Leadership Self-insight Quizzes

The aim of this report is to discuss the personal development to become an efficient leader. Leadership Self-insight in this report is based on a short self-assessment quiz which can be helpful to identify the strength and weakness. Proper reflection on the outcome of each quiz can make one understand the scopes of improvement. This report also aims to identify some practical actions that can be taken to improve leadership ability and identify the process will be effective for growth as well as behavioral change. It is the aim of this report that the persons can build self-awareness as well as identify their leadership attributes. Through the action plan, the objectives of growing leadership skills will be grown. This action plans will represent strengths and weaknesses and opportunities to improve (Anderson & Sun, 2017). By going beyond personal leadership development needs anyone consider the future challenges which usually the individuals and organization can face. This report will be discussing leadership self-insight quizzes, key strengths and weaknesses, more information on behaviors, vision for developing as a leader, developmental objectives, development of decision through action, resources needed to implement plan, feedback on leadership behaviors, review and revise the plan in future and revisions of the plans.

I have taken the personality test in order to find out my leadership qualities. I have seen that ethics is one of the most important things that people need in life. It is for this reason that I wanted to take a test and understand my ethical maturity level. One of the important theories that I have learned here is the Immanuel Kant’s Ethical Theory of doing the right thing (Hawkins, 2017). This mainly helps the leaders in taking the right decision by making sure that no unfair mans is being used. The leaders have to make sure that they are not overlooking the welfare of the employees.

In the Ethical maturity test, I have score 7 out of 10. These means that I possess a middle ground in ethical maturity. However, I have several strengths like I can state the values and principles which guide my actions, I take responsibilities of my mistakes, I am able to forgive and forget others, I have the quality of trusting others and giving them a chance, I am a person of words and I can reflect on my mistakes and try to change my actions according to it. However, my behavior is not very consistent in my actions which is one of my most important weakness. This self-insight is often helpful as this will help me in creating a positive environment in the workplace.

I have also taken the transformation leadership test where I have seen my strength and weaknesses in two different aspects. I have score in the develops followers into leaders 5 and inspires followers to go beyond their own self-interest 3. This means am a good follower and my leader practice transformational skills and maintain leadership responsibilities and group work. I personally feel that the leader himself have to be fair in order to create a change or a vision for all his followers. Among the strengths I have identified that I am a good follower whose leader listen carefully to my concerns. As I can understand his values and enthusiasm regarding our mission, I can encourage myself seeing him. He provides feeding back on my actions and taught me to develop my capabilities and provide a positive attitude towards the future. However, what I have identified to be the weaknesses from this test is the issue of developing my strength, fostering clear understanding of my values and beliefs and plans of future. The transformational leaders to me will be helping me to gain commitments to my dreams but this was not present in my leader.

Key Strengths and Weaknesses

a. My score in the act of followership is 6, which is a high score. I think that I have all the qualities that make me a good follower. As per the opinion of Ford and Harding, (2018) the follower leadership theory is one of the most important theory that has to be undertaken by the individuals for getting a successful profession in the future. I personally feel that being a follower is very important in the initial stages of the career. Unless and until I can be an ideal follower I cannot really be a good leader in the future.  I have to prove myself a patient follower. For being a successful leader in the future one has to be a patient follower and listener (Obholzer & Miller, 2018). I need to respect my boss or my leader and listen to all his ideas and opinion so that I can develop a good followership. However, I lack in proper and independent decision making power. So, I need to develop on this aspect and be bold enough to communicate my ideas to my boss or my leader.

b. My score is less than 7 in all the questions of the emotional intelligence test. This helps in knowing that I am not really well versed with the art of controlling my emotions. I am also not well versed in maintaining a good and healthy interpersonal relationship. However, I have to work on this aspect if I want to become a successful manager in the future. I have to maintain a very good relationship with my bosses and my co-workers as well. This will help me to become an empathetic leader in future. I will be able to handle the interests of my employees in a careful and empathetic manner. The transformational leadership theory is one of the most important theories that help in shaping the personality of the leaders. As per the opinion of Ayoko and Chua, (2014), transformational leadership will help the leaders in making their teams much more efficient and organized. The leaders will be able to create a change or a transformation for their followers. I have to keep this in mind that there can be many situations where I will have to work as per the situation. Following the situation theory will be helpful in understanding those situations.

As far as my leadership style is concerned, my main focus is to become more consistent and stronger in the actions and decision-making process. In addition to this, need to enhance management skills to mix with people and building network. I have less relationship management skills that will definitely bother me to become a transformational leader in the future. I am an independent thinker as the score of the power of followership test has been showing and get engaged effectively which are positive sign for the leadership style. I have a relatively strong leadership orientation toward initiating structure behavior which shows a positive prospect in me to become an efficient leader.  This is the reason why I need to reduce the number of mistakes and negativity in me and transform them into positives.

More Information on Behaviors

According to the leadership quizzes, I have found enough of my strengths as well as weaknesses. I know I lack many of the strengths that I need to be a transformational leader therefore, I have pointed out them very carefully otherwise I will never be an effective leader in near future. I can state the values and principles which guide my actions, take responsibilities of wrongs, I am able to forgive and forget others and give them chance, as well as myself. I am a person of words and I can reflect on my mistakes to change my decisions for getting better results. I effectively point out what my leaders do and do not which make me a good follower. By pointing out the weaknesses of my leader’s fault I will be able to prevent myself to do the same. I score high in the emotional intelligence test which supports my behavioral trait. This will help e to manipulate more people to act according to my own vision which is one of the most important strengthen of the transformational leader. Finally, I have a strong leadership orientation toward initiating structure behavior.

Among the weaknesses, I have pointed out my inconsistency in the thought process and actions. This will be ruining all the planning and actions in the future. I also do not have proper control over my behaviors like anger which can reduce my popularity as leader among my employees. I cannot go beyond self-interest but think about my decisions and my objectives so that I can bring others to my path. Finally, I am not good at relationship management which will definitely bother me in the real-life incident like building connection with the stakeholders of the company.

From the personal reflection, causal conversations, informal interviews and previous performance evaluations I have identified more information about my behavior. To the people around me who have good observation and understanding of my nature have always praised my communication skills. They have also pointed out that I need to develop skills that will make me to follow others. The follower leadership skills will be helpful in starting my career as I will not know everything about the companies where I will join but learn gradually. From the feedbacks of the family members I have the habit of shifting blames on others on certain occasions. This is opposite to the ethical behavior in oneself.  I lack critical thinking, courage, collaboration, awareness and diplomacy. The people who have shared their thoughts about my behavior have also stated that I am not consistent in maintaining relation with others. In order to become a leader with ethical and moral support, I need to enhance follower skill, ethical, intelligence and leadership skills to manage myself and become a transformational leader.

I want to be a leader with high emotional intelligence who can sense the situation along with the behavior and expectations of the others. Follow the demand of the subordinates and manipulate them ethical to achieve the organizational goal. I want to posses the strength of the transformational leader with high enthusiasm and positivity so that I gain loyalty and mental attachment of my followers.

objective	measurement
1. To increase my ethical and moral decision making and actions	I will ask for feedback from the others like colleagues, family members, friends and managers whether the ideas are acceptable.
2. To have qualities of transformation leaders	I shall be measuring whether this have increase collaboration, communication, enthusiasm and innovation in the company
3. Increase my follower leadership skills	I shall measure this through team appraisals and feedback or reviews from the senior managers.
4. To be more emotionally intelligent	I shall measure this through my self-awareness, self-management, social awareness and relations management in the group tasks.

Vision for Developing as a Leader

Objectives	Actions	Time	Budget
To be a follower of effective leadership	Attaining seminars and trainings to increase listening mentality and reducing interruption and imposing my solutions for two months. Listening to the views of the team members attentively in a meeting or conference with a week of joining the organization To increase community relations to gain more customer base and bring varieties on the products offered. Asking guidance from mentors. Watching online Videos like Youtube to find how the leaders must be responding in a specific situation.	Within January 2019	800 AUD as fees to the mentors
To be capable of increasing emotional intelligence	Learning the methods of assessing different types of situations through enrolling in the personal assessment trainings and courses Increasing emotional intelligent with improved motivation, empathy, social skills, self-regulation and self-awareness skills Reading business magazines and books Gaining theoretical knowledge by reading journals of business and management and how they are connected with emotional intelligence Developing appropriate understanding of the others around me Consulting with my colleagues to comment on the improving assessment process.	Within December 2018	1200 AUD as fees of the study course.
To improve transformational leadership skills	Attending leadership coaching Research Centre e.g. Dale Carnegie Training Centre The curriculums such as Leadership/ People Skill/ Presenting/ Customer/ Organisational Development Skill, etc, By learning and sharing others leadership skill with CEO Regular after reading books journals to discuss and which is related successful story of CEO who has excellent leadership skill and experience	Within March of 2019 (3 times per week)	1200 AUD as fees of the study course.
Becoming more ethical	Studying situation of business these days Knowing ore about the unethical incidents and how they have affected the companies. Watching Video’s online which has become the easiest way to know about the unethical incidents and how they can be prevented.	Within six months 6 times per week	500 AUD for watching online videos and news

In order to implement the plan to be an effective leader, I need to both human as well as non-human resources (Anderson & Sun, 2017). The human resources include the guidance of the mentors and experts of business and management who will guide me to understand the critical aspects of leadership. I shall be taking part in the personal development courses where these mentors will point out the factors of business which can affect me professionally. These experts will help me to identify the strengths of mine through various tests so that I can be ensured with my personality traits and work more on to overcome the negative emotions. These mentors in the development course will help me to make me understand how to make decisions without being shatters by the negative effect of the situations and grow my communication skills at the time of argument. Beside these, I would also join the meditation classes which will help me to grow my attention and memory. Among the non-human resources, I will need guidance materials from business management books, journals, periodicals. I need help of the online tests and courses so that I can get the news of the actual business process of the firm as well as rival companies so that I can effectively make strategies based on the data. Moreover, I need fund to pay for the specialist trainings. I also need time to implement the actions.

After I complete my courses and trainings I need to measure the progress of my development. In this regard, I will communicate with my mentors who will be revealing my weaknesses and strengths after the course. They will detail how much I have overcome the issues which presented my personal behavioral growth during this course. In addition to this, I shall indulge in different tests and skills assessment tools to easier my growth to become an effective leader. However, the behavioral growth will be identified by my friends, families and others around me. The changes in me will be pointed out by them as they know all the traits in me therefore, they can see the changes in me through these courses. Moreover, according to our organization policy of Human Resource Department which have to evaluate group members twice a year from each their boss and coworkers in various parts such as leadership skill, ability to solve problem and kindness, etc. So sometimes we have to consult and discuss how to improve and measure each member’s changes with other department members such as peers and pervious colleagues to get feedback. So I can check my changes to compare before and after with them therefore, I will collect the feedback from them to measure my progress.

Reviewing as well as revising the strategic plan for personal development growth is necessary in an annual basis. This is due to the fact that the needs of qualities always keep changing in the human beings. With the changeof time, one needs to change their priorities hence I need to monitor my strategic plan (Yahaya & Ebrahim, 2016).  In order to review my strategic plan, I need to ensure that the activities are kept within the parameters of the desired strategic objective and aims. Based on this I need to update the skills to serve the requirement of the organizations I would join. I must ensure that the activities are consistent with the leadership vision of mine as well as the requirement of the company (Ward, 2016). I order to increase and maintain the capabilities and skills, I need to keep the internal as well as external changes under review that may require the adjustments to the strategy of the organizations or affect the ability to achieve the objectives.

Developmental Objectives

After I continued my plan with my mentors they have brought some changes in the action plan. First of all, my action plan did not have any action prescribed to increase the inner strength and confidence in me so that I can face any type of adverse situation in the business which is very much common now a day. Therefore, they recommended me to increase confidence to face challenges and solve different types of real-life problems gradually. According to the leadership theories, effective leaders aim to solve the problems regarding maintain connectivity with people for a long time. Therefore, it is essential for a leader to maintain good connection with the employees, customers, suppliers and other stakeholders. Hence, I need to take actions for maintaining a good and healthy interpersonal relationship and grow transformation leadership skills. This theory is important as based on this I will grow capabilities to see the challenges from different points of view and identify probable solution to all types of problems within a desired time. Finally, my plan does not have any action to increase my knowledge through follower leadership theory and ethical theory of doing the right thing about the business process and the changing nature of the companies in this global business context. This is the reason why I need to incorporate measures in my action plan which will enhance my knowledge about the business techniques of the famous leaders in the business and know how the problems can be solved.

Conclusion:

Therefore, it can be concluded that leadership is one of the most essential factors in the current business settings. However, it is not a very easily task to perform. For being a good leader, one need to have a huge number of skills and personality traits which can be supportive of developing leadership skills in the people. There are expectations from the employees, suppliers, shareholders and all the associated people according to which the leaders actually perform. This is the reason why personal weaknesses are to be overcome and transformed into strength. By revising the skills and reviewing them quarterly or annually can help people to face complexities associated with business. Through the action plans the weaknesses will be transformed effectively.

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