1. Assess your own reliability as a teammate. More specifically, what have you done for the team that displays leadership qualities? Cite specific examples.
Perhaps one of the foremost examples that demonstrates my capacity for leadership is simply the amount of work that I’ve put into speech and debate this year. For instance, I’ve assembled many different files for the team – four separate slow affs (BIT, AIIB, Food Safety, and Space were primarily cut by me), several fast files (T-Military, the cyber neg, impact defense compilation), as well as updates and assignments before every major tournament. Even after nat quals, when my season ended, I’ve still been cutting files that the upperclassmen ask for and that I think might be helpful to ensure our success at nationals. However, I don’t believe the best measure of leadership qualities is simply the sheer number of cards one’s cut. That doesn’t do much to improve one’s personal debate skills beyond topic knowledge, and as much as we would like it to be,
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My grades both freshman and sophomore year have generally been high, so I don’t foresee the balance with academics becoming too much of an issue. While I participate in some minor extracurriculars outside of speech and debate, such as golf and piano, neither are a significant time commitment. I’ve more or less sold my soul to speech and debate – it’s by far the activity that I spend the most time on. However, if time management becomes an issue, I’ll prioritize the speech and debate work that will ultimately reap the most benefits. For example, instead of cutting a massive amount of evidence that we’ll never use for our slow aff, I’ll spend the time listening to others or spending a couple hours working out particular phrasing and a solid
This paper will explore ten leadership tools as they are introduced by General Vincent E. Boles as he went from 2nd Lieutenant to Two Star General. These tools of leadership, the General believes were learned and applied successfully during his 33 year service while in the US military. He is convinced these tools are transferable into the business world as we know it today. We will review the following fundamentals as establishing structure, managing relationships, having organizational transparency, making business decisions, influence of decision making, following standards of business, utilizing systems that work, who is in charge, handling work related stress, finding balance between work and home life, how to handle crisis, non-negotiable
The following pages focus on analyzing the leadership style of Rahma Al-Mashrafi. This is an important example of transformational leadership. The Introduction provides information leadership styles, and presents the points of view used in writing this paper. The next section provides important information on the background of Al-Mushrafi. The Key Capabilities of the Leader section discusses some of the most important characteristics of Al-Mushrafi that make her a successful leader. The Conclusions section discusses some of the most important issues addressed in the paper.
During this past week, I completed my leadership traits assessment and tallied the results from my friends and coworkers. This process was interesting because it has been several years since I have completed an activity like this one. My results were as follows, I received my highest ratings in being persistent, determined, trustworthy, dependable, friendly, diligent, and conscientious. On the other hand, my lowest scores are in self-confident, self-assured, and perceptive. These results were not surprising to me because they are developmental opportunities that I have been working to overcome. It was good to see that what my results are consistent with what I already knew.
I feel that it is very important to have a dedicated and knowledgeable leader in an early childhood education setting because they set the expectations and quality of programming. One of my favorite things to tell my staff is; children and great imitators, so give them something great to imitate. I feel this is also true with my staff members, a great leader is able to lead by example and be followed. They will follow if they trust that you are dedicated and are confident that you are knowledgeable. I think that organization, tenacity and experience are all very critical for such a dedicated and knowledgeable leader to possess. What I most hope to gain from this course are new and innovative ways to promote quality and gain other educator’s
All of the traits that were listed in chapter 2 are very accurate for being a leader. Intelligence, confidence, charisma, determination, sociability, and integrity are all great traits to have when becoming a leader. For intelligence you have to know the stuff you are talking about and what are doing and what you are leading why you are leading so not only you believe it but the people around you believe it too. Confidence, is one of the most important traits to me, and ties into intelligence. If you are confident in what you are leading people will be confident in you and this will in turn help you become a better leader.
The basic premise for leadership is the process of influencing other people to follow your lead in order to accomplish a goal. It is about the relationship between the leader and the followers. A good leader tries to motivate people to bring about positive changes revealing a common objective without using coercion or manipulation. Leadership is not about control, but permitting interaction and communication between the leader and the individual followers. With empowering others, leaders build a foundation of collaborative thinking and encourage an atmosphere of personal involvement; a leader can strengthen the respect and loyalty of his or her followers. Leaders can affect this process by applying their own personal characteristics, such
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.
Give an example illustrating a situation this semester during which you were able to apply an appropriate leadership model
There are many leadership styles and is important to know which style you are. There are many ways one can learn their leadership style, for example, through assessments. Knowing your leadership style will help you become a better leader. Although there are many leadership assessments our text discussed four assessments that can give insights into building blocks of personality most commonly identified by peers, subordinate employees, and supervisors (Ledlow, et al, 2014). These assessments include: Hemisphere Dominance assessments; Jungian assessments; Vark test; Struder Group; Price Group; and many
Discuss in detail the eight traits or core habits necessary to be an effective leader as outlined in the Schafer text. Does an effective leader possess all of these traits? Why or why not? How does situational contingency theory fit into a discussion of essential leadership traits?
This week, the leadership assessment tests have been done, and it gives me the ways which I view the world, process information and make decisions. Mainly, I have gone through eight tests. They are: defining issues test, cognitive style instrument, locus of control scale, tolerance of ambiguity scale, fundamental interpersonal relations orientation-behavior, least preferred coworker score, learning style, and modified houts chart. The each test reveals some areas of my life which I nerve to think such ways. Also, the result shows that who I am. Although, there are several tests and the result of the each test demonstrates a valuable insight. The most important learning at this level is to know my leadership style. There are a number of reasons
When combined with authentic leadership, critical theory allows me to examine organizations from a variety of perspectives while challenging inequities in policy or practice through an action-oriented approach. The primary strength of authentic leadership is that it is multi-faceted. Authentic leaders are proactive, adapting their style to fit the situation. Authentic leaders are also strategic and are said to lead with their heart and their head. For example, they can move fluidly from empathetic and motivational to visionary and goal centered, and balance the needs of followers with the goals of the organization all while remaining true to themselves. (Northouse, 2016; Walumbwa et al., 2008; Gardiner, 2011). I am also fully aware that my lens as a
I am aspiring to be a democratic style leader, because they involve employees in decision-making processes, while delegating authority and they use feedback as an opportunity for coaching employees. I believe this is the best leadership style, because it motivates employees to work hard, because their opinions are valued. This creates a positive morale and work environment for everyone who works for this particular type of company.
I currently work for a retail organization that is globally well known. The retail organization was built to provide products and customer services to consumers worldwide. The retail store consists of a store manager, department managers, human resource, sales associates and security teams. The organization relies on sales profit in order to remain competitive in todays marketing industry. However, without the sales associates willingness to participate in the organization’s goals and objectives, the organization will not have the ability to maintain their place in todays marketing industry.
Paanu is a contract research organization which provides development services to medical device pharmaceuticals and biotech industries. Thus, Paanu aspires to provide safety and efficacy of vendor’s products. This vision plays an important role in the day-to-day operation of Paanu. Quality Assurance (QA) department plays a dominant role in day-to-day operations of the organization to drive the organization on its missionary path of ensuring safe an effective products.