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Examples Of Strengths And Weaknesses In Leadership

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Successful people were not born with great attributes in leadership, followership, and teambuilding, so of course, to be good in those areas, we need to analyze our strengths, weaknesses and teambuilding, as Minh Tan said, “Build on your strengths, work on your weaknesses”, Here I will analyze my strengths, weaknesses in leadership, followership and teambuilding. I will analyze my leadership strengths, weaknesses and how to improve. First of all, I will address my leadership strengths in previous cases, where I used the Idealized Influence, what I always do when I’m giving a briefing to my flight, I prepare my briefing by reading and rehearsing, so by doing that, I influence my young aircrew. Besides that, sometimes I use other leadership model, such as Individual Consideration. This simply means that when you are focusing on someone strengths and weaknesses. Indeed, in this case weakness is where I focused as a leader. For example, once I had in my work a None Commission Officer who always came late to work and was not doing his job right. Therefore, I did some investigation about his situation by asking his coworker, and I realized that he had family issues with the base housing which led to his work problems saying that, As soon as I found about it, I reacted and I sat with him and I proposed a solution. I told him I’m on your side and I will talk to our commander to fix the problem. When I did that, his attitude went from negative to positive, and eventually he was back on track. Anyway; it is also very important that I admit my weakness as a leader. My weakness happened with me when I had a new assignment or leading a new group of people so, since I’m new to it, I have realized after having the IOS leader ship classes that my style in those situations was the laissez-faire style of leadership. this means “let him do it” because I was not confidant. Another style I used was Management By Exception passive way, where I waited until things go wrong, rather than addressing problems early, instead of waiting for the problem.
In fact, I acted this way I had less experience as instructor pilot with one of my students who had a weakness in his air to air refueling knowledge;

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