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Leadership experience

Running Head : Leadership Experience

Personal Leadership Experience

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Abstract

This relates an organization setting where the author displayed leadership over a group of colleagues in a business context . A brief analysis of this experience is provided . Two leadership models - Path-goal and the Hershey-Blanchard models - are then explored and evaluated , highlighting the way in which leaders could use these models in achieving the goals and objectives of the organization . Personal Leadership Experience

Being a leader is not an easy job . It

takes effort to relate to people identify their gifts and talents and know how to utilize it for the good of the community or the organization that we belong to . But given the necessary skills , people relations , tools and strategies , a person can effectively lead other people towards achieving the goals set by the organization or the vision of the leader . For my part , I chose to be consultative , friendly , and open to the suggestions of the people I am leading while at the same time , I was firm in the targets and goals that we needed to achieve

In a recent situation where I was called upon to lead , I to treat them as colleagues , instead of subordinates . That way , their gifts , talents and skills would be maximized without compromising the goals and objectives that our organization needed to work for and achieve . I knew that the success of the organization largely depends on the kind of leadership that the leader performs (Kotter , 1999 . In this regard , the following experience relates how I used such supportive and consensual approach in a leadership setting I was in recently

I develop strategies on how to market and sell the products of the Bridal Salon I work for . In to achieve a higher level of growth and returns for the company , I led several colleagues and selling specialists through strategies that would work out in achieving this Although , I already have a lot of strategies and tools in achieving this target , I did not gather my colleagues and told them to do this or to do that . Rather , I consulted them about their ideas on how to promote our products better and achieve a higher percentage of sales . Another task of ours is the identification of important trend in the market , which would lead to the accomplishment of our targets . These tasks were equally distributed among the members of the team

Through the insights gathered from my colleagues , I asked them to take charge of several activities needed to achieve the target . I told them firmly what I wanted to happen and that through the suggestions that each one made , we will be able to do just that . Everyone started doing what was expected from him . In to ensure that incremental goals were being achieved , I monitored the progress of my colleagues in the team . Some of them were doing good and even surpassing the targets we set , while there were others lagging...

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