1. Your findings of strengths and areas for improvement on your ability to build credibility and trust as a leader.
Strengths:
Trustworthy
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 high 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
Follows
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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