Personal Narrative: A Career As A Supervisor

Leadership is the ability to inspire and focus members on a common goal, whether short term or long term and have the same vision. Leadership is more than telling or ordering, but having members believe and want to follow the same path as you. It’s a commitment to your people built on trust and respect. Many leaders shaped my personal leadership philosophy, to include several negative and positive experiences. Negative experiences from poor leaders and lessons learned on my part have uniquely shaped this vision. Difficult to be a good follower when your leader lacks competency, integrity, and your trust. If a leader takes credit for work other than their own, or forces and ideology onto others, but does not follow it themselves; these negative influences damage the trust and respect required by all leaders. However, positive experiences can also have a career lasting impact. A leader who inspires through personal actions and convictions can change how an entire unit operates without ever saying a word.

Some of the feedback that I have heard from employees while conducting personal interviews as well as online postings on Glassdoor have revealed that many employees are dissatisfied with their supervisors. Employees have described many of their supervisors as possessing the traits of the Theory X mental model. Employees have reported to me in-person and on Glassdoor that they feel as though supervisors treat them as disposable resources at times. Employees have mentioned that their supervisors demand that all mail be delivered before employees can go home. It has been reported that some supervisors assume that employees will not want to deliver all or a majority of the mail in their Long Life Vehicles in a timely manner.

In today’s society, there are some people who possesses the qualities of outstanding leadership. Also, in today’s society, there are some people who keep qualities of a poor leader. A good leader is someone who reads and understands their own emotions and recognize the impact on themselves and others. Another thing great leaders do is think and act with optimism, by looking at the positives and not so much on the negatives. Another great strength a good leader has is that he or she knows the strengths and limits of the certain people on their team (Hewertson). Furthermore, a great leader leads by example, set achievable goals, assigns tasks within someone’s strengths, gets the right people on board,

Good Leaders play an important role in our society, and it is a quality than needs to be developed thorough an entire life. There are many different leadership styles, as well as there are many good leader examples. A successful leader knows exactly how to effectively manage the group , in order to work towards the realization of a common goal.

Not all leadership traits are positive; some can sow discord within a company. My experience with a manager who was narcissistic is a perfect example. I worked as quality lab technician for an aerospace company with good pay and great coworkers. Upper management was tolerable, but my immediate supervisor had a personal agenda of seeking power. This supervisor would feel threatened at the thought of me receiving mentorship from other experienced people. He would enter every conversation with an accomplishment that we would later find out as a lie. He would praise his leadership in front of them while criticizing them later when they left the room. He was paranoid of leaving us alone to do our jobs because he thought we would be lazy without him; this resulted in him placing cameras in every corner of the room. We

I must note that I am lucky to have an amazing supervisor and direct supervisor. I do not have to worry about organizational challenges with them. They always created positive working environment, enhancing employee well-being at work, and have great

Throughout my military career I have seen and experienced all type of leadership. I have had some really poor leaders, mid-line and great leaders. One of the more successful leaders I had are those with delegating styles of leadership. Although it is not an easy thing to delegate authority, however, if you have trust in your subordinates you can be very successful. One of the things this style did was build trust and mutual understanding with my team members. Entrusting us was a great motivator for the Platoon. This was a key because it made us feel more responsible, one huge piece in team building. As I recall any of my leaders who used the delegating style of leadership were never let down.

Leadership can be defined as the process of identifying a goal, motivating others, and make them to achieve the mutually goals (Giltinane, 2013). According to Humphreys (2002), successful leaders do this by applying their leadership knowledge and skills. A good leadership is not only good at management, but also use different leadership styles in different situations. A successful corporation must has a good leader who have the flexible ability which can provide a suitable leadership to make the company successful. Furthermore, there have no perfect leadership styles in the world. Different leader have different leadership styles which also have the different strengths and weaknesses (Ali & Waqar, 2013). Leaders need to consider

He was a good manager but not a leader as he was exceptional planner and controller but was unable to have a good relationship with the team members. All of us never felt motivated by him to work.

I have found that leaders who fail to motivate, or lack self-confidence to be weak and ineffective. Good leaders are knowledgeable and trustworthy they are people who are ambitious and results driven. It has been my experience that when leaders lack the ability to remove obstacles or clearly define the objective, the teams fail to produce the results or meet the deliverables. I have had leaders that were ineffective due to poor

On Tuesday 18th, 2017 I interviewed Elizabeth Surprenant the systems Administrator for B. F. Saul Company & Affiliates (Real State Company). Before I decided to interview her, I first targeted the type of occupation that I want to know more information. Economics my targeted major. Due to my interest in economics, I decided to interview Ms. Surprenant, who has a bachelor degree in Accounting and she doubled major in economics. There were 2 degrees of separation between this Ms. Surprenant and me. I contacted her via email and set up a meeting to discuss some details about her occupation.

While we all have been taught this when we finally ascend to the level of supervisor something makes us want to make the people under us feel the same way we did under our supervisor so we start to give orders and command to our employees which reduces general morale in the company and leads to people quitting or doing less and poorer quality work for the business. Instead of giving orders to the employees a supervisor should work besides the employees to complete the job or project, instead of blaming people for failures in the project instead to work with the people who are failing to meet certain goals in the project, find out what is preventing them from meet the appointed goals, and to rectify the issues.

An effective leader influences their employees in a desired manner to achieve goals and objectives. Different leadership styles can affect an organization’s effectiveness and performance. The objective of this paper is to analyze the review of literature on various leadership styles over the past years and how effective and ineffective different leadership styles are in the workplace.

Leadership is not just about the title, the position or the duration one has been in a certain office. It takes more than just that to be sufficiently effective. In our society today, there is quite a number of the so called ‘leaders’ who do not really deserve to be called by that title because they do not effectively live up to the expectations of the mandate in which they are called or trusted with. There are some qualities or attributes that are necessary in the life and operation of a leader which make him an effective leader. Some of those qualities include ethics, effective communication, trustworthy, engaging themselves at their best, being creative with credibility, and having a character and not just competence. All these

In addition to the staff being negatively influenced, this particular supervisor was constantly under incredible stress. Her workload was so large that she was merely capable of spending a small amount of time on each issue, therefore denying each one the best care. For selected individuals, having too large a workload can psychologically inhibit them from achieving anything (Black Enterprise, 2010). In this case, she managed to do the bare minimum on most everything, but never well and never in a timely manner. This negatively affected the company as well, since customers were receiving poor service from a leader within the company, and therefore from her entire team. Moreover, her stress level contributed largely to the attitude and stress level of the entire team, leading to