Leadership Skills Assessment

In this journal, I will discuss my strength skills and skill that I would need to make growth in. Then I will discuss strategies I can use to enhance my group leadership skills that I need growth in.

1. Analyze the leadership styles(s) of a senior executive (CEO, CFO, COO, Director, ect.) in your current or previous organization who made a positive or negative impact on you.

It was all over the news when the terrorist attacks happened in Paris. It was devastating to the families and people who live them found it difficult to cope. Many families migrated to the US to settle down with their remaining families that survive the tragedy. It was devastating all around the world and issues still remains unresolved till this day. After the tragedy, the US governors in each state were prepared and some were not prepared to accept refugees to reside in the state in which they are governing. A Republican Gov. Mike Pence, who is the governor of Indiana clearly and loudly declared the refusal of the Syrian refugees and suspended the resettlement of the families in Indiana. Gov. Mike

I agree with the findings gleaned from the Skills Inventory: Authentic Leadership Assessment Questionnaire. Specifically, I scored high for self-awareness and balanced processing and low on internalized moral perspective and relational transparency. As with most of the assessments for this class, my time in the military has been a major influence on my results. Unfortunately, due to the military culture, there are limitations on how transparent an individual is as a leader as well as the extent to which a leader can allow others to influence him or her. For example, “relational transparency refers to being open and honest in presenting one’s true self to others” (Northouse, 2016), namely

One of my top strengths, according to the VIA test, is leadership, which is shown in almost every aspect of my life and it changes how I interact with people. To begin, this year is my fourth year teaching Sunday School at my church and leading various events with children, ages preschool through fifth grade. This requires skills, like leadership, to keep the preschoolers entertained and learning things, all while making sure the entire lesson is taught within the time frame. For the most part, the kids will respond to the encouragement to stay focused on the task at hand, but sometimes, if a kid is having a bad day or you step over the threshold, they will lash out at my leadership and attempt to keep things running smoothly. In addition,

After completing the leadership strengths assessment, my two strongest results were Influencing and Strategic Thinking. I have worked in the Sales industry for the past 7 years and one aspect for my success has always been with the capacity to influence the clients to do business with me and my firm. My personal mantra when working with clients is the adage of treating people as family. The client has the opportunity to experience this with each time we work together. Furthermore, each scenario must have an optimum result one is interested in reaching. In order to accomplish this task, Strategic Thinking needs to be involved as well. To reflect from the previous question; I would have an open dialogue with the group. Furthermore, once we would

Two other weaknesses are time-management and organization. These two goes hand in hand and I realized that I suffer tremendously from lack thereof and have found multiple solutions to help enhance these weaknesses as I expressed in the IDP. I feel these two will be challenging as well because I realize that organization at work is limited. It is much more of filling in the gaps and

The main factor in assessing leadership effectiveness is improving personal capacity to lead in a changing world regardless of reform. This change may involve improving skills, competencies, and behaviors through purposeful, self-directed, personal learning, and skills to anchor directions for work groups, teams, or organizations. These leadership skills have the capacity to align people, systems, and resources with a common vision; motivate and inspire; and successfully handle change. In order for leaders to expect change, they must understand the change process and how members will react to change. Every member of the organization must be receptive to change to keep the vision

In the leadership style self-assessment I learned that I have a high people-oriented leadership style and a low task-orientated leadership style I don’t agree with the scores I received in this assessment because I believe that I am more task-orientated and less people-orientated. In the LCP score self- assessment I scored a 38 and learned that my leadership style is more task-orientated based off my score. Task-oriented leaders are more likely to be successful under situations of high and low control, while people-oriented leaders are more likely to be successful under situations of moderate control.

The best example of me being a leader is the fact that I have worked in a specific class that has helped me develop leadership skills: Yearbook. In Yearbook, I learned how to direct a staff of students to work on specific jobs that would eventually lead to the development of the Yearbook. During this class, it was my job to properly organize the responsibilities of upperclassmen, assign them specific events to cover, and even place the example of how some of the jobs were done.

The reason why I am taking this course is because I want to improve my leadership abilities, whether that’s galvanizing a group to perform their best or by making a critical decision for a group or an organization. Moreover, I strongly believe if I could improve my leadership skills, I will be soon being an effective manager, who is capable of running a conglomerate business. In addition, what I want to learn about leadership is all the qualities that I can instill in myself for my future endeavors. Lastly, my favorite leadership quote is by one of my favorite hero’s according to Munger “Develop into a lifelong self-learner, through voracious reading; cultivate curiosity and strive to become a little wiser every day.” – Charlie Munger The

Last semester I took the Leadership Skills Workshop class (LD 225) here at Blackburn. Dr. Wiedlocher was the professor for this class. She decided that the class was going to be based around helping the community here in Carlinville. We decided to help the Macoupin Center for the Developmentally Disabled, MCDD, here in Macoupin County. We decided to put together two fundraisers for us to reach our goal of purchasing floor scooters for the students at MCDD.

The results of the self-assessments are not consistent. According to the Authentic Leadership Self-Assessment, I rated low on self-awareness. This is due to my inability to recognize my strengths and weaknesses. I did, however, rate high on internalized moral perspective, balanced processing, and relational transparency. Next, the LMX 7 Questionnaire, I rated high. This questionnaire was given to my supervisor and one of my followers. The results of my Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire, I rated average in all leadership styles. I rated highest in the directive style. The Skills Inventory Assessment resulted in a high score in technical and human skills, and moderate in conceptual skills. Having a moderate score in conceptual skills results in my inability to see the goals of the organization. I should familiarize myself with the organizations aims and objectives and align my goals with theirs. Furthermore, the Leadership Trait Questionnaire scores averaged between a 3 and 4, the highest scores being in dependability and friendly.

As a leader/manager there are many things you can do to maintain and achieve a good work/life balance. Some of these things could be:

Precision: Precision is a big one for me. I will overthink and research beyond what is necessary so that I do not look incompetent to anyone. I ask a lot of questions, however if I did not ask something that is needed I will not go back instead I will find a way to figure out the correct answer to solve my problem. This will take me to a procrastination state of mind, which I know is not a good thing and I need to work on. I hate that I know what is needed to accomplish my goal yet will find myself in a crunch time state very often and I do not like it. Definitely something that I am in need of working on.