Leadership Self-Assessment, Development Plan, Goals, And Essay. (70 Characters)

A1. Eight self-assessment questionnaires are attached. Complete any four of the questionnaires. Summarise your scores and your interpretation of the results for each questionnaire (template attached). Briefly describe what your scores mean for you as a leader.

A2. Choose a leadership theory or model that appeals to you and discuss how it will provide a good framework for your leadership development.

A3. Discuss how your culture has shaped your leadership ability and potential.

• What are the two most important factors shaping your personal culture and why are they important? How will cultural factors affect your personal leadership style?
• In the workplaces that you are familiar with, how effective are local leaders at getting the most out of the diverse people who work there and at the same time respecting their culture? How do they do it?
• Identify an organisation that would be a good fit with your personal culture. Why is it a good fit?

A4. Write an assessment of your leadership abilities, including your strengths and weaknesses. From your self assessment identify two areas of your leadership style and practice that you would like to improve.

Develop a concise leadership development plan to improve the two areas of your leadership style and practice that you identified in AS. Use the following format:

• Leadership aspirations (a concise outline of what you hope to achieve clearly showing why it is important to improve in the two areas identified).
• Development strategies (outline briefly how you will achieve the improvements)
  Two SMART goals clearly identifying what you intend to achieve, the actions you will take to achieve the goal, the timeframe required, the resources required and the measures you will use to evaluate the outcome (template attached).

Importance of Self-Assessment for Leadership

In essence, the desire to lead is the first and the most prerequisite aspect for leaders. In this light, it takes a lot of hard work for one to become an effective leader. The obtained score means a lot to me given the fact that it, will guide me in future to create a vision as well as set directions for my future organization. Additionally, it gives me the ability to motivate others with an aim of delivering a particular set vision and objective. 

A2. Ideally, there are certainly various leadership models or rather theories that I could use to provide a good framework for my leadership development. Nonetheless, the best leadership theory that suits me is the trait theory that defines the overall characteristics that makes up a good leader. According to trait theory of leadership, all effective leaders are bound to share a common personality or rather characteristics (Trorey & Cullingford, 2017). In essence, trait theories are important in that they help people in identifying leadership characteristics as well as traits. Some examples of useful traits that this type of theory can be identified with are the aspect of integrity, empathy, assertiveness, good decision-making skills as well as likability of a particular individual. However, none of this traits or rather characteristics guarantee a person success in leadership especially without being developed.

The selected theory will provide a good framework for my overall leadership development. One way in which this theory will develop my leadership trait is that it will inculcate the aspect of good decisions making in me. Although I sometimes make good decisions, I have often underestimated the number of challenges that I have often faced. In this light, using trait theory will enable me to sharpen my decision-making techniques and thus improving my leadership characteristics (Terrell,Terrell, Lindsey, & Lindsey, 2018). Additionally, this theory will be in a position of nurturing the aspect of integrity in me thus handling all issues in the leadership position with openness and utmost trust.

A3. Behind every successful leader, there are always some specific vibrant cultures that are often assumed to energize the employees. In most cases, this type of culture has been personified and defined by a particular leader. In this light, shaping a culture is, therefore, a formidable task since most leadership qualities are never taught in classrooms.

• There are various factors that are considered in shaping an individual’s culture as well as personality in a societal setting especially when it comes to leadership development. In essence, common beliefs systems that are considered to be established as well as shared within a particular society are a major contributing factor that shapes an individual’s personality (Tattum, D., 2017; Tattum, E., 2017). Cultures play a huge part in defining the overall personality of an individual. Despite biological and social differences making an impact on a person’s culture, an individual’s experience is also a major element in shaping the culture of people. Indian culture has in most cases dictated how personal leadership styles are formed. While I would prefer a leadership style that embraces egalitarianism in communication, my Indian culture does not favor a communication that includes a healthy discussion or rather communication among team members.
• Working in a rather diverse environment particularly in the workplaces has never been an easy thing to do especially for leaders. However, local leaders have in many cases managed to integrate the diversity that a particular workplace present while respecting their cultures (Sosik & Jung, 2018). One way in which management or rather local leaders can make the best out of a diversified workforce is by first making sure that the leaders are diverse in cultures. When a leadership comprising of diverse cultures work hard as a team, workers will be determined to go extra mile within a set group of employees. Respecting the employee’s culture is imperative. For leaders to respect workers’ culture, they should learn to listen to each other employee, show the employees that they care especially for their culture.
• A good organization is the ones that respect the cultures of its employees on a daily basis or rather a daily activity. There are various organizations that I can choose across the globe that best fits my cultural values, however, RMS is one of the Indian company that I consider to best fit my personal culture (Mendenhall et al., 2017). The main reason why this organization is the best in my perspective is due to the fact that it allows a conversational communication strategy among the leaders and employees as well as facilitating leadership development strategy through mentoring and coaching.

A4. There are various leadership qualities that I can often identify myself with especially when handling a group of people or rather my colleagues. Some elements of good leadership skills that act as a guiding pillar in my career journey are a strong communication trait, motivator, and practice some sense of delegation (Maguire & Blaylock, 2017). As a leader in most of my groups in school, I have always tried my best to succinctly explain everything to my colleagues in detail from setting goals to rather specific tasks (Little, 2017). I try my best to master all forms of communication, including a one-to-one, full-staff conversation, as well as communicating through the phone.  Additionally, I often engage myself in listening to the views of my colleagues and what they communicate regarding the progress of the team in case we are working towards achieving a particular goal (Huda, Mat, Nor,  & Mohd, 2018). On the other hand, I try my best to inspire my colleagues to go extra mile especially by giving them credit and recognizing their work and effort that they put.  While leaders are supposed to act as an example to others, a good leader should be in a position of delegating duties to the workers or rather colleagues (Eve, 2017). In this case, I try my best to divide duties among my colleagues based on their abilities. This is important as it helps in saving time and thus achieving a certain goal in time.

Different Leadership Models and Their Applications

As a leader, it is important for one to identify the set of strengths and weaknesses he or she holds. Some of my strengths include good observational skills, good teamwork, can demonstrate my working knowledge and expertise, and ability to take risks. Some of my weakness especially working in a team or rather as a leader of a team is poor decision-making skills and poor time manager (Ballantyne & Povah, 2017). The main two areas of leadership styles and practice that I intend to improve include the need to improve on decision making and the need to develop skill particularly in conducting as well as developing research.

• One of the most valuable skills that a leader ought to have is the ability to make a rather calm, clear as well as effective decisions. In fact the aspect of decision making is a critical element in virtually every job, with the decisions made each an everyday having a direct impact on a particular organization. Additionally, improving the skill especially of developing research is important in a business setting particularly if there is a need for new ideas or rather improving on an already existing concept. By improving decision making I intend to occasionally make the right decisions and on time as well as researching on various subjects. Additionally I will be in a position to offer solutions with an aim of improving work relationships, problem solving as well as communication.
• There are various ways in which an individual can improve on decision making skills as well as develop on research in techniques. Some of the strategies I will use include getting some arts as well as culture in my life, develop a programming or rather language skills, and hand out with all kind of ages.

Specific: I want to improve on the decision making and problems solving strategies

Measurable: we will be in a position to measure whether the objectives have been achieved at the end of the day.

Attainable: In case everyone on our team tends to pitch in, this goal is very realistic and attainable.

Relevant: some of the strategies that can be used in ensuring that these goals have been achieved are developing a programming or rather language skills, and hand out with all kind of ages.

Time-based: This goal will be achieved in the next 3 month and therefore measure our overall performance by our entire actions as well as ensuring results.

Specific: I want to improve on the aspect or rather the skills of dong and developing researches.  

Measurable: We will make sure that we re-optimize our five best pieces of contents so that we could make them even better as well as aiming to secure 10 high-quality backlinks particularly to those pieces of content.

Attainable: we will make sure that we have enough service team members on hand particularly to meet the response as well as resolution metrics

Relevant: Search engine traffic is the most valuable traffic source for our business. This plan is the best way for us to increase the research habit and develop on the set goals.

Time-based: This goal will be achieved in the next 2 month particularly for compliance with the set goals.

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