Personal Reflection on Leadership and Thought Leadership Assignment

This essay provides a personal reflection on leadership and thought leadership, incorporating Bloom's Taxonomy to evaluate various definitions and frameworks. It explores the challenges leaders face within organizations, including developing managerial effectiveness, inspiring diverse teams, fostering employee development, and managing change and stakeholders. The author reflects on their own characteristics as a thought leader, identifies areas for improvement, and outlines their learning objectives for the course. The essay draws on course materials and additional sources, offering a comprehensive analysis of leadership concepts and their practical application. The author also touches upon the challenges faced by leaders in managing changes, mobilizing teams and dealing with the stakeholders and their reactions to change. The essay also includes a discussion on the importance of delegation, assessment, and reward systems to maximize efficiency and value creation within an organization.

LEADERSHIP

Introduction
This essay elaborates personal reflection and the thought leadership, which has been included in
the application of Bloom`s Taxonomy in order to evaluate, and analyze varied definitions of
leadership. This describes various challenges faced by a leader within the organization, which
they are serving. Bloom`s taxonomy is well-known type of learning (Adner, 2016). It is a way of
learning through a level of cognitive thinking skills, which want students to learn specific
materials (Adner, 2016).
Bloom`s taxonomy undertakes to proper understanding of relative concepts such as knowledge,
classify, compare, indicate, translate, associate, explore, explain, infer, paraphrase, and discuss.
Further, it is important to understand, classify, relate, extend, translate, and finally apply, solve,
relate, discover, involve, and calculate. At last, it evaluates, reframe, appraise, prioritize plans,
re-design and support. I as a leader faced a lot of issues in managing the challenges within the
organization. I tries to bring innovation thoughts and ideas that can motivate great success
(Esters, Washington, Gasman, Commodore, O’Neal, Freeman, and Jimenez, 2016). I face issues
in developing organizational effectiveness, inspiring people, developing leadership among the
employees, guiding changes, and managing internal stakeholders. Development of managerial
effectiveness is the challenge to enhancing relevant skills in terms of time management, strategic
thinking, decision making and catch the speed complying with the job to become more effective.
Inspiring variety of people coming from different cultures is quite difficult but I had to apply
different theories as per the type of personality by ensuring work satisfaction and smart working.
Development of employees is biggest challenge faced by leaders inclusive of coaching and
mentoring. Leading a team is one of the main challenge faced by me in regards to make the team
more effective in terms of building it, developing the team, and managing the team. Certain

challenges faced include issues in huge team, or opt any decision over the whole team. A leader
faces the challenges to manage, mobilize, lead the teams and understand it. Directing the changes
lead to the mitigation of challenges, dealing with the changes, overcome the resistance to change
the situation, deal to mitigate the risks, overcome several resistance to changes. I faced another
issues with the management of stakeholders, relationships, gain managerial support, managing
up, dealing with the employees and their reaction to change (Schooley, 2019). I faced many
issues while issues while managing the people who belong diverse culture. Thought leaders are
also known as informed opinion leaders and approach people to expertise their fields. A thought
leader opt for SMART approach where I can specify, measure, attain, specific, and time the
goals (Schooley, 2019). In order to become an effective leader, I specified some crucial details in
the accomplishment of goals, decide the appropriate targets, quantify to assess the progress,
make sure that it understand whatever you like to in terms of resources, talent and resources
while achieving it in a definite time. These leaders can be trusted that can motivate people with
innovative ideas, turn the vision into reality, and replicate it in success. While maximizing the
efficiency, it not just the efficiency of a leader that make the organization effective (Schooley,
2019). A leader can also delegate the preferences, understand them, and know people, directing,
reporting, developing, and allowing them to accomplish them in such a way to understand
people. Delegation helps to delegate workload, develop the reports to allow them so to learn and
grab. The main of tasks purpose is to enhance its meaning in order to align the goals with
individual and its purpose within the team and beliefs (Marques, 2015). Delegation helps to
direct the development of reports to learn on new tasks. Delegation can be an opportunity to
undertake a personal growth. Assessment and reward system is directly related to reports and its
help to develop and complete the task properly and reward them at the same time (Marques,

2015). It maximizes the unique value by giving importance to the tasks they conduct. It will be
appropriately more conducting and competitive for my attention as compared to time and energy.
Prioritize some important tasks accordingly or delegate them according to the talents you find it
in the meetings (Brosseau, 2019). Leaders can lead to creation of value for the company by
focusing unique contribution that one can make and maximizing the value to the company. It is
important to understand the core responsibilities regarding their role which impose secondary
responsibilities and work from where it belong to (Brosseau, 2019). One cannot stop people from
demonstrating to opt for additional projects and tasks regarding incentives. This directs how
important is the communication of messages as organization demands several demands towards
leaders, initiate the changes, conduct difficult decisions, and impart vision. In order to meet the
demands, leaders are quite adaptable and flexible (Brosseau, 2019).

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