Pursuing My Leadership Style

My leadership style is about how I treat under me with respect, approachable and willing to listen with different suggestions in decision making. I want to have a cooperative teamwork, little supervision, and motivation with professionalism. There is always room for training in developing skills and expertise and encouragement to go above and beyond.

In my view leadership is one’s ability to make a positive impact based on the needs of many. As a leader, I consider myself to be energetic, team orientated, encouraging, and a hands-on leader that focuses on the developmental of all my staff and individuals around me. Over the week, I have been instructed to complete three assessments: Strengthsfinder 2.0., DISC, and Jung Typology Personality to provide insight on my leadership style. From these assessments, I have learned a greater understanding of my leadership style. I will be reflecting on the results and comparing patterns across the three assessments.

Today a lot of the things we talked about really hit home with me, and I actually cried in a room full of strangers as I told them my story and why I chose to be a leader.

The leadership styles that resonated the most with me were servant leadership and shared governance. I identify with the servant leadership style the most strongly because of the 12 principles that mirror my personal work ethic and values. I believe a good leader is one that is able to listen to others and work to motive and provide an environment that nurtures growth and continued learning. One example, of a time that I have demonstrated servant leadership was when I acted as a preceptor to a new nurse tech in the ED. I started our first encounter by asking her what she had covered on her first day of orientation that she had with a different nurse tech. I listened to her and learned what things we

Ms. Corson, my second-grade teacher was a democratic leader who influenced with integrity. She was the first to demonstrate equality and justice, in my world. She became the standard which I held all leaders to from that point forward. As one might well imagine, that new standard led to a great deal of disappointment and insubordination.

One of the most important tasks any business leader must undertake is a personal assessment. An honest inventory of skills, strengths and weaknesses of a business leader can give insight into those areas that need improvement as well as those that can be accepted and learned to work around. A personal inventory also give the business leader the power of information, which a business leader can then use to create situations that emphasize strengths for more consistently positive outcomes. As a business

Upon taking the assessment, the transformational leadership style is the most predominant out of the three leadership styles. Within any unit I've worked, I tend to lead by example. I'm highly, supportive of my team members and offer assistance with any problems that one may face that require skill or experience. I motivate my team members to work as a team and to voice their opinions on problem-solving and how to get tasks done efficiently and safe. I care about my fellow team members and want our unit to be successful and reach all goals set.

A good leader is not always easy, but using what you know and learning areas of improvement, will assist in becoming a leader. My results from How Good Are Your Leadership Skills assessment said that I have an understanding of what it takes to be a leader. I creatively think out of the box and have experience. However, I must continue to acquire skills in additional areas, for improvement to be a good leader. My leadership style would be considered situational. I will lead based on my judgement and knowledge of the situation, depending on the needs of the individual or team. With a situational approach, I’d say I practice various leadership styles. However, if I were to pick one, I’d think I have an achievement- orientated leader. I believe

Effective leadership involves having a plan. Although researches have been able to establish theories on better measure of leadership traits and style for effective leadership, a leader without a plan is just a leader with a wish. This includes personal and professional plan. This paper will analyze my personal leadership development plan with the goal of becoming an effective leader. This will be done first stating what my planned goal is, then discussing the leadership theories and styles supporting my plan. This paper will also analyze the requirement of my targeted plan in relation to my planned goal. I would need to be able to identity my leadership strengths and weaknesses and explain what I would do to capitalize on my

Final Thoughts Understanding your behavioral style as a leader is key to improving your leadership abilities and the results that you are able to achieve through others. It is useful for you to identify the pattern of behaviors that you intend to use; however, it is even more important to gather feedback about how your style affects others. I have been assisting my clients in gathering this feedback by using a 360-degree online instrument, The Inventory of Leadership Styles (ILS). They have found it very useful for focusing their development on critical styles to improve their effectiveness at getting results through others. Please give me a call if you would like to explore this application with you or your team.

Every time I read information that pertains to leadership, I always question what I can do better. My leadership style has changed over the years. I believe that I use a combination of styles. I currently lead a staff of 21 employees. As a whole my approach is affiliative and democratic, with a little pacesetting. I also combine the coaching style with employees that welcome this type of leadership. When I first started with this institution two and a half years ago, many processes were performed manually and employees were frustrated with the workload. Upon gaining their respect and proving to them that I was willing to assist in implementing new processes and automation to make their tasks easier, I had their buy in. I am definitely an extroverted leader who engages others. A team of employees was assembled to discuss issues, projects, as well as new loan products and initiatives. Bi-weekly meetings are conducted to assign responsibilities, set target dates and work collaboratively as a team to get results. This process has made them feel as though they are part of a “bigger picture” rather than just doing their day to day responsibilities. This year, volunteers for the committee were solicited. This allows others in the department a chance to participate if they want to. The results are put on a white board in the department so that all can see the accomplishments. Our budget goals are also displayed with graphs on this board. It is my belief that the

In terms of leadership styles a wide variety exists for one to employ (Boykins, 2013). There isn’t firm consensus as to which styles prove to be the most effective. Different situations call for different approaches. In the article, Empirical Study of Leadership Styles, it discusses several leadership styles that I can relate to.

Jim Collins and a group of 22 research associates conducted a five-year research project searching an answer on the question ‘how a company from merely good can be transformed to great one’ and identified that behind this transformation lies a level 5 leader. Level 5 leadership refers to the highest level in a hierarchy of manager’s capabilities. A level 5 leader transforms the organisation into a great institution through a paradoxical combination of personal humility plus professional will.

I have learned much more about leadership and leadership styles than I knew before I started my learning experience with LIB 100, LIB 341, MGT 345, LIB 312, LIB 380 and PA390. Most importantly, I learned a lot more about my own leadership style and how I’m perceived as a leader from my employees at work. I used the PA390 leadership assessment questionnaires and exercises with my team at work, their feedback and responses have helped me provide some insight and learn more about my leadership values and style. These exercises and further reflection helped me see the connections to my situational leadership style at times also. It’s always enlightening to learn how others see you vs. our own perception of ourselves. Using the

A third strength of my leadership style is that it promotes a good relationship and sense of loyalty among my followers. This is a benefit to me and the organizations that I lead, because it leads to more productive followers. The people that I work with and who work for me want to succeed in part because they want me to be successful, and do not want to disappoint me. This sense of loyalty has helped immensely when dealing with students who I have connected with by making sure that they know that I do whatever I can to help them succeed. I am often able to appeal to these students to work harder by making clear to them that completing work on time and in good quality is important to me. The students respond by trying to meet or exceed their goals to avoid disappointing me.