This week we discussed the first three principles of exemplary leaders: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, and Challenge the Process. Before you can begin your leadership journey, you must define your core values: what drives your decision making and gives your purpose. Kouzes and Posner (2004) wrote, “It’s essential to find your voice, because values serve as your guides” (p. 11). I chose the values of acceptance, kindness, loyalty, growth, and happiness; I feel these are what moves my heart and makes me want to be a better person each day. This week was a tough self-reflection. What really stuck with me the most is how challenging being a leader is for me as it goes completely against my behavioral style (ISFJ according to the …show more content…
Barger, Kirby, and Kummerow (1997) state that sensing types want to “focus on the pieces, parts, and steps: want to gather the full range of specific information available, fill in gaps, and resolve any contradictory information before making decisions” (p. 172). Then, even though I am an introvert and prefer to work alone, that doesn’t mean the pressure of implementing change falls only on my shoulders. The entire team can rally together to complete the task; and if I do not feel confident in a part of the change, I have others to help. Bringing my colleagues together, expressing what I want to change, and having them drive the change will create unity. An added benefit is working with my team will build relationships and lower my introversions around them. Finally, I cannot be afraid to fail. According to Kouzes and Posner (2004), “It is absolutely essential to take risks. Over and over again, people in our study tell us how important mistakes and failures have been to their success. Without those experiences, they would have been unable to achieve their aspirations” (p. 81). When the mistakes happen, I cannot freak out; I must remain calm and get back up
This paper is a critical analysis of the article “Spirituality as a Predictive Factor for Signing an Organ Donor Card”. The research was preformed by Anat Peles Bortz, RN, PhD, Tamar Ashkenazi, RN,PhD, and Semyon Melnikov, RN, PhD. The research was accepted for publication in 2014. The research was presented at the 25th International Nursing Research Congress Symposium in 2014 in Hong Kong. The research appears in Sigma Theta Tau International, Journal of Nursing Scholarship 2015. The research looked at two groups of people in Israel, those who signed an organ donor card
What makes a good leader? Everyone has different opinions on this, but a good leader is strong enough to make the right decision even when it is unpopular, holds up under pressure, and decisive when reacting to threats and opportunities. Great leaders do not need to be a certain race, religion, or military background, but they need to tolerate others and accept different views. Great leaders can gain respect by being knowledgeable of the field they are leading, whether it be engineering or finance. A good president favors a decision that benefits the nation, regardless of their personal or party views.
The vision statement continues the expression of the desired service and the level of achievement necessary to achieve the mission. The values selected are those that support example of innovation-based mission, vision, and values statement (Porter-O’Grady & Malloch, 2011.)
Motivator, director, inspirer --- appellations that every leader strives to be. Young leaders set these titles as their goals, striving to become a greater motivator, director, and inspirer everyday. However, they recognize that there is no time that one can exhibit outstanding leadership because, simply, outstanding leadership does not exist. No matter the act, no matter the exuberance of prosperity that comes from it, these acts are something that should be sought after every single day plainly for the reason that it is what they should do, not because they are looking for recognition or view the acts as outstanding. They view these acts of leadership as normal day to day occurrences that every person should strive to experience. This is
Mayer, Aquino, Greenbaum, and Kuenz (2012) stated that ethical leaders exhibit normatively appropriate conduct through their actions and interpersonal relationships with employees in work units as well as stressed the importance of two-way communication in such a way that they are concerned not only with expressing their own opinions, but also with listening to and getting along with others. Ethical leadership is important because organizations are looking at means to decrease employees’ unethical behavior and mitigate any instances of relationship conflict. Ensuring that the chief executive officer and others in organizational positions demonstrate the proper example will go a long way to serve as models for the employees to follow.
Sarah exhibited a number of actions – large and small – that impacted her immediate environment. How do these actions reflect a leader’s values?
I have written this leadership philosophy in order to create an environment of mutual respect, open communication and section cohesiveness. My philosophy centers on three simple values: sense of duty, integrity and respect. I believe these values provide the foundation for the positive atmosphere we all deserve.
Leadership and management are the two most confused terms in the corporate world. These are the two expressions used interchangeably in the corporate parlance. One is thought to be the replacement of the other. However, managers and leaders are two different spheres of organizational culture with one sphere, at some places, overlapping the other. These two together make the organizational culture and are responsible for its health. We will look at the various aspects of leadership and management with respect to the company GE (General Electric) and see how the two integrate while maintaining the disparity to make this organization number one enterprise and the best training school for future leaders
Before attending the introduction into leadership I assumed that I was a very good leader. I attained the leadership award at my high school, in the softball program I was known as a leader by both my coaches, teammates, and in newspaper articles. Given that I have all these awards for being a leader I assumed that there was nothing else to learn about being a leader. I know that you can always improve if you practice something, but I never realized that there are different ways you can lead and still be effective. Throughout the course, it has opened my eyes to different models, theories, and ideas that can help me improve my skills not only as a leader but as a follower as well. I have learned that there are different leadership styles along with followership styles, self-awareness along with personality dimensions, and motivation models along with theories.
Managements plays a very important role in every workforce whether it is in the business field, law field, medical field or in the sports field. Management plays a role like no other. Without great management, an organization may not be able to elevate to the next level. Throughout this course I learned much about myself as a person and as the leader I thrive to be. This course has helped in point out my strengths as well as my weaknesses when it comes to management. The management process has four steps. Planning, organizing, leading and controlling (iedunote.com, 2017). These four categories are essential in being a great manager and to run a business properly. Management 3120 has taught me how to handle different situations as they arise as a good respectable manager should. Throughout this course, taking the self-assessment tests as well as learning in class I have learned a lot about myself as a leader. There are strengths and weaknesses but there is always room for improvement.
This class Conflict Management and Negotiation for Leaders has helped me gain knowledge and experience that I can use in my professional and personal life, which I did not have before. I am currently in the Masters of HealthCare Administration program here at Ohio Dominican University and opted to replace my practicum experience with this course. The course allowed for hands on experience where we were able to negotiate with multiple students in our class. In doing so, I was presented with scenarios that we may have faced in the past or could be presented with in the future. This course brought to the surface how often we do negotiate in our everyday lives. With that being said, I am currently in the market for a new position within my company and may be in transition to a newly developed role. If that does not happen I will be seeking opportunity elsewhere, hopefully in the healthcare field. In this paper, I will discuss how I will use the information learned in this class and apply it to make the decision on changing my role at my current employer, or elsewhere as well as better prepare me for future negotiations.
At this point in our lives, I would say that most of us have been in a role where we knew our Manager was not an effective leader or maybe our experience has found us working under a great leader. How does one determine what makes an effective leader or not and what is this based on? Personalities of leaders and followers have a correlation to leadership effectiveness.
There are many forms of leadership and it is important to recognize that there is a need for variation. In order to most effectively lead, plans must adapt as necessary. Leadership is the guidance of a group to complete a goal that positively impacts each member and facilitates success of whatever project or task needs completion. If done correctly, cohesion will form among group members and potential future assignments will be accomplished with improved results.
Before attending introduction into leadership I assumed that I was a very good leader. I attained the leadership award at my high school, in the softball program I was known as a leader by both my coaches, teammates, and in newspaper articles. Given that I have all these awards for being a leader I assumed that there was nothing else to learn about being a leader. I know that you can always improve if you practice something, but I never realized that there are different ways you can lead and still be effective. Throughout the course, it has opened my eyes to different models, theories, and ideas that can help me improve my skills not only as a leader but as a follower as well. I learned that there are different leadership styles along with followership styles, self-awareness along with personality dimensions, and motivation models along with theories.
Most Christians think their leader or pastor has to be perfect in all of the ways, however, Nobody can be perfect but Jesus Christ, and nobody can satisfy people without mistakes. The leader’s qualifications do not require a professional position nor need to be a “full-time Christian worker.” They don’t have to be perfect, but they have to try to be perfect and learn leadership to be a good leader. Then, what is leadership? This book define the leadership is a dynamic process in which a man or woman with God-given capacity influences a specific group of God’s people toward His purposes for the group.