Essay: Analyzing Positive Leadership and Reflection (MNG91211)

This essay analyzes the concept of a positive leader, focusing on the importance of self-reflection in influencing employee outcomes. The essay, written in response to an assignment brief, explores how reflection allows leaders to generate meaning from experiences, leading to improved leadership qualities and better performance. It discusses the significance of reflection as a psychological capital and its role in identifying strengths and weaknesses. The assignment aimed to analyze an intervention designed to increase employee outcomes through reflection, as required by the MNG91211 course. The author reflects on the presentation conducted to cover the aspects of positive leadership and self-reflection and highlights areas for improvement, such as time management and providing more detailed information.

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It is of a great concern for the organizations to develop effective leaders and leadership
behavior. A positive leaders has various aspects which makes her/him the leader who is able to
influence employees. Employees tend to perform with excellence when they are led by a positive
leaders. There are several qualities that positive leaders possess which makes them achieve the
goals of the organization along with their team and other employees (Day et al. 2014). One of the
significant quality of positive leader is self-reflection. “Reflection is the intermediate that allows
people to generate meaning from an experience … The outcomes of reflection include behavioral
intentions and new insights… Through reflection on obtained feedback, learners become aware
of their strengths and weaknesses and can take targeted action to improve their performance.
Moreover, reflection supports the learner in dealing with unexpected or negative feedback:”
(Sparr, Knipfer and Willems 2017).
Reflection is quality of positive leader and the goal is to emphasis the way reflection
helps in building the leadership qualities in a person (Mortensen et al. 2014). The goal was
successfully achieved since the presentation was able to cover the entire related aspects of the
positive leader that includes self-reflection as one of the main component. Reflection acts as a
major psychological capital. The targeted audiences were the people who aim to work in
organization in future and the people who are currently working in organizations and are willing
to take leadership positions in their respective organization. To state simply the presentation was
conducted covering the important aspects of a positive leader. Therefore, the presentation was
able to give information that the audience were seeking regarding the leadership qualities.
However, further details would enhance the presentation. Also, time management of the
presentation would have been better while conducting the presentation.

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Reference:
Day, D.V., Fleenor, J.W., Atwater, L.E., Sturm, R.E. and McKee, R.A., 2014. Advances in
leader and leadership development: A review of 25 years of research and theory. The Leadership
Quarterly, 25(1), pp.63-82.
Mortensen, J., Lichty, L., Foster‐Fishman, P., Harfst, S., Hockin, S., Warsinske, K. and
Abdullah, K., 2014. Leadership through a youth lens: Understanding youth conceptualizations of
leadership. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(4), pp.447-462.
Sparr, J.L., Knipfer, K. and Willems, F., 2017. How leaders can get the most out of formal
training: The significance of feedback‐seeking and reflection as informal learning
behaviors. Human Resource Development Quarterly, 28(1), pp.29-54.