A Detailed Leader Profile From My Placement

Leadership is, and always has been, a vital aspect of social and economic constructs. It is essential to the survival of societies, industries, organizations, and virtually any group of individuals that come together for a common purpose. However, leadership is difficult to define in a single, definitive sense. As such, theories of leadership, what constitutes a great leader, and how leaders are made have evolved constantly throughout history, and still continue to change today in hopes of improving upon our understanding of leadership, its importance, and how it can be most effective in modern organizational cultures.

The management of an organization plays an integral part in determining the direction and performance of the organization. The manner in which the management of an organization is handled has a profound effect on the organization. The success of an organization is dependent upon a flexible and skilled management and workforce. The management of an organization is responsible for shaping up the organizational behavior and ultimately the culture within the organization. Public management faces a multiple of challenges and opportunities, how the management deals with these issues translates to efficiency in management. The personal judgments and skills of public managers can make a significant impact in public management. If

There are several different leadership styles used within the public services. Therefore there are many varied suggestions that define someone as being a strong leader. However a ‘leadership style’ is a unique style that people recognise to encourage or influence other people in a way others do not so that they admire and want to be like. A team leader’s role in the public services is to provide instruction and direction and guidance and leadership this is to help inspire and encourage the team to reach their goals and aims. They have to keep the team focused on there current task or tasks and be able to communicate within their group

While both leaders came from different backgrounds than public health, Dr. Zieff and Alexandria have similar experiences with leadership. As a woman and a woman of color in a high leadership position, they experience discrimination and prejudice from people. Discussion about relationships emerged from both interviews. Dr. Zieff and Alexandria talked about collaboration and role models. The women also have strong values such as respect, empowerment, and observation.

Generally, a leader will either be given a leadership role, or will create one. For instance, I frequently volunteer at a nature center in my community. Because I possess the leadership qualities mentioned earlier, I have become someone who people approach with questions and for direction. In effect, I have been assigned a leadership role which I had not been

Personal Assessment and Leadership Development Plan  Introduction  The focus of my personal assessment and leadership development plan is to denote the values, beliefs,  thoughts, and actions that will propel me into a state of personal fulfillment as a more complete leader at home, in  the workplace, and in the community.   The preparation of this document will result in the creation of a deliverable to be frequently referenced  and used as a reminder of the overall direction and more specific strategies to achieve my personal and  professional hopes, dreams, and aspirations, as well as put into place a foundation for facilitating leadership  development in my communities. My more immediate aspirations include being promoted at the

Venturing into the unknown, learning about the latest trends and enhancing my insight to the craft of business leadership I felt right at home. Countless workshops and lectures quarterbacked by respected men and women of their industry; my peers and I examined its truth and power to enforce change. Throughout the conference, I sunk into a deep abyss trying to gather as much information to bring back to my own organization and hopeful future. As the night was setting in, our closing ceremony speaker, the mesmerizing Johan Khalilian vocalized his experiences as a multi-cultured Persian and Puerto-Rican man from inner city Chicago trying to make a difference. Being a first generation American Indian child, I had

Before this class, I had a very primitive and vague definition of leadership. Not only did I define it as per my views and ideologies, but I also said that each individual has their own definition of leadership. My initial belief was that leadership does not have a clear cut definition, but there were well defined leadership traits which made an individual. I also initially believed that personal traits did not translate into leadership traits with no strong correlation. After going through the various modules this class offered, it is safe to say that I have significantly redefined leadership and underwent a strong personal assessment. This paper talks what I took back from each of the class activities, assignments and how my self-assessment compares to the perception of others.

Many successful public administrators eventually work in positions of leadership within their organization, political system or communities. One approach to leadership is the ability to “know what you see” which is a more subjective approach to engaging in change. This approach gives management an opportunity to develop cognitive complexity in order to understand what is seen may not be what is actually happening. Bolman and Deal (2013, Fifth ed.) indicate our “preconceived theories, models and images determine what we see, what we do, and how we judge what we accomplish” (p.39). Leadership does not have the luxury of relying on how an organization operated in the past; it must continually strive for mission success and better human capital

After a search in ProQuest the article Transformational Leadership and Public Service Motivation: Driving Individual and Organizational Performance, was selected for review to determine if the content is relevant to research topic. An empirical research method in which the authors reviewed a vast amount of past research was used to explore ways in which managers can use positive motivation to improve public service employee and organizational performance as well as give recommendations to assist managers to implement motivational values in a variety of management settings (Paarlberg, L., Lavigna, B.,

The purpose of this paper is to reflect and make an analysis of the general strengths and weaknesses of a leader, provide recommendations, thoughts of overall performance to improve on this person’s leadership style in which practices and theories were utilized most effectively. Upon such, draw conclusions and provide an integration of this leadership practice into my own leadership practice. The accomplishment of this will be achieved by identifying several key practices from published documents surrounding and encompassing the leader, and comparing them to known relative concepts for a holistic view of the approach.

Leadership is a very broad topic; I never knew just how many different traits and skills that it takes to become an effective leader. Some of which I was familiar with, and others that I was not aware of, but now from taking this course, they all seem to be necessary for the role of leadership. The attached paper, will explain of some of the important theories and concepts that I thought were most important to be able to become and effective leader.

I also believe that an effective leader plays a significant role in promoting and molding individuals’ readiness as it relates to motivation and commitment. As such, I developed my leadership assessment with these points in mind. The assessment focuses on 14 attributes that I believe are important not only for a leader to be successful within the parameters of the SLT, but for most any leadership model adopted by a successful leader in the modern business environment. The assessment was completed by Bobby, my manager of nearly six years, and by Katrina, my highest-ranking direct report of nearly four years. Each was asked to assign a candid rating to each attribute using a one-to-ten (worst-to-best) scale as well as to make notes or offer any suggestions so that I may incorporate it into my leadership style in an effort to improve the areas of weakness and become a better leader. In addition, I did a self-assessment using the same criteria. It should be noted that while Bobby offered both a ranking and narrative feedback, Katrina completed the assessment using the numerical ranking only. The results were consistent in some areas and mixed in others, but revealed some valuable information that I can use not only within the context of this course, but also as my career is better defined over time.

A leader plays an important role in a campaign. There are at least four important roles that a leader must play. These roles are a thinker, communicator, decision-maker and team-builder. A leader must have a vision. He sets a clear goal for the campaign. He provides direction, instruction and guidance in achieving that goal. A leader also has to be a good communicator. He should understand the nature of the campaign and all of the related stakeholders. He tailors the message accordingly in order to influence his audience.

A leader performs five basic functions: Planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling. At all the levels of being a leader the leader have to be able to perform one or more of these leadership functions. Most leaders’ main role is to achieve effective utilization of resources in an organization. He/she achieves so through coordinated human efforts. A leader has a very important role to play in achieving organizational objectives. Everyone is responsible for aligning the individual's objectives with the organizational objectives. This is very essential for achieving long-term organizational success. Most U.S. leaders feel as if effective leadership is a personal role that requires the blending of