Essay on Leadership Development

Many leadership skills are demonstrated by me even in my personality during my curriculum and in my academic reports. By nature every individual have few skills in their personality to commanding the other individuals to helping them and to providing the guidelines. During my studies in this college I have demonstrated leadership because my friends are always got my help to taking g few decisions in their studies even in their little personal matter.

I have known about when my professors had told me there are several leadership skills, styles, and approaches. During my academic carrier, I have joined the Union committee of the college and later I have selected as the leader of this committee because I have lot of attributes to executing the various plans of this committee. I have tried to find out attributes of the leadership in my personality and the finding out approaches of the leadership to which I am following. There is two approaches of the leadership which are little match with my personalities.

Trait approach and situational approach are the approaches which I have founded in my personality.   Trait approach is considered as the first major approach of the leadership. This approach is best suited to my leadership styles because a series of mental, physical and personality traits are looked under this approach which possessed in the effective leaders and non-effective leaders even non leaders.

The trait approach has various characteristics which are similar to the characteristics of my personality these characteristics and qualities are Creativity, Originality, Assertiveness, adaptability Diplomacy, Emotional Balance, Dominance, Enthusiasm Objective, Tough-mindedness Extroversion Independence, Nonconformity Strength of Conviction. These all are the characteristics of the trait approach of the leadership and it is similar to my personality.

Another approach of the leadership is situational approach which is similar to my personality and the situational approach is considered as the new approach for leadership and this approach leadership towards the contingent on a variety to situational factors.  These situational factors can be commitment, interactions, leader relationships, follower motivation and task to be completed.  There are various leadership theorists which are falling in both of these approaches (Books Lard bucket Org, 2018).

To answering the question and discussing the different traits according to personality it necessary to describing the leadership “Basically lairdship is known as the various function to knowing about yourself, to having clear vision which must communicated in a well manner, Try building trust between the colleagues and suggesting various actions for realizing the leadership potential”. The trait approach of the leadership is addressing about the adaptability and an adjustment which is most related to the democratic leadership styles.

I have improved my skills to considering important to the views of all individual to taking decision in about any problem. The suggestion of all individuals has their own worth because democratic leader rely on the decision of all individuals of the group or even organization. I discuss my problems with my colleagues and take their decision to solving any problems and then chose one of these suggestions which are provided from my colleagues.  I have good way of communication and this is my strength which encourage me towards the different ways and styles of the leadership, I have strong difficulty level I try to understand the problem of the people in clear way that resolve this according smart and effective way deciding about something. My all team members are liked me just because of the good way communication and the communication is good extent which encourage my effective potential leader (Webster, 2018).

To measuring the progress of the leadership is too tough because leadership can be measured by the various qualities and it can be measure by the suggestion of the other individuals. But there is not numeric standard to measuring about the progress of the leadership but the results of the activity or project is the best and effective to measure the progress of the leadership.  I have selected third time as leader of this committee that’s why this progress has decided about my potentials for the leadership. In future I will try to ignore all the mistakes which are occurs at the time of decision making for the various activities of the committee.  I will follow the rules and regulations which are assigned from the organization (Zetlin, 2018).

My personal leadership philosophy is always focusing on the several thoughts of the leadership and follows the various definition of the leadership. As it is described by the Warren Benin’s “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality” and definition of Ralph Nadar` is the one best definition according to my leadership philosophy because I always focus to producing more leaders rather than the followers and the definition Ralph Nadar is also addressing about this as “The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers”  democratic leadership theories always influencing on my thinking and personality because, I always believe on the democratic decision and Steve jobs is one of the my favorite leaders and he always follows the democratic leadership theory and I also like this by taking his decision it the account of my inspiration (Gray, 2018).

I have learned a lot of thing about the leadership styles theories approaches and skills using this semester of my study and I have performed a lot of project to I have lead as democratic leader even  I was leader of the Un ion committee of the students at my college. I have good way of communication and humble attribute to understanding and resolving the matters of the students of the college during the post of the leader of the committee. My beliefs and values for the leadership are always talks about the encouraging the followers to working smart and performing their task in efficient ways.

Sometime to taking help, I discuss my problems with my higher authority even my teacher because discussion is always considered as excellent strategy for my which is used for enhancing the motivation of the students and it is also used to fostering the intellectual agility and the major purpose of the discussion is encouraging the democratic habits. The way of the leadership of the students create vast opportunity for the student to practicing the sharpen numbers of skills and it also includes the ability of defending the position and articulation.

There is lot of the leadership lesson which I have learned from this class but three of them can be described as the facts will set you free,  Encouraging the employees to enhancing their performance level and celebrating the transparency.  In the first lesson the leaders can add the value by producing the tangible results and leaders always relies on the output of the task. I f they have got the good output and tangible results it doesn’t matter how they have performed his task. This lesson of the leadership skills leads toward the charismatic leadership theory. Meanwhile other two lessons are leading toward the democratic leadership theory and I have enjoyed al lot these all lesson and these are consider by me effective ways to guiding someone (Goldsmith, 2016). 

References on Leadership Development

Books Lardbucket Org. (2018). Approaches to Leadership. Retrieved from https://2012books.lardbucket.org/books/an-introduction-to-organizational-communication/s09-01-approaches-to-leadership.html

Goldsmith, S. S. (2016). Three Leadership Lessons. Training industry.

Gray, R. (2018). Measuring leadership effectiveness. Hr magazine.co.uk.

Webster, V. W. (2018). 4 Different Approaches to Leadership — A Definition of Leadership. Leadershipthoughts.

Zetlin, M. (2018). 4 Ways to Measure Your Leadership Skills. inc.co.