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Amanda Hochstetler
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Clarifying value; find your voice
What this means to me, is that in order to be a good leader you need to be able to speak with your own words based on your own thoughts and feelings. Having your own voice isn't going along with what someone else says. If you aren't able to do find your own voice, you won’t be able to be an effective leader. Until you find your voice, you won’t be a consistent and effective leader.
Setting the example; teach others to model the way
What this means to me, is that everyone in an organization sets an example. As a leader, you model the way for other employees with what you say and your behavior. Leaders need to hold employees accountable, because others watch what a leader will do, and how they hold others accountable. Setting a good example, and teaching others paves the way.
I have never been in a leadership role, but I have witnessed my past clinic manager modeling the way. She was positive, and lived up to the values of the company. She set a great example to follow, and made you want to be a great team member. She would step in and help staff if needed, and would help with any situation. She also held people accountable for their behavior and values. I looked up to her, and decided if I was to become a leader, I would want to learn from her.
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Jamie Hensley
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I think leaders are always observing, planning ahead and making notes of their employees. The employees who show strengths that are needed to help said company/department succeed will be those employees who are given bigger projects, who are promoted within the company who some day could possibly run the company or move up in some fashion. I think leaders should often be evaluating and planning ahead for their certain department, there is always change when it comes to employees, always new goals/projects that will need a leader to guide them throughout the project. Having ideas building in the back of current leaders will make this transition go much smoother and easier. We have a committee in our facility who is primarily about identifying problems, identifying possible solutions and them implementing those changes company wide. When this committee first came up department heads were asked to submit names for possible committee members. Some departments have well over 100 people and so that would be a very daunting task, but great leaders always are evaluating and watching their staff for an opportunity such as this to arise. I hope as I expand my knowledge in the leadership role with my company I myself will be able to grow in this area. There are a lot of employees I feel I would be able to identify who has the strengths to help in certain areas but being more confident in my skills and reasoning is something I want to work on.
When leaders are building their teams and deciding who should be apart of it, they are going to naturally choose members who have the characteristics or what they want, have the strengths as an individual that they are needing, also have a good work ethic and be able to work with a wide range or people doing a variety of different people. Leaders aren't going to choose employees who call in all the time, who are constantly late for work, who are constantly unhappy with what they're doing. Leaders want team members who are positive, come to work and on time and also people who are wanting to make changes in the company. I think I definitely have this figured out when it comes to finding out who to hang out around and talk with at work. There are so many different types of people that at first is very overwhelming and can take time to see which staff members will help you grow and succeed in the company will be the people who you want to spend more time with and ask questions to.
I think leaders have a very hard and important job of being able to identify their follower's needs, sometimes employees have a hard time talking with their supervisors about needing help, being overwhelmed or anything else that could damper their job performance. I think a leader should be able to observe their staff enough and recognize the body language a staff member is putting off, the productivity of a staff member and being able to notice when there is a difference and offering help will show a lot about that leader. Staff want to be appreciated and I think having a leader who knows their staff well enough that will be able to offer support or ideas to help with the issue. I think this is an area again that I need to work on, this area is challenging because I do not oversee a set number of employees that I'm not able to get to know them as in depth as if I were their supervisor. I do oversee a portion of them being the HR assistant and so I have slowly been trying to pay attention to our staff's body language primarily and try and be kind and ask them if they're Okay or if there was anything I could do to help their day get better.
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Erika Lewis
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I would have to agree with all three statements. A leader is someone who exhibits specific traits and of those traits learning and growing is a main goal. If a leader is under the impression they can learn and grow no further, it is sad to say they were never a true leader to begin with. A true leader knows they can learn and grow from every experience they face, big or small. Investing in strengths implies just this, they are working to show not only themselves but that of their followers and co workers that continually working on themselves is the greatest way to be a better leader. This is not to get confused with working solely on themselves, however sharing their strengths with others and learning how to strengthen their weaknesses from others.
This goes in conjunction with that of a leader surrounding themselves with the right people and maximizing their team. There is no "right" leader or group of leaders; however there is the ability to help others strengthen their leadership qualities or even learn the first steps to becoming a good leader. It just takes the right leader to work with specific people and having several good leaders in a group can maximize the potential in everyone of the group. This is not to say that a leader can not have a bad day, maybe something tragic happened or unexpected happened and they are not acting themselves. Those who they surround themselves with may be keen and pick up on these subtle changes or drastic differences and help them resolve some internal issues through current projects. A good leader is able to work with the most challenging of individuals and learn from those circumstances for future situations.
Understanding their followers needs is again very important to being a good leader. These needs could be broad and span to the needs of the direct project being worked on, or individual needs of each follower. Being a leader they need to be able to help their followers to the conclusion of the final project not just tell them to do X, Y, and Z. This will help the followers create an environment to become leaders among themselves. By overseeing the project they are able to both guide the project and team to the final result without being directly responsible for giving the "right" or "wrong" answers. A good leader would be able to help pull a quite or shy worker out of their shell by asking for their opinion on a topic, helping them to find their voice in the group. They can also help those of the group who try to do it all themselves share the work load the creating an environment conducive to leadership in all respects of the group instead of one individual taking the false pretenses of a leader.
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