For the communication’s assessment, I tried Leadership IQ’s website. It was a simple and short questionnaire that asked to choose one of two answers to a question. The results stated that I like hard data, real numbers, and that I tend to be suspicious of people who are not in command of the facts and data (IQ, 2015). It went on to say that I tend to like very specific language and dislike vagueness. Ultimately, the Leadership IQ assessment stated that I was more aligned with an Analytical communicator and prefer to communicate with data and information, however, this communication style can come across as cold or insensitive. The second assessment taken at another website and was based on choosing one of four words that best described me. …show more content…
A well-thought plan for addressing leadership development is key to becoming the best leader or in this case-the best project manager. Knowing what my strengths are, is just as important as knowing my weaknesses. It is an important step in assessing one’s natural leadership style by analyzing past behavior rather than consciously doing something unnatural (Career Education Corporation, 2013). The first step in developing weaker areas and emphasizing strong points is to know what type of leader and communicator I am. My overall assessment stated that I am an Artisan and communicate with an analytical approach. Placing emphasis on strong forms of communication and creating a plan to develop weaker areas are important steps to being an effective project manager. Often times, barriers are formed when there is a weakness in communication ability. One of my weaknesses when communicating is reacting defensively to criticism. By acting defensively, I create a barrier between my team and their willingness to be open and honest. With saying that, I have to be open and honest with myself. I have to work to create an environment that emphasize constructive criticism. Team members should not be fearful to voice their opinion even if I may disagree with what is being said. Being assessed as an Analytical communicator, I sometimes come across as insensitive and uncaring. I must work to be more diplomatic in my style to improve communication. I have to encourage my team to embrace a culture of understanding. I may come across as aloof and accept that my style is not the best at interacting with everyone. Striving to become more familiar with each person and how to communicate with them is part of my plan. Communication is the cornerstone of a successful team. Effective teams have frank and free sharing and open-ended meetings that lead to a shared vision and purpose (Janasz, Dowd, & Schneider, 2015). Everyone has unique qualities and
This Communications Style Inventory provided an accurate reflection of my communication style for the majority of the time. I would argue my communication style is dependent on the situation. When I communicate with students, I tend to take on the role of supporter/relator. I listen to their problems and tailor my reactions to their emotions. When I am with friends, I am a promoter/socializer. I still value building those relationships, but they often do not require the emotional support the students need. Although controller and Analyzer are my lease score traits, I do use those qualities when I need to be direct or need to work by myself.
As a primarily introverted person, I shy away from extraversion which can deter my people and communication skills. While I do not lack interpersonal and social (people) skills, these areas to consider for improvement. To be an effective leader, one must be able to communicate well within small and large groups. An effective leader must have effective social judgement skills. While I do not lack self-confidence or the other traits that are needed for great leaders, I do realize the need to enhance my communication skills significantly to become a greater leader.
Keeping a calm, cool, and collected attitude, even when curveballs are thrown, signifies a strong leader. When an egregious amount of errors or flaws occur during a project, a poor leader will be effected by it negatively and lose control of their team. A poor leader gets frustrated, angry, or even depressed during periods of struggles. An effective leader, notwithstanding, remains composed, and they will not allow even the worst of setbacks to affect their leadership style.
In generally, I want to possess a leisure leadership, which empower members to express their ideas and use their creativity to accomplish their tasks. In addition, I would like to listen to members’ ideas and make final decisions after comparing and evaluating their ideas; therefore, if I was a leader, I would encourage diversity and innovation of my members. In order to an effective leader, I still have to develop various skills such as collaboration skill, communication skill, and task-taking skill. First, to become a good leader, I should motivate the cooperation of among my members and continually request feedbacks from my members about their collaboration to make them feel like they are contributor of our team’s success. Second, I should develop effective communication skill to clearly explain the mission and policies of our team to my members to help behave properly. Third, I also need to develop risk-taking skill, which not only means that I should have confident and courage to take risks, but also means I should have problem solving skills to comply with risks and challenges.
“Good leaders develop ideas. Great leaders develop people. The best leaders develop new leaders”, these are the words that were quoted by one of my teachers in high school who influenced and taught me some of the essential lessons in regards with being a good and effective leader. I always remember this saying every time I am working in a group or if I am given a task to lead a team. I’ve been involved in a lot of group activities in the past wherein I’ve witnessed a lot of group relationship that inspired me as well as taught me of the do’s and don’ts when it comes to leading people and getting along with your groupmates. Based from these practical learning experiences, I believe that I still have a lot of things that I need to learn and skills
My total score in the Self-Assessment for Email Practice is 32. It says that “You are a careful communicator by email. You generally plan your emails well. However, you sometimes send them without enough thought or without reviewing them sufficiently. Focus on spending slightly more in time in the planning stage.”
When considering the term management, there has always been a common miss conception that this automatically makes an individual a leader. Leadership is only a single element of the management role. Many times managers are more comfortable utilizing a particular leadership style. While this may work well the majority of the time, certain employees or situations may require a different approach. Good leadership requires that the individual recognize the need for change to motivate their employees to accomplish the task at hand or to reach common goals. Understanding the importance of leadership is essential. However, the key element to focus on is what steps can be taken to improve one’s leadership capabilities. For many individuals this may be a difficult question to answer and may only be possible through self-assessment and reflection.
I think this is an issue because although I do enjoy motivating others, I need to ensure that I am providing positive feedback, not to forget the negative because as humans there are always certain aspects that we can improve on. I want to ensure that others do not feel criticized or afraid to provide me with constructive criticism on my work ethic and my leadership style itself. Another one of my weaknesses I would say is that I have a tendency to express my views very strongly sometimes coming off as arrogant when I am in a group or leading a project, I want to manage this weakness by ensuring that when I am in a group I immediately ask my other peers for feedback on the statement I just provided because this will allow me to know what their thoughts are and how they view my perspectives. Another one of my weaknesses is I have a hard time accepting change. For example, I need to learn how to cope with change and realize that not everything I engage in or work on will always go my way because others will have different perspectives and they will not necessarily agree with my ideas all the time. I think understanding my weaknesses is important in particular because if I was not aware of these weaknesses then, I would not be able to improve on them in
Communication is something we all humans use. Communication “is the sharing of information between individuals by using speech”. People have ways of communicating some have their weaknesses in conversations and others have their strengths. When I communicate with others I feel that some things I say I do not verbalize right. I have two strengths and three weaknesses in my communicating. My three weakens in my communication are, check nonverbal feedback, to make people wrong and recognize that people understand information in different ways and my two strengths in my communication are being flexible, and take responsibility for the communication.
The project had two managers of which I directly reported to one of them. The leadership styles exhibited by my manager were authoritative and affiliative. As a leader of a huge project, he was clear with the goals combined with the path to achieve them. One of his distinctive ability was to convert his thinking to workable actions which resulted in the successful completion of tasks before the deadlines. Each and every team member knew what they had to do and when they had to do. This was the most critical element in a project. There was a mutual co-ordination among the team members that culminated to results. “We were always trying to figure out why our sales were down last week. We had the whole company looking backward instead of figuring out what we had to do tomorrow” – Tom (Daniel Goleman, Leadership that gets Results, 2000). At times of failures, he provided the team members with a feedback which was neutral. These feedbacks directly had an impact on our working progress. He was one such person who was ready to forgo the ideal situation that
On a daily basis, we come in contact with individuals that we have to communicate with, wither it be for work purposes, educational purposes, or social practices. As active humans we cannot escape the idea of socializing or communication, therefor; we make it a daily routine who we communicate with, how we communicate with them, what we listen to and how we listen it. With this routine habits are formed, some are strengths but others are weaknesses that diminish the communication quality. It is extremely important for individuals to recognize these strengths and weakness within their communication routine. By recognizing their strengths, they are able to improve even further and use their ability to get them closer to goals they may have set for themselves. Recognizing their weaknesses is just as important if not more important.
Lots of people thinks that they know themselves very well; they have a right way of communication, they know how to listen and respond to others, even emotional intelligence. Is this what you thought? I did. However after I have done my observe behavior interview to my friends, I believe that self-reflection is important to everyone to understand and improve our own communication styles.
An employee has sent out an email complaining openly about another employee. Management sees the need to address this email. It is apparent that effective communication is not being utilized. The memo sent out by management suggests different ideas for increasing positive and constructive communication among employees and management alike. A training class in communication is put together and is to be presented by a prominent well know instructor. Another subject addressed is the departmental task force report submitted for review. This report was subpar in content, structure, critical thinking, and over all writing skills.
As in all aspects of personal and professional life, having effective communication is a key element of success. Effective communication can benefit your relationships with people. By conveying your message and integrating them as a member of the team and not just a subordinate leads to better production. By effectively communicating you can clearly define job responsibilities and expectations. The better you are able to communicate the less likely organizational turnover of personnel will occur. Supervisors and leaders in the professional workplace find that the most important factor in advancement and retain ability is effective communication. Senior level executives and human resources managers are stressing the importance of communication and providing more training for mid-level management. Emphasis is placed on communication being clear by being transmitted strongly.
Irrespective of the environment in which one works, communication is always vital and a key factor of success. Communication happens both physically and verbally and is absolutely essential if you want to inform someone about something. ‘Loud shouting and even violence are symptoms of the ailment, not remedies.’ (Adair 2009: 3). Communication has two main components; sending out a message to someone, and ensuring the message is received correctly to the other member of the conversation. It is thus fair to say speaking and listening are vital to effective communication. This essay will initially introduce me as a student, and my career. I will give a simple SWOT analysis of me and will then go on and breakdown the different methods and techniques of effective communication. Finally, I will talk about how effective communication is needed in my current position, as well as the future.