Reflection of Leadership Styles in My Workplace

Part 1 “Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal”. For this goal to be achieved, mutual cooperation and cohesive behaviour is important. Whatever the leader does, affects its followers. Issues can occur when becoming a leader. These issues can be external, internal and from the challenges of leadership itself. External challenges can mean lack of funding, opposition from community, interpersonal problems or competition from other organizations. Internal challenges can happen based on our emotions such as fear, lack of confidence and insecurity within the organization. Challenges that arise from leadership itself are simply based on the responsibilities that are carried by the leaders. With too much responsibility, one can become burdened and pressured which can lead to issues within the organization.

I work at an after school school-based student care in Wellington Primary School under the company “Pro-Teach Student Care” and have been working for about a year now as a form teacher. After school school-based student cares are popular and high in demand as it is convenient for parents especially in a one-session school. In mid 2013, the company I work at had to go through bidding with other competing student cares requested by the school we were based on. This occurred as Pro-Teach was under a 2-year contract and we had to bid again to keep our spot in the school. The bid was also because the school had little satisfaction with the programs we provided. With many other competing student cares, my manager being the protagonist was in a dilemma and had trouble convincing the school that she would slot in more programs to meet the satisfaction. The fact that our jobs...

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...e student care, the teachers would feel more motivated to work harder to portray the student care in a positive light towards the school board. Also, if the school board knows that parents are more familiar with the current student care, the school would reconsider and keep Pro-Teach on the priority list. The positive impact on this situation displays that the protagonist had shown good and proper leadership skills that led helped the student care to stay.

Displaying the right leadership skills is always important in an organization or in a team. Without proper and appropriate leadership skills, the team or organization can become corrupted without a specific direction to do tasks and also can result in goals and tasks to be unachievable. However, while displaying leadership skills, a leader should also display affection and understanding towards subordinates.