JGR100 Assignment3 CWest

The assignment requires students to analyze their leadership styles based on an assessment, identifying strengths and areas for improvement. It emphasizes the importance of adapting leadership styles to different situations and includes personal reflections on past experiences with leadership. Additionally, students are encouraged to reflect on a great leader in their life, detailing their traits and effectiveness.

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Assignment 3: Understanding Your Leadership Style

Due Week 7 and worth 100 points.

Instructions: Using your results from the What Sort of Leader Are You? assessment to answer
the questions below.

1. Identify the leadership styles that are well developed, need further development, and
need a lot of further development. Record your response below.

Well Developed:

An affiliate leader believes that "people come first" and cherishes and
fosters emotional relationships and harmony. Such leaders are skilled at
developing relationships and have empathy and strong communication
abilities. When a team has gone through a tough experience and needs to
mend rifts or generate motivation, this technique is most effective. Because
it is not a very goal-oriented style, anyone who employs it must ensure that
others understand that the purpose is team cohesion rather than specific
tasks. It should be evident that if you need to 'get the job done,' you cannot
utilize it on its own for any length of time. The democratic leader achieves
agreement by encouraging involvement, asking, "What do you think?"
frequently, and demonstrating high levels of collaboration, team leadership,
and good communication skills. This type of leadership is effective at
fostering project ownership, but it can also be ineffective. This type of
leadership is effective at instilling ownership in a project, but it might result in
delayed progress toward objectives until a certain amount of momentum has been
established. Anyone who want to employ this method must ensure that senior
management are on board with the procedure and recognize that reaching
consensus may take some time. A coaching leader will help people grow by
allowing them to experiment with different ways in a safe environment. 'Try it,' sums
up this leadership style, and this leader demonstrates great levels of empathy, self-
awareness, and ability to grow others. When an organization values long-term staff
development, a coaching style is very effective.

Needs further development:

Leaders who set the pace demand excellence and self-direction, and might be
summarized as "Do as I do, now." The pace-setter leads by example, but this style
of leadership is only effective when accompanied by a highly skilled and motivated
staff. It can only be maintained for a short period of time until team members
become exhausted. Pace-setters, like Coercive leaders, have a strong will to
succeed and initiative, but instead of self-control, they combine these traits with
conscientiousness. Authoritative leaders are often referred to as "visionary" since
they guide people toward a common goal. 'Come with me' is perhaps the best way
to describe this style. It's the best style to utilize when you need a fresh perspective

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or a new direction, and it's also the most upbeat. Authoritative leaders are self-
assured and empathic, and they work as change catalysts by bringing people into
the vision and involving them in the future.

Needs a lot of further development:

Leaders that use coercion want immediate obedience. This method can be
summarized as "do what I say." These leaders demonstrate initiative, self-
discipline, and a will to succeed. Of course, such leadership has its place and time:
the battlefield is a classic example, but any crisis will require clear, calm, and
powerful leadership. This approach, on the other hand, does not encourage others
to take the initiative and often has a negative impact on how people feel.

2. Describe a specific situation where your preferred leadership style has helped you
accomplish a task.

Me and my co-workers where given a group assignment that required a lot of

collaborations. Some of the group members were becoming very aggravated with
learning some of the materials. I set aside a day for us to get to know each other
and find out what our strengths were and weakness are. After the meeting we were
able to construct our product and complete our project.

3. Describe a specific situation where your least preferred style could have helped you
accomplish a task.

Many years ago, I was in tech school and we had an assignment that required me
and a teammate. I was very aggressive towards my team mate wanting them to
understand my side and adapt to my style of learning. If I had taken the time to
work with my teammate we could have completed the project successfully.

4. Explain the importance of adapting your leadership style based on the situation.

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Humbling yourself and listening to ours and their ideas will always help in your
leadership style. A simple conversation with others learning about their style and
work habits helps to gain good leadership skills. You don’t have to be a power
hungry demanding person. You get further with kindness.

Think of someone in your personal or professional life that you would consider to be a great
leader. This can be a coach, teacher, mentor, supervisor, family member, etc. Once you have
identified this person, answer the following questions in the space below.

● What are some of the character traits of that person? (Character traits are the aspects of
a person's behavior and attitudes that make up that person's personality.)
● What would you say were some of their strengths as a leader?
● Did you feel as though they were an effective leader? Why or why not?
● What leadership style would you say they are most in alignment with? Explain why.

My mother is a great example of a great leader. She speaks to her employees

patiently and caring. My mom take the time to learn with her employees and from
her employees. Over the years she has had to learn how to be the leader she is
today. Because of her outstanding leadership skills she has earned awards and
chance to teach Customer Service classes. She has a Well Developed Leadership
style.