Personal Model of Leadership

Leadership can be delineated as the aptitude to convert vision into reality through strategic planning (Farcht, 2007). It is therefore factual that leadership is an ideal measurement of personal development and growth from different perceptions which include personal, interpersonal, organizational, and societal perspectives. Therefore, selection of the qualities that determine the leadership model of a person is crucial as it is the cornerstone of an appealing personal leadership model (Farcht, 2007). This means that a perfect personal leadership indicates the values, beliefs and contributions of an individual on personal, organizational and societal basis. Thus, in this case, my personal leadership model is based on the following leadership commitments.

• Setting the example by modeling the way
• Inspiring a shared vision and mission
• Fostering collaboration and motivating others
• Exploiting opportunities by challenging the process and taking risk
• Comprehending personal contributions through selected values   

As a result, the selected basic values that will provide the foundation of my personal leadership model include

1. Self-respect
2. Reverence
3. Sense of accomplishment
4. Exercising codes of ethics

My personal leadership model will be driven by a competitive desire approach by focusing on every aspect of the business. The values will be propelled by the internal desire to compete and win. Consequently, my competitive instincts will be promoted by dignity and respect to other staff members. This will oblige me to exercise listening skills and show authentic interest on others towards adhering on what is right for the business. Additionally, the major objective of my personal leadership model is to create consensus in the organization in order to achieve the overall organizational goal (Farcht, 2007). The selected personal values will be achieved by leadership behaviors such as being brief to the employees as a guiding principle on every task. Further, being brief can be employed to customers in order to enhance customer relations. The other leadership behavior that will convey these values is evading mistakes and risks. In order to promote consensus, it is advisable for the leader to implement approaches of avoiding mistakes and risks especially in customer relations. This will enhance the sense of accomplishment towards achieving organizational goals. The other leadership behavior is withholding discipline culture as one of the organizational values. This applies both to employees’ interpersonal relations and customer relations. Disciplines will help the organization adhere to codes of business ethics together with corporate social responsibilities. In addition discipline helps in providing autonomy to the members of the staff while taking up empowerment as the organizational culture. Generally, as a leader, I will make sure that the staff members have a shared vision and culture towards achieving both departmental and organizational goals and objectives. This means that providing shared vision to the staff members as a leadership behavior will be based on respect for others together with the sense of accomplishment towards helping the organization adhere to the codes of ethics. To reinforce my personal leadership model, I will be a high impact leader demonstrating inquisitiveness towards achieving the projected goals.

VALUES  

• Respect/Reverence

In leadership, respect can be delineated as an active practice of engaging people from different backgrounds non-judgmentally. Respect for others helps in increasing awareness and effectiveness of others citing from the fact that it initiates a sense of dignity in them. Additionally, it is noteworthy that a respectful environment in an organization creates empowerment where engaging employees increases their productivity. This derives an attitude and perseverance that flows through the culture of working with different people in a satisfying environment. Thus, it is noteworthy that a respectful environment promotes mindsets growth and productivity. Generally, it is palpable that an environment without respect leads to deterioration of some critical aspects in an organization. When members of the team starting developing negative habits and attitudes, the processes improvement becomes ineffective and the output decreases considerably. This means that respect is one of the basic factors that determine the achievement of organizational goals and objectives.

Therefore, as a leader I will value every decision and opinion raised by the staff members and show some concern on improving and approving the opinions. Additionally, I will engage others in decision making and empower them in every task undertaken. I will initiate a culture that values the background of others by appreciation together with discipline. The major purpose for exercising this value is to create conducive working environment that will align with being a high impact leader to support success and goals achievement. Thus, the major drive for this value is to execute competitive desire approach in order to have a business oriented culture in the organization. The overall impact of respect as one of the values of my personal leadership model is to have a successful and active team that satisfies the required performance to achieve the organizational vision and objectives.     

• Self-Respect

Self-respect in leadership can be described as the extent at which leaders feel comfortable with themselves by believing that they possess the required values of a successful leader in achieving future success. Therefore, self-respect encompasses the combination of being comfortable, self-believe, understanding one’s value, and demonstrating confidence. However, self-respect is typically confused with being authoritative by the leaders. This can be regarded as a misinterpretation because self-respect is more of exhibiting confidence in fulfilling the responsibilities rather than being authoritative. The outcomes of self-respect include building healthy relationships with others, improving the outcomes and ego management. It is perceptible that the key factor for reverence is self-respect citing from the fact that it holds the leader liable for the actions taken during interaction and working process. Thus, the leader should engage in self-respect building practices prior to demonstrating respect to others. To reinforce these practices, the leader ought to have self-esteem in order to gain motivation towards achieving the projected goals.

Therefore, in this case, as my personal leadership model, I adhere to fulfilling all my responsibilities as a leader. Some of the responsibilities that will adhere to strictly include the following;

• Building mutual commitment and collaboration
• Promoting organization and coordination activities
• Empowerment and motivation
• Offering support and resources to the staff members
• Aligning strategies and the organizational goals
• Promoting conducive working environment    
• Adhering to justices and morality

The purpose of this value is to promote personal and organizational achievement through effective performance in fulfilling the assigned responsibilities as a leader. Therefore, in fulfilling my responsibilities as a leader, I will act as a role model to the rest of the team members which will set a foundation to the working culture. Additionally, this value will enhance commitment of other people in the team together with motivation towards fulfilling the assigned tasks.

• Sense of Accomplishment

Sense of achievement can be described as a feeling of success inside an individual. As a result, it is factual that the outcomes of leadership are based on the sense of accomplishment. This is based that in management, sense of achievement is regarded as the most powerful motivation. This means that in motivating the team members, leader can use the sense of achievement for the employees to create satisfaction which will increase productivity thus achieving the organizational goals. Thus, this obliges the leader to engage and work with the rest of the team in order to inflict the sense of achievement to the members of the team. It is recommendable that the leader set up realistic and attainable goals for the team in order to evade cases of disappointment if the goals are too complicated to be achieved. However, if the goals are achievable, both the leader and the team feel motivated by the positive outcomes thus reinforcing the sense of achievement.

In my personal leadership model, I will adhere to behaviors such as creating opportunities for the team members to develop and grow, making people feel important in a certain task, reviewing policies and procedures together with the team members, and valuing decisions and opinions made by the team members. The purpose of this value in my personal leadership model is to enhance organizational performance through motivation and empowerment in tackling the assigned tasks. This impacts achievement of the organizational goals through effective and productive performance.

• Exercising Codes of Business Ethics

Codes of ethics in this case define the policy of the business that exhibit the values and culture of the organization. Therefore, the code of ethics encompasses understanding the corporate social responsibility of the organization especially to the outside world (Pearce & Robinson, 2013). This means that the organization is obliged to comply with the demands of the general society together with fulfilling the stakeholders’ interests on the financial basis. The major objective of adhering to corporate social responsibility is to retain the trustworthiness of the organization both by the society and in the market (Pearce & Robinson, 2013). Some of the issues that the organization evades by adhering to the codes of business ethics include government regulations, environmental pollution lawsuits, and financial losses.

Some of the actions that I will take to derive this value include making sure that the organization adheres to all laws and regulations in the market served, withholding discipline as the element of the organizational culture, and engaging the general organization in environment protection campaigns and programs. Additionally, in order to fulfill the interests of the stakeholders, I will combine all the values to make sure that employees are empowered and motivated towards fulfilling their responsibilities to enhance organizational performance and promote achievement. The purpose of this value is to promote successful performance of the organization without suffering from challenges such as financial losses, government regulation, and environmental pollution lawsuits. This will impact the performance of the business by maintaining trust by the customers and the general society.

References

Pearce, J. A., & Robinson, R. B. (2013).Strategic management: Planning for domestic & global competition (13th ed.). New York, NY: McGraw-Hill.

 Farcht, J. (2007). Building inspirational tools & personal techniques for work & life leadership. Garden City, NY: Genesis Publishing.