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Leadership Responsibility to Prepare the Self

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The Global Leader

Shermanda Green

Leadership Responsibility to Prepare the Self

Becoming a leader is one of the prestigious responsibilities a person can be bestowed on. A good leader is one who is able to serve people even when he or she does not have a capacity to. This is because subjects trust and believe in the leaders to possess the capability to help in any situation. Thus, to become one, you have to accept the responsibility that comes along with such a position. Thus, it takes one an initiative to learn who great leaders are, what they did before reaching the top leadership and what they do to remain viable in the position. Therefore, for I desire to be a great global leader. I have accepted the responsibility to prepare me for future global leadership skills through learning by using insights from the existing developmental pathways ("Effective Leadership - Roles, Responsibilities, and Tasks (Your free e-COACH: free tips and advices)", 2016). Thus, these pathways are the key foundations to providing information about the qualities of good leaders. The reason as to why I have taken this path is because of the following reasons;

Vision casting

Companies have visions, and these visions have to be achieved for the better of the company’s success, thus the companies have employed people to help it in the achieving of the vision of which the employees or people do not know. Leading a company that has no clear vision leads to very dismal growth. Thus, there is the need for the leaders to communicate to the employees, the vision of the company so that they may actually be aware of what they are working towards. Also to add on this, the leader is supposed to break down the vision to every department so that the departments may be able to work on them and collectively the vision be achieved. This applies anywhere in the world. The world at large has visions to achieve. Visions to do with peace in all parts of the of the globe, good leadership, on the other hand, should be one that will see many people around the world get relieved from hunger, leadership that will see the end to civil wars, leadership that will see enough access to education and health. Thus, there has been little effort by the world leaders that has seen some of these problems solved once and for all. Therefore, this gives me the need to develop my leadership skills that will enable me to address such issues.

Humanize business

We have managers and leader. Whereas managers are to business, the leader is to people. Leaders are entitled to creating good relationships with their employees and the whole leadership in an organization. So as for achieving success recognizing efforts done by your employees plays a really big role. This is a concept that is derived from the insights I the developmental pathways for developing leadership skills. This still relates to the people of the world. People are trying so much to find solutions to the global problems, however, their efforts are not recognized ("Leadership By Design", 2016). If we I can be able to develop a culture whereby efforts made by people are recognized, this iced things like the fight against corruption, environmental degradation, hunger and civil wars then the world can be the most beautiful place to live for everybody. Therefore, this is one of the reasons that I would like to be a skilled leader who will be able to create a culture of people having a sense of wanting to do what is right always trough recognition of their efforts through acknowledgments, sponsorship, donations and grants.

Building bridges

A company has many departments that have respective employees, thus these employees aim at fulfilling what their departments expect them to do. However, they may not remember to focus on the whole company and know that they have an impact on the welfare of the whole company. It, therefore, remains the sole responsibility of the managers to remind their workers that they need to create partnerships within the company and also outside the company. Hence the whole world behaves like the company in reference. So that we may achieve our objectives, we should create partnerships (Gardner, 2008). To fight hunger we have to encourage the people to practice farming, thus they need a peaceful country to farm. Hence this means that we have to stop civil wars, which will reduce the number of people seeking refuge and that these people may be supplied with the necessary capital to invest their efforts in food production. This requires a leader who can have the skills to connect these different social and demographic problems to ensure that better solutions are being realized.

Forecasting business

When you are in charge of business, you have to stay alerted seeing evolving trends immediately they happen. Also, this is necessary so as to change the mode of leadership to suit with the latest trends. As a global leader, there is the need to solve our problems based on how they occur. Solving current problems suing the approaches that are outdated has always yielded very little success. My quest to be a future leader is to approach these problems affecting the people of the world with modern approaches.

Developmental architectures and paths

Therefore, what are some of the developmental architectures and paths I have selected to enhance my goal leadership skills? These refer to the context of the organization that facilitates and backs up the development of leadership skills. For me, I have adopted the global mindset, the global citizenship and the global entrepreneurship as foundations. For the global mindset, I am able to see through the multinational lens by skipping on the cultural barrier to increasing my awareness of the cultures, exemplified solution finding ability, ability to work for in a team and understand the role in a world that is developing. For global entrepreneurship, this helps me learn on how I can garner ways of creating new partnerships with government, for-profit sectors and non-profit sectors. For global citizenship, the contents are giving me insights on how I can engage other leaders to enhance the growth of the world economy which is sustainable and inclusive.

Current global leadership development program

So that there is continuous development of leaders of tomorrow, IBM came up with a program called The IBM General Management Leadership Development Program (GM LDP). In this program, I have been undergoing a training mentorship which has been rotational in nature. I have been rotating between Consulting, Business development and sales and corporate functional assignment ("Leadership development", 2016). It's important to me as it inspires me, motivates me, and develops me. It has enabled me to learn how to manage profits and loss and also understand drivers for the business.

It is also important to my friends as it enables them to make or think about strategies that can change the globally integrated enterprise enables them to get used to conduct business in a complex global marketplace and lastly ensuring that the priorities and resources on my friends are aligned as per what the goals of the business are ("Leadership development", 2016). This is the reason as to why only individuals who are disciplined in the minds, have a mind that synthesizes, are creative enough, are respectful and have ethics are competitively selected. The people who ensure that all this is rightful administered to as including the top executives who are especially drawn from the sponsoring company-IBM, it is an efficient kind of training as there are usually one to one mentoring amongst all the candidates who are participating. Therefore, by so doing, we are able to give necessary support, guide, and insight to drive growth and creativity for growth and transform the world.

Therefore, to become an effective leader it actually has to come from far. One has to keep reading and learning from the best-known pathways that have primary purposes of developing a leader.

References

Gardner, H. (2008). The Five Minds for the Future (5) 1:17-24

Leadership By Design. (2016). Deloitte. Retrieved 4 November 2016, from https://www2.deloitte.com/content/dam/Deloitte/ie/Documents/People/leadership_by_design.pdf

Effective Leadership - Roles, Responsibilities, and Tasks (Your free e-COACH: free tips and advices). (2016). 1000advices.com. Retrieved 4 November 2016, from

http://1000advices.com/guru/leadership.html

Leadership development. (2016). Christopher Gmyers. Retrieved 4 November 2016, from

http://www.christophergmyers.net/oxford_leadershipdev.pdf