Introduction
What is leadership? A basic definition is that leadership is the art of inspiring a group of individuals to act against a common goal. This can mean, in a business environment, leading staff and colleagues with a plan to meet the needs of the client. This concept of leadership encompasses the essentials of being able to inspire others and being prepared to. Good leadership is founded on ideas (whether original or borrowed) but will not occur until those ideas can be conveyed to others in a way that inspires them to behave as the leader wishes them to behave. Or put it more clearly, the leader is the catalyst for the action and its owner. They are the person in the group who possesses the combination of personality and leadership skills to make others want to go their way.
Success Is You
Success can be defined as the fulfillment of intent or objective. When you start on a journey, you set a target and you determine your future. There are steps you need to take, to work through each of them to get to the next. Completing every step motivates and encourages you to move on until you reach the desired outcome. Understanding that events are not going to go exactly as you expected. Life comes with some ambiguity, and while no strategy will fully eliminate it, knowing things cannot go as expected will help protect your safety!
Servant Leadership. You are a ‘servant first’ as a servant leader–you concentrate on other people’s needs, particularly team members before you find yourself your own. You consider the viewpoints of other people, give them the help they need to achieve their work and personal goals, include them in decisions where necessary, and create a sense of cohesion within your team. It results in greater commitment, greater trust, and better relationships with team leaders and other stakeholders. This can lead to more creativity, too.
Servant leadership as such is not a form of leadership or technique. Actually, it’s a long-term way of behaving that you’re embracing. In hierarchical, autocratic societies, however, servant leadership is problematic where managers and leaders are forced to make all of the decisions. The servant leaders here will be struggling to gain respect.
Implementation of Concepts
‘To use my gifts of intellect, charm, and serial optimism to build the world with self-esteem and net worth.’
Life skills: By using self-awareness, my personal stress management, problem-solving. Boosting my competencies by knowing what I’m doing well and what I need to change. Boosting my levels of satisfaction by aligning my values with my actions. Becoming a better leader by knowing how workers view my conduct. Job encouragement by following my true passions Alleviate tension by recognizing feelings and reducing activities that I don’t enjoy.
Interpersonal skills: Counseling and guidance, other positive interactions, influencing and inspiring others, conflict management. This means that I need to be able to communicate with colleagues whether it is nonverbal or verbal communication or when doing public speaking. As a leader, I should be able to show empathy, as well as be able to understand others. Having empathy is a valuable ability that’s the will to help me get along with everyone at work. Even if you are not a manager, getting some experience and skill in leadership is important. Leadership includes inspiring and empowering others, and helping a team succeed. Listening is an interpersonal skill that I characterize as one of my accomplished strengths. Hearing is a skill that goes hand in hand with good communication. Although you need to be able to share your own ideas, you need to listen to others ‘ideas carefully, too. You can become more empathetic and better understand people as you know how to listen to your peers, colleagues, and managers without comparing or judging them. By the way, listening isn’t the same as hearing — like being conscious, the listening practice requires intent and energy. Listening to the people who are important in your life will give you a true sense of how they feel you. Listening to others and to yourself is key to being self-conscious.
It’s always important to ask for input from the people you’re working with, or leading. True, complete self-awareness is impossible to achieve, if you just turn inward — getting various viewpoints on who you are will help you see a truer, more complete image.
As opposed to being a great listener, I find one of my challenges is being able to speak in public. While studying for my undergrad degree, public speaking was a course that we all must take in order to complete our course work. While regretting being in the course, I had to face my fear of speaking in public. But, as it turns out, my professor told me that I was one of the strongest speakers in the class. My professor also told me that the tone of my voice was strong and that I showed no signs of being nervous. Public speaking is still a challenge that I work on daily. Whenever speaking, I find myself trying to be as short as possible and to the point. Speaking in public is a very common challenge. Why am I afraid of speaking in public or in front of other people? Some people experience what researchers call vulnerability to anxiety or fear of danger. Sensitivity to anxiety means that beyond being anxious about public speaking, people are worried about their public speaking anxiety, and how their anxiety can impact their ability to function in difficult communication situations. And, as well as worrying about how they will achieve their goals with their voice, people with high sensitivity to anxiety are often concerned that they will be overly nervous in front of their audience, that they will come across as a shaky speakers.
How to address the areas that need improvement? The goal is to reach the audience in the same way that I approach people during daily conversations. Thinking in reverse. If I consider any interaction within another person’s presence as a form of ‘public speaking, I should have ample proof that I can articulate myself clearly and communicate effectively. I would then follow the same approach to public-speaking activities where the emphasis is merely on exchanging knowledge and ideas. However, the anxiety appears to be higher when the emphasis changes from being heard and understood to being assessed. While there are people that seem to be more nervous by definition or people who don’t think they’re good at public speaking, there are other circumstances that can make any of us more nervous when participating in a public forum.
Some areas that I can address to improve myself would be:
- Lack of experience – Experience builds confidence just like everything else. You’re more likely to develop a fear of public speaking when you don’t have a lot of stage hours under your belt;
- Degree of Evaluation – The fear is greater when there is a real or imagined aspect of the evaluation to the situation. If you talk in front of a group of people who are willing to fill out the assessment forms, you may feel more nervous;
- Status Difference – If you’re about to talk to higher-status people, you may feel a greater dose of fear tingling through your body;
- New Ideas – If you’re sharing things you haven’t shared in public yet, you may be more concerned about how people will perceive them. If your public presence requires introducing something new, it can make you feel more anxious to state your stance, answer questions from the audience, or deal with those members of the audience who are trying to poke holes;
- New audiences – You may already have experience in public speaking and in talking to familiar audiences. For example, you can be expected to speak in your area of expertise before the professionals. However, fear can emerge when the target public changes. If you’re standing in front of an audience that’s very different from the people you’re normally talking to, your faith may be a little shaky;
- Skills – How skillful you are in this area. Although many people naturally find themselves, good speakers, there’s always space for growth. Instead of depending on natural talent, the people who work on their skills are the speakers who stand out most. There are several different approaches to improving this set of skills and through public speaking competencies. Increased skills contribute to increased confidence which is an important antidote to fear. But trust alone does not turn into successful public expression;
- In conclusion, the cognitive learning theory explains that the brain is the most powerful information processing and perception network within the body as we learn things. Cognitive Implies that an individual should have positive personal characteristics, show acceptable behavior and remain in a supportive atmosphere for successful and meaningful learning to occur. By using self-efficacy which is defined as the course whereby the learner brings his newly acquired knowledge or actions into action.
References:
- Assessment of Student Learning Outcomes. (n.d.). Retrieved from https://tltc.umd.edu/assessment-student-learning-outcomes;
- Cooperative Learning. (2007, February 8). Retrieved from https://www.teachervision.com/professional-development/cooperative-learning.