Understanding how to respond appropriately while facing adversity and diversity is essential in order to more ably contend with potentially encountered challenges and conflicts. The current reflection paper identifies, highlights, and demonstrates some significant aspects of how course materials positively influenced future leadership skills, capabilities, and overall core competencies. Although terms like leadership, ethics, and change are extremely elusive, conflict resolution pertains to overcoming situational and contextual barriers. There was a diverse array of topics discussed throughout the reading materials and many topics are especially applicable to the current working environment. A particularly influential subject …show more content…
Relatively speaking, successful people are generally goal setters, “organized, efficient, confident, and well prepared” (de Janaz, Dowd, & Schneider, 2012, p.55). Goal identification and achievement are extremely important attributes when objectives are complex and comprehensive. In addition to completing the course requirements, studying heavily for a securities exam and an agency acquisition encompass most of daily activities. Prioritizing goals and objectives relies upon simultaneously monitoring thoughts, feelings, actions, and behaviors (de Janaz, Dowd, & Schneider, 2012). Some imperative behaviors essential for goal setting outlined throughout course materials suggest making goals challenging, maintaining a positive attitude, starting out with smaller steps which can be more effectively managed, taking full responsibility for the results, and always persevering towards accomplishing goals (de Janaz, Dowd, & Schneider, 2012). All of these suggestions are applicable towards accomplishing overarching goals, objectives, mission, and vision. Really enjoyed reading about the goal writing acronym SMART, which stands for “specific, measurable, attainable/believable, realistic/achievable, and time bound” (de Janaz, Dowd, & Schneider, 2012, p.59). These types of strategies are especially important when personal and professional life entails having very broad based initiatives which desirably need to become more focused and concentrated towards ethically achieving the most desirable
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Leadership constantly presents challenges to the leader’s abilities. Changes occur in the organization environment, disrupting the equilibrium. The approach a leader uses to handle and manage challenges effectively, greatly determine the success of the organization (Hall and Hord, 2006). In the modern-day organizations, challenges come in the form of people and obstacles that prevent the organization from reaching its goals. Moreover, there are a lot of complexity and unpredictability. New set of skills is required for the organization to stay competitive and achieve the set goals. Hence, the life of a modern-day leader is more demanding than ever (Kouzes and Posner, 2006).
SLC has introduced a new perspective on a wide variety of topics. The recurring theme of relational leadership allowed me to critically analyze myself and the extent of which I personally live up to its intended benefits. Perhaps the biggest realization for me throughout the course of the semester was my strength in leading ethically but my inability to diversify. As the past leader of a religious youth group, I believe that I have done well in staying true to ethical leadership, however I have also seen how differences in belief and culture can make individuals feel, especially if they are an odd one out.
There are a myriad of publications available to assist with leadership issues. Most consistently refer to the specialized skills and traits needed to be an effective leader. Choosing a leader with these specialized skills is only part of the challenge facing organizations today. Providing effective training for new and existing leaders is becoming increasingly important. Such training should include recommendations on how to plan for and address real-world scenarios as well as examples of situations that may occur in order to strengthen comprehension. Leadership training should be viewed as a process, not a one-time event. Training leaders on how to plan and deal with obstacles, as well as how to motivate and inspire employees is critical to organizational success. Leadership should be a focus at all levels of the company whether it would be individual, departmental, or organizational. The key to successful leadership is to create a sense of belonging by getting all parties involved.
Over the recent four months in Communication 1402 class, I have addressed three formal speechs and completed a number of chapters in the corresponding textbook “Communication Works”. This course of Communication aims to provide general information what public speaking is and how to address a public speaking. Recalling back the experience during the processes of completing the Speech to Imform, Speech to Persuade, and Group Presentation, I will draw a conclusion about this course and these three presentations in five aspects, comprising my previous perception of public speaking before this course; learning from the Speech to Inform; the goal and evaluation of Speech to Persuade; learning from the Group Presentation; the most important thing learned from this course.
One of the best ways to follow a successful path is to set goals for yourself. They are important to keep yourself on task and to get to a desired point of self fulfillment. The issue can be how to achieve goals in a successful manner. The issue is "Although people may desire or intend to attain some outcome, they are not committed to that as a goal until they are willing to invest affect, cognition, and behavior in attaining it" (Traci Mann, 2013). This is why it is important to have a set path on how to accomplish important goals. I have chosen three goals that I want to accomplish to demonstrate a Process known as SMART, to help accomplish them. There goals are that I want to finally earn a college degree(personal), I want to make it into the honor society while earning my degree(academic), and I want to earn my degree in order to contribute to Autism research(professional). All of these goals range in the amount of time it will take to accomplish them. Some are long term, but I can still use the SMART goal process in order to achieve them. The SMART steps to follow are:
As one continues to read, one will find my thoughts on the connection between leadership and conflict resolution. Is there a connection to this? Lastly, a brief statement about how I have applied and will continue to apply the leadership skills acquired in this coursework. She knows that to become the one of the best leaders, she has to remain committed to renew learning daily, seek mentorship, and be flexible to change (Kouzes & Posner, 2012, p. 334).
Reflective Practice is a continuous action that directly affects anyone who is a practitioner. Jasper (2006, p. 53) argued that the benefit to the profession is in the development of the nursing knowledge base and in the recognition that nurses are contributing to both patient care and improved practice. Further, Jasper (2006, p. 43) explains that Reflective Practice is the foundation upon which reflection and reflective learning are based. Jasper illustrated this process graphically with the following Reflective Process equation.
goals which is an acronym for specific, measurable, action, realistic, and time. Smart goals should be goals that are clear with a specific end result, may be measured and tracked, have specific actions that are necessary for the goal to be achieved, have a time limit and be a realistic goal for the individual. When referring to SMART goals, I made my goal to have a GPA of a 3.7 or higher by the end of the fall semester. My goal as a whole was to become more self-aware by practicing different strategies to assess and discover what learning style, learning habits, and thinking patterns work more effectively. To reach this goal, I said that I would, and I did, to begin work on an assignment on the day it was given out for at least 30 minutes, to make note cards on the notes taken that day every time I received notes, and that I would have all study materials for a test ready 3 days before the examination. I still have not received my final grade for any class, but I will know that I have achieved my goal when I have a 3.7 or higher GPA. I believe that every student should achieve, in one way or another, a piece of every student success definition, to assure that the student is well rounded. To achieve each of the student success definitions a student should use the S.M.A.R.T. goal method to guarantee that they will achieve success in each way possible. I do not know yet for sure if I have achieved my goal yet, but
“Success is not a brilliant strategy; it’s about a brilliant execution (Womack, C.D. 2003,10 page 48).” Goal setting can lead to success through motivation. Establishing what are called, SMART Goals is one way to set up motivation through goals. SMART stands for; specific, measurable, attainable, relevant and
As a result of this course, I have a better understanding of what it means to lead others. In this essay I will overview topics including leadership competencies, ethical environments, and organizational communication, to demonstrate the knowledge I have compounded. These topics will be discussed in the context of my previous job with Walmart in order to apply concepts to real world experiences. During the relatively short time I worked for Walmart, I experienced my instances of poor leadership. This essay will examine these experiences and offer potential solutions to leadership inadequacies.
To begin, goal setting has always been a priority in my life, and I couldn’t agree more with Sanger-Harris that the characteristics of effective goals are through using SMART goals. SMART stands for Specific, Measurable, Attainable, Realistic, and Time-bound; these goals are not only beneficial to an individual, but incorporating them in the workplace has an even greater impact. A SMART goal I have been working toward is graduating college. This goal of mine is no doubt a SMART goal, and I look forward to the day it is achieved. Along with this treasured goal, my workplace sets monthly goals for the employees to reach, and the opportunity to achieve these goals as a team is very motivating. In fact, my coworkers and I just received a cash bonus for meeting our sales goals for the entire month of July!
I have always been one to spend my time watching things that others wouldn 't think to watch. I have seen things like “The Wind Rises” by Hayao Miyazaki, “Queen” by Vikas Bahl and my favorite “Mary Kom” by Omung Kumar. From documentaries to animes, to silent films. I have dabbled in a little of everything so far. I am known to watch a few of these to pass my summer as well. So, when it came time to watch the foreign film “The Lives of Others” directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck, I was fully aware of what to expect. From the subtitles to funny English accents, to sharpening my skill of being able to read the words and focus on the action at hand. You could say I 'm somewhat of an expert in those areas. Thank you anime! The movie was
One effective method used to enhance self-awareness and clarifying where you are now in your leadership capabilities is through reflection (Jones & Bennett, 2012). Applying this method of reflection to my leadership development has made me assess both my capabilities and learning needs as a leader. This has consequently allowed me to become aware of my strengths, attributes and limitations as a practice leader. Self-awareness is crucial in refining and developing leadership performance. One way that I was able to reflect on this was by doing a SWOT analysis. A SWOT analysis refers to the examination of one’s strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats. It is a tool used to identify internal strengths and weaknesses, as well as its external
we don’t know them, is crucial. In this paper, I define compassion as a process of noticing others suffering, appraising its significance, feeling empathetic concern, acting towards alleviating their pain and learning from the experience. Each step of the process is discussed as follows: