Leadership Vision: Managing an Auditing Firm in 5-10 Years - LEADER 4

This assignment presents a student's vision for their future as a leader managing an auditing firm within the next 5-10 years. The student envisions leading teams, resolving conflicts, motivating team members, and effectively communicating strategic goals. The assignment identifies strengths such as good communication, creativity, and charisma, while also recognizing areas for development like building relationships and driving for results. Key objectives for leadership development include enhancing strategic thinking and improving time management. The student references leadership theories and concepts to support their vision, emphasizing the importance of adapting leadership styles to different situations and fostering a positive work environment to achieve organizational goals. The student also emphasizes the importance of employee retention and commitment to the firm's objectives. The assignment includes references to relevant leadership literature.

Running head: LEADER 1
Leader.
Student Name
Institution

LEADER 2
Everyone wants to be a leader in one way or another. In five to ten years, I will be a
leader managing a well-recognized auditing firm in this country. This will involve managing the
team I will be working with because auditing tasks are performed by groups to effectively
examine client issues well. This means that I will find myself in different situations that will
require the use of leadership skills to tackle them (Daft, 2014). The situations include solving
conflicts in my team effectively, motivating my team members, communicating the team goals to
the team and even use authority to give directions and instructions that are best for the team and
the whole firm because sometimes it is good to use the authority.
My followers will describe me as a person who develops strategic goals for the team and
effectively communicates the goals to the team. They will also describe me as a leader who uses
innovative ways to ensure that different tasks are accomplished and also allows team members to
use their creativity to accomplish tasks. The followers will describe me as a person who leads by
example and listens to ideas and opinions of other people and gives advice where necessary.
My leadership strength includes good communication skills which will help me to
communicate well with the team and the firm when giving instructions for accomplishing
different tasks. The other strength is that I am creative and innovative. This attribute will enable
me to search for new solutions for different tasks and this will help in solving different complex
client problems (Day, et al.2014). The other leadership strength is personal charisma. This
attribute will help me to inspire the team and motivate the firm all the time. This will ensure that
the firm has the needed energy that will help the firm to accomplish the set goals and objectives.
The motivation will help in employee retention, and that staff will be more committed to the
auditing firm’s objectives.

LEADER 3
To become an effective leader, some leadership attributes need further development so
that one can lead his followers well. The attributes requiring further development include
building relationships. This will involve being issues affecting employees and showing concern.
This makes employees feel more valued and become high performers and helps the organization
achieve its goals (Zaccaro, Kemp, & Bader, 2004). A good relationship with employees can also
affect the results of the organization because the staff may fail to meet deadlines. This will affect
the operations of the team and the firm as a whole, and that is the reason I need to develop this
attribute so that I can be able to balance between showing concern and getting tasks
accomplished. The other attribute to be developed include driving for results.
Important objectives for my leadership development include taking my strategic thinking
to a higher level. Achieving this objective will enable me to formulate strategic plans that will
enable me to grow the auditing firm (Rock, 2014). The other objective will be to improve my
time management. This will help me to stop wasting valuable time and focus my energy on
valuable activities that will help the team.

LEADER 4
References
Daft, R. L. (2014). The leadership experience. Cengage Learning.
Day, D. V., Fleenor, J. W., Atwater, L. E., Sturm, R. E., & McKee, R. A. (2014). Advances in
leader and leadership development: A review of 25years of research and theory. The
Leadership Quarterly, 25(1), 63-82.
Rock, D. (2014). Quiet leadership. HarperCollins e-books.
Zaccaro, S. J., Kemp, C., & Bader, P. (2004). Leader traits and attributes. The nature of
leadership, 101, 124.