For the communication’s assessment, I tried Leadership IQ’s website. It was a simple and short questionnaire that asked to choose one of two answers to a question. The results stated that I like hard data, real numbers, and that I tend to be suspicious of people who are not in command of the facts and data (IQ, 2015). It went on to say that I tend to like very specific language and dislike vagueness. Ultimately, the Leadership IQ assessment stated that I was more aligned with an Analytical communicator and prefer to communicate with data and information, however, this communication style can come across as cold or insensitive. The second assessment taken at another website and was based on choosing one of four words that best described me. …show more content…
A well-thought plan for addressing leadership development is key to becoming the best leader or in this case-the best project manager. Knowing what my strengths are, is just as important as knowing my weaknesses. It is an important step in assessing one’s natural leadership style by analyzing past behavior rather than consciously doing something unnatural (Career Education Corporation, 2013). The first step in developing weaker areas and emphasizing strong points is to know what type of leader and communicator I am. My overall assessment stated that I am an Artisan and communicate with an analytical approach. Placing emphasis on strong forms of communication and creating a plan to develop weaker areas are important steps to being an effective project manager. Often times, barriers are formed when there is a weakness in communication ability. One of my weaknesses when communicating is reacting defensively to criticism. By acting defensively, I create a barrier between my team and their willingness to be open and honest. With saying that, I have to be open and honest with myself. I have to work to create an environment that emphasize constructive criticism. Team members should not be fearful to voice their opinion even if I may disagree with what is being said. Being assessed as an Analytical communicator, I sometimes come across as insensitive and uncaring. I must work to be more diplomatic in my style to improve communication. I have to encourage my team to embrace a culture of understanding. I may come across as aloof and accept that my style is not the best at interacting with everyone. Striving to become more familiar with each person and how to communicate with them is part of my plan. Communication is the cornerstone of a successful team. Effective teams have frank and free sharing and open-ended meetings that lead to a shared vision and purpose (Janasz, Dowd, & Schneider, 2015). Everyone has unique qualities and
Keeping a calm, cool, and collected attitude, even when curveballs are thrown, signifies a strong leader. When an egregious amount of errors or flaws occur during a project, a poor leader will be effected by it negatively and lose control of their team. A poor leader gets frustrated, angry, or even depressed during periods of struggles. An effective leader, notwithstanding, remains composed, and they will not allow even the worst of setbacks to affect their leadership style.
This Communications Style Inventory provided an accurate reflection of my communication style for the majority of the time. I would argue my communication style is dependent on the situation. When I communicate with students, I tend to take on the role of supporter/relator. I listen to their problems and tailor my reactions to their emotions. When I am with friends, I am a promoter/socializer. I still value building those relationships, but they often do not require the emotional support the students need. Although controller and Analyzer are my lease score traits, I do use those qualities when I need to be direct or need to work by myself.
“Good leaders develop ideas. Great leaders develop people. The best leaders develop new leaders”, these are the words that were quoted by one of my teachers in high school who influenced and taught me some of the essential lessons in regards with being a good and effective leader. I always remember this saying every time I am working in a group or if I am given a task to lead a team. I’ve been involved in a lot of group activities in the past wherein I’ve witnessed a lot of group relationship that inspired me as well as taught me of the do’s and don’ts when it comes to leading people and getting along with your groupmates. Based from these practical learning experiences, I believe that I still have a lot of things that I need to learn and skills
Each time I run through a different scenario, I become more aware of the process and I go through personal growth in my journey to become an effective leader. The Project Management Hut blog entry reminds me that I need to have constant, transparent and effective communication with the stakeholders. I need to be willing to invest my energy and time to effectively plan ahead and provide solutions to my team when I am delivering hurdles. Most importantly, it is crucial to be flexible, lead by example and stay positive throughout the whole process because realistically, my team is going to be relying on me to guide them to the finish line. (Mercer, A.
Communication is something we all humans use. Communication “is the sharing of information between individuals by using speech”. People have ways of communicating some have their weaknesses in conversations and others have their strengths. When I communicate with others I feel that some things I say I do not verbalize right. I have two strengths and three weaknesses in my communicating. My three weakens in my communication are, check nonverbal feedback, to make people wrong and recognize that people understand information in different ways and my two strengths in my communication are being flexible, and take responsibility for the communication.
One of the characteristics they mentioned is to be involved and speak up when needed. This is where I could have the greatest opportunity for improvement. I am able to become involved, however, I am not that great at speaking up. They also state, “feel free to criticize because thoughtful feedback helps a leader make good decisions” (Grossman & Valiga, 2017, p. 97). I am not good at criticizing because I frequently think, what if they take it the wrong way and become angry? In order for a leader to make good decisions, they are going to need to receive feedback from someone at some point. I do not believe that the leader is always going to be right. I enjoy hearing feedback from others, so I have to learn to give feedback
Every team needs a bold leader, who not only able to delegate tasks to his/her team, but being able to share the same vision and motivate their team to reach the same objective. I believe that most essential attribute to be a good leader is being bold. The nuance of the word bold could give a dense vibe, but I strongly believe that leader needs to be firm from the decisions that they make. The main role of project manager is to support and lead the members of the team so that they can develop set of skills that is required for the task and being able to challenge the team to reach their maximum potential. I believe that leader should not only preaching the same vision but to be a visionary that can thrive and lift everyone up so that they are willing to be part of the team that wants to make the
I think this is an issue because although I do enjoy motivating others, I need to ensure that I am providing positive feedback, not to forget the negative because as humans there are always certain aspects that we can improve on. I want to ensure that others do not feel criticized or afraid to provide me with constructive criticism on my work ethic and my leadership style itself. Another one of my weaknesses I would say is that I have a tendency to express my views very strongly sometimes coming off as arrogant when I am in a group or leading a project, I want to manage this weakness by ensuring that when I am in a group I immediately ask my other peers for feedback on the statement I just provided because this will allow me to know what their thoughts are and how they view my perspectives. Another one of my weaknesses is I have a hard time accepting change. For example, I need to learn how to cope with change and realize that not everything I engage in or work on will always go my way because others will have different perspectives and they will not necessarily agree with my ideas all the time. I think understanding my weaknesses is important in particular because if I was not aware of these weaknesses then, I would not be able to improve on them in
On a daily basis, we come in contact with individuals that we have to communicate with, wither it be for work purposes, educational purposes, or social practices. As active humans we cannot escape the idea of socializing or communication, therefor; we make it a daily routine who we communicate with, how we communicate with them, what we listen to and how we listen it. With this routine habits are formed, some are strengths but others are weaknesses that diminish the communication quality. It is extremely important for individuals to recognize these strengths and weakness within their communication routine. By recognizing their strengths, they are able to improve even further and use their ability to get them closer to goals they may have set for themselves. Recognizing their weaknesses is just as important if not more important.
The project had two managers of which I directly reported to one of them. The leadership styles exhibited by my manager were authoritative and affiliative. As a leader of a huge project, he was clear with the goals combined with the path to achieve them. One of his distinctive ability was to convert his thinking to workable actions which resulted in the successful completion of tasks before the deadlines. Each and every team member knew what they had to do and when they had to do. This was the most critical element in a project. There was a mutual co-ordination among the team members that culminated to results. “We were always trying to figure out why our sales were down last week. We had the whole company looking backward instead of figuring out what we had to do tomorrow” – Tom (Daniel Goleman, Leadership that gets Results, 2000). At times of failures, he provided the team members with a feedback which was neutral. These feedbacks directly had an impact on our working progress. He was one such person who was ready to forgo the ideal situation that
My total score in the Self-Assessment for Email Practice is 32. It says that “You are a careful communicator by email. You generally plan your emails well. However, you sometimes send them without enough thought or without reviewing them sufficiently. Focus on spending slightly more in time in the planning stage.”
Lots of people thinks that they know themselves very well; they have a right way of communication, they know how to listen and respond to others, even emotional intelligence. Is this what you thought? I did. However after I have done my observe behavior interview to my friends, I believe that self-reflection is important to everyone to understand and improve our own communication styles.
An employee has sent out an email complaining openly about another employee. Management sees the need to address this email. It is apparent that effective communication is not being utilized. The memo sent out by management suggests different ideas for increasing positive and constructive communication among employees and management alike. A training class in communication is put together and is to be presented by a prominent well know instructor. Another subject addressed is the departmental task force report submitted for review. This report was subpar in content, structure, critical thinking, and over all writing skills.
Irrespective of the environment in which one works, communication is always vital and a key factor of success. Communication happens both physically and verbally and is absolutely essential if you want to inform someone about something. ‘Loud shouting and even violence are symptoms of the ailment, not remedies.’ (Adair 2009: 3). Communication has two main components; sending out a message to someone, and ensuring the message is received correctly to the other member of the conversation. It is thus fair to say speaking and listening are vital to effective communication. This essay will initially introduce me as a student, and my career. I will give a simple SWOT analysis of me and will then go on and breakdown the different methods and techniques of effective communication. Finally, I will talk about how effective communication is needed in my current position, as well as the future.
As in all aspects of personal and professional life, having effective communication is a key element of success. Effective communication can benefit your relationships with people. By conveying your message and integrating them as a member of the team and not just a subordinate leads to better production. By effectively communicating you can clearly define job responsibilities and expectations. The better you are able to communicate the less likely organizational turnover of personnel will occur. Supervisors and leaders in the professional workplace find that the most important factor in advancement and retain ability is effective communication. Senior level executives and human resources managers are stressing the importance of communication and providing more training for mid-level management. Emphasis is placed on communication being clear by being transmitted strongly.