rpl_lead4

Assignment Details:

Your response should push the conversation forward, offering insights or asking clarifying questions if necessary.

While responding please consider the following questions:

· Does your response push the conversation forward?

· Does your response offer your perspective?

· What about your peers’ stories can you relate to?

· What can you learn from your peers’ stories?

· Are your responses clear?

· Have you considered the viewpoints or insights of the original posts?

Deliverable Length: 250 words (minimum) per reply

ONE:

Q.1) What leadership behaviors are needed to improve the work environment, determined via your assessment of the employee engagement survey?

 

When analyzing the employee engagement survey, it appears that most of the challenges that are faced by the organization are relative to the lack of support and guidance from leadership. In addition, it has been noticed that employees are not motivated to succeed and do not receive any motivation from their supervisor(s). Therefore, leadership would need to be more driven and passionate. When a leader is driven and passionate, they are driven to succeed and focused on the operational success of the organization.  (Anderson, R. J., & Adams, W. A., (Ch. 4), 2019). When a leader is more driven toward the success of the organization, then they may focus more on their team and providing the necessary support that is needed for their team to succeed within their work. Thus, when their team succeeds, then their success would contribute to the success of the organization. Also, one way leadership would be able to ensure success of their team and organization, would be to continuously offer their support, which would beneficially impact both their team and their organizational success. Furthermore, the leader should also be more personable/approachable, as doing so, would encourage an open-door policy. (Anderson, R. J., & Adams, W. A., (Ch. 4), 2019). Then, it would create more of a productive and optimistic working environment. This would also improve the working environment. The idea here is to be an influential leader. You want to be able to have a leadership team that can effectively influence their team to strive toward their interpersonal and organizational success. 

 

Q.2) What leadership skills would you recommend including in your organizational leader’s toolkit to develop the identified leadership behaviors?

 

In addition to the leadership behaviors noted above, creative leaders have the ability to succeed as they are willing to be more creative. The skills that the leader would need to obtain to be more of a creative leader would be to have effective leadership skills. The leader would need to have significant interpersonal abilities and have compassion for others. This also ensures employees are being treated valuably. The leader should be a team-builder, which would encourage further engagement with their team. Another common issue found within the employee engagement survey, was that employees do not believe their voices are being heard from leadership. The leader should be more of a good listener. This would assist the leader to be more personal and approachable. In collaboration to being a good listener, the leader should also be a people developer.  When a leader is focused on developing others, they could express past experiences they encountered, which others could use to learn from. In addition, the leader would provide mentorship and coaching when necessary. This will assist their employees to grow interpersonally and within their career. This would assist the leader to be more personal/approachable. The leader must also be able to empower others. While empowering others, the leader will have the ability to encourage others to take own every situation, find potential solutions to any encountered problems, and when a mistake is encountered, they will have the motive to learn from the mistake, which would help them to learn how to be more of a problem-solver. (Anderson, R. J., & Adams, W. A., (Ch. 4), 2019

 

 

Q.3) How will improvements in the recommended leadership skills and behaviors improve organizational performance?

 

To be driven/passionate, the skills you would need to obtain to improve organizational performance is to be compassionate and to empower-people. Being compassionate, would assist the leader to be more driven and passionate within their work, which would contribute to the success of the organization. To empower people, you have the ability to motivate your team to be more driven and passionate. This would contribute to the leadership behavior of. Being driven/passionate and to be more personable/approachable with your team. In addition, being a team-builder and good listener, also contributes to the behaviors of being personal/approachable. A team-builder would encourage their leader to build more of a direct and professional relationship with their employees, which would also assist the leader to be more personal and approachable. Being a good listener, helps the employee ensure that their voice is heard. This would assist the leader to be more personal and approachable. In addition, to empower employees to ensure organizational success. Between leadership behaviors and the necessary skills that coincide with the leadership behaviors, would improve the organizations performance, as the employees concerns per the employee engagement survey would be addressed according to the feedback obtained by the employees.

 

Thank you.

  

 

                                                           References:

            Anderson, R. J, & Adams W. A. (2019). Scaling Leadership (Ch. 4). [VitalSource Bookshelf].  https://online.vitalsource.com/#/books/9781119538301/

TWO:

Leadership Behaviors Needed

Leadership behaviors that are needed to improve the work environment definitely my first choice are to practice communication. Poor communication lacks clarity and it overall causes confusion in a work environment. As leaders, we need to share information and offer clear instructions with continuing to give feedback when needed. To share your vision as a leader, you need great communication skills. A few more behaviors to improve the work environment would be taking initiative by going above and beyond. Be a good listener as well would be important to succeed as a leader. Being a good listener, helps your employees feel appreciated and respected by giving your undivided attention each and every time when needed. As well, motivate others by continuing to encourage and support staff, and maintain a good attitude. This leadership behavior will make it easier for you to get along with your staff by continuing to be a positive leader. Leadership behaviors can be improved through practice by working on building your individual leadership expertise.

 

Leadership Skills Recommended

Leadership skills that I would recommend developing leadership behaviors is that you need to know how to solve problems. With working with a group of diverse people, there come many different personalities in which problems occur. You need to know how to solve situations by solving a problem before it happens, as it occurs, and solving the problem after it occurred. Be decisive with continuing to work on decision-making skills. Make timely decisions would be ideal, you never want to drag out a situation too long with being a strong leader. Manage conflict well is another one I would recommend. If conflicts are left unresolved, it can cause such confusion in the workplace. Depending on the severity of the conflict, a leadership intervention would need to be done to resolve the conflict in the work environment. The last one I would recommend is to be innovative to be a great leader. Put on that leadership cap and continue to make efforts to come up with new and better things that can add value within the organization.

 

Improvements

The leadership skills and behaviors I recommended would improve organizational performances through continuous practice while working towards building your expertise leadership within the organization. With the recommended skills, you would be able to motivate yourself and others as a leader with achieving the mission, goals, and values in the workplace. Keep inspiring yourself as a leader, and then show that inspiration to the people that work with you.

 

 

 

Reference:

Anderson, R. & Adams, W. (2019). Scaling Leadership Building Organizational Capability and Capacity to Create Outcomes that Matter Most.