1. Your findings of strengths and areas for
improvement on your ability to build credibility and trust as a leader.
TrustworthyStrengths:
Ethical
Protect confidentiality
information
Follow through with
commitment
Excellent communication
skills
Developed strong
boundaries
Practice a healthy
lifestyle
Provide a supportive
environment
Weaknesses:
Strongly standing up for
what I believe in
Build more confidence
(improving)
Being more persistent
Learn how to relax
Heighten brainstorming
techniques
Need to better control
feelings of overwhelmed
Too passive related to my
rights
I considered myself to be
credible because I am trustworthy, dependable, and consistent following through
with commitments that lead to success. Since I started college I have achieved
hugh quantities of personal growth and development. My increase in personal
growth has had a direct effect upon me being more credible. It is amazing what
I have experienced while living in the culture of college life. Just by taking
classes, learning more skills, living on my own, and even a simple thing like
participating in a Zumba class has had an effect on my personal growth,
therefore increasing my credibility.
However, personal growth
can be painful for me when I develop through a hard, challenging experience
where I am forced to face my own weaknesses. I used to be resistant and scared
to new experiences and ideas, but now I have discovered I like to experience
new things and continue to grow and mature. The more experiences I commit to
the more growth and learning has occurred by finding out how things are
connected, I have become more observant, developed more confident, feel less
self-conscious, have less anxiety, make new friends, connect at a deeper level with
people, learn to trust people more and improve me ability to work better in a
team approach.
Eventually with more
course work completed I look forward to a mentoring opportunity to further tune
my understanding of the profession. I am looking forward to getting a job
where I can utilize my education and new found credibility.
2. What do you see as the most important skills and
attributes for a leader to build credibility and trust?
Being trustworthy
Follow through on commitment
Great communication skills
Passion
Focus
Effectively listening skills
Being assertive
Learning to say no
Persistence
Manage stress well
Strong delegation skills
Make priorities
Organized
3. Profile a leader that you have worked with that
in your estimation demonstrates a strong ability to influence others because of
their credibility and trust.
I am
familiar with a female who has within the past 2 years obtained a job as a
leader. She has strong credibility and
her followers have trust in her abilities. She has strong ethics and is very empathetic
towards others and considerate of others’ points of view. She is immature in her leadership skills, but
has insight into her limitations and realizes she is using a trial and error
process, but is able to evaluate the outcome and learn from her mistakes.
One of
her weakest abilities is following through.
She will determine to take action, assesses the situation, but then is weak
in delegation and commitment to see the process through. Her inability to determine priorities leads
her to start many action projects, not delegate to others, and she attempts to
do each step herself. She becomes
overwhelmed and finds there are not enough hours in a day to complete
everything that needs to be done. Many
times she needs repetitive reminders about continuing the process of the action
she has chosen to pursue because she becomes distracted and forgets. Therefore she becomes a disorganized leader.
She is well
liked by her followers with positive personality traits and desires, but
sometimes is viewed as weak and lacking leadership skills because of her lack
of delegation and her trust in her followers’ abilities. I think that with a strong mentor to help her
see her weak areas she has the capabilities and the strengths of being an
outstanding leader.
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