My Reflection Of Leadership And Leadership

Throughout this course, our textbook readings, the posting to threaded discussions, my responses to a classmate’s post, and reading various classmates’ responses helped further digest, comprehend, and synthesize the leadership content within Daft’s “The Leadership Experience” textbook. Our weekly lectures with various classmates’ interpretations and responses during the open discussion forums about the textbook themes brought a variety of unique viewpoints to the specific leadership topics. This reflection paper was an extension of this learning, and provided a deep introspection about leadership concepts; how did I, how am I, and how can I apply this knowledge in my workplace. This writing exercise uncovered new meaning and insights while both challenging and supporting certain personal views and ideas about leadership.

During this class we took many assessments and I learned a lot about myself and what kind of leader I want to be. On your leadership potential I learned my behaviors are the same as leader, these are people who are opened minded, share ideas and values with the company and open to change in the organization. For another assessment t rate your optimism test I found out I am someone who is optimistic and I agree with the statement that people want to follow a leader that is optimistic, rather than someone who is pessimistic. Another assessment I took was called the 5 saboteurs test. There was a scoring grid and what each category means like BP-(be perfect), HU-(hurry up), PO- (please others), TH-(try harder), and BS-(be strong) I found out the my highest score is PO-(please others) and some characteristics include being happy when other others are happy, cares about other people’s needs, can have a hard time saying no, doesn’t like to annoy other people in the work place. Body language and verbal language include facial expressions and saying sure I can do that for you. For another assessment I scored a six which means I right in the middle between high and low resistance to change. I agree with this statement because I think for certain situations my resistance to change will be high or low. After taking all these assessments. I learned that as a leader why it is important to learn about yourself. These assessments can help you improve as a leader figure out your weak spots

“It is unequivocally clear that leaders are not like other people” (Kirkpatrick and Locke, 1991, as cited in Northouse, P. G., 2016, p.22). I have always thought that I was not like other people; I see the world through a different lens. This difference, which sets me apart from my peers, has sometimes restrained my progress; however, after studying my differences and seeing them as strengths, I can now focus on these strengths that make me a unique, passionate, progressive leader. In reflecting on my leadership skills, I will analyze the results of the leadership questionnaires, as presented in Peter Northouse’s book, Leadership:Theory and practice (7th ed.), connect those result strengths with the

I am committed to continuous learning and have a strong desire to inspire others to action through exceptional leadership and a clear vision that promotes the delivery of superior services, both internally and externally. The Behavioral Health Division will benefit by receiving the highest level of competence and ethical practice along with a personal commitment to quality. I embrace challenges and will initiate and support any necessary changes within the organization. This program will further promote my creativity and innovation, which will enhance the work environment and the delivery of services to the public. My leadership style is a combination of charismatic and innovative. I am extremely energetic and motivate others to move forward

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.

One of the single most important qualities within the practice of nursing is being a team member, and having a strong team to deliver safe, competent and ethical nursing care (Blakey, 2015). To be able to create a solid team, a true and strong leader must rise, as well as other members that are dedicated to practicing good followership. Effective leadership improves the workplace for leaders and followers, as well as increases results in the care of patients largely (RNAO, 2013). In this paper, I will explore my individual qualities I demonstrate as both a leader and a follower, as well as acknowledge my areas of weakness. Lastly, I will also discuss my plans in how I will strive to achieve my goals as a future leader.

Throughout my life I have been on my own leadership journey. I had not realized it at first but every part of life has a lesson to learn. With the beginning leadership classes and the start of the Leadership Studies Minor, I have become more aware of what true leadership is about. As it was drilled in our heads throughout the course, “leadership is a process”. Learning this concept cleared the air of all the occasions in life that were adaptive but never had a term to describe them. I know now that the term is “Adaptive Leadership”. I like the quote; “Standing in the garage no more makes you a car than standing in an office makes you a leader.” A leader has qualities not positions or titles. A great leader to me is someone who is hard working, visionary, a good active listener, honest, honorable, and someone who is not afraid to ask questions.

In my previous assignments, I described why the cooperation negotiation strategy, dispositional flexibility, equal opportunity, emotional health dimension, and inclusion was important to me. To elaborate on those concepts, I included some past incidents I encountered that depicted each concept. In doing so, I managed to identify a common factor in the way I led. As a leader, I seemed to only act when there was an issue that needed attention. At that point, it became very evident that I was emulating the behavioural traits of a transactional leader. To be more specific, my leadership style aligned with management by exception passive. My passive approach to leadership works in certain environments but I now understand where I was lacking as a leader.

Current Vision Statement: I, Alize Markson, as a leader living and working at my highest and best am: Open, empathetic, confident, understanding, and motivated so that I am the most proactive person. Therefore, I am reliable and understandable to my family and friends.

My personal understanding of leadership in this class began first when we were assigned to read Grunig’s discussion of the Theory of Excellence. This discussion was a detailed paper outlining Grunig’s personal opinion on how to achieve excellence through individual and group participation. According to Grunig, he mentions five areas that public relations is developing which includes public relations becoming a management function, public relations involving more strategic counseling, public relations being backed by more scholarly knowledge, public relations becoming more global and more diverse in gender and race. In addition to Grunig’s five trends, a current trend that is gaining a lot more traction as the years go by and technology

As I began this Leadership in Education course, I entered with an open mind and eagerness to learn about varying leadership styles and approaches. Over the years, I have fortunately been exposed to numerous genuine, caring, exceptional leaders in higher education. They all shared one commonality: student-centeredness. This has been my compass and guides me in my work. Through this course, I wanted to learn how I can better support students, whether directly or indirectly by leading other professionals and para-professionals in their work with students.

People are given the opportunity to be a leader multiple times a day, however, whether or not people decide to take the opportunities to be a leader is up to them. Sometimes the leader is the person who simply does nothing at all. During my time spent in this course, I have learned that each person has their own unique was of being a leader and that one can never gain enough knowledge on how to be a more effective leader. My perspective of what a leader is has dramatically changed throughout my time in this course. This change in perspective is due to new environmental, organizational, cultural, and social experiences that I have experienced over the past few months.

One day when I was a kid, my father, my mother and I went to an ice cream shop, but unfortunately, they were running out of Ice cream, they only had two remaining for the three of us, my father gave one to me and shares the other one with mom. This lesson teaches me how the leader sacrifices for the sake of the group benefits over his own interest, and how to come to the best decision that makes everyone happy. Successful leadership is one of the most significant parts of human behavior, and one of the most important aspects that is directly involved in the work that is responsible for directing the various tasks and resources. The first step in a leadership road is to feel the importance of the message that you wanted to deliver and to believe in your ability to lead in order to have a strong personality. In addition, you should have the passion to work as a leader and face the good/bad facts with courage and wisdom. Leadership is not just about achieving goals, but it's a method and opportunity to make a change and help to grow people's mentality by making them achieve goals creatively instead of turning into machines that are just functioning via commands -- Manager style. A leader’s mission is very critical and many aspects might contribute to the desired change. However, I believe that there are four principal attributes that play a very important role for a successful leader, which are: humanity, commitment, vision, and inspiration.

As an educational leader, I have encountered several new and existing school policies. I never thought deeply about the various processes and the stakeholders involved in policy formulation and implementation. This semester I am engaged in the course Managing Educational Policy as School Leaders (EDLM 6005). This is Semester III, 2016/2017. My course coordinator is Dr. Timar Stephenson. Dr Stephenson was my course coordinator once before and was very helpful whenever I needed clarification or when I had a difficulty. I am thrilled to embrace the new ideas and learning opportunities embedded in this course since it teaches issues which I experience at work. Dr Stephenson, during his introduction reminded his entire class that success in this course would only be realized through hard work, dedication, and commitment. Therefore, it is imperative that I have the right attitude as I navigate this course. The course involves seven weeks of intense work. I am pleased to have a wonderful group facilitator by the name of Rhonda Joseph who has already given us a BBC to explain the requirements of the course and our first two modules.

Due to my passive nature, I’ve always avoided leadership roles. With that being said I still aspire to be someone who can be looked to as a leader. In order to reach that goal I observe and try to mimic the actions of people that inspire me. There have been many people I’ve taken orders from, but I have “followed” few. Those are the ones I consider to be true leaders, and have tried to be like myself.