THEORY AND PACTISE OF LEADERSHIP
PRINCINPLES GUIDING MY LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOUR IN THE FUTURE
Leadership theory best understood by me, is a framework of ideas or principles that set the standard for any leader within an organization. For a leader to be effective and successful, he needs to be driven by principles that guide his behavior on how to effectively manage his team within a workforce. Without any principles or philosophies to go by, there will be failure and no form of success within his line of leadership. Through my understanding of leadership theory, in coherence with my knowledge and understanding from past experiences, I am driven by five key leadership principles that will serve as the pathway for my leadership behavior in the future. These five principles include the following:
Self-Improvement. This involves evaluating oneself to ascertain both strong and weak personal features that one may have. For a leader to perform his duty well, continuous self-improvement is important whereby one is in charge of their being and in constant need for development. This can be achieved through research as to the success or failure of other leaders, constantly challenging ones self to do better, providing a specific goal for yourself with aims of achieving it, consulting co-workers and sub-ordinates on leadership abilities for genuine feedback, effective communication and speech, and making constant effort to be objective about ones
Self-evaluation or “self-leadership” (Runn, 2011) forms a critical part of a leaders repertoire and some key blocks of the foundation for this persons leadership. If someone can ultimately say that they fully understand themselves, they will find it much easier to understand others around them.
The five principles of leadership are five different leadership’s styles that make up an amazing leader. Most great leaders possess at least one of the five styles but it is not limited to one. Some leaders possess two, three or even all five. The five styles are model the way, inspire a shared vision, challenge the process, enable others to act, and encourage the heart. Although the interviewee uses most of leadership styles there is one style that contradicts their entire personality and that is challenge the process.
Throughout the entire course of this class, I have been asked to fill out different self-assessments related to whatever topic or approach to leadership Peter Northouse (2013) was discussing in his book Leadership Theory and Practice. Each one of these self-assessments were intended to help me in discovering who I was as a person and a leader. Some of the leadership self-assessments included the Least Preferred Coworker Measure from the Contingency Theory chapter, the Leader-Member Exchange Questionnaire from the Leader-Member Exchange Theory chapter, and the Servant Leadership Questionnaire from the chapter that discussed Servant Leadership. Many of these questionnaires I found to be very effective in helping me discover more about my personality traits and leadership style.
Out of all the different leadership theories I learned about this semester I really feel that I best relate to transformational leadership and authentic leadership theories. During the development of my personal theory I found that these theories tended to list many similar traits, and values that aligned with my own. Additionally, both authentic and transformative theories place a significant amount of emphasis on the relationship between the leader and her/his followers. The success and influence of a leader comes not from herself but from her ability to create and invoke strong relationships with their followers. Given my character strengths of sociability, integrity, assertiveness, and my drive to connect to others on a deeper level, I value both the authentic and the transformative leadership theories.
Leader self assessment will help to know areas of competency that a leader can use for success and enable them to decide which areas to develop, to minimize impact of weaknesses, understand how your
In all honesty each of the theories in our reading carry some sort of relevance and irreloevance, not to mention that everyone one of them are interesting theories. Above all things there will always be a prejudice depending on one's frame of reference and the context of a situation, but from a general point of view these are the theories I find to be most agreeable with, most disagreeable with, and most interesting. Before I follow on though I must mention that the theory I find most agreeable with would be my most interesting one too as my interest would lean to that of something I would intend on implementing the most from a leadership point of view, but for the sake
There are a number of leadership theories which can be implemented by the leaders in the workplace of the organization to maintain an effective leadership, such as transactional leadership theory, transformational leadership theory, trait theory, great man theory and behavioral theory. All of these leadership theories define a number of critical factors which are required in an individual to attain an effective leadership in the workplace of the organization (Miner, 2015). These leadership strategies and principles focus on the character growth of the leader in one way or other. For example, a transformational leader grow himself or herself to a high quality of character and motivates the followers to follow his or her footsteps to enhance their character and personalities. So the principle of leadership involves the focus on two factors of self-growth and then the growth of the followers. The quotation suggests these factors to be the success criteria for an individual playing the role of a leader. Most of the leadership theories support the self-growth and follower-growth factors to be the criteria to measure the effectiveness of the leadership of an individual
During this course, the focus has been on leadership and the different theories of leadership. There are either eight to ten leadership theories, depending on the source. Those leadership theories describe different aspects of what it takes to be a leader and the skills and traits of people who are considered leaders. There are two different sets of leadership theories. According to Cherry (2012), when it comes to leadership theories, “most can be classified as one of eight major types.” Those eight major types are called the “Great Man” Theories, Trait theories, Contingency Theories, Situational theories, Behavioral theories, Participative theories, Management theories, and Relationship theories. Those eight leadership theories are similar to the ten leadership theories discussed by Zigarelli. According to Zigarelli (2013), There are ten leadership styles that all have useful aspects to them, and the more that a person learns about all ten theories, they better equipped they will be to become a leader. The ten leadership theories are identical in some areas to the eight leadership theories, but there are some differences. The ten leadership theories are the Great Man Theory, The Trait Theory of Leadership, The Skills Theory of Leadership, The Situational Leadership Theory, The Contingency Theory, Transactional Leadership, Transformational Leadership, Leader-Member Exchange Theory, and the Servant Leadership Theory. After
The leadership practice I exhibit the most is the ‘Challenge the Process’. I am always searching for rne opportunities by taking the initiative and looking outward for innovative ways to improve. I enjoy experimenting and taking risks by constantly generating small wins and learning from experience. I like to be a role model that not only leads, but follows.
As the world changes and progress, it becomes more complex than before. The advances in technology, the globalization that opened and bridged the economies of the world, political and social factors contributed to people’s need of continuous development. So as an important parameter of the ongoing need of innovation and changes of the nature of work, leadership development becomes essential part of the success of the organisations. The aim of this paper, is to try and identify if all people in all organisations should be given the opportunity of leadership development and discuss one aspect of leadership theory, the approaches and limitations of the leadership development.
The concept of a class focused on studying theories of leadership is a novel idea to me. It is not surprising though; people only began to define leadership at the beginning of the 20th century, so it is a relatively young field (Northouse, 2016). Although I have always believed that leadership was an ability that could be developed and learned, to discuss leadership theory in a classroom without any actual application of the skills did not seem particularly effective. Especially for someone like myself who is generally a practical, hands-on learner, I was not sure what I could possibly gain. My initial thinking stems from the American education, where students are encouraged to be leaders without any explanation of what that might look
According to Bobby Clinton, leadership emergence theory can be stated in these terms: God develops a leader over a lifetime, and effective leaders will understand their ministry in terms of a lifetime perspective. That development is a function of the use of events and people to impress leadership lessons upon a leader (processing or shaping activities), time, and leader response (Clinton 2012, 171-173). Ultimately, processing items in critical life events such as ministry conflict provide opportunities to bring closure to recent experiences, to deepen ones relationship to God, to expand one 's perspectives to see new things, and to make decisions which will launch one into a new phase of development (Clinton 1992, 16). How we react in that crisis, our response patterns, determines the type of leaders we will become. Therefore leaders need to be prepared so they can evaluate process items with perspective and develop maturity to learn the lessons God intends.
1. Throughout the years, I have come to understand leadership as the ability of one to positively or negatively affect the actions of others. As the shepherd, I must agree with David Hansen. He states, “I am a shepherd. Everything I do is leadership. Everything is calculated as to how it bears on the whole. For better or for worse, I think about my church, my people and our mission constantly.”[1] Often, “Christians have a warped way of looking at work. Unless someone is working, ‘In the ministry’ they see his work as secular.”[2] The Bible instructs us to do all things as unto the Lord (Colossians 3:23).
Accurate self-assessment. Leaders, who usually know their limitations and strong points, display an interest in learning where they need to develop, and encourage positive criticism and
There are volumes composed on Leadership theories in about every discipline. Bolman and Deal filtered through the puzzling hypotheses of literature and joined with their experience, investigations, observation and experience on four-frame model. Frame can be described as the lens of a glass so that everyone can see the world. Frame are used to through it. Frame gives every individual to establish their own business and to run smoothly. People need these frames because to know the real world and what sense and to experience it, it also helps us to guide our action.