Leadership Development
Part I. What have been my pathways to leadership?
The importance of being a leader is especially important at the moment as the rapidly changing environment is putting a lot of pressure on the companies in terms of their ability to adapt constantly to new circumstances. Obviously, in order to take efficient and quick decisions within the company, managers should not only poses knowledge and experience, but leadership qualities too, because only leaders are able to lead people, persuade them and attract attention to the most relevant aspects. That is why it’s also important for me, as a future manager, to develop myself as a leader.
Leadership is not only ability to lead other people but also to govern your own life.
That is why I would like to start this essay on leadership development from speaking about my background, previous experience that influenced my leadership style. Here I will rely on the "theory of traits of a leader" (Kirkpatrick & Locke, 1991; Yukl, 2010) while describing the sequence of my failures and achievements over the period of the life that pretty comprehensively illustrate the strong sides of my personality in terms of leadership and the pitfalls.
My school life began rather early, that is why I wasn’t prepared for the majority of the tasks I was to accomplish and it took me a while to accommodate to the circumstances but nevertheless I was capable to accept the rules I had to follow and I possessed enough of the discipline and diligence even in childhood which helped me to become one of the best in the class. The same characteristics of my personality gave me opportunity to receive the Silver medal for the excellent grades upon finishing the school as well as obtaining the second place in the city Olympiad in literature, that still makes me sorry as didn’t manage to get the first one mostly due to particular carelessness in writing of compositions, and surely entering to the university.
The first year of the university was a kind of
The importance of being a leader is especially important at the moment as the rapidly changing environment is putting a lot of pressure on the companies in terms of their ability to adapt constantly to new circumstances. Obviously, in order to take efficient and quick decisions within the company, managers should not only poses knowledge and experience, but leadership qualities too, because only leaders are able to lead people, persuade them and attract attention to the most relevant aspects. That is why it’s also important for me, as a future manager, to develop myself as a leader.
Leadership is not only ability to lead other people but also to govern your own life.
That is why I would like to start this essay on leadership development from speaking about my background, previous experience that influenced my leadership style. Here I will rely on the "theory of traits of a leader" (Kirkpatrick & Locke, 1991; Yukl, 2010) while describing the sequence of my failures and achievements over the period of the life that pretty comprehensively illustrate the strong sides of my personality in terms of leadership and the pitfalls.
My school life began rather early, that is why I wasn’t prepared for the majority of the tasks I was to accomplish and it took me a while to accommodate to the circumstances but nevertheless I was capable to accept the rules I had to follow and I possessed enough of the discipline and diligence even in childhood which helped me to become one of the best in the class. The same characteristics of my personality gave me opportunity to receive the Silver medal for the excellent grades upon finishing the school as well as obtaining the second place in the city Olympiad in literature, that still makes me sorry as didn’t manage to get the first one mostly due to particular carelessness in writing of compositions, and surely entering to the university.
The first year of the university was a kind of
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