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This paper will allow you to examine your leadership skills and develop a plan for moving forward

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This paper will allow you to examine your leadership skills and develop a plan for moving forward.

• Analyze your current leadership skills based on what you have learned in this course
• Identify your primary style of leadership
• Identify 2 leadership theories/styles that would be beneficial to your current/future leadership role.
  • Summarize your understanding of both
  • Explain how you would apply both to make you a more effective leader
  • Illustrate 2 positive outcomes that you would expect to occur from each
• Examine your results from the following assessments completed throughout the term: Authentic Leadership and Emotional Intelligence.
  • Summarize each area and identify 2 areas within each assessment you wish to further develop.
  • Identify how you will develop each over the next year and how it will make you a more effective leader
  • Illustrate 2 positive outcomes that you would expect to occur from each
• Develop a personal leadership philosophy and support your ideas with material from this course and outside research. 
  • Provide an example where your leadership philosophy can be applied to lead an organizational change
  • Your leadership philosophy does not have to be any specific leadership model we reviewed. Rather, it should represent your trajectory of leadership as it applies to your career aspirations. Consider your leadership style, personality, career path and the industry you work (or wish to work in) and determine which leadership skills will be most effective.
• Running head: LEADERSHIP 1 Leadership Development Plan My Leadership Skills and Plan Leadership Development Plan 2 My leadership skills are decisiveness, integrity, effective communication, and the ability to mentor others. A leader should analyze a situation fast and come up with a viable solution as quickly as possible. Secondly, a good leader should be trustworthy and honest and build that culture among the team members and the organization (Lestari and Prastyawan, 2018). Thirdly I have effective communication skills that involve attentively listening and engaging the workforce about our common goals and objectives (Kotagal and Pellegrini, 2018). Also, I pride myself as a good leader who can inspire other people to want to perform better and emulate constructive interpersonal skills. Primary Style of Leadership My primary style of leadership is democratic. This involves allowing my team members to actively participate in decision making, even though I make the final decision (Alloubani and Akhu-Zaheya, 2018). Team members are free to brainstorm and communicate solutions through an open-door policy, which builds their self-esteem, improves their confidence levels and job satisfaction. The democratic style helps create a culture of mutual trust, dependability, and close collaboration to achieve organizational goals (Lestari and Prastyawan, 2018). Another advantage is that it enables the team leader to grow future leaders since employees are already exposed to tough decision making and problem-solving. Two leadership styles A democratic leadership style will drive my future leadership. The reason I believe in this style is that it creates an outstanding and highly motivated organization. The democratic style allows employee participation in decision making. As a leader, I believe that the more diverse Leadership Development Plan 3 the perspectives, the higher the quality of the decision (Rodd, 2020). On the other hand, transformational leadership is another leadership style that I consider vital in my leadership strategy in the future (Van Wart and Suino, 2017). In this form of leadership, we have a leader who can motivate and influence positive change amongst his team. This leadership style allows the leader to bring the best out of his team by employing emotional intelligence, energy, and passion (Alloubani and Akhu-Zaheya, 2018). This leadership style will define my ability to encourage and motivate team members to have a positive mindset by exemplifying ethical, moral standards. My Understanding of Both My understanding of the democratic style can be taught in everyday life to solve realworld problems. For example, a democratic leadership style effectively brings out the leadership skills in team members by giving them the autonomy to solve the issues and develop the necessary skills for a future leadership role (Lestari and Prastyawan, 2018). In the transformational form of leadership, a leader at the strategic level motivates his employees to innovate and develop changes that will help the company grow in the future. This is achieved by the leader setting pace by example and bringing up a robust corporate culture of teamwork and autonomy in coming up with transformative solutions (Alloubani and Akhu-Zaheya, 2018). Some of this leadership model's traits are fostering a culture of an ethical work environment through a clear set of standards and values (Van Wart and Suino, 2017). Also, employees are encouraged to have an attitude of self-development but with a long term view of benefiting their fellow team members and the organization as a whole. How I would apply both to make a more effective leader? Leadership Development Plan 4 I would apply democratic leadership by delegating tasks to the team members, encouraging a culture of brainstorming, and coming up with a wide array of solutions that eventually inform my decisions as a leader. The application of transformational leadership is hinged on creating a transformation by setting clear goals and motivating employees without micromanaging them (Van Wart and Suino, 2017). This gives employees more room to be creative and find new solutions for the future. The Positive Outcomes The positive outcome for the democratic style is that more viewpoints are brought to the table, hence improving the decisions' quality (Lestari and Prastyawan, 2018). Secondly, the style allows for building a culture of collaboration and team spirit, and this higher level of satisfaction is achieved for employees. The first advantage of the transformational style is that it allows a leader to spur creativity in their teams by allowing autonomous decision making and trusting the employees (Alloubani and Akhu-Zaheya, 2018). The second positive outcome is that it encourages the team members to look beyond their self-interest, thus making employees more dedicated to a common organizational goal. Authentic Leadership and Emotional Intelligence Authentic leadership is a leadership style that is based on an ethical foundation and achieves legitimacy when leaders build an honest relationship with their team members. Authentic leaders are usually positive-minded, and through honesty, building mutual trust and openness creates a valuable interpersonal relationship with their followers (Maric, Kovac and Habek, 2018). One of the areas I would like to focus on is developing self-awareness to understand my values and how Leadership Development Plan 5 my core beliefs can affect my relationship with others. The other area is relational transparency, which is about how a leader openly shares ideas without involving or showing their true emotions. Emotional intelligence is the ability to be aware of our emotions and that or the people around us and use that knowledge to guide our thoughts and behaviors (Eyong, 2016). Usually, influential leaders are known for their emotional intelligence since they can perceive, use, understand, and manage their emotions appropriately. One of the areas I want to improve my ability to perceive emotions (Maric, Kovac and Habek, 2018). This will improve my ability to detect and understand other people's feelings through voices and facial features and process my feelings wisely. The second area I want to learn about is how to use emotions. This will enable me to know how to use my feelings productively to create value and empower others instead of destructively. How I Will Develop Each Skill? Over the next year, I will strive to learn how to grow my authentic leadership skills by reexamining my self-awareness. This includes reviewing my values, as well as my strengths and weaknesses (Eyong, 2016). Also, I will be more self-critical first instead of jumping to blame others. In terms of improving my relational transparency, I will attend leadership workshops that focus on how leaders can leverage their emotions to encourage a participative organizational culture instead of killing it by being threatened by people with different ideas (Adigüzel and Kuloglu, 2019). I will develop my ability to perceive emotions by developing my ability to process the feelings of other people around me and taking the appropriate steps to come up with a counter emotion that is positive and engaging (Eyong, 2016). Secondly, I will strive to use my Leadership Development Plan 6 feelings to facilitate the development of cognitive abilities in the people around me, like problem-solving and strategic thinking. I have to develop the ability to read moods and turn them to my advantage of using charm and charisma. Positive Outcomes The advantage of having self-awareness is that I will guide my team towards a common goal and respect their opinions towards problem-solving. Secondly, relational transparency will enable me to prevent a clash of values or the exhibition of emotions that may undermine the team's shared objectives and promote harmony (Miao, Humphrey and Qian, 2018). By learning to perceive emotions, I will detect other people's feelings and transform them positively despite their values and beliefs (Eyong, 2016). Using emotions will allow me to recognize good and bad emotions and leverage the good ones to solve problems rather than create them. Leadership Philosophy My leadership philosophy is focusing on solving conflicts. Every organization experience challenges daily. Not until a leader understands how the conflicts can be solved, the functions might collapse (Lestari and Prastyawan, 2018). Philosophy is a statement that helps people understand your values, beliefs, and your potential as a leader. My leadership philosophy will be used widely in the organization. For instance, through this philosophy, I can use it solves conflict among employees (Rodd, 2020). Conflicts always exist between employees. When they occur, it becomes difficult to implement duties. Also, the production reduces due to lack of cooperation. Therefore, solving conflicts will put an organization in a better position. It will lead to an organizational change because it will help employees bury their differences and focus on Leadership Development Plan 7 development (Van Wart and Suino, 2017). Eventually, the organization will lead to production and sales. In every philosophy, the most important thing is bringing a change to the organization. Even after having a philosophy, it is important to ensure that the leadership skills have been in line with the industry they work for. For instance, in the industry I work for, there are major leadership skills required. Firstly, I believe creativity is the most crucial leadership skills. This is because the sector deals with technology, and each day, the world is changing (Kotagal and Pellegrini, 2018). This means that I need to be creative to know how the world is changing and what our organization should focus in. The other leadership skill I need is good communication skills. As a leader in the organization, it is vital to uphold good communication skills because we need to give the followers feedback (Eyong, 2016). Through good communication, I will be in a position to use my philosophy effectively. 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