-
development that had stated the importance of
collecting smaller things as they are doors to big
things. This means that in order to attain some
biggies in life, smaller things that may at times be
ignored should be collected to produce a much

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better impact. For an example, the communication
related laidback which I had executed while
conducting an inspection at the stock center in my
last organization. If at that time I had cared the
importance of effective communication, it could
have produced a rather different result.
This is sufficient to understand the importance of
being focused on big things while keeping a good
account of smaller aspects also. Building the blocks
of smaller attitudes will only help me to reach to
the bigger platforms where I will be able to deliver
the best of work from every perspective. In
addition to the fact, smaller things do also impact
the organizational outcome as this is quite evident
in my experience which I had while working with
labors in the stock zone.
CHAPTER 4: Leadership Behaviors, Attitudes, and Styles
Leadership Behaviors, Attitudes, and Styles
Four leadership task-oriented behaviors Task-oriented leadership skills are also very
important as it communicates the art of handling a
task (Collinson, 2014). The four task-oriented

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leadership skills that I have noticed are problem-
solving capability, identifying the appropriate
resources for every task, allocating the task
appropriately within the team and enquiring the
task progress (Daft, 2014).
1) Problem-solving skills:
This is very vital from the perspective of project
handling capability. The higher the one is capable
of solving the various kinds of problems, the
chances of projects being completed within the
time will also increase. For an example, in case of
an accounting work, if the stock executive is not
able to resolve the errors between the manual
entries and the system generated reports, the
executive will probably fail to identify the errors.
Consequently, this will hamper the company’s
revenue as it could not identify the errors in sales.
2) Identification of appropriate resources:
Identification of appropriate resources is another
very important task-oriented behavior which may
affect the entire project also. Suppose for an
example, the auditing of an accounting firm is
scheduled. It is an internal auditing which the
management will conduct to identify if there is any
error in stocks. The task indeed requires a good
knowledge of how to track the mismatch. This

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requires an effective accountant who can
deliberately work to find the errors in accounting
details. Additionally, this also requires an effective
involvement of labors at the stock side area as they
will supply the manual details of sales comparing
which with the system generated reports will only
make the actual errors identifiable. On a broader
aspect, if the firm does not have the idea of the
required resources, it will definitely end up getting
useless data on auditing.
3) Task allocation:
This is another very important skill which helps to
identify the best match for every single task.
Different tasks require distinguishing expertise
which means it is important to allocate the task to
the best deserving personnel. For an example, If an
accountant executive is new to job & has a very
less relative experience and if auditing is being
allocated to him or her, the project or the task will
probably collapse. The executive will face the
challenge to identify ways to tackle the situation.
This will not only affect the company's
performance but may also influence the
professional development of the newly joined
executive.