Becoming an Effective Leader
Name: Keith Casaletto
ID: 0231792M
Table of Contents
Understand own ability to fulfil key responsibilities of the leadership role 3
Be able to evaluate own ability to lead others 5
Personal development plan 7
Conclusion 8
References 9
Becoming an Effective Leader
My own experience in leadership has been achieved during the last three and a half years working at Lufthansa technic Malta. The company has been operating in Malta for the last 12 years in which there has been a rapid growth in the company operations creating opportunities and developments. For the last two years I’ve had the opportunity to start working as a shop leader, developing my skills and gaining experience through qualified and experienced role models in aviation. For the past three years, Lufthansa technic Malta shop departments have developed rapidly, where positions as shop leaders and shop in charges helped to develop a more effective leadership structure. Safety awareness increased as well, in which the company invested a lot in the people’s safety equipment and personal tooling. As a result, the improved structure and development helped me a lot as a leader to implement different types of leadership styles in variety of situations with different people to achieve our goals.
Understand own ability to fulfil key responsibilities of the leadership role
There are a variety of leadership styles, in which each leader implement his or her own style. Good leaders will vary in leadership styles according to the situation and people involved. As a leader the ability to lead others and to be able to make people follow and understand your vision and goals is one of the utmost importance in leadership (Kippenberger, n.d.).
“A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”
-John Maxwell
To be an effective leader to others first you need to be a leader yourself. As a leader, self- awareness and self-regulation are
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