Your Leadership Impact | Origin: LS103
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Your Leadership Impact
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leadership is work and you must be the first best example yourself--if you don't lead by example you will quickly lose your followers
I was able to learn about the relationship between leaders, followers, and the situation.
learning Interactional Framework.
This was a great module. It really helped to break down how leaders impact and influence and how all three components of the framework work together and infuence each other. I definitely want my impact to be supportive and I try to reflect daily where I have helped my staff to succeed and have I been positive in my interactions. It is a lot of responsibility when your decisions, actions and behaviors affect those around you.
Leadership involves the ability to work with staff, faculty, and students to reach the organization's goals successfully.
Having been in several senior leadership positions, this course had a lot of areas of improvement.
Learning that Leaders need to be able to Follow is probably one of the primary foundational elements within the military. Understanding that, generally, people may not be aware of that idea is fair, however the loose and tenuous application in the examples here made it very difficult to pick out.
Reply to Angela Watkins's post:I completely agree. Also, without context, the answers were nebulous in their eficacy. Leaders do several of the things, if they are effective. Ineffectively, I feel, they could do one or none.
My takeaway for the lesson is that leaders do not aspire without followers. As a leader you should be open and develop trust with your team. Your personality has an impact on how others receive your leadership.
It would help to know what questions we got wrong on the quizzes instead of just a percentage score.
"A leader with no followers is just a guy/gal taking a walk".
The interconnectedness of a positive, strong leader, having a group of followers that are empowered and passionate, and an environment/situation set up for opportunity and growth are all needed. Missing one of the three leads to disaster.
I learned about leadership and followers .
What does interactional leadership mean? How can I develop it to improve my leadership?
Looking forward to learning about the impact my leadership has and how I cn improve.
The interactional framework made it explicit how important each participant is in order for leadership to be effective.
I love how this lesson focused on how all 3 elements (Leader, Follower, Situation) all have to work together to be successful.
Leaders can not lead with out followers. I learned how to promote great followers.
Some of the quiz answers seemed in direct conflict with the materials covered.
Character and personality traits are important for leadership impact. Leaders cannot exist without followers.
This lesson allowed me to deeper reflect on the connection between: Leader, Followers, and Situation and how all three play an essential role in the movement forward of an organization. A key take away from this lesson is that the follower's trust will make or break their relationship with their leader. The more they trust their leader, the more motivated they are to do their work.
