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Introduction
Personal leadership is the ability to develop and utilize positive traits to guide your life instead of letting time and chance to determine your course. The kind of personal leadership that one always has begins when he/she decides to be his/her coach and live by a real and personal oneself mission statement that reflects his/her values and life goals. Personal leadership matters. When it develops from inside out, its outcomes are felt by a large group of people. The group consists of not only you and your family but also by others and in your community at large and the workplace (Dixon & Hart, 2018). For one to be said he/she has personal leadership, he/she must have some various personal leadership qualities which can be cultivated within oneself for he/she to use real strengths and talents for our success and the benefit of those we live with and work with at workplaces or any other place we interact with them.
Part A: Leadership personality
Leadership personality is applicable in many places, but it depends on how one carries him/herself in terms of leadership. We have various key leadership strengths applicable to workplaces (Buil et al., 2019). This can be self-awareness, which mostly applies to people who have been placed in management positions. One can be able to be a good leader is he/she knows his/herself well and fully. One must know what the leadership strengths are and leadership weaknesses.
One must have conflict resolution skills. This can help him/her to solve conflict matters in an organization or within or outside the business. If he/she can solve conflicts peacefully and come up with an acceptable action, then we can say that is one of the leadership strengths a manager or a leader should have (Brown, 2019).
One should have the ability to work with different personal styles and approaches in an organization. This can only be achieved when one enrolls in a leadership course for him/her to master and enhance leadership competency.
More so, one must have excellent communication skills. Strong people who can lead a team or who are good leaders are excellent communicators. Any organization can have a successful work and outcomes only if there is a possession of excellent communication skills.
Apart from leadership strengths, we also have some leadership weaknesses that can be applied in work (Adams, 2019). The weaknesses can also be improved to come up with successful solutions in any organization.
The weakness we shall name a few of them which include:
Standing apart from your team: This shows that one is above all others, and he/she cannot be comparable at all. One is so arrogant that he/she cannot make any effort for the team’s needs. Most of the time, in any organization, the employees always like to see the leaders on their sides, which shows that they care, and they value them together with the work they do.
Leaders act without integrity: this can be seen when a leader works with the highest level of integrity in his/her communications (Cha et al., 2020). This always leads to a lasting impact on how their teams perceive them. This can lead to employees losing trust and respect in their leaders.
We also have leaders who fail to set clear goals and objectives. This always weakens the leader’s team. If any leader fails to set goals and objectives, there will be low-quality deliverables, which leads to employees high risks of getting misaligned with the business or the organization’s goals and increasing the high risks of disorganization in a business or an organization.\
Some leaders tend to provide ineffective feedback. This can be very bad for the team’s employees such that it cannot lead to any constructive and helpful measures to him/her. A leader should be able to communicate the details of why and how the employee is excelling or potentially falling short. This can lead to the organization or business to know its shortcomings and be able to solve them easily.
We have got various ways through which leaders can do to enable an employee’s full potential in any business or organization. We shall mention some to see how this can be achieved. This can be observed in various ways, such as:
By encouraging them to think and have acted in ways that come most naturally to them. This can only happen when the leaders embrace natural ways that the employees think of and building off their own strengths. Most leaders know the default settings by observing the things that they naturally gravitate towards and those they do not.
By expanding their performance abilities. This can help them to improve in their places and the personal attitudes towards anything in the places of work or any other place.
Also, by developing their decision-making abilities. This can help them to solve different matters at different times of the day at workplaces and outside.
Lastly, leadership personality can be a threat to others in an organization in different ways. This can be a failure to develop; this is a threat to others in an organization as the intended purpose has not yet been fulfilled (Ayman & Korabik, 2016).
We also have a failure to empower as another leadership personality threat to others as one cannot provide a supportive atmosphere and empower your workforce.
Lack of balance is also a leadership threat to others as that balance between our professional and personal lives can be difficult, but it is a must (Boulter, 2017). Therefore, if imbalance persists, there will be strife, which will affect work performance.
Part B Leadership future
As per the future leaders, we always have role models who drive us to be what we always desire to be in terms of leadership. We have got various virtues we always admire and teach ourselves from various leaders in our organizations and businesses (Costello et al., 2018). Knowing in mind that leadership is the ability to direct and motivate others to achieve individual, team, and company goals, one must be very punctual in leading a team. Therefore, it is mandatory to learn these virtues from those who have been great leaders.
Therefore, looking into my own life, I can say that I have achieved and got some experience through these virtues from my team leaders in the organizations. This is very important as always, people learn and acquire skills in leadership through other leaders. Since leaders can influence others’ behaviors, I can say that I have acquired the skills and experience of which I can influence others positively.
Part C leadership philosophy
My leadership philosophy is “Leading with love and relational leadership.” I would like to become a leader who distrusts other people in an organization. I will take myself to be equal to others to solve issues and other matters together successfully. I do not want to become so much competition to others in that I want to be above them. I want to lead with love in a more relational leadership style, and I will always take time to ask what some of the factors may have contributed to some things in the organization (Giri & Santra, 2016). This will help fellows in the organization come up with solutions or steps to encounter specific issues.
Part D Leadership Strengths
To lead a team in an organization, one must always have some leadership strengths. I would make sure that I possess excellent communication skills to enhance clear information and a good flow of events within the organization. Also, I will have high integrity for my people in the organization so that I can weigh matters before coming up with a solution (Logan, 2017).
More so, I will possess the team player qualities in that I will be able to play a role with other members to improve quality products in an organization.
Lastly, I will be able to work with different personal styles in the organization. This means that the way I will handle matters will be unique and eye-catching to my team members. I would like to be a person or a leader who is most admired by other teams (Eisenbeiss et al., 2018).
Part E Leadership training and feedback
One to be a leader, he/she must have some training or must have observed some roles from other leaders. I have obtained good leadership qualities, and I feel that I can be a good leader when given a chance. It is essential for one to try something that he/she has trained for. To add to that, I have trained in leadership in a leadership institution, and Therefore, I possess leadership skills. I obtained a leadership certificate, which entails all the roles of a leader that I trained for (Amabile & Khaire, M. 2018). I got good results in it. I have also attended various leadership summits, and I have experience with what a tremendous and excellent leadership skills are.
Conclusively, this always what I have been admiring in my entire life to become a great leader. But for now, I have excellent skills from where I have been training and what I have been observing from other key leaders in various organizations where I have been attending in my entire life. Therefore, I believe I can be a great leader also only if any team offers me a chance in business and organization.
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