Deliverable 7 - Effective Leadership
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JBlair_Leadershipplan080120181.pptxLeadership Plan
Name: John Blair
Institution Affiliation: Rasmussen College
Date: August 1, 2018
Introduction
Leadership can be termed as the capability of person to lead group of people, organization, or company in its undertakings.
There are two types of leadership, that is, good and bad leadership.
Thus, for the leadership to be an effective one, a leader must attain some certian attributes.
A leadership is typically the ability of a person to be in a position to lead people to achieve certain goals together. For a leadership to be effective, here are the qualities that will make a good leader.
A good leader must embrace honesty and integrity, have a confidence, inspire others, must show passion and commitment, good communicator, good decision-maker, accountable, creative, and be capable of empowering and delegating (Hasan, 2017)
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Qualities of leadership or leadership skills
If one wants to become an effective leader in his or her leadership position, here are the common traits that are expected in an effective leadership, namely: empathy, honesty, direction, communication, consistency, conviction, and flexibility(Toolbox, n.d.).
A leadership that embraces honestly, consistency, and strategic direction
For any leadership be an effective or good, the leadership must attain some qualities or traits such as a leadership that believes in honesty. An effective leadership will need to be credible in everything which is done within an organization. Thus, the leadership position need to have a leader who is consistent and honest. As a leader in any position, one must have a leadership that has a strategic direction thus the leadership must have mission and vision.
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A good leadership must embrace effective communication.
A good leadership need to be a one that embraces empathy.
The leadership should be embrace flexibility
Furthermore good communication is a key aspect for a good leadership. Effective communication will aid in communicating about issues, expectations, and advice the followers or staffs in the workplace for the understand what is expected from them. Leadership that embrace empathy will give allow a room for creating the legitimate rapport with the staff or subordinates (Toolbox, n.d.). Additionally, leadership must have flexibility trait since not every problem demand the same solution. This means new ideas need to be welcomed in an effective leadership.
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Theories of leadership
As a leader, one must be aware of different leadership theories and know which kind of theory fits him or her.
There are four major leadership theories, namely:
Contingency theories
Power and influence theories
Behavioral theories
Trait Theory of Leadership
The trait theory leadership argues that an effective leader is expected to have the common traits or personality characteristics. Additionally, the behavioral theories argue that a good leader is judged what one does rather his or her personal traits (MindToolsContentTeam, 2018). The leaders in this category are, namely: Laissez-faire, autocratic, and democratic leaders. The contingency theories argue that leadership is influenced by the situation. Lastly, the power and influence theories argue leadership is determined based on the source of leader’s power.
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Importance of leadership training and development
Training and development programs are helpful in sharpening the skills and knowledge of the leaders.
Here are six benefits that leadership training program will offer to an organization and its leaders:
It will increase the productivity
Help in retaining 75% of people since employees leave because of ineffective leaderships.
Nurturing future leaders.
Increasing employees’ engagement
Advising on an effective leadership style
Help in making effective and better decisions.
Boosting skills and knowledge.
The training and development programs have great impact to the leaders as well to entire organization. For a leader perspective, it help in boosting their knowledge and skills on what is expected from and what they need to do to enhance their individual performance. Additionally, from an organizational perspective, training help leader in knowing the best way of leading an organization thus meaning that if there is an effective leadership this ultimately result to an increase in productivity. Additionally, leadership training program will help in nurturing potential leaders as well as help in reducing loss of employees as a result of poor leadership (Courtney, 2015).
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Leadership development plan
To create an effective leader, here is the proposed plan that should be followed:
Defining what makes a great leader
Taking the self-assessment
Finding out the core values
Writing the personal vision statement
Analyzing what different people think of you
Finding out the lacking and current leadership skills
Setting the goals
Lastly, writing an action plan.
The leadership development plan explains the process one should undergo to become an effective leader. If one follow this development plan, one will eventually become an effective leader. At first one must be aware what make a good or great leader, then based on those traits one should take the self-assessment. After taking the self-assessment, later one will be expected to find out the core values for an effective leaders. Additionally, one will be required to state his or her personal vision statement, and later gather people’s comment about him or her. Later, one should what is lacking in his or her leadership skills, and set goals to work on the weaknesses. After having set goals once is expected to write an action plan on how to acquire the best leadership skills.
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References
Courtney, F. (2015). 6 Big Benefits Of Leadership Training. Retrieved on 16th October 2015 from https://elearningindustry.com/6-big-benefits-of-leadership-training.
Hasan, S. (2017). Top 10 Leadership Qualities That Make Good Leaders. Retrieved on 13th February 2017 from https://blog.taskque.com/characteristics-good-leaders/.
MindToolsContentTeam. (2018). Core Leadership Theories. Retrieved from :https://www.mindtools.com/pages/article/leadership-theories.htm.
Toolbox, L. (n.d.). The Characteristic of Leadership - 7 Important Traits. Retrieved from http://www.leadership-toolbox.com/characteristic-of-leadership.html.
