What I Learned From My Strengths

I feel as though my strengths greatly impact on the support I can provide in the year 4 class I work in every Thursday morning in a positive way. This encourages the children and the child I work one to one with (who is awaiting a diagnosis of ADHD) in this class to approach their work positively and be positive themselves. I believe I have developed a professional working relationship with the year 4 class teacher, which in affect has enabled us to have good communication skills.

In presenting a theory about myself as a leader, I will attempt to draw conclusions about my strengths and weakness as a leader based on the things learned in this class. I will speculate on a reflective leadership best-self-portrait through my work experiences that draw on my interpersonal resources for vision. Recognizing my talents and shortcomings will help develop both micro and macro levels of resource development needed to reach my full potential.

The intention of the following individual action plan is to recognize my leadership strengths and identify areas where I am able to further develop and strengthen my leadership qualities. The challenge within the action plan is to be cognizant of my strengths and weaknesses within the context of my professional and personal life allowing for me to constructively work towards strengthening my weaknesses. The deeper subset to the challenge will require that truth and sincerity of my experiences both professionally and personally be disclosed. The sense of urgency is present and current, I have personally

Aman and Mr. Daniels leverage time each week to sit down and reflect on the experience. During this time, I have learned a remarkable amount of information about who I am as a leader. Success in life is important, therefore, one must continually be honest with themselves. Even though, there are a number of tools one can assess to gauge their growth. Self-reflecting is a vital tool improvement Therefore, when reflecting I found a few areas of focus. The chart below indicates the qualities that I possess as a leader. Granted that these qualities tend to fall in the category as both a strength and a weakness. The highlighted qualities are the areas that I will be focusing on this

From the Strength Finder website questionnaire, my individualized leadership strengths are as follows: achiever, command, context, focus, and significance. In this essay I will elaborate on these in detail and the ways they explicitly relate to my personality and the different experiences and activities of my life. I have also researched several articles that discuss transformational leadership and how this pertains to the literature on the subject. I will discuss transformational leadership in comparison to my own strengths, and explain how my leadership style may progress as I advance through this nurse practitioners program.

I realized that I have very strong leadership skills and qualities. Some of these leadership qualities include the confidence I portray to the people I lead and the confidence and reassurance I instill in them. Going alongside this quality is my ability to create personal connections with various people which helps me gain their trust which in turn allows them to open up to me giving me a chance to help them better. An additional leadership quality would be my ability to think on my feet in a stressful and time sensitive situation and come up with a quick solution. Having my strengths be leadership qualities will help me in my career of being a physical therapist because it will give me the respect and authority from my patients along with making sure all of my patients feel safe and happy. This is important in a physical therapist because when a patient goes to see a physical therapist they will be more inclined to listen to the physical therapist’s advice if the physical therapist gives that advisement in a calm and confident tone which will reassure the patient that the physical therapist knows what he/she is doing. In contrast, if the physical therapist shows a lack of confidence and talks in a faltering tone, then the patients will be wearisome in the advice they were given and be less likely to follow them. A similar concept for being able to make personal connections with the patients because the ability to make personal connections with my patients will make them feel more comfortable and give them the ability to be able to share with me stories and such so that they will be more honest when I ask them questions about diets and if they have been following the suggested regimen. Having these leadership skills as my strength is very reassuring to me because I was able to see that physical therapy was

Over the course of this semester, I have learned about the theoretical foundation of leadership and management. From various leadership styles to numerous learning tools have all aided in shaping me to become an effective leader not only in the health care profession, but everyday life as well. Through utilizing these tools, I have managed to put them into actions through working individually and in teams which has helped me to learn more about myself and the type of leader I am. Throughout this action plan I will reflect on my definition of leadership, what I’ve learned about myself in the capacity to demonstrate leadership, my leadership strengths and weaknesses and three action steps that will help me to develop my leadership in the future.

At times, these strengths can be detrimental to my leadership abilities as I am one to overthink a situation and stress if something does not go according to my mental plans. Ultimately, this affects my attitude toward a situation. For example, I have been at an event before where something unexpected occurred and it 'threw me off' because I did not expect that thing to occur; therefore, my attitude became more negative because I had not prepared my reaction to such an event and I could not decide how to turn the situation around for a more positive perspective. I think this can apply to any person, as everyone has experienced a situation that did not play out as expected and made one change their own attitude towards the situation entirely. Additionally, I also find myself weak in self-discipline at times. Although I overthink and plan out events in my head, I still fall victim to laziness. I get in a 'funk' where I lack the drive and motivation to carry out the plans and goals I have created in my head. Because of this, I fail to prioritize my time wisely and carry out the necessary actions to achieve a goal. For example, I may create an elaborate and detailed plan to complete all my work and studying by an early hour of the night, so I can get more sleep and be better prepared for the week at school. However, if I fail to put in the work to live according to this

Ronald Reagan once said, “the greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things, he is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.” This quote by our past president, Ronald Reagan, relates to my experiences with leadership. Throughout high school I experienced democratic leadership though playing sports like field hockey and track. I have also experienced leadership during small group projects, as well as being a leader of an organization on a college campus. Through all of these experiences, I have learned essential characteristics and qualities to becoming a good leader. I have also had negative experiences with leadership that have taught me things not to do as a leader. I

For this assignment, I have decided to use the leadership trait, skills and style questionnaires. For this questionnaire, I asked 5 different people that know me in different contexts in life, such as personal, school, and work environments. For the majority, I rated myself higher on the traits than my fellow colleagues. On some of the traits however, I was rated higher than what I thought. Overall, I averaged a 4/5 which means that everyone agreed with the traits that were given. For the style questionnaire, I found out that I place more emphasis in building relationships rather than completing tasks. Finally, the skills questionnaire, my leadership skills are in the high range for technical skills, and my human and conceptual skills are in the moderate range.

A society with an absence of leadership is one that exhibits disarray and pandemonium. Leadership, therefore, is a vital facet of human life and can be seen as a building block from which great nations were built upon or large corporations have thrived under. I believe leadership is intrinsically in all human beings, however some leadership traits in people are far more superior than others. This paper will evaluate results from multiple assessments that identify my particular leadership potential. Using Northouse’s text, this paper will also identify my particular strengths and weakness within leadership. The penultimate paragraph of this paper will consider how my evaluated leadership style interacts within my work environment.

I currently hold the equivalent knowledge and expertise of an NVQ Level 2 qualification and feel I have equivalent expertise to what expectations would be deemed appropriate as of having experience myself. I am set to finish my NVQ Level 2 on Friday 22nd July as a final completion date confirmed. As addition to this working within my role and department has developed my customer service skills to an excellent level, developed in a dynamic fast pace working environment, attending regular team meetings, in house training and consistent communication throughout the team. In 2015 when I graduated from school achieving a C grade in English Language and English Literature and also currently hold

The development of my leadership can be attributed to my roles in group projects throughout school and also my job as a manager at Walgreens. I have learned that groups don’t always function properly and in certain instances there needs to be a push in the right direction for some members of the group. I try to lead the group by motivating other members and sometimes threatening them with a punishment because of their own lack of effort towards our common goal. My role as a manger at work has also shaped my leadership capacities by making me in charge of the store and the people working. When it comes to adversity I don’t think that I have faced much in my lifetime. Being compared to the adversity that other people have faced in their lives the things I have overcome are minor and not necessarily life changing events. One person that I admire is Lauren Conrad, who is a self made fashion designer with a great character and moral compass. She is from Hollywood but he is a good genuine person despite her surroundings and she is an inspiration to me other young women around the globe.

My current strengths include; my honesty and passion towards my work. I have always been positive and confident regarding my aims and targets. Along with these, I am a good decision maker, due to which I can make right and quick decisions. Moreover, I have ability to motivate others and do team work. I am also a responsible person, when I make a target; I work day and night to achieve my goal.

During week one of the course, I completed a project that allowed me to identify my strongest and weakest leadership traits. The project required input from six individuals with whom I have a professional relationship. They rated me in different areas based on a scale, to determine the results. I also rated myself, and when I compiled the data I was able to identify the areas of leadership that I am strongest and weakest. The results are: