Model Leadership Behaviors

Introduction

As a project management professional, the feeling of being empowered to act on behalf of my organization is sometimes intimidating. The mission of my organization is clear, it is the process of getting the entire team to march in the right direction to accomplish the goals. Most team members do not feel empowerment or are encouraged to collaborate and are they strongly believe that outside influences do in fact affect team members’ abilities to accomplish the task at hand.

In this paper, I will explain some of the traits that make a great leader, describe my experience when I first came on-board as a Project Manager for a newly formed division, share the methods of self-improvements and address the steps and methods in the provided pre-activity readings.

Leadership traits

Leadership involves unifying a group of people in order to struggle towards a common goal. Leadership also involves recognizing the varying needs and motivations of one's followers and lifting one another to higher levels (Goertzen, 2009). As a leader, one should have the ability to recognize followers as individual members, make them aware of the outcomes, inspire them to be the best and at the same time impress on them a sense of teamwork that transcends any one person need.

Team members recognize several traits in leaders that they consider authentic, these include transparency and integrity. This involves disclosing information about one's limitations and how it will impact the organization, which shows accountability in the leader (Lombard, et al., 2012). Transparency also involves open discussions about ethical dilemmas. By involving the entire team in discussing how internal and external communication, will affect the image of the new d...

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...eading to confusion and duplication of efforts. This affects morale and a workforce, low in morale leads to reduction in efforts, and productivity, therefore impacting the team from earning the “A”.

References

Avolio, B. J., & Gardner, W. L. (2005). Authentic leadership development: Getting to the root of positive forms of leadership. Leadership Quarterly, 16 (3), 315-338.

George, B., Sims, P., McLean, A. N., & Mayer, D., (2007) Discovering Your Authentic Leadership. Harvard Business School Publishing Corporation

Goertzen, B.J Contemporary Theories of Leadership. Jones & Barlett Learning

Lombard, L., April. K & Peters. K. (2012) Sustainability & Authentic Leadership: Stumbling Blocks And Enablers. Crown Research in Education Volume 2, issue 2, pp 74-84 Ashridge Business School

Treasurer, B. (2009) Courageous Leadership: Modeling the Way. John Wiley & Son. Inc