Quinn Management Essay: Governance And Leadership Questionnaire.

Self-Reflection and Self-Analysis

Discuss about the Governance and Leadership for Quinn Management Questionnaire.

The three consecutive diagnostic tools that I have used for evaluating my leadership skills and competencies include Emotional intelligence, Quinn Management Questionnaire and Situational leadership questionnaires. In order to run a business organization successfully I should have certain skills and competency level with the help of which my organizational employees would like to pay their attention for obeying my instruction. Therefore, at the very first stage I have used the tool of Quinn Management Questionnaire. In this particular test have reached above 45% on average, which is good enough for becoming an organizational leader. As a mentor, I have scored 90%, as a director I have scored 93%, as an innovator I have reached 90%. Therefore, it is clear and evident that I am possessed with some effective qualities for running and leading an organization successfully. In addition, as a director I have received a good score. People from various cultures and backgrounds are intensely associated with the business organization. The primary responsibility of an ideal director should be treating every individual employee with equal respect and dignity. On the other hand, as a business innovator I should focus on making effective business strategies and policies for my organization that would create a difference in the current market scenario. My innovative business policies should draw the attention of customers as well. I have scored 93% as an innovator. While dealing with the employees at the workplace I have the capability to deal with the exiting staffs in such a way that employees from different geographical boundaries do not feel any kind hesitation for interacting with me regarding any kind of issue at the workplace.

In my emotional intelligent skill, I have carried 90% score in this particular segment. Emotional intelligent skill implies on how I as a leader is competent enough to make a balance in reducing the employees’ personal and professional issues. While running a business, every organization has to follow business ethics, cultures and values. I do believe the same. I would always like to advice my employees for maintaining organizational cultures and discipline while providing services at the workplace. In addition, if any individual employee faces difficulties for surviving at the workplace, I am capable enough to resolve the issue as soon as possible. The responsibility of an individual employee is not only to provide good service to the customers but also to maintain unity among the employees. As a leader, I have the capability to understand on which particular environment the employees can maintain an effective relation with each other. I like to maintain an effective communication with the employees so that the employees can share their point of views regarding the business goal. On the other hand, with the help of emotional intelligence tool I like to follow participative leadership style at the workplace. This particular leadership style never wants to impose the decision on employees. Rather, with the help of participative leadership style, I entertain the point of views of every individual employee in order to take a collective decision. As a result, employees can show their interest for providing effective services towards the business organization.

Literature Review

With the help of Situational leadership questionnaires test, I have evaluated my skills and mental ability on how I should react on different organizational situation. While keeping a constant control over the entire process of business, I may have to face different challenging situations at every step. I as a leader should have the capability to handle every single situation efficiently and technically. In this particular segment, I have carried 77% score, which is not very good enough for becoming an efficient leader. Before making an effective solution to any kind of organizational issues, I should identify the issues first due to which the problems are being created. At the same time, I should focus on the communication skill as well. Skill of communication reflects on the personality. Therefore, my voice modulation, my way of expression, my presentation should impress the employees for following my instruction. I personally believe that in this particular area, I need to develop my competencies.

The concept of self-confidence:

The overarching term, self-confidence is the concept that is subjected to the capability of an individual with the help of which this individual person enables to present self-potentiality in order to achieve the business goal. Quality and efficiency is not enough to lead a team for rendering the success of business. An individual should have the confident within the utmost soul based on which that particular individual would be capable to deal with any kind of circumstances at the workplace to overcome the sudden organizational issues. Baden and Parkes (2013) opined that in order to run a business organization successfully and to lead the team members towards the organizational goal, a leader has to go through innumerable upheavals.

Self-confidence is the most effective tool with the help of which this particular business leader would handle the entire situation amalgamated with skills and competencies. On the other hand, Caligiuri and Tarique (2012) has commented that over self-confidence may demolish the entire leading capability of a business leader. Therefore, while running the organization with self-confidence, the business leaders should take the matters into serious consideration that the business experts should never show their over-confident attitude based on which the entire process of business has to lose their rhythmic flow.  

Self-confidence within a human being builds personality. Employee would like to show their respect to a business leader only when the individual would be able to provide an effective and confident suggestion to them towards organizational service process. Otherwise, the employees would like to show their negative attitude towards the business leaders. On the other hand, in order to render the business success, the leaders have to take several risks while implementing business strategies, plans and policies. Without having self-confidence, the leader would never be able to take that risk. As a result, the growth of business would be restricted within a static situation. This particular business organization would never be successful for rendering success for their organization. Daft (2014) opined that self-confidence helps a business leader of taking innumerable innovative decision for the success of business. Therefore, individual people before holding the position of leader should gain self-confidence for leading their team members effectively.

Importance of Having Self-Confidence for Being a Successful Leader

DuBrin (2014) opined that strong academic background can never make an individual self-confident towards organizational services. An efficient business leader should have several skills and competencies with the help of which this person would be able to gain self-confidence. Among the skills, the skill of decision-making is one of the most prominent based on which self-confident can be raised. An efficient business leader should have the capability to take the proper decision at the right time. While forming business strategy and policy, the business leaders should have the capacity to take the decision properly. Right decision renders self-confidence. On the other hand, if an individual business exert have to face innumerable barriers to reach the business goal, this individual should gain the capacity to solve the issues confidently. Without having a proper problem solving skill, the business managers would never be able to gain self-confident within a specific individual. On the other hand, workforce management skill, managerial skill, communication skill and so many are highly important for acquiring self-confidence. Goleman, Boyatzis and McKee (2013) stated that communication skill is possessed with a major impact on building the personality of an individual leader. A person while leading a team should never falter or fumble in front of the employees. Communication skill is always considered as one of the major tools of showing self-confidence for a business leader.

Some of the major factors highly affect the level of self-confidence for a business leader. Repeated failure is one of the most important factors due to which an individual lose confidence enormously. While leading a team, an individual business leader faces innumerable challenges. Linguistic barriers, psychological barriers, cultural barriers are the most prominent challenges due to which the business leader fails to make an effective communication with the team members. As a result, the leader ultimately fails to reach the organizational goal. This kind of failure highly hampers the self-confidence of business leader.

Ibarra, Ely and Kolb (2013) mentioned that the good performance of other team leaders causes an insecurity for an individual business leaders. In this kind of situation, the self-confidence starts to fall drastically. People from different geographical boundaries are associated with a business organization. They may not provide good services to the customers from the beginning. In this kind of situation, other team members start to lag them behind. In this crucial situation, the responsibility of the business leader is to identify the issues where the team fails to perform well. After identifying the issues properly, the business leader should take an immediate step in this regard.   

Necessary Skills and Efficiencies that is Required for a Leader for Being Self-Confident

Robles (2012) stated that self-confidence is one of the most important factors that can build the characteristics of a human being. Due to the lack of self-confidence, an individual can fail to provide an effective performance towards the business leaders. A business leader while leading the team effectively should be endowed with extreme self-confidence based on which employees tend to show their interest for maintaining the rules and regulations formed by their business leaders. Among some of the most important negative effectives of lacking self-confidence, the most effective impact goes to the performance of a team. Without the proper guidance of a team lead, not a single employee can perform well. Business leaders would be able to show the right track to their team members only when the person is based on self-confidence. However, if the business leader fails to gain self-confidence, the internal team rapport would be seriously affected. Employees would fail to maintain a fruitful communication among each other. It is not possible for any business organization to perform well without the proper performance of every individual team. Peus et al. (2012) commented that a team without an efficient and confident business leader is meaningless.  

Conclusion/ Action Plan:

After evaluating, the entire study I have analyzed that business leader should have some the above mentioned capabilities in order to lead a team properly. Throughout the entire journey of my work experience, I have received immense appreciations from my seniors, friends and co-workers. They have appreciated the optimistic attitude that I love to maintain at my professional field. As a human being, every individual is possessed with some of the major drawbacks. I am not exceptional to that. With the help of three diagnostic tools, I have tested my skills and competencies. In this particular part, I have focused to make an effective action plan based on those areas where I need to improve for guiding my team more effectively and efficiently.

I would have to be accustomed with both verbal and non-verbal communication in order to maintain a flexible relation with every individual member within my team. Effective communication skill will help me to build my personality and to present my standpoints more specifically in front of the team members. On the other hand, people from various cultures and backgrounds are intimately associated with my team. Therefore, they have to face innumerable barriers while interacting with me properly. Therefore, I have decided to receive a professional training on communication skill so that I can be flexible in both verbal and non-verbal communication. On the other hand, a strong communication skill would help me present my opinions in more spontaneously. As a result, the entire process of business would get back a rhythmic flow.   

I am not very much efficient in Situational leadership skill. I have scored 77% in this segment. Therefore, I need to focus on this part more seriously. Among various classifications of situational leadership skill, the importance of having an effective problem solving skill is one of the most prominent. If an individual employee has to face any difficulty at the workplace, I should make a personal communication with that individual so that I can give that person a necessary solution. On the other hand, as a team leader I may have to face innumerable barriers while making as assignment successful. At that particular time, I should identify the issues first before finding out the solutions. I can focus on conducting a research as well with the help of which I can find necessary solutions.

Personally, I am an introvert kind of person being unable to share a cordial relation with others more effectively. In order to lead an entire team I should focus on changing my personally to some extent. Otherwise, employees would show their reluctance for sharing their problems at the workplace. Automatically, I would not be able to successful for maintaining an effective employee relation at the workplace. In this kind of situation, an action plan should be made with the help of which my personality can be flexible for sharing views with others.

I generally like to follow participative leadership style while guiding my team members towards reaching the business goal. With the help of this particular leadership, style employees get immense liberty for sharing their own opinion on the business process. I should focus on my leadership style. Democratic style of leadership may not be fruitful always as it gives many opportunities to the employees for expressing their point of views. As a result, the business leader may have to face psychological barriers. In this kind of situation, I can focus on using transformational leadership style with the help of which I can impose my decision on the employees as well whenever it is necessary.

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