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Introduction

Leadership is one of most vital elements of corporate success. Leadership is the practice of inspiring a team of individuals to act toward accomplishing a common vision (Oreg & Berson, 2015). The favorite style of inspiring employees in the work environments is paying attention to individual matters of the employees. The managers or team leaders are equally responsible for the motivation level of their team members. The managers do this by creating a friendly and conducive environment which helps the employees to become more intrinsically inspired. The leaders and managers motivate other employees through effective communications in the organization. A great leader should be aware of his or her styles of leadership.

A person must possess combinations of leadership skills and personalities that make other people show interests in following their directions for one to be termed as a leader. The leaders should be duly dedicated to organizing others and problem-solving in the right way. The ability to effectively solve problems is another vital element of leadership. Various leaders nevertheless use different approaches of leadership and this leads to differences in corporate performances. This paper will examine my leadership skills. This involves strategies, tools, and tactics I use in my leadership (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). The work will as well focus on problem-solving and conflict management skills which I regularly use when managing others.

Discussion

As a leader, that there must be communication aspect for collaborations to work (Oreg & Berson, 2015). Poor or lack of communications leads to confusions and results in disagreements. I call for regular communications in implementation process in ensuring that arising problems are handled instantly when they arise even after taking the time to explain the workers and select the vital ones. This strategy promotes teamwork among the staff members and minimizes imminent loses. My informal and formal interactions prove me to be jovial leaders who utilize humor in elaborating even serious parts of conversations. My pitches have astonished my audiences and stakeholders such as clients since I am articulate in describing the problems and the solutions which the organization shall provide via its projects and products. If two employees are involved in conflicts or disputes, I do not continue arguing but rather, I usually put them done and mediate in finding resolutions for the problem. This ensures that all employees remain united in achieving common goals.

To avoid uncontrollable behaviors of employees and magnification of the conflict, sometimes, I use confrontation of observed faults. Upholding excellent communications with my team members guarantee that disputes are minimized, and they are successfully negotiated if any. I believe with a right and proper channel of communication, all potential causes of conflicts within the company is determined in early stages and solved at the right time (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). Such actions result in commitments to realizations of goals of the organizations.

As a leader I have a philosophy that a team of employees can accomplish exceptional results once they cooperate in sessions of brainstorming (Oreg & Berson, 2015). I believe that this management approach is important since employees feel valued. It minimizes turnover of employees, therefore improving the stability of the firm. Consultations and brainstorming are not closed for top executives alone. I ensure that all works are involved in consultation meeting and brainstorming. These factors ultimately improve interactions and collaborations, and it is easy to monitor and handle the challenges which arise (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). The initial consultations and collaborations ease the processes by ensuring that top management enough information anticipated performances and expectations of the new projects.

Before undertaking any corporate operations, I always ensure that there is a goal behind it. I am goal-oriented (Oreg & Berson, 2015). Being goal-oriented as noted serves as an important pillar to my personal successes. For instance, I do ensure that the company is working with clearly defined goals and approaches and techniques on how to accomplish the goals in each fiscal year. I do involve the main corporate employees in creating the goals for them to be reasonable. I believe creativity is another important trait that I use in running the company and team members. I believe that with creativity, I am able to persuade and convenience other employees of the best methods to problem-solving and redirecting their energies towards the vision of the company (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). I as well maintain concentration and inspire staff members on the significance of commitments to accomplish goals of the company and this helps the company in moving towards realizing its core values, mission and vision.

I believe I am good leader who is capable of equipping my team members to contribute to the success of the company because I possess effective skills of leadership (Oreg & Berson, 2015). I generate and mobilize resources from new ideas, sell vital information being generated to the executives, work on both technical and instrumental organizational level and design commendable methods. In other words, my role has changed from that a transactional leader to that of transformational leader expected to lead transformations. I am capable of opening communications on new levels as a transformational leader. I am inspirational, supportive, and encouraging. Regardless of compensations, I initiate changes and motivate team members to work beyond and above the standards. I have established a culture in which workers are always inspired. I motivate employees to achieve the objective and goals defined by the company. Also, I inspire team members to fuel the powerhouse and productivity of the business. I motivate my teams to beyond and routine call-to-actions as a transformational manager (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). I act as a role model to other employees and support expansion, changes, and transformations.

A strategic leader gains his or her skills through practice (Oreg & Berson, 2015). Practice needs a fair autonomy amount. I always distribute responsibility and delegate duties to juniors. As a top leader, I distribute power downwards across the company and empower employees at every level to make decisions.

As a potential strategic leader, responsibility distribution gives the opportunity to see what takes place when I take risks. It also increases the resilience, intelligence, as well as adaptability of the company with time by harnessing the knowledge, ideas, and concepts from other people. I can adapt a business to guide me in my own career as a leader by being open to information and honest. Information is surely equal to power and access to current information would make the leader make a well-informed decision. As a leader, with access to information, I would know what factors are important to the strategy of the company without having to guess (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). With the information, I would be confident to challenge an idea and propose ideas which are unique to enable the organization to gain competitive advantage.

The personality traits that help me to be a creative person include empathy, openness, conscientiousness, and agreeableness (Oreg & Berson, 2015). Conscientiousness is the personality trait that assists me to operate as contingent leader. I am persistent, accomplishment-oriented, dependable and responsible. I am the figurehead of the organization. He I am an extrovert because I am assertive, sociable, talkative, and outgoing. I am also an agreeable individual since he tended to soft-hearted, cooperative, good-nurtured, and trusting. I am a strong emotional stability and am able to make tough decisions. Even during hard times, I appear to be unworried, relaxed, and secure (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). As a person, I have openness to experience. I am broadminded, curious, imaginative and an intellectual.

I have creative abilities. I am a charismatic leader (Oreg & Berson, 2015). My style of charismatic leadership depended on his persuasiveness and charm as a leader. I adopted the tactics of Gandhi whom I admired and imitated. My commitment and convictions drove me to my cause of actions. I am a skilled communicator both with a great appeal on the emotional level and verbally eloquent. I appeal to the emotions of the audience to work towards the greater good of their rights. I attract other people to my cause with the individual and unique approach as well as my energy and enthusiasm. As a professional in my field, I am extraordinarily devoted to my cause with a strong ability and clear visions to involve with a broad team. I relate my unobstructed views to my audience giving increased energy and direction to my cause. I communicate with pathos and passion. I “draw people in” with their tone of voice, language usage, gestures, and facial expressions. I connect at a soul level. I appear to understand the core of other people’s feelings and emotions. This is both a blessing to me as I get so many followers. Generally, I am of high energy. I am able to work for long hours (Whetten, Cameron, & Woods, 2007). I energize my followers with positive and rhetoric energy. I instill in my followers a “can do” attitude.

Conclusion

Increasing efficiency is one of the objectives of a leader. It is significant to identify or find out the challenges the team members are facing as a leader and establish workable solutions to meet the needs of employees and accomplish the goals of the company. As a leader, it is important to be a close of workmate of the staff members. This helps me as a leader to determine the strengths and weaknesses and allow me to allocate activities, roles, duties, and responsibilities to employees in accordance with their specialization level. In great functional team in which members of the group support each other; creativity is encouraged by enthusiasm by collaborating with one another. It is important for organizations to remain innovative in order to remain relevant, competitive and sustainable. In response to the competitive global environment, many organizations engender innovative behavior in their employees by adopting transformational leadership strategies. The transformational leader articulates challenges related to current systems and provides followers with a convincing vision about how an organization should ideally be run. Transformational leadership is an effective leadership style because it leverages both the leader and the follower. Because it is more flexible, open, and democratic, many organizations are increasingly embracing the model of transformational leadership. The model has the capacity to be authoritative and directive yet has room for follower participation. Transformational leadership is particularly needed in working environments where staff members deal with high stress, strict regulatory requirements, and high demands.

References

Oreg, S., & Berson, Y. (2015). Personality and charismatic leadership in context: The moderating role of situational stress. Personnel Psychology, 68(1), 49-77.

Whetten, D. A., Cameron, K. S., & Woods, M. (2007). Developing management skills. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.