Your Leadership Profile
Brishna
Plagiarismreport.docxLeadership Experience 2
Title: Leadership Profile
Professor’s name: Curr
Course Title: 1 JWI 510 Leadership in the 21st Century
Due Date: July 21st @ 12 midnight
Introduction
In my paper, I will be talking about my leadership experiences. I have written about the leaders in my past and present that I have learned from and have molded me into who I am today. In my paper, I have used examples of specific leadership traits and the Six Bases of Power. My leadership autobiography began very young. As I look back at it now, I have been a leader for a vast portion of my life. I do believe I was born with many of my traits, but now as I am older, I have molded and developed other traits. The leadership traits that I possess, that I believe were inborn in me, are intelligence, integrity, and sociability.
Leadership Experience
1 My daily work routine involves leading various meetings and progress inspections with a highly technical team. These meetings range from weekly office coordination meeting to more technical design coordination and site inspection meetings for my firm. In the weekly coordination meetings, everyone in the official reports on their individual projects’ progress, bring to light key pending matters and request for direction on key contractual matters. The site meetings involve coordinating both the contractors on site and the project consultants matters. Both of these meetings can be tense with hard decisions requiring to be made, some of which are not necessarily popular (Cashman, 2017).
The various projects require that I take initiative in following up on key pending matters, that I make certain important decisions and ensure that stakeholders are well managed. In a single day, I have to update stakeholders on the progress of the projects, key decisions that need to be made, communicate the risks that may have arisen and recommended ways in which they can be mitigated.
Experiences that have impacted me as a leader
The first experience that heavily impacted me as a leader was when leading my first meeting. I had spent weeks coordinating the design of a ten-story hospital building with the technical project team and my supervisor took me with him to the presentation meeting. I was very nervous in spite of having been very prepared (Mun, M. Y., & Hwang, S. Y., 2015). 1 To make it even more intense, I found myself sitting in a room full of senior doctors who were about double my age. I fumbled through the initial parts of the presentation but eventually calmed down once I was in deep into the presentation. It was one of the toughest things I have ever had to endure but in the end, I learned that preparation gives you confidence but also that establishing a good rapport with the people you will be meeting before a presentation makes leading a meeting easier (Cashman, 2017).
The second experience was a humbling experience about delegation. It happened that the construction team on a site that I was inspecting with my team, required direction on a particular technical floor. In a need to establish myself as the person in charge, I rushed to give a technical solution that was not only not viable, but that would have also negatively impacted the work of one of the consultants. Realizing my mistake, the consultant tactfully gave different direction that was correct and viable. This situation made me realize that I did not know everything. It proved to me that my team was competent enough to give direction on their work and that I should trust them and that it is okay to delegate key decisions to someone who has the technical capacity and that a leader does not always have to know everything.
Leadership Strengths
2 The first key strengths of Jack Welch’s Foundational Principles and 8 Essential Rules, as they pertain to my leadership development is rule number four which is to: establish trust with candor, transparency, and credit. Trust is everything to me as a leader, and no matter what you do while in the leadership role, you must first build confidence with your team to be a team. In Jack Welch’s book, “Winning”, Jack mentions that, “Your people should always know where they stand in terms of their performance. They have to know how the business is doing. And sometimes the news is not good—such as imminent layoffs— and any normal person would rather avoid delivering it. 3 But you have to fight the impulse to pad or diminish hard messages or you’ll pay with your team’s confidence and energy.
2 The second is rule number 1, Upgrade your team. The people are the key to every successful organization. If you do not take the time to develop and train your team, you will fail. One thing I have learned over the years is you cannot be stagnant when it comes to personal development. You as a leader have to evaluate, coach, and build self-confidence, as Jack said ,take every opportunity to inject self-confidence into those who have earned it. 3 Use ample praise, the more specific the better. 2 It is crucial for me to continue to direct my energy constructively on these strengths as I proceed through my leadership journey because this is where trust and teambuilding derive from.
My Emotional Intelligence I believe that my top emotional intelligence (EI) would be Social skills. Social skills can make you feel more comfortable in business situations (because you know what to do), and as a result, more confident. If you don’t have a strong drive to succeed, you won’t possess the social skills necessary to build relationships or the confidence to do so (Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z., 2017). 2 One of the traits is visionary leadership, "the ability to take charge and inspire with a compelling vision. For me, self-management goes hand-in-hand with social skills. I firmly believe that if you lack social skills, you lack the ability to have self-control and consciousness which are traits of self-management.
DiSC profile
4 My DiSC profile states that I have an iS style. 1 In my leadership style, this comes off in that I am convincing to my team and clients and I am daring enough to do things. I enjoy a good challenge which is fulfilled by the nature of the work I do, and the problems presented to my team for solving. I must be careful not to take all the challenging work from the team and allow them to take on some of it (Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z., 2017).
The downside of my personality type is that I need to focus on Follow-through. Because I tend to be agreeable most of the times that puts me into a lot of pressure. I end up making promises that I can’t keep, and this can have a negative impact on workplace relationships. 1 My emotional intelligence skills are not very well developed, and it shows in the second situation where I jumped in to give a technical solution. If I had been more sensitive to the team I was with, I would have let them handle the problem and give directly instead.
Plans for mastering my leadership style
In the future, I would like to master my self-regulation and empathy skills as highlighted by Goleman. Goleman explains that leaders who show little self-regulation verbally attack others, make rushed decisions, stereotype people and compromise their values. While I do not verbally attack people, I would like to improve on the rest. I plan on doing this by following the eight process of self-regulating by being open to change, identifying my triggers, practicing self-discipline, reframing negative thoughts and keeping calm under pressure.
To get to where I am today, I have had to learn from several great leaders. I have had the opportunity to have some amazing leaders in my life. The ones I would consider to be the most influential are my mother, my manager at the moment, and several of my school teachers. They all carry a mix of leadership traits, including intelligence, integrity, sociability, self-confidence, and determination. My mother has developed a lot as a leader. She has grown in determination, ever since she had us, she determined to get out of the third world country we were in. Long and behold, we are here today due to her. She has also had to develop sociability, due to language barriers, this involved determination to learn the language to be able to seek out relationships. I see now growth areas; I believe she is a perfect and excellent leader (Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z., 2017).
References
Cashman, K. (2017). Leadership from the inside out: Becoming a leader for life. . Berrett-Koehler Publishers.
Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2017). The Leadership Challenge Workbook Revised. 5 . John Wiley & Sons.
Mun, M. Y., & Hwang, S. Y. (2015). 6 Impact of DISC Behavioral Styles on Job Satisfaction and Clinical Competencies among Newly Hired Nurses. Journal of Korean Academy of Nursing Administration, 21(1), 43-52.
7 Welch, J., & Welch, S. (2005). Winning. 8 New York, New York: Harper Collins
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