Leadership Self-Analysis Report: Analyzing Four Key Areas of Focus

This report delves into the critical aspects of self-leadership, emphasizing the importance of self-awareness for effective leadership. It highlights four key areas: focusing on strengths, identifying weaknesses, understanding the 'dark side,' and recognizing emotional triggers. The report underscores the value of recognizing and leveraging personal strengths, while also acknowledging and addressing weaknesses through strategies like seeking feedback and self-reflection. Furthermore, it explores the impact of the 'dark side' on leadership capabilities and suggests strategies for managing it. Finally, it stresses the importance of recognizing emotional triggers to maintain composure in stressful situations. The report concludes that self-awareness is essential for personal growth and leadership effectiveness, encouraging readers to avoid stagnation and continuously develop their influential capabilities. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand and improve their leadership skills, offering insights into self-analysis and personal development.

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Four Areas in Leadership for Self-Analysis
Leadership is of different style it is all about leading people, organization, or leading your own
self. One must lead his own self for betterment but lack of self-awareness cause the diminished
self-leadership. The ability of being influential will harm by this diminishing effect, it clears that
lacking of self-awareness will diminish person’s ability to lead himself.
Self-awareness to focus on your Strength
We can easily discover our strength by paying full attention to work. In order to discover
strength, peoples must analyze when they feel more energetic. Discovering your strength
basically enhanced leadership qualities. We can easily sharp our strength by focusing on
interpersonal and communication skills. Focusing on strengths able an individual to understand
that how passion, spiritual gifts, skills and personality work together in shaping their personality
(Kerns, 2017).
Self-awareness to focus on your Weaknesses
Discovering weakness builds humility, this basically helps to understand which sort of projects a
persons must avoid. A person can recognize his weakness by interacting with family, friends and
co-workers. By sharing your experience with others and asking them what they should by putting
themselves in those scenarios, this basically clarify the other perceives weaknesses. Identifying
major weakness is influential for person to demonstrate best abilities (Larsson, 2016).
Self-awareness to focus on your Dark-Side
Self-leadership enables person to deal with his dark sides that effect abilities of leadership. This
step of dealing with dark side requires a multi-pronged approach. This approach helps to:
 Understand dark side of yourself that effect leadership abilities
 Examine growth regularly by setting up accountability with partners
 Try to share about your dark side with family and friends.
The worst part of self-awareness is to understand about your dark side. There is a need to work
on your darker side. This can be possible by picking up an effective strategy in order to shine in
dark places of leadership (Neck, 2016).

Self-awareness to focus on your Emotional Triggers
The level of anxiety in an individual is the reflection that reflects anxiety in other as well. It is
important to focus on situations that trigger anxiety. Some situation may incudes:
 A well-developed action plan cannot be followed during meetings
 One might be working with person who demonstrate less competent than person
 There is no fun related thing seen around the corner of long day
But knowing about your emotional triggers can enables person to develop such strategies to keep
calm in panic situations. Try to be a less anxious person even in the stressful situations (Shribeg,
2016).
Hence the self-awareness growth is critical to one’s own growth of leadership. These
demonstrate an essential change in others as well. Don’t stagnate yours influential side because
of lack of self-knowledge.

References
Kerns (2017). Leader Personality at Work: A Key Individual Difference Domain. International Leadership
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Larsson, (2016). Self-leadership in managerial work: the case of middle managers.
Neck (2016). Self-leadership: The definitive guide to personal excellence. SAGE Publications.
Shriberg, M. (2016). Sustainability leadership programs in higher education: alumni outcomes and
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