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What it takes to be a Leader
MGT 380 Leadership for Organizations
18 July, 2011
What it takes to be a Leader
There are so many lessons to be learned from day to day in life, more specifically within an organization. This course has helped to sync some of my own mental synapses in regard to my past leadership experiences and what kind of leader I want to be personally. This course is a little bit more than just an in depth look at the different leadership styles and what makes them effective or ineffective. The three main areas I’m going to focus on are the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary business leaders, the effect of power and influence on leadership and finally my personal leadership perspective and how I plan on applying it to my future as a great leader.
My personal job and career situation is a unique one, I work at a pharmaceutical manufacturing lab in Iowa called Boehringer Ingelheim, as a supervisor however, right now I am stationed in Bagram Afghanistan. My other career is a Radiology Specialist with the Army, my rank in the military is E-4 or Specialist so to relate that to a civilian role I would say that I would be an intermediate employee with anywhere from 3-6 years of on the job experience or a registered diagnostic x-ray technologist at a hospital. This unique employment situation allows me to parallel two different career progression roles at the same time, we’re going to explore the decision making process between these two groups as there are similarities and differences.
Leadership Decisions
Being in the military provides a very interesting perspective on how decisions are made, quite frequently decisions surrounding day to day operations are delegated at leadership levels far above my level and I typically have little or no involvement in making operational decisions. As a Supervisor at the lab I work at it is a different story, my actual title is “Team Leader” basically I’m in charge of...
MGT 380 Leadership for Organizations
18 July, 2011
What it takes to be a Leader
There are so many lessons to be learned from day to day in life, more specifically within an organization. This course has helped to sync some of my own mental synapses in regard to my past leadership experiences and what kind of leader I want to be personally. This course is a little bit more than just an in depth look at the different leadership styles and what makes them effective or ineffective. The three main areas I’m going to focus on are the strengths and weaknesses of contemporary business leaders, the effect of power and influence on leadership and finally my personal leadership perspective and how I plan on applying it to my future as a great leader.
My personal job and career situation is a unique one, I work at a pharmaceutical manufacturing lab in Iowa called Boehringer Ingelheim, as a supervisor however, right now I am stationed in Bagram Afghanistan. My other career is a Radiology Specialist with the Army, my rank in the military is E-4 or Specialist so to relate that to a civilian role I would say that I would be an intermediate employee with anywhere from 3-6 years of on the job experience or a registered diagnostic x-ray technologist at a hospital. This unique employment situation allows me to parallel two different career progression roles at the same time, we’re going to explore the decision making process between these two groups as there are similarities and differences.
Leadership Decisions
Being in the military provides a very interesting perspective on how decisions are made, quite frequently decisions surrounding day to day operations are delegated at leadership levels far above my level and I typically have little or no involvement in making operational decisions. As a Supervisor at the lab I work at it is a different story, my actual title is “Team Leader” basically I’m in charge of...