Business leaders implore inspiration from everyone especially the young folk who have future business prospects. The success aura that surrounds what their lives can partly be attributed to the fact that some people immortalize them. How they handle themselves and the strides they make in business environment leaves a lot to be admired. Therefore, many people will always be curious about these leaders and would want to follow in their footsteps. Therefore, in this project, I will be examining my business role model. The project aims to provide an intricate insight on the life of the chosen role model. In doing so, I will be able to know the particular strengths that enabled him/her to be at the place where they are right now. If his success is anything to go by, they do not live ordinary lives or do ordinary things. For some …show more content…
I intend to continue practising them in the e-commerce industry after my masters and will become evidence from my responsibility as I learn from Jeffrey. The success trait that I adore is learning new ideas from other successful leaders like Jeffrey and learning how I can incorporate them in my path. Learning not to quit no matter how hard the situation has become my personal strength and means I stand to handle any e-commerce situation arising. These strengths will mould me and thus I will be firm and ready to achieve more in my path. The plan I intend to use to employ these strengths is consulting more successful leaders and taking into consideration their advices. Being prone to emotions is my greatest weakness and can get into my success way. I only need to control my emotions which are a good plan to resolve the weakness. Associating with positive people who have visions and goals is a good plan of how I solve my weaknesses. They will teach me how to cool down and become a successful leader. (Byres,
In this document I will share how I was influenced to believe in my own ability. I will also share how my view about management and leadership was changed in one conversation and how that conversation boosted my confidence. I will also share the manager that influenced my learning the most and how through not just words but also actions he showed me that being a leader is not being the person sitting in an office barking instructions, but being the leader is someone who keeps motivating his team to want to accomplish more and be more through actions. I will also share my learning through this assignment, and recommendations on fixing
These traits have helped me to accomplish many career and educational goals as well as helped me to develop long lasting relationships that have sustained me up until the last year. It seems that hard work and determination are essential in accomplishing almost any goal that a leader sets their sights on. It is my hope that these characteristics will help me to persevere through the difficult times that life and school will thrust upon me. Thus I hope to use my strengths to help me steer the course of my educational and personal goals thus learning how to lead others and myself through turbulent times with grace and dignity. Consequently, my biggest weaknesses and hindrances in leading myself and others are my stubbornness and hesitation to recognize when I am wrong. Good leaders need to know when to admit they are wrong thus allowing them to reevaluate the situation and ask for help if needed. It seems that effective leaders know where their weaknesses lie and can ask for help when needed. This helps them to effectively achieve tasks leading towards long term goals because they know what they can and cannot do. I tend to be a control freak and want to do everything myself, and this is not an effective way to lead. I will need to learn to trust and rely on others to pull
However, in reflection of my past teamwork experiences in class, I am often one of the organizers and stronger voices, connecting me with being a natural leader. In reflection of past job experience, I found it related to a low tolerance for incompetency and also being a natural leader, but did not demonstrate being a visionary or argumentative. My past job experience includes refereeing youth soccer matches and serving at Anthony’s Beach Café. My experience refereeing youth soccer matches forced me to become a leader, taking control of parents and the players, allowing me to mature well being in a position of authority. Well working as a server at Anthony’s I have developed very high expectations for myself, displaying my low tolerance for mistakes and increasing my productivity. My ENTJ personality directly connects with various management careers, which is a long-term career goal for me. Being outgoing and a natural leader are personality traits that illuminate a good manager. In order to be a good manager in the future it is also important to recognize and be aware of a
Hallmarked by self-confidence, realistic assessment of self, and a self-depris acating sense of humor, self-awareness is the ability to assess and understand your moods, emotions, drives and the effect they have on others…. Extending from self-awareness, self-regulation the ability to control or redirect maladaptive impulsives and moods and the propensitiy to suspend judgment to think before acting --- - hallmarked by trustworthiness/integrity, comfort with ambiguity, and openness to change - Motivation is defined as a passion to work for implicit reasons and a propensity to pursue goals with energy and persistence – to persistently and energetically pursue goals – hallmarked bt strong drive to achieve, optimism even in the face of failure, and organizational commitment - - empathy is the ability to understand the emotions of others and skill in treating people according to their emotional reacitons – expertise in building and retaining talent, cross cultural sensitity, and service to clients and customers are hallmarks ---- social skills is defined as the proficiency in managing relationships and building networks and the ability to find scommon ground and build rappot y – effectiveness in leading change, persuasiveness, and expertise in building and leading teams are hallmarks --- in order to bring about change, one must be an EFFECTIVE LEADERRRRR what up – As with most things, emotional intelligence is a product of genetics and environment (Goleman, 1998). Goleman noted that emotional intelligence can be learned and improved upon but not without “sincere desire and concentrated effort” (1998). A brief seminar will not help… more reason for y2 to go
For me to be an effective leader, I must first evaluate my strengths. I took the Gallup 2.0 Strength Finder report which showed my strengths in an insight and action planning guide. The results indicated the top five themes for me were input, learner, responsibility, maximizer and arranger. I believe the evaluation offered an accurate assessment of my strengths. The input theme states my mind is like a sponge, soaking up information. As a lifelong learner, the second theme is also, correct. I have a quest for knowledge about things that interest me. I am responsible, in my job and life. As a maximizer, I focus on long term goals and strive toward excellence. As a nurse, working in an environment of change, the arranger strength in my personality allows me to adapt easily and figure out the best way to accomplish tasks (Strengths, 2012).
By my courageous nature, I can give hope to my followers in any case and give them aspirations in wait for a better future. Tough times can also be faced with much resilience (Rath & Conchie, 2008). I can direct people towards achieving goals for the organization as well as personal goals. By providing stability team cohesion is improved towards the generation of better results. By this, I can influence the employees towards having a strategic mindset and focusing on the work as well as creating a peaceful work
When we think of leaders, the first thing that usually comes to mind is a person who holds significant power such as the president. While this may be true, the truth is, you do not need to be in a position of power to assume a leadership role. Everyone has the ability to become a leader. As leaders, everyone has the power to not only influence others, but inspire and motivate them as well. The purpose of this paper is to explore several leadership behaviors, specifically emotional intelligence, and how they can be applied in both my personal and professional lives. Within this paper, I will be discussing my personal definition of leadership and what leadership means to me, a self-evaluation of myself using MBTI and other leadership theories, and finally concluding with my exploration of emotional intelligence and its relation to effective leadership.
A good role model sets the path for others to follow, by being outstanding in all they do. Naturally, people learn by observing, more than by listening. This enables people learn what they can observe easily as compared to what they hear. When a leader becomes a role model, there is a likelihood they will comprehend better what the people being led go through, hence the leader will impose practical expectations on the followers (Charles 9).
Skills are a basic requirement, but traits are essential in leadership. Traits are unique in defining an individual’s character. A combination of strong skills and traits that include emotional intelligence and knowledge of leadership behaviors become critical factors for a leader to lead effectively. It is important for a leader to possess “effective managerial skills at some level” (Kreitner 465). On the other hand, a leader will be equipped to turn a “…vision into actionable items and successful implementation” (465) by possessing traits that are needed to achieve results.
When I think of effective leaders, I think of leaders with strategies, visions, or powerful ideas. However, this course has taught me different. While strategies and ideas are necessary for being a leader, it takes emotional intelligence for a leader to be successful. Emotional intelligence is essential for social and professional competency in any field, especially in the healthcare field where feelings affect individual as well as institutional health. As an individual going into the healthcare field, I must possess the ability to perceive, use, understand, and manage emotions, as it will se...
To become a truly effective leader, one must encapsulate the various behaviors related to the aforementioned course learnings in his/her persona and demonstrate such behaviors daily. This course has allowed me to identify four behaviors that all leaders must portray to be effective. The first of which is that a leader must be inspirational. To do so, a leader must set the appropriate vision and direction for the organization and provide a path to achieving defined goals. Additionally, a leader must induce the proper levels of motivation so that each employee has sufficient incentive to work towards the organization’s goals. As discussed in the class, motivation can be accomplished by factors such as rewarding hard work and providing the correct opportunities to employees. While these are motivating in that employees desire to be fairly compensated and to be doing work they deem valuable, inspiration comes more from organizational culture. A leader will be inspirational by setting a tone that appreciates each employee’s contribution, no matter how small in scale it is. Further, employees are inspired when they work collaboratively in a group setting and can capitalize on individual strengths to drive organizational goals.
Leadership is the glue that binds any business together, identifying and understanding your type of leadership style can ultimately aid you in becoming a better leader in your professional career. A successful business cannot function without leadership therefore this is a crucial aspect of internal employee development for businesses striving to stay relevant in a crowded marketplace. In addition to recognizing your leadership style every leader needs to look to them and identify what type of personality they have. By becoming an informed business leader you will gain trust and respect of your team to guide them into the future and maximizing potential growth. Throughout this paper I will identify my leadership style and also personality type and how it has affected my personal career growth. Identifying these conclusions is extremely important in crafting company culture.
I was glad to learn that people see me as a trust-worthy, determined, diligent and empathic. That is what I also consider to be my strong professional sides. The question on the leadership questionnaire that I scored the lowest on was in regards to being outgoing. One of the factors on leadership trait model is extraversion. You can really think of a very few modern leaders who are not sociable and extroverts. Nevertheless, I am more reserved, due to, probably, my cultural background. It is known that people from Northern Eastern Europe (Russian in particular) show less scores on performance orientation, less achievement driven and highly focused on collectivism and relationships inside the group as well as providing support to co-workers (Northouse, 2016, p.437). People might consider me quit or shy, only because I am not loud and chatty. This is also a characteristic of my eastern European culture and the way I was brought up.
This paper describes about my leadership strengths and areas for growth/future study. It also included how these qualities are used in my daily work routine, self-assessment results and a brief explanation on Individual style in leadership.
After understanding the theory behind both the trait and skill approach, I was eager to evaluate and reflect on my own leadership traits. It was interesting to see how the trait approach allowed me to better understand whether or not I have certain traits considered to be important for leadership, while skills approach allowed me to evaluate my strengths and weaknesses in the technical, human and conceptual skills. From completing the Leadership Trait Questionnaire (LTQ) and the Skills Inventory, I was able to reflect more on how I behave towards others in a leadership context, as well as the skills that I currently possess. As a naturally extroverted person, I have been taking on leadership roles from a young age. The findings from these two