Attitude Reflects Leadership

Hey all,

Today, I will talk about my leadership style and some group work experiences. First off, leadership qualities vary from person to person. There is not one leadership style that fits everyone. Each person is different. I would describe my leadership style as an open one. Basically, I welcome ideas and everyone’s opinion, whether right or wrong. I like to incorporate ideas from my team members, so they can feel involved and a level of recognition. I delegate jobs/work based on each member’s strengths and when conflict arises, I will diffuse the situation and make a decision based off my opinion.

During business school, I have been in various groups that were good and bad. The problems I encountered in the bad groups were scheduling issues, bad communication, work inequality, egos, direction conflicts, and other issues. These problems tend to occur in groups where the majorities are indian chiefs with not enough indians. Egos come in and conflicts arise on how the project should be done. This leads to personality conflicts and lack of respect for one another. Since I am the mediator, I try to get everyone on even ground to work together. After all, this project impacts all of use evenly. Communication is always the biggest problem in the groups I had issues with.  Bad communication will always lead to a bad result.  In my good groups, communication was always the key to success. Constant allowed for easier scheduling and work production. This led to greater efficiency and in the end a good result.

Digital communication is always vital to any group. With such innovations like google docs, my group can work on the project in the comfort of their homes. I can send group emails to let everyone the status of the project and what is left to be done. Digital communication keeps everyone alert and easy to contact. Communications via email also allow members to gather their thoughts instead of on the spot answers.

Overall attitude reflect leadership. If you have constant conflicts within your team, that means you are doing a poor job as the team leader. Depending on your own individual characteristics, you must adopt a style that will salvage the team project and command the respect of your team members. Being a leader is not an easy task, however when assigned the role, you must have confidence in yourself otherwise your members will not respect you enough to listen to your commands. Confidence leads to success.

This is your captain signing out.

-GK