Collaborative Leadership Report

“If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader” (John Quincy Adams). Growing up under a founding father, John Quincy Adams perceived leadership as a responsibility to inspire others rather than a position in which one simply has power over others. John Quincy Adams observed his father John Adams, who took upon a great responsibility to inspire an entire nation; a nation that is now known for freedom and opportunity. John Adam’s inspiration has come a long way, as he had the ability to lead a nation into success rather than tarnish the beauty of it. Collaborative leadership in an authoritative manner, which was seen in John Adams, is what drives one to success, as a leader should be open-minded

Quoted by Ronald Reagan “The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” A manager gets things done via planning and delegation. Tasks are usually assigned and results are obtained by other efforts. A leader gets things done by holding a vision, modeling behaviors and usually have very inspiring actions. A manager is defined as, “An individual who is in charge of a certain group or tasks” (Business Dictionary). A leader is defined as “The person who leads or commands a group, organizations” (Business Dictionary).

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In the schools and also the community we need more leaders. Being a freshman of Lower Richland High school, I want to see students demonstrating more leadership. Often, I see student afraid to say no to peer pressure from other students. I want to see students leading by example. We need more leaders in this community, and less followers. In this essay I will discuss characteristic that describe a good leader, and what I want to see change in my community. .

Joseph Raelin (2016), a Northeastern University professor of management and organization development, recently published the article “Rethinking Leadership.” He said, “Leadership is really not about the leaders themselves. It’s about the collective practice among people who work together— accomplishing the choices we make together in our mutual work” (Raelin,

On the second day, MaxPrep’s chairman introduced my team to the tasks that our group will be held accountable for in the remaining four days; the task was to create a succinct infomercial positing important characteristic of a great basketball coach. At this point in time is when conflicts began to surface. The first disagreement occurred at the time my group gathered to appoint a team lead who will oversee the team. Both formal and informal leaders play an instrumental role in lending credibility to the project and in guiding project participants and others within the organization (Freshman, 2011 p. 49). Those who wanted leadership positions were asked to step forward, with various beliefs and opinions formulated, some spoke up and passionately proclaim who they want to lead, others simply opposed, while the timid ones in the group remained silent and waited for a newly appointed leaders to be

From all my research, the collaborative nature of the work at KPMG could be an incredible way to learn and prepare for my future professional career. I will bring my strengths as a natural leader and ease at working with and teams. Throughout my life, I have held leadership positions in most every activity in which I participated. Prior to starting college, I displayed my leadership donning the captain’s “C” on nearly every ice hockey team that I played for; from my first travel pee wee team through my years I captained Gonzaga College High School’s Hockey team in my junior and senior years winning back-to-back league championships, including Gonzaga’s only undefeated season in school history during my senior

List all organizations in which you are a member: _I am in the National Honors Society, Future Teachers of America, Spanish Club, Family, Career, & Community Leaders of__ America, and Fellow Christian Society._______________________________________

What defines a leader? One may say a leader is a person with many titles that distinguish them as having an important role. I however see a leader as much more than a title but rather as a person who makes an impact. A leader in my eyes is one who is an inspiration, shows care for the position they have, is determined, and a team player with empathy and compassion towards all. As future pharmacists, it is of the utmost importance that these qualities carry into the profession so that we may become a better provider to our patients and a more trustworthy part of the healthcare community. With the various leadership roles throughout my life both in the community and on the campus of MCPHS University, I have strengthened and developed the qualities of a leader that make for a future pharmacist ready to improve the profession for the better.

In the Leadership Challenge, 4th edition, it is Kouzes & Posner (2007) intention to present a road map for individuals to follow on their leadership journey. The authors stress that “leadership is not a gene and it’s not an inheritance.” Leadership they assert is “an identifiable set of skills and abilities that are available to all of us” (p. 23). They make clear that the “great person” theory of leadership is “plain wrong.” Leaders are our everyday heroes who do extraordinary things on a regular basis (p. 23).

According to Zurba (2014) collaborative governance is understood as interactions in which government and citizens actively collaborate in order to solve societal problems while creating opportunities. It is often common to have as a main component of this collaboration marginalized voices in pursuance of a comprehensive inclusiveness. Flint’s Michigan specific issue requires a comprehensive collaborative plan that aims to include every single component from society while having local officials restore government trust as a practice of the new public service.

I am a member of Kappa Kappa Psi, a national band service fraternity, and I have had many ups and downs within the organization. Nearing the end of my freshman year I felt as if it was necessary to have some sort of leadership position. Naturally, I decided to run for a position and didn’t get it. I continued to apply for many positions and wasn’t able to get any of them. I reached a point where I felt as if the organization didn’t want me. However, without having to be in a leadership position, my first full year as an active member was spent building deeper bonds with the other members which allowed me to create a second family all of whom I care deeply for and wouldn’t trade that experience for anything. Being rejected from so many positions

When taking the two leadership surveys, it was interesting to see my personal leadership profile. My leadership style according to the survey is the instructional type, which in another world is direct leadership. My culture, upbringing, and work environment have transformed me to be direct leaders that are looking for stability. My staff members sadly do not have the opportunity to have a job that is autonomy; working in a manufacturing occupation, one has an organize agenda that cannot be deviated from the task ahead. When team members are needing help or trying to build the familiarity to run their equipment my personal leadership profile can be helpful, since being direct is a starting point to build knowledge. The more one individual shows knowledge, familiar, and passionate for their own results, the further laissez-faire I will become when proving they

Jäppinen (2014) identify collaborative leadership as the human interactional sense‐making process in real‐life settings. That is because organizations are systems, it follows that team leaders in organizations learning and mature more productive in adopting systems thinking concepts and becoming participative (Martens, 2011). This holds true for collaborative leadership because the model positively affects team leaders development through systems thinking in an organization as a whole, it includes the knowledge, interrelations, and interactions of separate organizational parts to discuss and solve issues (Grand Canyon University, 2013). For instance, since collaborative leadership influences systems thinkers to take a new look at the organization

Characteristics’ and behaviors of successful leaders are both innate and learned (DuBrin, 2013). Assessing ones personality, cognitive abilities, emotional intelligence, and behavioral characteristics assists in determining the areas in which there is opportunity to increase ones effectiveness as a leader. Utilizing the Humanmetrics Jung Typology Test, the Big Five Personality Factors, in addition to three self-assessment quizzes from the Dubrin (2013) text this paper will discuss the instruments chosen for the self-assessment and their results, personal reaction to the assessments, what the results convey regarding leadership performance, and a summary of the most significant insights gleaned from the assessment.