Personal Statement For My Management Class

After consulting with my team members and hearing their thoughts, I gained a lot of insight as to how my performance as a team leader was. I asked them to give me their thoughts on my first week of being a team leader and then I asked them again in regards to my second week of being a team leader. The changes they told me about were quite surprising. For starters, my team told me that my first leadership week wasn’t too great. They said I was not vocal or authoritative enough so they didn’t really know what they were supposed to be doing while we were out of class. Also, during my week we were doing the video assignment and they said that during the meeting which we were recording, I was too quiet and wasn’t leading the discussion like a leader should. Overall, they said I did not act or communicate like a leader during my first week. Now, following my second week as team leader, there were some major changes in the group’s feedback. During this week we started working the T6 assignment, and this time the group told me they had a much clearer idea of what their roles were as I assigned everyone a task. For example, Lisa and Kerine were assigned to revise the T2 and T4 assignments and they felt much better about knowing what it was they had to do. In sum, after my second week as a team leader my team members responded saying I was much better with communication and actually leading them.

When people think of individual leaders, some of the first people that comes to mind are the many great military, political, and religious leaders of the past, and/or present. Leaders are those individuals who takes charge, not with an “iron fist”, but with their knowledge, beliefs, and most importantly, patience. In the world of business, leaders are looked upon to make important decisions that can either make, or break a business, including leading individuals to a successful path. Les Brown is the world’s most renowned motivational speaker and highly-sought-after resource in business and professional circles for many Fortune 500 CEOs. Les Brown turned his passion to motivate and build people into a multi-million-dollar business that he successfully runs and manages.

Looking further ahead, a collaborative, interconnected model of care delivery is emerging and along with it, is a closer link between healthcare business and patient health. The challenge therefore is how can an organization position itself for clinical and business success. Hence, systematic approaches by leaders are essential to prepare the industry for the future. My objective is to increase my readiness for the ongoing change and responsibility that lies ahead of us and help build an innovative infrastructure that would enable us to meet the current demands of healthcare.

In the era of Globalization, where organizations are struggling to get competitive advantage, a good leader and his leadership style might be identified as the key factors that drive the company to its success. Even though the concept of leadership has changed throughout the years and it is still evolving, it can be defined as “ a process of social influence, which maximizes the efforts of others, towards the achievement of a goal” (Kruse, 2013). However, how can a good leader be recognized? Which is the most successful leadership style? Are leaders “born” or “made”? According to one of the greatest business leaders of the contemporary age, Jack Welch, “Before you are a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” The aim of this essay is to critically analyse the above quote and to examine Jack Welch’s leadership style in comparison with the most relevant leadership theories, which have been developed over the years.

My leadership for the future follows a very distinctive path. As I have worked with multiple organizations and companies, I still have a long way to go for more knowledge and experience in leadership. Leaders always need to train and adjust their skills to the ongoing evolution of economics. I see myself today as a leader that still needs to develop his skills. I teach as an adjunct and work for a finance/accounting firm. In the future, I would like to establish my own firm and continue teaching students how to establish themselves so they can succeed in life and in the future. My personal leadership style is basically a motivational and coaching style. I would motivate my students and clients into understanding the tasks or problems at hand and give them solutions. In return my students/clients will take the motivation and the problem or task at hand and do something positive into learning and accessing the situation.

“An investment in knowledge pays the best interest,” once said by Benjamin Franklin, is a quote that is very important to me. If educational opportunities are taken seriously, the knowledge gained is invaluable. Throughout my years at Darlington High School, I have been very focused on my college education, including being a part of the Youth Options program at the University of Wisconsin - Platteville.

I found my passion for arts administration as a sophomore in college. Growing up, music had always played a big part in my life. I had always thought that I would become a music teacher. However, when I accepted an internship position in the summer of 2015 working for the renowned Handel and Haydn Society in Boston, my plans changed. Suddenly, the idea of working behind the scenes, and operating an arts organization excited me immensely. As I found internships working for the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Jazz House Kids and Little Kids Rock, I became fixated on the business aspect of the arts. Planning and executing various performances, fundraising events and educational programs was exciting and gratifying, which led me to decide to pursue a career in arts administration and attend graduate school. I decided that attending the University of Cincinnati was the best option for me because of its academic rigor and because it offers a program in which I can earn my MA and MBA in Arts Administration. I believe pursuing an MBA would be an excellent opportunity for me to gain the educational experience needed to excel in this field.

1. What traits of effective leadership does Tony Hsieh demonstrates at Zappos? What aspects of his leadership can you criticize, if any? Is his approach transferable to other leaders and other organizations, or is it person and situation specific?

Ever since I was born, I have understood what the business world was. Whenever I had a day off of school, my dad would take me to his work. I would learn how to cash checks, write money orders, and turn in utility bills. One thing that my dad was also very active in what trading stocks. Through my dad’s influence, I began trading stocks when I was eleven, and I started an Investments Club at my high school junior year. Through these early experiences, I have realized that my professional goal is to work in business, and I can think of no better program for preparation than The Wisconsin School of Business at Madison.

Background. My application paper addresses a relationship that I have with a colleague of mine who I met in the Fall of 2013. My colleague's name has been changed for privacy purposes. The first interaction with Stephen came when I was pledging a fraternity on campus. Stephen was a handsome guy, he spent a good amount of his time to maintain his physique and professional appearance.

I am writing in regards to the Masters of Management program at Colorado State University-Global Campus, in hopes to earn my degree and enhance my professional career as well as my personal goal to continue education past my Bachelors degree. I am interested in this program because it will allow me to complete my education online, which is extremely convenient for my full time work schedule. I have been working at US Bank for 6 years and have worked my way up through various positions to my current position as a Sales and Service Manager. I was able to obtain my Bachelors degree while working here and I want to continue my learning to open more doors for career opportunities as well as gaining new skills and knowledge to help me in day-to-day activities and scenarios in my current position. Management has been something I have always aspired to become involved in. I understand that management of any business place affects multiple people who are customers or employees; therefor I want to be most effective and successful in my management techniques.

I don’t like the idea of being told to tell you about my character or how I exhibit leadership, because those who claim to know they have good character are usually those who do not. To speak of how I exhibit leadership, you would need to speak to those I lead, not me, but I will try my best to tell you about myself in the most flattering way I know how without stretching the truth and that would be to tell you about what is important to me. Those are the things that make me

Until a few decades ago, it was a commonly prevalent notion in the corporate sector that organizations are operated by capital and top leadership where as the employees are to follow the lead as they are told to. This meant that employees were simply expected to walk on the line given to them to attain the desired results without giving much of their own input. Under such circumstances, leaders were defined as commanders and controllers and were assumed to be people who held certain authority and position in the organizations, while the rest of the employees were treated as mere subordinates, whose only motivation was considered to be financial incentives.

The public relations major at Franklin College requires the student to have a minor or related field. I choose to have a related field in business, which means I am required to take 12 credit hours in business courses. I have already taken four business courses and I am currently in my fifth. My first two business courses were Introduction to Business and Principles of Economics. These courses introduced me to business and showed me how to work in a business setting. The next couple classes I took were Principles of Accounting and Principles of Accounting II. In these classes we learned how to analyze a company’s economy and utilize their money to the fullest potential. I am currently taking a course called Introduction to Taxation. In this class we are learning how to complete and fill out taxes.

The area of personal effectiveness I selected was self-management. In specific, I pick managing yourself for accomplishment because I have been experiencing high levels of stress in this term for the large amount of homework and tests from the five classes I am taking. The three strategies that caught my attention were: focus first on high priority items, focus on one thing at the time, and do it when you think of it. For a period of two weeks, I applied those strategies to my daily life hoping that all my tasks would get more organized, reducing the amount of stress and improving my general well-being.