Reflection Paper On Leadership

The word leadership has a lot of meanings, but its meaning is unique to the person who is giving the definition. Leadership is the ability to guide, direct, and motivate others to accomplish a mission or task. It is the ability to make subordinates see their own potential in their abilities and supervisors recognize and respect it. Leaders are entrusted with building up those they lead to ensure the individual can one day assume the responsibility of leading others. It is for this reason that the situational approach style of leadership best describes my leadership style.

Throughout this course, I have learned several things about myself as a leader and about a leader in general. I feel like I now have the ability to point out many strengths and weaknesses I did not notice before. Strengths such as being able to find better ways of doing certain things, spot things that may or may not be really working, motivating team members, and working great under pressure. Some of my weaknesses include resisting change, constantly working within a group, because I always tend to feel like I'm doing either all or most of the work, and sometimes micro managing in an attempt to help/coach closely. Sometimes the micro-managing is unattended but at the same some things don't get right in time unless you keep a close eye on it.

Being a leader is more than simply holding a leadership position or having the ability to lead. Everyone is capable of being a leader, but not everyone exercises his or her leadership abilities. Each person’s idea of leadership is different. My idea of leadership has developed over time, and being a member of the President’s Leadership Class has helped me develop my philosophy of leadership further than what it was two months ago. My personal philosophy of leadership is the ability to effect change through leading by example, taking initiative, and encouraging others.

Goal Two: Find staff who are providing exceptional care to patients and publicly recognizing one person per week by placing a note on the staff bulletin board stating who was “Caught Being AWESOME!”.

One of the beautiful things about leadership is that it is all encompassing and fluid. Leadership is defined as “the action of leading a group of people or an organization”, yet that definition doesn’t even come close to actually defining and describing what leadership can mean to a person. Leadership is a complex value, and it took a long time to grasp and apply it to my life. Through my experiences in high school and my church youth group I have come to realize that for me, leadership is the ability to inspire and positively impact the lives around me with quiet examples and actions.

There are many definitions for the term leadership. This term have different meanings to each individual. Leadership is defined as a complex phenomenon involving the leader, the followers, and the situation (Hughes, Ginnett & Curphy, 2012). Leadership is a quality that one can gain through employment experience and/or through education and can also be gained through mentorship. There are many different leadership styles that a leader may fall under. Each type of leadership style has its own uniqueness that makes the leader fall under that particular

Leadership has a variety of meanings to different individuals, often based upon the circumstance and situation which defines the term leader or leadership. Northouse (2016) defines leadership as, “a process by which an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal.” (p. 6). Sammi Caramella writes, “Leadership is critical to every company. Workers need someone to look to, learn from and thrive with. Every leader has their own style and strategy. Further, leadership styles and methods vary because of outside influences and personal challenges. While leadership is unique to everyone, there are some common ways to define the term.” (2017). According to Peter Economy (2018), also known as "The

The premise that I would agree to is “Why We Have Too Few Women Leaders!” In the Ted Talks video, Sheryl Sandberg speaks of “problems” women in the world are facing (Sandberg, 2017). These “problems” include a woman not making it to the top and women having to choose between professional success and personal fulfillment. I think that it is so wrong that a woman has to choose between having a professional life and a career. A male can have both and there’s never any questions ask, and he’s not frowned upon as if he’s all of a sudden grown two heads. Whenever a woman wants to have both they want to make her feel bad about her decision. Majority of the time she’s going to have a male boss that’s going to

Leadership has many styles and it means different things to different people. I like the definition of leadership as setting the direction and as leaders helping themselves and others to do the right thing to move forward. To do this they create an inspiring vision and motivate others to reach that vision. I have always tried to accomplish this when placed in a leadership role, and it should always be strived for.

Before attending the introduction into leadership I assumed that I was a very good leader. I attained the leadership award at my high school, in the softball program I was known as a leader by both my coaches, teammates, and in newspaper articles. Given that I have all these awards for being a leader I assumed that there was nothing else to learn about being a leader. I know that you can always improve if you practice something, but I never realized that there are different ways you can lead and still be effective. Throughout the course, it has opened my eyes to different models, theories, and ideas that can help me improve my skills not only as a leader but as a follower as well. I have learned that there are different leadership styles along with followership styles, self-awareness along with personality dimensions, and motivation models along with theories.

Prior to attending the Business Internship course, my knowledge and understanding on successful business leaders was very limited. Although I had heard of countless success stories in business, I had never actually understood what it took to achieve such measures of success. However, it wasn’t until we had the privilege of hearing from four different business magnates in weeks 6 -9. Each of the business leaders gave an hour’s seminar and which was aimed at providing insights into their personal lives, working experiences and the core essence of 21st century business leadership.

Over the course of the past 18 years, I have seen good, bad, inspiring, and demoralizing leadership qualities. True leadership is defined by one’s actions during times of adversity. The best leaders understand that when plans are not successful, it is best to step back and put pride in check. A successful course of action starts when the cause is not about one individual, but the goals of the team. Many different influences, good and bad, have shaped my career. If not for the inspirational leaders at my first unit, Station Gloucester, MA, I am not sure that I would still be in the Coast Guard. Credibility can make or break any leader. I have read several well-written command philosophies that were tarnished because their authors did

The three peers that I sent my PAM assessment to had very different opinions me, and I just wanted to destroy them, but the best reaction that I can give to this matter is I categorically do not think I’m that bad, I feel uncomfortable, and I do not believe that I should feel guilty of over aggressive enthusiasm, I characterized and illuminated what I thought of myself regarding my strengths and weaknesses, and to collaboratively be conscious of the prognosis that my peers do not share my vision is devastating to me. Nonetheless, disagreeing about diverse facts is one thing, but when the disagreement is about an assessment it personal, and I realize it’s their opinion, and as I re-evaluate my assessment I feel I have to re-evaluate my

Leadership for me is based on character, discipline, and the unit mission. I believe that our mission should guide all of our leadership actions. Our mission is to be ready to mobilize, deploy as leaders, and provide mission support to our subordinate leaders. We must man the force, train the force, maintain maintenance and accountability, and above all, take care of the Soldiers.

In class, so far, we have discussed many different topics about leadership. One being different leadership theories. The one that I feel most represents the leader I want to be in the future is servant leadership. When we discussed servant leadership it was defined as this leadership model is based on the leader and the followers wanting to serve others. Basically, this means the servant leader you put your focus on the needs of others before your own. The followers goal is to serve clients and the leader’s goal is to serve the employee and implement the organization mission statement. The leader supports other employees by noticing their goals and provide the proper support to help them reach those goals. This