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My Personal Leadership Challenge Analysis

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The new ways of thinking that will help me to readdress my personal leadership challenge involves better understanding the concepts of values-based leadership, situational leadership, and style, skills, and trait approaches to leadership.
Values-based leadership revolves around how the values that people have, influence the decisions they make and the actions they take. Northouse mentions that “because leaders usually have more power and control than followers, they also have more responsibility to be sensitive to how their leadership affects followers’ lives” (2013, p. 428). Due to this strong statement, working to further understand the major types of values that relate to leadership will be important for me to pin-point which values my supervisor distinctively displays and which values he does not. Being able to understand this information is key as “values are important to understanding leadership because they explain the focus and direction of peoples actions” (Fernandez & Hogan, 2002) and in this case, my supervisor’s actions. Two values that are particularly interesting are the values of being just and being respectful. My supervisor strongly portrays the value of equality as he “make[s] it a top priority to treat all of [his] subordinates in an equal manner” (Northouse, 2013, p.433). He displays this when he gathers all instructors for a talk before we go to teach swimming lessons. On the contrary, although my supervisor has passion, he can come off as being ignorant

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