My Personal Leadership Philosophy

Leadership is an essential tool in any organization. Without proper leadership, an
organization cannot achieve its core objectives. Leadership refers to the ability to influence the
actions of your followers (Duggan et al., 2015). Therefore, a good leader should be guided by
clear, achievable goals. A good leader should believe in teamwork and have the
followers focus on the achievement of the goals set. This paper, therefore, will reflect my core values, my mission, and vision statement alongside an analysis of my
Clifton strengthens assessments to summarize my profile. I will also provide the behaviors I
would wish to strengthen and a plan of how to improve on these strengths.
My vision is to become a leader in the profession who will be outstanding and
resourceful to other people, approachable, and respectable by followers and colleagues. My
mission is to provide quality, ethical, and affordable services to educate, guide, and motivate
people on how to live positive and meaningful lives as well as connect them to resources and
opportunities whenever I could.
Results from the StrengthsFinder assessment show that my strengths include being
strategic, restorative, along with ideation, individualization, and executing. The ability to be
strategic involves finding alternative ways to deal with problems as they arise. Based on the
strengths insight, being strategic means that I can easily spot patterns and links that others can
miss. In a given scenario, this insight helps create solutions for problems and also promote a
yearning for self and group improvement. Being restorative means that I can concentrate my
time and effort on finding shortcomings and resolving challenges that exist (Boamah et al.,
2018). This deals with adequate problem-solving. The strength of ideation means that I am
fascinated by ideas and can, therefore, see connections between phenomena. Individualization

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is strength from the report, which means that I am capable of determining the unique aspects
that different people have and also find a way to help them work effectively together—finally,
the strength of executing deals with being able to get the job done. I am capable of meeting
deadlines and can execute my responsibilities efficiently.
The core values that I wish to strengthen are humility and responsibility. These values
are crucial to becoming a leader (Fischer, 2016). One must be humble in dealing with others in
a humane and understanding manner. One must also be responsible for providing oversight on
matters that require sensitive decisions (Wong & Cummings, 2009). To strengthen these values,
I would evaluate my strengths and weaknesses and ensure that I understand my shortcomings
and how to improve them. Once I know my weaknesses, I would learn from previous successful
leaders that exercised similar strengths and how they dealt with the challenges. The strengths
that I would like to improve include restoration and ideation.
The restorative trait can be improved by enhancing my skills and knowledge to become
a better problem solver using factual and well-informed decisions (Pullen Jr, 2016). The
ideation trait can be enhanced by practicing daily to create new strategies that can help improve
challenges at work and in life, generally. The two characteristics that I would like to improve
are patience and listening. As a leader, I believe humility and responsibility are consistent with
my mission and vision and would help me become a better leader than the subordinates could
not only respect but also look up to for guidance and direction.

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References

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