A Reflective Report on Dynamic Leadership Development and Application

This report reflects on the author's journey in developing dynamic leadership skills, starting from early childhood responsibilities to current roles as a project manager. It highlights the influence of family, mentors, and personal experiences in shaping leadership qualities. Challenges encountered, such as managing teams and resource constraints, are discussed alongside strategies for building a positive leadership image through honesty, integrity, and empowerment. The report incorporates insights from a Gallup strength finder assessment, revealing strengths in communication, inclusivity, and decision-making. The author reflects on a motivational leadership style, emphasizing teamwork and valuing workers. Key leadership capabilities, including motivation, innovation, accountability, and effectiveness, are explored, along with the importance of emotional intelligence and interpersonal skills. Relevant leadership theories, such as the Great Man theory, Contingency theory, Situational theory, and Participative theory, are briefly mentioned. Desklib provides access to this assignment and other resources for students.

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Executive summary.
The main aim of writing this report is to reflect on how I developed my ability to control,
organize and influence a group of people and how I acquired these skills before and after
realizing my potential as a leader that helps me to handle current roles and responsibility in the
organization I am currently working on. I have also highlighted the key aspects of my leadership
career in regard of people who influenced me to be whom I am today and how this skills that I
gained have helped me to create a positive image in my leadership as I deal with critical events
that I encounter in my career. I have also identified my leadership strength in terms of capability,
skills and emotional response in consideration of my partner comments on my leadership.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................4
My current leadership roles as the project manager........................................................................4
People who influenced me t leadership...........................................................................................5
Challenges I have encountered in my leadership............................................................................5
How I formed my leadership image................................................................................................6
Gallup strength finder leadership.....................................................................................................6
Reflecting on my leadership style, and effectiveness......................................................................6
My leadership capabilities...............................................................................................................7
Motivation....................................................................................................................................7
Innovation....................................................................................................................................7
Accountability..............................................................................................................................7
Effectiveness................................................................................................................................7
Interpersonal and social skills associated with my emotional intelligence.....................................7
Implications of the feedback from the partner and its significance.................................................7
Relevant theories associated with my leadership............................................................................8
Great man theory.............................................................................................................................8
Contingency theory......................................................................................................................8
Situational theory.........................................................................................................................8
Participative theory......................................................................................................................8
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
Reference.........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction.
My skills and ability to lead are deep rooted to my back ground, being a first born in the family
of four gave me the first platform of leadership by fate. I had to exercise the responsibility of
giving warnings to my little siblings on immoral behavior in absence of an adult and parents both
at home and playground like use of abusive language and mistreating others or engaging in risky
games that could lead to injuries. As my parents were busy working in the farm, I was busy
feeding and nursing my little ones, I was their head, I was their tale teller and the sergeant at arm
in case of indiscipline at that tender age (White, 2016).
By default every person belongs to a given religion, and the service at the sacred place is always
conducted in a well defined format. Although I was not lucky to lead this field, my religion
teacher and mentor taught me skills of life that are necessary to every human in order for him to
relate well with his creator and people, she always told us that we should prove wisdom like king
Solomon and be humble like Joseph the son of Jacob in the bible since I am a Christian. These
inspired me to practice good leadership not only when I grow up but even at that very teenage.
After joining my first education center the knowledge I acquired expanded my brain in terms of
reasoning and doing things, I realized that united people is better than one and initiated a
program on group discussion to help others grow one another’s academic performance. It’s after
appearing at the top of the class score list that the principal decided to evaluate my discipline
aspect which was obviously good for I exercised my church and teaching in all fields (Sotarauta,
2016). I was appointed as the student head with the responsibility of being the teacher’s eye on
their absence, reporting any indiscipline case and matters arising from the students.

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At my tertiary level of education, I was not involved in school leadership since I was tied up to a
dedication demanding social welfare club known as ‘Blessed Hand ’ with the main agenda of
giving back to the community and providing goods necessary for life to those who could not
afford them, this included food housing and clothing. However this organization was non-
governmental and relied entirely on donations from well-wishers. In one of the period the
institution was almost coming to an end due to lack of funding but I took a step a approaching
the county governor who decided to fully fund the organization for revival. This earned me
almost all the votes casted for the project manager when it came to election time.
My current leadership roles as the project manager.
As the project manager of Blessed Hand I am responsible of initiating, planning the project and
resources required in conjunction with strategy for team formation in order to finish the project
in the given timeline.
Am also responsible for estimating the period of time the project should take to complete, at
which cost and motivating workers through well defined transparent and just target (Bolden,
2011).
The role of activity planning and sequencing also falls in my hand. I give the directives on what
should be done next.
I identify the risks that may occur during the project activities.
When activities on the project commence I monitor their progress and produce a report to the
organization.
I check on quality at every step of the project to ensure quality.

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When the project is done, I do the documentation of the project and produce it to the
organization.
People who influenced me t leadership
My parents come first as they allocated me duties to handle while still young giving me a
platform to exercise responsibility of decision making. They also gave me the mentorship and
guidelines to ensure that I don’t end up making poor decision (Tepper, Dimotakis, Lambert,
Koopman, Matta, Park, Goo, 2018). My religion mentor also made a great contribution in
helping me realize myself and behave in expectation of the people without going against the law
of God.
Challenges I have encountered in my leadership.
At home where I began my leadership it was not easy to handle the young siblings since I did not
have enough exposure and experience. I entirely relied on the instructions from the parents of
which at time I had to forget.
At school being the teacher’s eye was even worse as some of the students viewed me as a spy
and even branded me a traitor.
At the current leadership level , working with a team is not easy as every person have their own
personalities, this leads to disagreement among the people who are expected to work in a team
manner, I therefore have the challenge of bringing them together whenever this happen.
At most cases the time factor is challenging to cope with, at some cases the weather and other
unstoppable natural happenings do not favor the project and it has to delay its time of
completion.

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At several cases I have initiated a project but the man power with proper skills is not available or
when available the charges are too high (Erkutlu, 2012).
Resources are the main challenge at Blessed Hand as we entirely rely on donations from well
wishers and we are not certain to get them.
How I formed my leadership image.
My honesty to my parents and teachers and the Christian teachings uniquely identified me as a
good leader. I have also excised integrity of high order all through. When Blessed Hand was
almost at the end point I took a confident step of approaching the governor for assistance (Wang,
Ahmed, (2007).
I encourage and empower every member of the team to create confidence in what I believe they
can because success is easily achieved when one have confidence in what he is doing through
appreciation. Am also timely in response to issues affecting team mate and resolve them wisely
to make sure that everything is right to the best.
Gallup strength finder leadership.
Every step in leadership counts and success of a leader is accounted on all he does. From Gallup
strength finder, it came to my realization that I posses special and unique skill not possessed by
many leaders. My ability of fluent communication when addressing my team mates is one of
them, I noticed that am a fluent speaker and therefore communication is easy in my leadership
career. It also came to my notice that I don’t practice discrimination of any kind based on any
factor like personal skills and capabilities age, gender or skin color (Ensley, Hmieleski, Pearce,
2006).I also realized that I promote team work through inclusivity and open participation of team

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work where they air their ideas to make the feel they count in that team. This boosts their morale
of work to achieve the goals of the organization they contributed to set.
I was surprised on noting I am an influential and wise decision maker and the revival of the
Blessed Hand through seeking of the government support was given as an example. When it
comes to assigning duties and compensation, it was reported that I have a strait exercise of
equity. It was also let to know that I don’t compromise myself when subjected to two equal
opposite forces and I instead take my time and give the ever best decision that is applicable
(Dierendonck, 2011).
Reflecting on my leadership style, and effectiveness.
I practice a motivational leadership style in every aspect with an objective of mutual benefit of
the team, organization and myself also. I am dedicated to deliver and influence team mates
through motivation to follow the same (Fausing, Jeppe Jeppesen, Jønsson, Lewandowski, Bligh,
2013). I focus mainly on leading the team to deliver the best. I value the workers than my
leadership position because I understand I can’t achieve the goals of the organization alone. This
strengthens my relationship with those I lead and create confidence in what they deliver, it has
also helped maintain desirable morals and respect to the authority instead of fearing it.
My leadership capabilities.
Motivation.
This is my key component of leadership, I always strive to inspire workers to develop desire to
achieve. This has helped me to timely accomplishment of organization goals.

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Innovation.
I am a leader of fast adaptation to change in all aspect. When one way doesn’t seem to work out
well I am fast to embrace the change for better on aspects pertaining the technology, weather and
workers relation with the administration and other workers (Smith, Cockburn, 2014)..
Accountability.
I am not obsessed by the position of leadership I hold, I own the outcome and therefore struggles
to make it the best.
Effectiveness.
I am the kind of a leader who rollup sleeves and participate to work to show the workers I am not
only a decision maker but can also do it. I tend not to set unachievable goals pushing workers to
the wall and I also accept my mistake and take proper measures to collect myself. I am not power
selfish, help others to glow leadership.
Interpersonal and social skills associated with my emotional intelligence.
I tend to have much concern with the workers say and listen to them well, this helps me get into
touch with the demanding situation and learn the challenges workers could be going through and
define a clear conclusion on whether they are angry, happy, frustrated or they have even given up
on achieving their goals (Eisenhardt, Martin, 2000). Also I observe the behaviors of the workers
and the trend in way of doing things, this helps me to obtain first hand information on what need
to be done next in order to maintain the scope of the project and accomplish it on time. I am a
manager of negotiation with the worker to arrive at a favorable decision for all of us because I
understand that giving directives every time can create a sense of dictatorship which workers do
not work well on. When responding to issues don’t let my emotions to get control of me. I hate

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as situation of responding to workers with excitement because this can lead to making promises
beyond the scope of fulfillment. When it comes to anger it can cause a response that will lead to
all time regret and due to this reason I don’t let my emotions to control me.
Implications of the feedback from the partner and its significance.
I recognize and acknowledge the every employee in my leadership to create favorable workers,
work and management environment to enhance easy goals achieving. I also value motivation of
individuals and group to boost their morale and maintain a positive image towards work. I have
always maintained my dignity, honesty and accountability in my leadership style and appreciate
workers who brought the success to the project (Foti, Epitropaki, 2017). In addition I have tried
at all levels to avoid discrimination at work both by the management and team mates to create
confidence and contentment of workers at work.
Relevant theories associated with my leadership.
Great man theory.
I was born with the leadership quality. This theory assumes that some people are born with
leadership in them and they acquired this characteristic through inheritance.
Contingency theory.
This theory focuses to particular aspects of environment that determines the type of leadership to
employ (Bolden, 2011). It claims good leaders should be able to assess the needs of the followers
and adjust their leadership accordingly.

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Situational theory.
This theory states that the decision of the leader on what actions to take depends on the situation
at hand and the leader uses his experience to make decision or seek for help from experts.
Participative theory.
This theory argues that the best leadership style is the one that allows all the participants to
contribute in decision making (Foti, Hansbrough, Epitropaki, Coyle,2017).
Conclusion.
This reflexive study has been an eye opener on leadership and what it takes a leader to be termed
the best. I have also learnt several things that will I need to change in my leadership style and
identified my strength in this field. I have realized that leadership is not all about being in
position of power and making decisions alone, there is need to include others workers in decision
making process.

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