My Journey. LFGSM Leadership Model. Management Essay

My Journey
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September 2, 2019
Success does not happen overnight. It occurs through a constant reflection on one’s self coupled with the determination and the action to change for the better. Similarly, the growth of businesses is also dependent on the leader’s ability to build on his strength and address his weaknesses. A skill that would allow him to move forward and guide other members of the workplace to strive harder each day (Medrut, 2018). Accordingly, this paper would reflect on my own strengths and weaknesses that I want to address. As an aspiring business leader in the future, I would like to make sure that I maintain an active effort towards self-improvement, which could then be translated into a workplace mission for my team. All in all, I believe that self-reflection and determination to improve oneself could help, not only the person in his career but also others in the workplace by creating a culture of excellence.
Personal Strengths
Self-awareness, agility, and social skills are three strengths that I am really proud of. First, self-awareness is the ability of a person to look at himself objectively and see the things that he is doing wrong and appreciate those which are right. In the workplace, for example, I usually practice self-introspection whenever my boss or my client gives me an opinion about my performance. After going through the process of reflection, I then exert a continuous effort through the whole workday to see whether I tend to do things repeatedly. However, this process does not end with one’s own introspection. Rather, it is through regular discussions with others that a person could develop a more objective sense of who he is.
Second, agility is the ability to move easily and quickly. This could also include flexibility, which is the capacity to adapt to any situation at a moment’s notice. Accordingly, flexibility is one of the things that I tend to practice by adopting a technique or strategy that proves to be more useful than the one that I have. One example is my tendency to change the way I address employee-related problems, based on my observation on the effectivity of different tones (whether authoritative or not) in instilling improvement.
Lastly, my good social skills allow better improvements, not only for myself but also for others around me. In most cases, I use this ability to guide others while considering how they would feel about any comments or suggestions that I have upon their performance. To make sure that such comments are in line with the...