write a Informative essay on the topic "Developing leadership "
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The ability to influence workers is important because to influence is to have the ability to obtain followers. Everybody influences someone else, and everyone is influenced by someone as well. But, to be an effective influencer you have to understand what type of leader you are and grow upon that. There are five levels of leadership
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I have been in the management post as a head of marketing department in Father and Son’s company limited for the last five years. Marketing is one of the important departments in the company as it determines the sales volumes and revenues that the company will realize each and every financial year. As a marketing manager I am supposed to provide leadership to the marketing team of the company. Therefore, I am expected to create a good team in which I am a leader and at the same time a team player. It is my duty to draw company’s sales and marketing strategies.
In order to ensure successful running of the marketing department, I usually use democratic leadership style. This style of leadership is where I allow employees/subordinates in the department to participate fully in the decision making process of the issues affecting the department. They are free to give their views and expertise contribution in the running of the affairs of the department. They are fully involved in development of department’s goals and objectives. This style of leadership has made notable contributions in improving the performance of the marketing department for the last five years.
As a department leader, I am very good at influencing other members of the department whom a provide leadership to, and this has helped in creating a sense of responsibility among the subordinates. Secondly, the ability to learn from my past mistakes and failures is another strength that I posses. This has helped me to rectify my past mistakes thereby improving my performance as well as that of the department. Thirdly, my credibility among the workers is another strong aspect of mine, which has helped me build trust among the subordinates. Finally, my ability to be empathetic has helped me in my leadership role. This has played a key role in managing indiscipline and inefficiency among the department employees in a professional and humane way.
Though I have managed to influence the marketing department in great way, I have some notable personal weaknesses as a leader. First of all, my risk adverse behavior sometimes affects the rate of growth and development of the department. This reduces creativity and innovation within the department, which is very vital for its long run progress. Secondly, my inability to be interactive is one of the major personality problems that I posses which hinders my leadership role.
Finally, I have weakness when it comes to capacity building among the employees of marketing department. These act as a hindrance to improvement of efficiency and effectiveness among the employees.
Besides, I have a weakness when it comes to issues of motivating workers as their leader. I find myself most of the times not recognizing the achievement of the team players. This a great weakness as it makes the marketing team players feel that their efforts are not recognized, thus lowering their inputs to the work assigned to them. This has a direct impact on the quality of work that is done by these workers. This then is translated to poor performance, when it comes to the marketing department overall performance.
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