...Self-Analysis Inventory Summary By Laretha Payton The effective leadership in a school is primarily a conglomerate of a team of individuals working together to promote academic excellence along with a continued effort toward academic growth. The principal is the catalyst of change and direction in a school that is evolving, promoting and cultivating growth in all children. An effective leader also analyses and reflects on weaknesses and strengths of their leadership styles. The leadership inventories were taken help to give an analysis of my leadership capabilities in working with others. The self-analysis tools used were The Big Five Personality Test and Your Leadership Legacy that revealed my weaknesses and strengths in my personality and leadership abilities. The self-analysis assessment results show that I exhibited these types of characteristics of these types of leaders are Ambassador, Advocate People Mover, Truth-Seeker, Creative builder, and Experienced guide. These types of leadership styles together help create a legacy of leadership that will help to lead effectively, nurture, and develop teachers, staff, and students. My leadership strengths that the self-analysis inventory showed was the ability to handle a variety of situations instinctively, create teams, preserve the integrity of processes and the belief in the end results. These strengths can be built upon to build a legacy of leadership that promotes excellence and cultivates change within a learning...
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...Leadership Analysis 2 Being Leaders: The Nature of Authentic Christian Leadership Michael Woolfolk Liberty University Introduction Leadership is an imperfect science. Leadership positions are held by humans, and humans make mistakes. There was only one man who perfected it, Jesus Christ. It is His actions and example that we are constantly trying to mimic. Although we will always fall short, we must always maintain the drive to mirror His image. Leadership is a moving target, its picture changes with the setting that it is in. While it is an elusive catch there are ways to minimize the distance from capturing perfect leadership. A New York Times Best Selling author John C. Maxwell once said, “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way.” The question is, how do we get to the point of attaining the ability to do this? In his book Being Leaders, Aubrey Malphurs describes a leader’s developed capabilities. These strengths are not given at birth, but are developed over time. These attributes include character, knowledge, skills and emotions. Malphurs contends that possession and management of these capabilities will “help a leader enhance a strength or improve an area of weakness” (Malphurs, 80). A leader cannot become content with where they are, these traits require constant maintenance. “Above average leaders tend to have natural and spiritual leadership gifts that they work hard at developing” (Malphurs, 89). Malphurs goes on to say...
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...A transformational leader is defined as “a leader who influences, inspired, mobilizes, and transforms followers to achieve organizational goals beyond their self-interests” (Weiss 2011). Effective transformational leadership consists of four factors known as the “four I’s”. They are: idealized influence, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation and intellectual stimulation. The first female Prime Minister of Jamaica, Portia Simpson Miller, is using these traits to transform Jamaica from rule under the British monarchy to a republic and is using charisma, the “four I’s”, and ethical leadership to bring about the change that Jamaican citizens are asking for. Charisma played an important role in PM Simpson Miller’s bid for reelection. Successfully campaigning for a second term in office despite being removed from that very office after little more than a year, truly takes charisma and political fortitude indeed. After a recount in the 2007 elections, Simpson Miller conceded defeat but three years later, she successfully campaigned for and won the seat of PM again despite “a relentless negative advertising campaign that ‘demonised’ her, mocked her intellectual capacity, managerial competence and unsuitability” (Robinson 2012) for the position of Prime Minister. Another hurdle the new PM had to overcome was discontent over US$400 million that was mishandled during her short term in office. In the true style of charismatic leaders, Simpson Miller created and articulated...
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...I used the Seven Habits Profile for my personal leadership analysis. The Seven Habits Profile helped me to identify the strengths, weaknesses, and areas for improvement of my leadership qualities. The completed Seven Habits Profile shows that I scored very well on Emotional Bank Account which is one of the foundational habits. Interestingly I got the lowest score on Life Balance which is also one of the foundational habits. I scored well on the Be Proactive, Synergize, Sharpen the Saw and Think Win-Win categories. I scored lowest on Life Balance and Put First Things First. I am a workaholic who often forgets about the importance of family time and works long hours on weekdays and holidays. This has caused a lot of issues in my personal life and infused some negativity into my career. When I analyzed my Seven Habits profile I noticed that I scored less on Put First Things First as well. From my point of view both of these are related to my style of doing work. If I prioritize the tasks and work consistently with those priorities, there should have been a remarkable positive effect on my life. Instead, I often surf the web and chitchat with my colleagues during office hours wasting valuable time and causing me to spend extra time completing the tasks. For achieving life balance, I should prioritize the tasks and manage my time efficiently. My highest scores were on being proactive and think win-win. I feel that I am in control of my life and won’t allow it to be shaped by other...
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...Leading By Example: Analyzing the Leadership of Cayla and Steve Written by: Cristina da Silva For decades scholars who study leadership have struggled to answer a basic question: What is leadership? This is because everyone defines leadership differently based on varying concepts and experiences. In the book Introduction to Leadership, author Peter Northouse defines leadership as a trait, ability, behavior, relationship, and an influence process (p.3-8). Throughout the book, Northouse identifies various concepts, theories and ideas that are evident in the book Self Leadership and The One Minute Manager. The bestselling author of this book, Ken Blanchard, tells a parable of a rising ad executive by the name of Steve, who becomes overwhelmed by his new responsibilities. Steve meets Cayla in a café as he prepares his resignation letter. Cayla, who is the essence of situational self-leadership, teaches Steve the three tricks of self-leadership that allows Steve to take charge of his career. First of all, as Northouse explains, effective leaders exhibit certain traits and characteristics (p.17). Some of the most recognized leaders of all time such as: Winston Churchill, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Oprah Winfrey posses a variation of these traits. While there is no clear cut answer on which specific traits are needed, research points to six key traits: intelligence, confidence, charisma, determination, sociability and integrity. Cayla displays several of these key traits...
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...ANALYSIS OF LEADERSHIP THEORIES Student’s name: University: Date of submission Analysis of Leadership Theories Introduction One of the challenges facing contemporary leaders is the ability to solve complex issues in a collective, innovative, collaborative and timely manner. The ability to tackle such challenges requires leadership that is not limited by the theories and stylistic tactics but spans across the spectrum of traits and skills in order to arrive at cognitive and innovative solutions. This type of leadership can be defined as being adaptive. The modern leader should be able to walk through problems and come up with solutions that is not only timely but also sustainable over a long period of time. The modern leader should also have the ability to adapt to all the challenges facing contemporary leadership. The term adaptive has been used because it combines all the basic characteristics drawn from leadership theories and are necessary to tackle various challenges. Therefore, the adaptive leader, used in this case as the contemporary leadership model, shall be created from the following analysis. Criteria for Analyzing the Contemporary Leadership Theories One of the most suitable criteria for analyzing the effectiveness of a leader is by looking at the ethics and effectiveness of the leader. Ethics shall define how the leader relates to his/her followers while effectiveness relates to the actions and decisions made by the leader. ...
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...UnitedHealth Group | Organization and Leadership Analysis | Western Governors University | | Miles Lee, Camryn | 3/10/2016 | The content of this paper is to evaluate the leadership style and practices of United Health Group while conducting a SWOT analysis and highlighting the strengths and weakness of the company. | Managing Organization Analysis: United Health Group Seeking to enhance the performance of the health care system and improving the overall health and well being of the people has been a part of United Health Group’s objective since the organization open its doors in 1974. Working with health care professionals and other key partners to expand access to quality health care; supporting the physician/patient relationship and empowering people with the information, guidance and tools needed to make personal informed health choices and decisions are the key objectives to United Health Group. Although much of the organization has changed over the years, these objectives to enhance the health care system and physician/patient relations while enhancing the overall well-being of their members have remained the same. In addition to UHG’s overall objectives, the organization operates by a set of values designed to maintain the innovation, integrity, compassion, performance and the internal and external relationships of the company. UHG prides itself on their values and have implemented policies to ensure that these values are exercised daily. One of the...
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...------------------------------------------------- Organizational and Leader Analysis Prepared for: BIP2_C200 Managing Organizations and Leading People Western Governor’s University Texas Title: MedTrust: An Organizational and Leadership Analysis Prepared by: Donna Baldinell, MBA Healthcare Leadership Student I.D.#: 000527488 Date: 12/15/2015 ------------------------------------------------- Tables of Contents 1. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 2. The Organization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3 3. Key Leadership and Practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 4. Cultural Integration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6 5. Business Strengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 6. Weaknesses/Limitations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9 7. Organizational Opportunities . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10 8. Organizational Threats . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .11 9. Leadership Strengths . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .12 10. Leadership Areas for Improvement: Weaknesses . ....
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...Leadership Theory Analysis This week in our assignment we take a look at leadership. Within this topic we look at theory analysis of two different types of model’s. First we have the Vroom’s model of leadership which deal with how leaders make decisions. Then you also have the Fiedler’s Contingency model which deals with choosing the right type of leader for the situation. In life or in any work place there is always someone who is in charge. That person who is in charge, is viewed as a leader, in the eyes of subordinates. A video that we watched in class defined a leader as a brave person who is not afraid to stand out among the rest. There are many traits and characteristics of leadership. Many people are born with leading abilities, while others pick up the traits by facing situations in their life’s, within the situations they had to come up with a solution. When we take a look at the Vroom’s model of leadership we see an analysis of what makes a leader make decisions. It opens an analysis to questions on how to make the right decision. Vrooms theory is closely resembles the models of Tannenbaum and Schmidt. Well in Vrooms model there is a series of questions that follow any decision that is to be made by a leader. The importance of the questions is based on the importance of the situation. The process can make it easier to make the decision and help facilitate to what might be the best decision...
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...Tribal Leadership Analysis Webster University Abstract Leadership is defined in Webster’s Dictionary as the “action of leading a group of people or an organization.” Leadership is also the ability to set trends, inspire, motivate, and sway others to produce desired results. There are different styles and ways of performing leadership and a good leader has the ability to take ordinary people, put them all together, and hopefully yield successful results. For organizations to have sustained results from their performance there must be a good balance of business insight, technical and interpersonal skills, and good team dynamics. A leader must know how to use all these areas as well as trust and communicate with their people in their organization. This paper provides an analysis to understand how Tribal Leadership (Logan, Dave; King, John; Fischer-Wright, Halee, 2011) creates a new perspective for understanding team behavior and how they relate to some of the themes, principles and concepts presented in Leadership; Research Findings, Practice, Skills (Dubrin, 2013) teachings. A Google search on Leadership will yield about 135,000,000 results in about 0.20 seconds. This topic is important and encompasses so many aspects of our culture. Many people thrive to understand what leadership is and how they can improve themselves with leadership concepts to be successful. “Leadership is defined as the ability to influence a group toward the achievement of a vision or set...
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...Missouri. Approximately 8000 people in the city Bolivar, and another 2000 people in the surrounding area are served by MBX. It is the only business of its kind within a 27 mile radius of Bolivar. The 2013 budget for the business was $145,000. There is a current staff of 5, including Rita. MBX provides; packing, shipping, mailing, printing, graphic design, copying, packaging supplies, private mailboxes, and general business services. It is a walk-in, brick and mortar business. Recently added is a real estate title search service, which operates only through telephone, fax, and Email. Bolivar city government and local media have praised MBX for founding, organizing, and executing an annual chili cook-off benefitting several local non-profits. Leadership Practices Rita is always actively involved in collaborative strategy development. She sees her participation as an effective means to help her people connect and buy-in to her organizational vision. She understands the need to ensure that her people understand and remember her vision for the business. She places vision statements throughout the business. Rita has them printed on employee business cards and places them on all computer screen savers. 3 Rita uses tools such as Quick Books to collect and analyze financial data. She then transfers the analyzed financial data to spread sheets...
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...Leadership Analysis Paper Lorrie Wesoly December 5, 2013 Clinical Social Work Supervision Southern Connecticut State University Jeanjulia Van Der Maelen In the book the TaoTe Ching, Lao-tzu wrote " What is a good man but a bad man's teacher? What is a bad man but a good man's job? If you don't understand this you will get lost, however intelligent you are. It is the great secret" (Tao Te Ching, 1988, Stephen Mitchell). The Tao Te Ching is a classic book about Taoist spiritual teachings. There are many translations of the title and the book itself. However, for this purpose I refer to it as "The Classic book on the Way of Virtue. (David James Lee) In English the word 'virtue' relates to the sense of personal character, inner strength or personal integrity. It is this definition of virtue that I consider to be the core of good leadership especially in the field of social work. Tafvelin (2012) found: Social work leadership has attracted growing attention in both social work practice and research. As social service organisations have changed in a variety of ways during the last decades, knowledge of how leaders should act in these transformed organisations is crucial. However, few empirical studies have examined what kind of leadership these changed organisations benefit from and how the continuing organisational change might affect the impact leaders have. Clinicians who become supervisors may find it challenging to transition into a leadership...
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...Final Paper: Leadership & Katrina PART 1 A) Learning about the different leadership models in this class has taught me about how to be a better leader. It has also made me see leadership skills in myself that I wasn’t fully aware of and made them come to the surface and develop. I learned that leadership doesn’t fit into one thought process; there are many models and many ways to exhibit and act on leadership. I learned why I do what I do when we decided on what we value. I knew what I valued, but I had never thought to put it into words before or to rank them. I now know what is important to me and I believe that I can use this when prioritizing tasks and making decisions. This class made me reflect on things about myself I hadn’t before. In the end, I am much more aware of who I am and how I operate as a leader. Learning what I am good at with the strengths test made me learn more about myself as a leader as well. I know what I can bring to the table as a leader and how I can efficiently implement my strengths to benefit the leadership process. My heightened level of self-awareness will be instrumental to my leadership abilities in the future. People are my passion, with my top strengths being relational: empathy and inclusion. The relational model for leadership appealed to me as the people in my life are the most important thing to me. My strengths are within this model of leadership with the components of purposeful, empowering, inclusive, ethical, and process-oriented...
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...Insight 12.1 gave me an ideal rate of my supervisor Transformational Leadership skills. Transformational leadership has the ability to lead change in an organization vision, strategy, and culture as well as promoting products and technologies. I see all of this plus more at my job. Which is a day care learning center. Both of my supervisor promote changes in the organization along with maintaining stability. One of my supervisor is great at planning and budgeting. While the other one focus more on the present, acknowledge our hard work and rewarding use when it’s needed. Transformational leadership is about change in the organization. Having a vision, shared values and ideas can make you a good leader. Inspiring my followers, meeting their...
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...This is a rather interesting question because I have served in the military and now being on the civilian side, I have had the fortunate and unfortunate opportunities to be around and communicate with many different leaders. What I have learned over the years is in order to be an “effective” leader one must possess the qualities of both a powerful and controlling leader. In order to be a “good leader” one must know how to use both qualities efficiently and effectively in the appropriate situation. A good leader has the ability to invoke calm to their subordinates in the midst of a storm, to rein control without micro managing, to be demanding and a disciplinarian without demeaning their subordinates, and most importantly to empower and inspire...
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