This memo identifies the desired contribution you should be making in five years, including the type of organization and specific role that best fit your style and strengths, in addition to offering an overview of the steps and improvement required for you to reach your goal as well as provides a mission statement to guide you along the way. Your Contribution Although armed with global perspective and critical lens of seeing the world, you flourish as a change agent in a local community, wherever that may be. Your role, as a budding manager or consultant of program innovation, allows you to work between two realms – private and government – coordinating partnerships between sectors and originating policy that promotes sustainable, holistic community economic development. Mind-numbing routines and paperwork bore and exhaust you; this position capitalizes on your strengths and ability to thrive in fast-paced environments, coupling you with pace-setting leaders that challenge and inspire you daily. The organization appreciates and utilizes your ability to respond to unanticipated problems and create creative solutions at a moment’s notice. Other employees are loyal, trusting and tight-knit and the work culture is empowering for independent and creative work processes, sideways communication, and encouraging of lifelong learning and attentive …show more content…
Best challenged the status quo at her job, but did so with grace and humility. Recognize your position and respect the positions of those around you, but never allow yourself to feel trapped or accept no for an answer when you feel called to lead and serve for the betterment of your team. However, take a moment to pause and reflect before embarking on this process in order to ensure your motives are team-focused rather than for your own ego and recognition. This is the sign of a strong, emotionally aware
Transformational and transactional leadership is evident at T.J. Maxx, however, there are some leadership styles reviewed by Anderson & Sun (2017) in the International Journal of Management Reviews that are applicable, such as intellectual
My education and past experience lead me to believe that working, as a Policy Associate in your organization would allow me to apply my rigorous analytical training to generate thoughtful and impactful energy for seamless internal support and external social/political progress.
A leadership philosophy helps to define and let others know what you expect, what things you value, and how you act as a leader. Different styles of leadership are needed for different situations. Every leader needs to know when and how to display a particular approach of leadership within a group. Leadership strategies define every leader’s personal leadership style. Three leadership styles of a counselor are the following: authoritarian style leaders, democratic style leaders, and laissez-faire style leaders.
Throughout this paper, this author will provide insight to the Magnet designation, comparing leadership and management skills, styles, and theories on this subject. The author will address to the reader her own professional and personal philosophical approaches to leadership in the Magnet journey.
Strong leadership is vital to the success of any business, institution, school, team, or even church. Leaders that are considered effective encompass a leadership style and qualities that work to influence and motivate their followers. Joel Osteen, an evangelical pastor from Houston, Texas is truly one of the 21st centuries most captivating leaders. So much so, that he as selected by Barbara Walters as one of her 10 Most Fascinating People of 2016 (ABC News, 2006). His appeal is a phenomenon that is unmatched by any other current leaders in his profession. Over the past 15 years he has built a church, where he ministers one of the largest and most diverse congregations in America (Romano, 2005). Aside from his 45,000 attendees at his weekly services, his sermon is broadcasted in every television market in the United States and in over 100 other nations around the world (“About Joel,” n.d.). Joel Osteen is a prime example of a compelling leader who practices an effective leadership style that resonates with people on a personal level.
Courses have been carefully designed to ensure that students have practical hands on knowledge with “Partnerships between business and government, project management, writing business plans and project proposals, and communication skills” (SAIT, 2017). On account of, students will cultivate the proper skills that are required in rural and urban communities for economic development. In addition to receiving a certificate from SAIT, the classes taken can be a bridge into the SAIT Business Administration diploma and other economic agencies such as Economic Development Alberta, Canadian Economic Developers Association, and Council for the Development of Native Development Officers (SAIT, 2017). In conclusion, students who graduate will be able to launch into careers that contain positions such as an economic development officer, liaison officer, community development officer, planning officer and the ability to work within a wide spectrum of organizations in both the private and public sector (SAIT, 2017). The designers of this certification and program are asked to be responsible for building a presentation that generates awareness of the career and the importance of the certification for an economic development professional.
All Weather Heating & Air Conditioning (AW) is a locally owned and Operated Company located in Winchester, Virginia. Opened over 20 years ago by a husband and his wife they both worked hard together developing a business plan that rapidly grew to the stage where they wanted it to be. Recently they opened a satellite office in a small town of Brodnax, Virginia.
Creative thinking The free flow of ideas and positive work environment is the perfect catalyst for creative thinking.
Finding a leadership style is like finding the dress or suit that fits just right. It may take several attempts, but once you find the one that fits, it is usually the one you will keep. For this class, we were asked to take a 50 question survey from Kent University to help us figure out what type of leadership style fits us best. From the results provided from the test, my leadership style was typed as participative. When reading more about participative leadership, I saw a quote I was able to resonate with completely, “The leader makes the final decision, but the team to contribute to the decision-making process” (How to find, n.d.). This quote made me realized that this type of leadership fit me down to the T. In terms of effective communication, I always make an effort to make sure the listener absolutely understands what I am conveying. By asking questions or bringing up any concerns they might have, I am able to make sure that everyone is on the same page. My job presents several opportunities to help teach and train new operators. By having a participant leadership style, I must ensure new operators know how to work within their position proficiently. As a trainer, I deal with trainees who at times feel overwhelmed with the plethora of information given to them. I find it important to give encouragement and facilitate training when need be. Being a participant leader requires a great of humility: “The leader can 't know everything”
Leadership is a concept most people feel informed enough to discuss, but that few are truly educated sufficiently to comment on. Therefore, it is instructive to consider the leadership styles of people with very different approaches both to better understand the diversity underlying leadership, as well as to appreciate the effective and less effective strategies that underlie different leadership outcomes. For that reason, this essay will consider the styles of two leaders who are less visible in this highly contentious presidential election season: Jill Stein (the Green Party nominee) and Gary Johnson, the Libertarian candidate. The leadership styles of both are very different, yet they are aligned in the sense that both are outsider candidates struggling to gain momentum from a disaffected electorate. This essay begins with a theoretical discussion of leadership more generally and then turns to the two leaders as case studies, comparing and contrasting them and drawing conclusions about how they both work within the same public sphere and for putatively similar ends (i.e., gaining votes).
When we analyze the success of large corporations like Ford, General Electric and International Business Machines, it is evident that they had series of leaders who were visionary and believed in empowerment of people. When we analyze tough phases of a company or companies that had a fall and ultimate demise, we clearly see a linkage between failure of company and absence of effective leadership (Canwell, Dongrie, Neveras, & Stockton, 2014). The successful organization had leaders who made right decisions at right time and implemented them strategically. The implementation part needs excellent human resources and the ability to lead to them to get the task done. While different situations may need different style of leadership, the sophisticated manpower fueled by technological advancements and globalization have made some leadership styles less effective and some leadership styles to be highly effective (Feser, Mayol, & Srinivasan, 2014). This paper will discuss a tough situation faced in one of my former organization. The organization needed a different leadership style to tide over the falling sales and attrition. Three different leadership styles, their pros and cons, and the likely success in solving the problem will be discussed in this paper.
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.
This paper is a critique of preceptor leadership methods. I will describe my current preceptor’s leadership style, giving an example of an observed valuable leadership strategy and why I found it to be successful. Shadowed by an example of an observed unsuccessful leadership strategy, how I responded, and a recommended strategy for the situation described. Ending with the type of leader I aspire to be in the future and my final thought regarding leadership.
My parents divorced when I was 11 and my mother left for Europe to be with her family. She definitely moved to USA when I was 16. I was really close to her while growing up so after she left I did not really have a female figure to look up too or to share my worries with. I grew up in the city and I was going to a private school; being the kid without a mother at home made me feel different but that was not something you could talk about in my dad’s house. He is a proud man and he put that pride in us so we had to keep our heads up all the time. Still, I had people talking on my back. I started keeping to myself from there and doing everything on my own without asking anyone help because that is how my dad wanted us to be: educated, successful, proud and independent so we wouldn’t have to deal with failure or rejection. I realize today that as people, we will always need someone’s help at some point in our life, and pride is not everything. It is hard letting go of old habits, but I am trying to be more of a people person because we can also learn from failure and rejection. They are all part of life.
People have always asked if there is any style of leadership that is most effective. Nevertheless, numerous theories and models have been created to show that there is no style of leadership that is the best. Rather, styles of leadership need to adjust depending on the variables such as the leader, the situation, the subordinate, the task, the environment and other factors. Paul Hersey, Kenneth H. Blanchard, and Dewey E. Johnson noted that if the leader’s style of behavior is appropriate or matches the situation it is considered effective. If it is not appropriate to a given situation, it is deemed ineffective. The difference between the effective and ineffective styles is often not the actual behavior of the leader, but the appropriateness of that behavior to the environment in which it is used. In reality, the third dimension is the environment.