PPT & Paper Combination Assignment

Welcome to the last week of your course. In this discussion question you have the opportunity to be creative and to relate what you have learned to your professional lives. Please explore and critically think about some of the learning outcomes and concepts presented in this course. Please effectively communicate how you would lead an organization (or a group of people within the organization) by applying the knowledge you have learned ethically and responsibly.  Your discussion should also include innovative thinking, and information-technology aspects (such as the Internet, social-media, computers, and so forth) that may assist you in decision-making. You may frame your discussion around any functional component of business, and in any context; problem-solving, management, leadership, organizational behavior, and so forth.

My future career goal is to become an entrepreneur of the e-commerce company. Knowledge that I learned from Organizational Leadership course is definitely indispensable for my leadership journey.

Throughout the whole session, the most important concept that I learned from the course is the “The Five Practices of Exemplary Leadership”: Model the Way, Inspire a Shared Vision, Challenge the Process, Enabling Others to Act, and Encourage the Heart which was demonstrated by Kouzes (2017) in the textbook. As a future leader, it is good to learn how to become a qualified leader and start to develop my leadership skills based on the goal that this concept navigates me. In addition, I learned various types of leadership from the course. It is great to know the characteristic of each leadership styles, so I could set up the goal for myself and moving forward to my goal. My goal is to become a Transformational leader who is: a vision-builder, a standard-bearer, an integrator, and a developer. (Bottomley, Burgess & Fox, 2014) I want to become a motivational leader who could lead the teams toward the common goals by modeling the way.

Due to the resignation of the former Cross Boarder Manager in our company, I got a chance to become a leader of the warehouse operation management who are leading the key staff of the warehouse. It is definitely a big challenge for me because I am not the expert of the fulfillment and logistic service. To become a leader who could monitor and improve the daily operational process, I need to fully understand the work of the warehouse before leading the team instead of just sitting behind the laptop. Therefore, I requested the training in the warehouse to experience the fulfillment process by myself. This action helped me to understand the whole process and build up the relationship with the team which became the starting point of my leadership journey. I will continuously improve my leadership skill by frequent communication with the team, gaining more knowledges of the warehouse management system and planning the shared vision with the team.

Reference

Bottomley, K., Burgess, S., & Fox,Moses, I.,II. (2014). Are the behaviors of transformational leaders impacting organizations? A study of transformational leadership. International Management Review, 10(1), 5-9,66. Retrieved from https://search.proquest.com/docview/1527433525?accountid=158986