Reflection- Leadership course-Unit 10-LA
“The best of life is always ahead, always further on” (Sir William 1940, as cited in Watson, 1951, p.267).
My decision-making process influenced by many factors. Experience or what I call it “learning lesson” is one of these factors, Knowledge, Cultures, organizational goals, relationships, and shared information. Some of my decisions stemmed from self-confidence about what I learned and repeated every day, which helps me respond quickly to situations. Acknowledge my mistakes and take the necessary steps to correct repair or amend the case. I relate to my emotions or other emotions which also affect and influence my decision. Work style and delegating work participated significantly in my decision-making process in a way that I can think in too many directions.my decision-making and critique approaches to thinking or handling have been craved to learn more about servant leadership orientation. I learned to evaluate scholarly research articles and the method used and how it benefits the study to answer the research question and It all based on evidence, and what I meant by that decision-making evidence-based. I learned it through all units, how to apply these lessons wisely.
I learned what shaped a good leader is a capacity and ability to lead a team and ourselves through the difficult or adverse situation while keeping up the team. Furthermore, the motivation that can take the team extra miles in their endeavor.
“The servant-leader is a servant first… It begins with the natural feeling that one wants to serve. To serve first. Then conscious choice brings one to lead … The best test and the difficult to administer is this: Do those served grow as persons? Do they, while being served, become healthier, wiser, freer, more autonomous, and more likely themselves to become servants? And, what is the effect on the least privileged in society; Will they benefit, or, at least, not further be deprived? (1970,p.15; as cited in Northouse, 2016, p.220). What a great lesson in these words! Definitely, it’s the word that I will have it in my desktop from now and on. Creating the opportunity for someone in your team to grow within the organization, it’s the ability that servant leader ownership. The transformation that happened through servant leadership process within leader-follower oriented relationship towards the attainable goal has a tremendous takeaway lesson. To function within the transformational servant model, it may require the whole organizational structure to become fluid and function like the sand in an egg timer that flows both ways (Page & Wong, 200, p. 69). Leadership is a journey and the leader of that ship who helps to make the way safe and authentic. The effective system is useful when people who make them are effective. The positive use of power in a servant leadership approach when influencing the situation; starts with love, humility, and altruism.
“The best of life is always ahead, always further on” (Sir William 1940, as cited in Watson, 1951, p.267).
Reference
Northouse, P. G. (2016). Leadership: Theory and practice, Seventh Edition. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. ISBN 971452203409
Watson, L.E. (1951). _Light from Many Lamps_. New York: Simon and Schuster