Leadership Essay: Effective Leadership Plan, Vision, and Goals

This essay explores the development of effective leadership, focusing on the author's personal journey and plans. It begins by defining the author's vision to be a reliable leader who embodies both servant and transformational leadership styles. The essay then outlines specific goals, including fostering organizational growth, enhancing communication, and motivating team members. An action plan is presented, utilizing the SMART strategy to make goals specific, measurable, attainable, relevant, and time-based. The plan includes focusing on diversity, teamwork, and collaboration, tracking progress, and seeking mentorship. The essay emphasizes the importance of continuous self-reflection and professional development to achieve the vision of becoming an effective leader. The author highlights the importance of communication and motivation to achieve the set goals. The essay concludes by emphasizing the author's commitment to the action plan, including seeking mentorship and using the self-selection method to identify and correct negative patterns.

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Everyone can be, but effective leadership requires the commitment in terms of
professional excellence as well as integrity. Therefore to an effective leader’s one must
establish a habit of self-reflection, professional development along with life-long learning
(Cooper 2015). As an individual who is aiming to be an effective leader, I have learned that
coming up with efficient development plans is part of the journey towards effective
leadership. It is essential to reflect on the current crop of leaders and the trend of leadership
and examine whether they meet the objectives of a great leader. For instant great business
leaders are expected to develop a vision, own the vision in an articulated manner to drive it to
completion (Nguyen, Mia, Winata, and Chong 2017). I believe effective leadership is one
that combines servant and transformative leadership styles. In this paper I will explain how I
will transform into an effective leader through establishing a vision, setting goals and
objective as well as creating an action plan that will enable my dream come true.
Vision
My vision is to be a leader who can deliver services to every member of my
organization with due diligence as a reliable and effective leader. I am working towards
being a leader whose emulate servant leadership style but with the minds and traits of a
transformational leader. It is imperative to note that transformational leadership has been
branded as the most effective leadership styles that could be used in most business situations
(Amanchukwu, Stanley, and Ololube 2015). Following this theory of effective leadership, I
believe that my skills, as well as plans, are inclined towards developing as a transformation
leader. It has to be noted that a transformational leader is one who believes in changes that
transform the entire organization to implement changes that would benefit the company from
the future market trends (Nguyen, Mia, Winata, and Chong 2017). In the course of learning

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about different leadership skills and understanding the central leadership theories I believe
that I have become a more effective leader.
My experience both as a transformational and servant leaders has seen me provide
directions to members of my team. There are many occasions whereby I was selected to be a
team leader while working on completing a project. Therefore, as an effective leader, I
worked towards ensuring that providing direction to all the junior members of the team. The
fact that I was in the top position, my aim was always to drive the team to greater heights of
success by making sure that we achieved our set goal as well as objectives promptly
(Anderson and Sun 2017). Furthermore, I learned I had gained effective communication
skills which have come in handy while finding a solution or solving problems facing the
team.
Objective
An effective leader is supposed to sponsor the growth of his or her organisation. I
have played an essential role in the past in ensuring that all my team members obtained
higher scores. However, in the future, I will aim at ensuring that every person in my
organization grows with the firms by inoculating an organisational culture that boosts self-
confidence (Aktas, Gelfand, and Hanges 2016). I do understand that as a transformational
leader I have to help all the members of the company since it will help in not only the
development of their careers but also the more effortless transformation of the company
toward a successful future. All this can be achieved with a smooth flow of communication
between the managers and the staff members. Therefore, as an effective leader, I will aim to
enhance communication through investment in management and communication training to
streamline communication between employees and their leaders.
Smooth and respectful interaction between employees would foster good mood
among the workers. When everyone in the organization is happy, he or she would be

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motivated towards supporting the objective of the organization. An effective leader is one
who is dedicated to motivating his or her followers to focus on achieving their set goal
(Asrar-ul-Haq and Kuchinke 2016). Even though excellent communication can motivate the
workers, encouraging them and offering alternative ways that could assist them efficiently
achieve their goals is an effective way if motivation. This would create an environment that
promotes changes as well as increased productivity in the company since every employee
would be motivated to work hard and achieve their goals (Iqbal, Anwar, and Haider 2015).
Action Plan
As I work towards being an effective leader, I have learned that developing an action
plan would help me attain my visions and objectives. To attain the set objective, I will use
the SMART strategy.
Making the goals specific
To attain my leadership objectives, I will ensure that the set goals, as well as action,
are more specific. In this case, I will focus on developing diversity, teamwork, collaboration
as well as transformation in my leadership methods (Gotsis and Grimani 2016). I will focus
on achieving all these factors form my leadership plan to be successful.
Making the objectives measurable
To make sure that my leadership objectives are measurable, I will measure my
progress by the use of the checklist method by recording all the leadership determinant and
activities. I will keep track of all new leaders so that I monitor possible mentors.
Making the leadership objectives attainable, relevant, and time-based
To an effective leader, I have to set goals that would be attainable. It is imperative
to note that there will be challenges, but the commitment and hard work would be the key to
my success. However, it would be a waste of time to set up a goal that is not relevant to my
set objectives. Thus, I will ensure that my goals are relevant by watching all possible role

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model and work towards emulating them as mentors. Before, my graduation, I believe I
would have attained the relevant experience and skills to make me an effective leader.
Besides the SMART strategy, I aim to work closely with my mentors. It is noted that
the services offered by mentors in any company are essential towards enhancing the
development of others. Working with a mentor will equip me with fundamental skills as well
as competencies that are needed for one to be a top-level manager (Frankel, and PGCMS
2019). During my internship, I will seek the assistance of experienced employees while
watching the operations of the top management closely. Finally, I will use the self-selection
method in identifying negative patterns in my path towards attaining effective leadership
skills. This would help maintain consistency.

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