PART TWO: THIS IS AN ADD ON TO MY FIRST PAPER COMPLETED.

Introduction

The focus is on four levels or perspectives including personal, interpersonal, organizational and societal. Each of these perspectives has an accompanying value including: courageous, loyal, ambitious, and helpful respectively. Each of the values and perspectives generates specific leadership behaviors that help build my model of leadership.

Personal level

The personal level which inspires the value of being courageous. The value of being courageous inspires the behavior of pursuing opportunities and facing challenges. This has opened me up to interact with people and organizations from all walks of life and has helped to generate a personal philosophy. Thus, as a leader at a personal level, I need to be able to look into great opportunities such as those of career development and grow my skills, knowledge, and connections. I am also keen on working with my team in developing goals and achieving outcomes for the group. One way to do this is to offer constant feedback and constructive criticism on how they are handling their delegated tasks. This will ensure we do not become complacent in pursuing opportunities. Also, I plan to face issues head-on and perceive them as additional opportunities. For instance, I plan to deal with any arising conflicts in my team and view it as a chance to develop a training program on conflict resolution and effective communication.

Interpersonal

At this level, I place the value of loyalty as my highest priority. The behaviors that I inculcate include promoting and protecting the interests of those that rely on me. As a leader, my team depends on me to guide them and help them grow and face any challenges. This implies that I cannot pursue private interests or the interests of others outside my team. One way to attain this is always communicated on any changes and their impacts on my team. For instance, as difficult as it is I will be open about any restructuring in the organization that can lead to layoffs. This will ensure that my team can find solutions faster to protect themselves from the worst impacts. I also want to create an environment that values the relationships between team members and management. I want my team members to feel like a family rather than just mere employees. This includes offering validation, moral support, and prohibiting any discriminatory actions.

Organizational

I value being an ambitious leader because it will push me to be visionary and help grow my team’s success. I always aim at encouraging my team to achieve great goals that push them beyond their comfort zone. Thus, as a leader, I want to encourage myself and my team to pursue those rare opportunities, although high risk, to generate very high returns and outcomes in the long term. An example is implementing top-notch technologies that require heavy investment into the organizational structure. This improves the chances of attaining a high ROI in terms of minimizing overhead costs and automating the workflow processes. Success ties into always pursuing information, education, and learning (Campbell, 2016).

Secondly, I am committed to setting and implementing high-performance metrics within my team. This will inspire a culture of high performance and attaining goals set for the year regardless of risks. One of the actions can include merging or acquiring another company to expand our interests in a newer market. While this can very risky, it is important to work with my team to attain the set goals and anticipate even greater returns. Thirdly, I want to inculcate trust and commitment among team members. This is in terms of equipping them with vital resources and allowing them the freedom to innovate and create solutions that enhance the financial and social capital of the organization.

Societal

At the societal level, I value being helpful because it involves a bigger group of people aiming at a common good. I currently volunteer in helping less fortunate children to gain access to education through contributing to a kitty fund and other materials such as books. This has helped me appreciate how a combined effort can generate the greatest positive impacts. Community leadership succeeds from social networks, shared vision and decision making (Martiskainen, 2015). Thus, as a leader I want my vision and actions to positively impact not just my team members but my community. One of the behaviors I aspire to display is to commit to the personal development of my team members. This can include creating a training program that equips them with critical leadership skills. These team members are sourced from the community and offering them the opportunity and work and earn from the organization.

Secondly, I also want to use my leadership influence to mobilize all stakeholders to promote a cause such as the one for education. This involves requesting any contributions such as resources and funds to help those in need to attain their dreams and goals and be empowered. Thirdly, I also want to integrate servant leadership where I commit myself as the defender of their interests and concerns and protecting them from exploitation. As a leader, I am in a better position to effect such positive changes like promoting social justice causes.

References

Campbell, S.(2016). The 10 traits you must cultivate to achieve highly ambitious goals. Retrieved from https://entrepreneur.com/article/271284

Martikainen, M.(2015). The role of community leadership in the development of grassroots innovations. Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, 22, 78-89.