My Leadership Philosophy

1. My definition of leadership is, an individual that can inspire a group to perform a task, no matter how unpleasant, quickly and efficiently. These skills are accumulated over a length of time, throughout a career and life experiences. These leadership skills I have developed were through interactions and guidance from leaders that were both inspirational and motivating. I endeavor to display these same traits outward to the people that have worked for me and I have worked with.

2. Leadership influences I have had during my career have included several of the best leaders I could have hoped to have worked for and at key points during my career. The leaders that stand out the most in my mind would show you the way, then allow you to expand on that knowledge. They would allow you to fail, then pick you up and explain what went wrong. If there were major issues or causalities on equipment they would roll up their sleeves and be right next to you fixing the problem. This is what I believe that motivated my leadership style, which was to get the task accomplished first, my priority was not on subordinates ideas or opinions.

3. Leadership behaviors I feel I must make a priority to improve would be to first, appeal to others to share an exciting dream of the future. I must be more forthcoming with my members and expand on plans that are being
Second, I must actively listen to diverse points of view. To be more engaged with members and become more of an active listener and be more receptive to ideas and suggestions of team members. One idea is to post problems on our portal page and allow other members to provide ideas on solving complex problems. This will allow the greatest amount of input from various team members to provide constructive information and thoughts which will resolve these problems in a more timely and efficient manner. This will cause a greater feeling of empowerment and overall buy in for these projects, making them more