Leadership is an art that motivates the group of people to
work hard for achieving a goal. Leadership in a business setting means that
worker and colleagues work with the strategy to acquired the company needs. On
ideas, effective leadership is based, but to apply these ideas first discuss
the idea with the other members and act like
a leader. Leadership is linked with the performance in business according
to any definition of a leader. As this is not only related to the making profit
for the company. As many viewed this effective leadership as one, who increases
the bottom line of the company. In leadership, if an individual does not
fulfill the expectation that is set by the high authority or stakeholders, then
the higher authority has the right to terminate that leader. Leaders are those
who have traits that are beyond the duties of management. Communicating,
inspiring as well as supervising is also involved in the leadership (F. C., 2011).
Someone is born to be a leader, but some are becoming a
leader because of their hard work. If we see the history, it observes that
history is full of those people who have no experience of leadership, but they
have good in their leadership quality and work excellent at the time of
pressure and at the time of crisis situation. The agreement of the leader is that
makes a vision and achieves that vision work hard. In achieving the end result,
the leader does this by inspiring the other member or co-workers and setting
the direction that helps in success. Delegation is important in leadership (McGurk, 2010).
My personal Observation
for a of Leadership in an organization
Here I discuss the personal experience of my life. I am
working in an organization. The style of the manager in tackling the issue is
really amazing. The person is a good leader because of his qualities that
impressed the other workers of the company. Even the boss of the company also
impressed by him. The leader has all the qualities that should be present in an
effective leader. He has enough confidence to talk with the higher authority
and explain to them the whole situation of the company. And he is enough
condiment to ensure that the other worker follows his order. The other quality
is that he is very honest toward his business. He inspires the people who work
with them. This is the most difficult job that is done by him in a good manner.
He is committed and passionate. The communication of the leader is very good. I
observe all this quality in my leader when I work with him in an organization.
He is a very good leader in all respective qualities (D. O., 2016).
During his leadership, no conflicts are created among the
other company employees. The communication among the worker is very good. He is
very polite, but when it comes to the company goal, he didn’t compromise with
the vision of the company. These are the attributes or traits that are present
in the leader. I perceive this person leadership behavior and traits during
when I work him with the same project, and he is my leader. He discusses every
idea of the project with all group members. To motivate the members toward the
work he always appreciates their work. And always take the decision according
to the mutual decision of the members (Algahtani, 2014).
A leader always relies on the power that is used to
influence others and get things done. The convincing power of the leader is
very good, so he easily influenced the people to work according to his
requirement. To achieve, the need of the company power and influence is the
ability. Within the organization, it is the potential to influence others for
power holders the attain the required goal. Through the process of political
and potential influence power is realized. The attitude, belief, and values are
the factor which influences the other within no time.
The important thing which is very good about my leader is
that his leadership style is changed according to the requirement of the task. If
the task is about making any decision, then visionary style is used. If he
observed that worker is de-motivated, so they discuss with them the entire work
and try to build an interest in the work, so they give more effort to achieve
the goal. The reason behind the de-motivation is that when the set goals are
not realistic or also too hard to achieve from the members, that’s why the
member de-motivated and they lose interest in the task that is assigned to him (Vaccaro, Jansen, Van Den Bosch, & Volberda,
2012).
Feedback from a of
Leader
As the leader which I discussed is not so famous that I
collect more information through the interview. But when I work with him, I
asked some question, and he gives me the information regarding the question you
see in appendix A. the first question I asked is about the difficulties he
faces during handling as a project manager and how he tackle them. In today
industry undefined goals , scope changes and the improper risk management are
the problems that are faced by him in his first leadership.
He cannot define the company requirements to the worker as a
result of this he can’t meet the requirement of the company after when high
authority asked about this than he takes a step and firstly understands the
goal of the company and then tell this about the other members. After that, I
never face this difficulty again in my life. Now I properly understand the goal
if I want any changes after the discussion than I made some decision and
organize the whole work in small step to achieve the required goal.
The other question which I asked is about the dependencies
in the project management. He said that there are four dependencies in project
management first is finished to start,
start to start, finish to finish as well as start to finish. He said that when
the first project is finished before the successor could start the work. Just
like that, you have to buy the land before starting the building; this is not
happening that first, you build the building and then buy the land.
He said before assigning the task to the members he gains
every information about the members such as their skills, their technicality
and how capable they are. After that, I delegate the duties according to their
skills. If I assigned without knowing about the skills of the members than the
required goal is not achieved that is set by the higher of authorities.
Yes, he said that being proactive is a vital thing. This is
very important when you are going to lead a time you have to become proactive.
The leader should control their reaction in front of everyone. He has to tackle
the situation according to the different style. If you want to run a business,
you have to focus on proactive actions.
He said when you set the goal that is want to achieve within
time. Then plan the whole work according to the time . organize a meeting with
the other members and tell them about the whole situation and the time
constraints. So divide the work according to the time requirement, so planning
is the main factor. And the other question that is related to the software
base.
If there is some innovation or agile venture than you have
to plan this very carefully. For this, you have to know about the customer's
requirement and then plan some innovation. He said the leader should have
always taken an interest in the improvement of the group work. This is a very
important thing being a leader.
Analysis of a
Leadership
In this section, I describe the reflection of what I have
learned from the above stages that a leader faces many difficulties while leading
a group or lead any project. In this course, we learned about leadership. The
responsibility of a leader is to describe how a leader achieves the set goal of
the company. As in the first stage, we only describe the quality of a leader
which I observe in my life. This is about an organization where I work for a
year. In the organization, my leader has many qualities that should be present
in an effective leader. He told me that these qualities are developed according
to the experience. But this is also true that someone is born to be a leader.
The one who was behaving like a leader from their childhood
he shows the spark in their childhood. They only need to work some skills that
they become an effective leader. In this course, we also learned about how to
complete the goals within time. We have to plan the entire task according to
time if something unconditional thing happens, so there is also a backup plan
there to cover this up. The leader should always ready to tackle the problem
within the organization. A leader is the one who makes the profit for the
company if the goals are completely defined. If the goals are not defined than
what happened, that is also learned from this course.
If the team members are de-motivated because of the
unrealistic goals, then this is the responsibility of the leader to motivate
the other team members. There are also many problems that occur during the
project such as conflict will occur among the other members. So, the leader
will be responsible for this to solve the conflict. The leader should always
discuss the goal or plan for achieving that goal with the members of the team.
So they know about what they are working for and how to meet the demand of the
company.
Conclusion on Leadership
It is concluded that leadership is a very important factor
that is happened in an organization. If you want to build effective leadership
in an organization, then the following qualities must be present in the leader.
The leader should be honest and integrity. The leader has the ability to
delegate the duties. The leader should be Commitment, positive attitude as well
as creativity. As I describe above the qualities of my ideal leader who is a
role model for me. He has all this quality which I mentioned. Also, take the
interview and take some suggestion for the organization. After that critically
analyze his whole experience. He is the leader of the project manager. So, this
is true that without the effective leadership a company can't achieve the set
goal of the organization. Leadership is not only belonged to the increase in
profit; there is also a concept of some people that good leader is those who
make more profit for an organization that is not true. A good leader is who has
the ability to acquired the goals in a critical situation. And in this course,
we learned so much about leadership.
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