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Activity 1
1. What Characteristics do you believe a positive role model in the workplace should demonstrate?
A positive workplace should demonstrate the following 10 characteristics according to Cox(2002)
These are:
1. Uncompromising integrity
2.High energy
3.Good at working priorities
4. Courageous
5. A committed and dedicated hard worker
6. Unorthodox and creative
7. Goal Orientation
8. Inspired and contagious enthusiasm
9. Staying level headed
10. A desire to help others grow and succeed
2. Describe a person you have looked up to as a positive role model. What qualities in them did you admire? What made them a suitable role model? What did you learn from them?
Sir Richard Branson is one of the worlds most intriguing, succesful and enduring entrepreneurial business leaders. The founder of the Virgin Group, he has established a very interesting background and approach to both leadership and where he chooses to put his resources to work. He is an extremist in serial entrepreneurship and has a very interesting and exciting leadership style.
Qualities:
Creativity : Richard Branson’s ventures portray creativity, venturing into airliners using new creative measures such as touch-screen ordering of food and comfortable planes. This comes in an era where most other airliners are figuring out how to remove the last remaining frills to cut costs.
Adaptability : One of his strong characteristics, besides his charisma, seems to be his adaptability to situations. It is strongly developed and witnessed by him turning the situation named as the “dirty tricks affair” in which he had a battle with British Airways.
Sir Richard’s leadership style and characteristics are based on some very simple and down-to-earth rules:
Sir Richard’s leadership style and characteristics are based on some very simple and down-to-earth rules:
Smile, everything gets much easier if you show a friendly face
Have fun at work
Believe in your ideas, employees and colleagues
Branson’s main
1. What Characteristics do you believe a positive role model in the workplace should demonstrate?
A positive workplace should demonstrate the following 10 characteristics according to Cox(2002)
These are:
1. Uncompromising integrity
2.High energy
3.Good at working priorities
4. Courageous
5. A committed and dedicated hard worker
6. Unorthodox and creative
7. Goal Orientation
8. Inspired and contagious enthusiasm
9. Staying level headed
10. A desire to help others grow and succeed
2. Describe a person you have looked up to as a positive role model. What qualities in them did you admire? What made them a suitable role model? What did you learn from them?
Sir Richard Branson is one of the worlds most intriguing, succesful and enduring entrepreneurial business leaders. The founder of the Virgin Group, he has established a very interesting background and approach to both leadership and where he chooses to put his resources to work. He is an extremist in serial entrepreneurship and has a very interesting and exciting leadership style.
Qualities:
Creativity : Richard Branson’s ventures portray creativity, venturing into airliners using new creative measures such as touch-screen ordering of food and comfortable planes. This comes in an era where most other airliners are figuring out how to remove the last remaining frills to cut costs.
Adaptability : One of his strong characteristics, besides his charisma, seems to be his adaptability to situations. It is strongly developed and witnessed by him turning the situation named as the “dirty tricks affair” in which he had a battle with British Airways.
Sir Richard’s leadership style and characteristics are based on some very simple and down-to-earth rules:
Sir Richard’s leadership style and characteristics are based on some very simple and down-to-earth rules:
Smile, everything gets much easier if you show a friendly face
Have fun at work
Believe in your ideas, employees and colleagues
Branson’s main