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Personal Leadership Vision Essay

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My personal leadership vision is to lead a team of individuals that is never afraid to take the hill and to be that leader without compromising my values. I have two leadership goals for the immediate future to help me move forward towards my personal leadership vision. They are creating a vision statement for my division and establishing the urgency for change with my direct team. Three actions for each goal are presented and strategies for measurement of progress to each goal is discussed.
I am the manager of an internal division of a manufacturer with a direct team of six supervisors and one assistant manager. I have a total staff of 210 within my organizational structure. I have established my guiding coalition (Kotter, yyyy, p. ??) as …show more content…

??). I am fortunate that my direct reports form a small guiding coalition to move forward with changes in my division. Although Kotter mentions that a guiding coalition must be powerful enough to make changes, all my direct reports are the supervisors of departments and are empowered to make changes to their areas (Kotter, yyyy, p. ??). They all have more years of experience in our division than I do, therefore I will draw upon the experiences, hopes, and wishes of my team to help in drafting a vision statement. This will create a statement that is from the team rather than pushed downwards from me and will help my team accept the direction we need to move forward.
Next my team and I must create our vision statement. According to Boal (yyyy), our vision statement must innovative features that are inspirational and offer a new order. They must also point out actions that the team can take to move towards the vision. And they must use powerful imagery to help people picture in their minds where the vision is pointing (p. ??). The statement that is created from my team’s feedback must encompass these attributes to have the maximum effect when communicated out. The creation of this statement will be an iterative process, with many versions being drafted and tested on my team before a final statement is found (Kotter, yyyy, p. ??). The vision statement we create must paint a bright picture of our future state and must be simple

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