Reflective Essay On Leadership

In this course, one of the main things I have learnt about is Stauffachers leadership context and principles. I have always understood what makes a good leader on the soccer field, its someone who takes responsibility and comes up with the goods when the team is struggling. However this course has allowed me to look more into the leadership qualities. The first is purpose, if you are leading you need to have a vision of what you want to achieve, if not it’s going to be difficult to see progress and keep motivated. I have found that if I don’t have a goal or vision to work towards I can become distracted easily and not perform as well. Leaders provide a sense of direction, they set goals, standards and bring a group closer together. On my soccer

As a leader he brings the team together and is someone we can rely on. Leaders also provide motivation, if you see them putting in work, ive found it makes you want to replicate that and repay the efforts being made. A good leader I believe takes criticism, they must accept responsibility and if they do something wrong they must hold their hands up and accept that. This is something I believe I can work on, I don’t mind accepting responsibility but I find it difficult to accept when people believe that I am wrong.

The leadership principles are something which have really changed the way I look at being a leader. Knowing yourself and seeking improvement is a big one for me, I have always been very hard working and always wanted to get better. I know my strengths and weaknesses, there has been times however where I have played to my strengths and just avoided my weaknesses. I think this is the wrong approach and I should always work on things which can only improve me. Being proficient is something I believe is important for a leader also, there have been times on the soccer field where our captain didn’t have the leadership qualities and

I have played against teams who have very good individual players, but simply cannot play as a team together. If a team is like that they are easy to beat. Once you have all of these principles, it’s vital that you don’t get complacent with the little things. Keep your standards high and don’t allow other team members to become complacent, the minute people get complacent, that’s where the downfall takes place. Another huge part of the course which is a big learning curve is Fayol’s 14 management principles. All 14 principles are something which I can relate to, whether it’s in the classroom, in the gym, or on the soccer field. Before taking the class I had a basic understanding of management, but Fayol’s principles give you more of a broad look at things and its helped me understand things in a different way, I feel I can apply these management principles in the future. The first principle is division of labor which is related to increasing effectiveness and being as efficient as possible with what you’ve got, I like this one as a lot of people can be good at it, if you know what qualities you have and what you can bring to the table, you can be efficient, also if you know your strengths you can use these. The second is authority and responsibility, which