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February 18, 2018

Reflect on the leadership styles reviewed this week and describe your own personal leadership style. What do you feel are your strengths and weaknesses as a leader? Has a third party (supervisor, colleague, professor, etc.) ever discussed your strengths and weaknesses with you as they relate to your leadership style and ability? How did you react? Leadership theory focuses on finding out what makes a successful leader and why they excel in what they do.  Leadership theory also identifies the characteristics and behaviors associated with the most successful leaders.  Earlier theories like the great man theory and trait theory focused on innate qualities leaders care born with.  As time passed, theories like the behaviorist theory, situational leadership theory and contingency theory focus on what leaders do versus what traits they have.  Contingency theory states there is no best way to organize an organization; the best course of action is dependent on internal and external situation. More recent theories include transactional theory and transformational theory where the focus is on the relationship between the leader and the followers are studied more closely (smallbusiness.chron.com). 

I think my strengths as a leader are that I like to support and help people, my weakness is that sometimes I feel conflicted because I feel bad or I may avoid talking to an employee because I don’t want to hurt our working relationship. Yes, I have weekly supervision in my company and my Supervisor is very focused on goal setting and telling me how she thinks I am doing. I don’t react well to criticism, which I seem to get frequently from her. I think the biggest problem is she is not close enough to the department I mainly work in to understand enough of what I’m doing and why I’m doing it. Instead she relies on 3rd party reports from other departments and bases her feedback on that, which has proven in the past not always to be accurate, which is unfortunate for me.

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