My Reflection Of Leadership As A Leader

This course showed me that the ability to influence, motivate, and enable others towards organizational success is much beyond critical of a leader than just accomplishing the organization’s goal. To be able to influence others, I need to take stock of what my strengths are, such as those identified by the Strength Finders, as well as test out different leadership styles and behaviors learnt until I find a suitable fit for myself and the circumstance I am in. This process of borrowing selectively from various people different leadership styles would suggest me taking elements I have learned from other’s styles and behaviors and making them my

My personal leadership course made me realize that I have all the characteristics to become a great leader, it was just the fact of actually doing. Since then in my work I

Secondly, it taught me that developing leadership skills directly relates to diversity. A true leader promotes diversity within a group and knows how to utilize the benefits, such as increased problem-solving and new

One of the biggest lessons learned from this course is that to be an effective leader, you must have a diverse skillset. I’m not sure if there is any one magical component or characteristic in being a great leader. One influence during my review of the literature was that; although easier for some, I see leadership as something we must continually improve upon. This is in contrast to my belief during my first day of class, when I thought leaders just

My idea of leadership is being able to inspire others, motivate, set a vision, communicate, respect others, and of course, lead by example. A leader must have an honest understanding of who they are, what they know, and what they are capable of. To be a successful leader, you have to be able to convince your followers, not just yourself or your superiors, that you are worthy of being followed. In my opinion, this can build confidence in their followers to have faith in you, in order to be able to lead. I strongly believe that good leaders are made rather, and not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders are developed through a never ending process of self-study, education, training, and

Because of this experience, I have been able to build up confidence while talking to others and when I am completing assignments. If I can talk to complete strangers, I feel that I can accomplish anything, and complete it well. I am very confident when I talk to people who

I definitely think that this course has improved my public speaking and professional presentation skills. During my first presentation I rarely made eye contact with the audience and would either

I think this class was a good mix of both theoretical concepts as well as practical applications for discussion. Something I enjoyed the most and benefited greatly was the application of various leadership models, theories and character comparisons to personal life applications. Leadership exists in all facets of life and it is important to understand some of the several well researched theories and look for opportunities to apply them in life. The ropes course was strategically scheduled in the beginning of the class to get to know everyone outside the classroom atmosphere and it presented some real time opportunity to demonstrate leadership ability. Since this is a class which involves a lot of

Being of this course I feel I learned a lot. The little I did know about human communication I feel I have a lot more knowledge than I did before the course started. I learned the foundations of communication, fundamentals of communication, communication between two people, communication outside of only having just two people such as multiple groups, communication in specific contexts, communication through technology, and the applications of communication.

I think that leadership is all about the communication between leaders, followers, and the situation. I feel as if in any situation there is opportunity for someone to step up as the leader and it may not be the same person every time. In these situations, the leader should take in the opinions of the followers because they could have just as valuable input about the situation as the leader might. I think this philosophy of mine came from my many group projects in college that I have completed. I really like to lead groups, but I know in many situations I may not be the most informed or have the best decisions on the situation at hand. For example, I had a science project last year and I was the leader of the group. But, science is my worst subject and I knew I was going to need help in the decisions that were being made towards our presentation. So I stepped aside and let one of my group members really take charge because they knew what they were doing in that science presentation. This helped them build more confidence and it helped our groups overall goal to get a good grade. This course has really enhanced the idea of leadership being a relationship to me by showing me that everyone has different strengths. In my group presentation for CLA I had a lot of the strengths that make me an ideal leader, but I wasn’t able to complete the project without the strong help I got from my group members. Without Kayla and

Heading into this course, I wasn’t exactly sure what it was about. Aside from reading the description on the KU website, I had no idea what to expect. I thought it would be centered around what would make a good leader, and the things I should do to achieve this. After the first couple weeks, I finally grasped the purpose of this class, and slowly started to work what I was learning into my day to day life. Through this class I have been able to identify what adaptive leadership is and how to apply it to my day to day task as well as how to work within the disequilibrium. I was also given the opportunity to reflect on what I was learning, through journals and amongst my peers through discussion boards, and how I was using my knowledge to identify different challenges I was facing in my life.

When the class first started, I was very skeptical of the material. I honestly thought the material was going to be dry and boring. After completing Unit One, I was definitely proven wrong. The material caught my attention especially with the articles and videos. I really liked how the online class was designed. I believed it was broken up into sections perfectly and it captured all the important pieces. Every unit discussed in this class was important and had very valuable information. The topics discussed in this class was intra-personal skills of a manager, building quality organizations, implementing quality programs which got broken down into communication, ethics, and stress and diversity. I really enjoyed the discussion post because the questions really made you think about the material. The questions made you reflect on your personal traits and put yourself in a manager’s shoes. It also allowed everyone to read and discuss other peoples’ opinions in a respectful way. I think it was great to read the many different perspectives for the same topic. In addition, all of the videos and articles made the material more understanding. It helped provide more background information and examples for the particular topic. Throughout this class, I truly learned an abundance amount of information and it made reflect on certain aspects of my life.

I think this class has helped me develop my overall abilities to create a proper training plan at my place of work. As you know, I am currently an intern at Kodak Alaris in the HR department. We both know there are many downfalls of Kodak Alaris but I believe these downfalls have created opportunities for an early career employee, such as myself, to come in and make a positive change. There were many positive learning’s I am going to take away form this class but overall it was the ability to think outside of the box and truly make a difference inside an organization. The most memorable learning’s and activities were Kirkpatrick’s Framework, group dynamics and proper communication skills when confronting an employee over an issue.

First, when this class began I knew I would learn a lot of beneficial information throughout my career as well as my home life. As the class progressed it helped me see things about myself that I did not think was there. The book has helped me see things about my personality I did not think was there, but as the book ended it seems they were there all along. The class puts things in a perspective where you can hypothetically see yourself in at the workplace. It makes you think about different types of issues people experience daily and helps you learn how to handle them in a professional manner that is best for you, the customer, and the business. Sometimes we must go an extra mile to please people, but it is all about doing the right thing the first time and making people happy at the end of the day.

If you could in your own words define a leader what would you say a leader was? A leader could be considered many different things depending on who you ask. According to Merriam Webster’s dictionary a leader is a person or thing who leads. That’s a pretty broad definition. Sanjiv Kumar defines leadership as the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of goals (Kumar, 2014). BusinessDictionary.com defines a leader as a person or thing that holds a dominant or superior position within its field, and is able to exercise a high degree of control or influence over others. Leaders can be found in every setting. Examples of leaders include parents, teachers, religious leaders, managers, or even a band director.