Reflective Leadership Plan
Reflective Leadership Plan “Leadership means not only having a dream but claiming that dream and the role you want to play in it” Bennis and Goldsmith,(1997, pg. 132) Leadership, simply said, takes work and planning it out enhances the individuals’ capacity to lead. A critical skill to have is to be able to manage ones time and progress in one’s own leadership learning. A leadership plan will help increase my chances in meeting the goals I have set, to be successful. In this paper we will look at my leadership style, vision, action steps, communicating the plan and monitoring my progress.
Self-Assessment
Leadership style In the self-assessment test, I scored 5 in my concern for people and 14 for concern for task. I need to focus more on becoming more concerned with people, yet my scores for the charismatic leadership style were high: attention 14, meaning 16, trust 19, self 15, risk 15, and feelings 15. It stated that a score over 85 indicates qualities of a charismatic leader and my scores add up to 94 (Prentice-Hall, 2007).
Strengths/Weakness
According to the self-assessment test, my personality type came out to be Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging (INTJ), which means that I am independent, determined, skeptical, critical and very stubborn. My score for Type-A personality was 123, which indicates that I am a very strong in this personality type. Type-A personalities have the need to do more and more in the little amount of time that they have, not doing well with leisure time, obsessed with numbers, always measuring their success by how much they have and not very easy to get along with, interrupting others and even finishing their sentences (Prentice-Hall, 2007). Looking at my actions I would have to agree with the assessment. Diversity in the workplace, I scored 6, classifying me as a diversity realist, meaning that I excepting of other diverse groups. There are three areas that were looked for motivation: growth, relatedness, and
Self-Assessment
Leadership style In the self-assessment test, I scored 5 in my concern for people and 14 for concern for task. I need to focus more on becoming more concerned with people, yet my scores for the charismatic leadership style were high: attention 14, meaning 16, trust 19, self 15, risk 15, and feelings 15. It stated that a score over 85 indicates qualities of a charismatic leader and my scores add up to 94 (Prentice-Hall, 2007).
Strengths/Weakness
According to the self-assessment test, my personality type came out to be Introverted, Intuitive, Thinking, and Judging (INTJ), which means that I am independent, determined, skeptical, critical and very stubborn. My score for Type-A personality was 123, which indicates that I am a very strong in this personality type. Type-A personalities have the need to do more and more in the little amount of time that they have, not doing well with leisure time, obsessed with numbers, always measuring their success by how much they have and not very easy to get along with, interrupting others and even finishing their sentences (Prentice-Hall, 2007). Looking at my actions I would have to agree with the assessment. Diversity in the workplace, I scored 6, classifying me as a diversity realist, meaning that I excepting of other diverse groups. There are three areas that were looked for motivation: growth, relatedness, and
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