Leadership Self-Analysis Theory

Leadership Self-Analysis and Theory Integration

Leadership Self-Analysis and Theory Integration Leadership is a term that can sometimes be casually tossed around without understanding what it truly entails. Leadership can be viewed as the person, a particular position, the influence a leader has on others, or by observable results (Banks & Ledbetter, 2003, p. 16). More than ever before, I feel as though the term leadership is becoming a focus in Churches, schools, corporations, organizations, government sectors, clubs, and teams. Why? People desire leaders to forester change, create efficient, encourage unity, and produce excellence. Leadership is a vast and powerful word that requires sacrifice, integrity,
Draft (2005) states that courage is the ability to step forward through fear and be willing to step up and take personal responsibility (pp. 234-235). Within the Moral Courage assessment, scoring a (40) or higher indicates a person as being a courageous leader. I personally scored a (39). My two lowest scoring questions where "I quickly tell people the truth, even when it is negative" and the other is that "I am relaxed most of the time" (Draft, 2005, p. 239). James 1:19 states, " My dear brothers and sisters, take note of this: Everyone should be quick to listen, slow to speak and slow to become angry" (NIV). Sometimes I consider the feelings of others and avoid certain conflicts until the Father shares that I need to speak and address them. Concerning being relaxed, I tend to associated relaxing with being complacent and I never want to become that way in God. As a leader I must be able to allow my relaxation to come from a place of trusting God and constantly seeking Him which would keep me from becoming stagnant. Through working with various non-profit organizations I have truly been in countless situations that challenge my moral leadership. I have experienced numerous situations that have challenged my moral leadership. As an Event Coordinator of a small business, one recent incident happened where a client had been billed twice for 2 of our service components. Daft (2005) shares that "Courage means fighting for what you believe" (pp. 237). As I took personal responsibility for my actions of correcting the billing issue with the client, though the funds could have very well been used in another area, my integrity would not allow it just to be an oversight and ignored. My supervisor was thankful to see that I was so efficient and this client used our service for two additional events as he made the comment it is hard to find good genuine people to do business