I found that the personal assessments were very insightful into my leadership skills. I do believe that they align with my self-conception of myself because I see myself as being a futuristic, conceptual person. In addition, I believe that I have developed social judgment skills because I naturally socially adapt to a situation by taking both individual and social perspectives into consideration while leading (Northouse, 2018: p.50). Communicating the vision to followers is key. Therefore, emotional intelligence is a critical component of effective leadership. I would consider myself to be fairly emotional intelligent and the personal assessments confirmed this self-conception. If I relate this to the behavioural approach to leadership, I would fall under relationship behaviour because I value reinforcing and developing relationships with my employees (Northouse, 2018: p.75).<\/p>\n
It was enlightening to see that one of my weaknesses is the technical side. As I seek to be a more effective well-rounded leader, this is definitely an avenue that will need further development. It will be challenging to become better at noticing details of the technical side of projects. A critical component to the skills approach is problem \u2013solving, whereby leaders need to be creative as they solve complex or ill-defined problems (Northouse, 2018: p.48). The problem solving skills that I believe that I need to work on include problem definition, constraint analysis, planning, forecasting, and wisdom. My strengths related to problem-solving are those that are related to brainstorming and working with ideas and concepts, such as creative thinking, visioning, and idea evaluation (Northouse, 2018: p. 48). In my past experiences, I usually assigned others to tasks that would compensate for my weaknesses. However, this assignment made me realize the importance of increasing my competency with regards to the technical side. If I were to apply this to the behavioural approach, my weakness would be tasks behaviours related to initiating structure and production orientation (Northouse, 2018: p.74, 75). I found this exercise to be enlightening because it provided insights into how I can become a more effective leader.<\/p>\n
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Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: theory and practice<\/em> (Eighth ed.). Thousand Oaks. Sage Publications.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I found that the personal assessments were very insightful into my leadership skills. I do believe that they align with my self-conception of myself because I see myself as being a futuristic, conceptual person. In addition, I believe that I have developed social judgment skills because I naturally socially adapt to a situation by taking … <\/p>\n