Assessing Yourself as a Leader and Plans to Improve

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First, I shall analyze the type of leader I am. My leadership style is a transformational leadership style. I am capable of developing a vision; take a view of the future that gives a lift to my followers. I have the capacity to uplift my followers and they cherish the experience they have had with me. I have a passion for the things I do and the passion rubs onto my followers. I am good at leading and building teams; my assessment score in team building is 102. I have the ability to select the right type of persons for my team. I can plan teams and can motivate them to achieve their goals. I can ensure that every person gets involved in the team activity. I can co-ordinate and motivate team members and I can debrief the members so that I can get a good idea about the situation and what the team members feel about the task at hand.

My leadership style is such that I have a high concern for people and I have an equally high concern for task. In the assessment my score for "concern for people" is 8 and my score for "concern for task" is 12. In particular I show care for people, I am polite and have respect for others. When leading a team, I have am supportive, value diversity in the team and have an open door approach. On the other hand I have a high concern for the actual task at hand and I try to ensure that people who follow the task complete the task. I sometimes exercise my authority to get the task completed.

My preferred conflict-handling style is collaborating and compromising. My assessment score for collaborating is 20 and for compromising are also 20. I share my planning with team members; I encourage joint decision making, problem solving, and goal setting and encourage working together. In addition, I assume responsibilities, communicate with the team members and coordinate the activities of the team members. When required, I encourage joint work, cooperation and collegiality. During my college days, I led an information systems team from my school to do a joint project with students of another college. The project was successful. When collaboration is not possible and there is a deadlock, I adopt the strategy of compromising to achieve a solution. I agree to give up something to get something else that I need. I have negotiated from the standpoint of my team and have been able to secure a good bargain.

My reflective personal leadership development plan is to use my course learning for developing a personal leadership development plan. ...