Reflection On Leadership Journey And Challenges Faced In Current Role

Current role, responsibilities and leadership challenges

The following paper aims at determining the different leadership challenges faced by the individuals at the time of working in the organizations. I will be discussing about the different challenges I have faced in the current jon situation. I will have to discuss about the different issues that I have faced in my previous job roles and the ways I have planned to tackle them. These issues will be important to determine how I will have to deal with several leadership challenges I have faced in my job roles (Bratton & Gold, 2017). I will also highlight upon the leadership journey I have gone through in my life. These are the challenges that have made me tough and I will look upon improving my leadership skills that will benefit the organization (Du et al., 2013). The influence of my seniors has influenced me a lot so I can achieve my dreams in my professional career. I hope that my capabilities will influence my juniors and they will work hard as well.

Currently I am working at the position of the Marketing Manager in the Marketing Department of my company. In this current job role, I am liable for making the plans for the proper advertising or promoting the services and products of our company. I have to conduct the proper marketing research for the company that should direct the way of getting more customers for the organization (Giltinane, 2013). As I have to study numerous customers and have to collect the feedback from them to design the products accordingly, I face the problem of communicating with them.

As I am kind of an introvert person, I cannot talk with them freely for hours. This is the reason I had to give up some of my assignments to my colleagues in the past. In the earlier stages of my current job role, I was even not able to inspire my junior employees in the marketing department. This is why they had been unsuccessful in conducting the market research successfully (Giltinane, 2013). This had made a huge impact in their careers as well. Of course that impact was a negative one. This is why O had made it clear to myself that I had to overcome these challenges in order to get more customers at our favor. The communication problem I had faced had to be overcome by engaging with them more and understanding them properly (Keskes, 2014).

Otherwise it would have been very difficult for me to understand the requirements of the customers and provide them the thing that they wanted for (Bratton & Gold, 2017). I have to think upon the ways in which I can deal with the pressures of work. I have to focus on the people management programs in which I can give orders to my subordinates about how they can cope up with the various communication challenges with the customers. This will lead them to gain the confidence and deal with the problems in an organized manner (Bhatti et al., 2012).

Key aspects of leadership journey

My leadership journey has been quite a challenging one. I am quite a passionate person about my leadership (Huxham & Vangen, 2013).  Once I had been a trainee as well. During that time, I had many problems in coping up with the difficult situations or the ways by which I could motivate myself. During my student life, I had read about many organizations that could not live up to their full potential because if the poor leadership skills of their managers (Nanjundeswaraswamy & Swamy, 2014).  

When I went to an organization during my internship period, I was very much inspired the HR manager of that organization. He had given me the needed motivation that I had to do something inspiring so I could ispire my juniors in the university. I had always wanted to grow as a successful leader and enhance my leadership skills. I have always been a person who has wanted to learn the new things for the development of my organization. I have always craved for such employees who are willing to learn the new things all the time. I stress on using the value based resources for the organization that could enhance my leadership skills indeed. As learned from the Operations Manager of my previous organization, I like to put much stress on the employee empowerment. This has enabled me to understand the qualities inherent in the individuals (Mitchell, 2013).   

The different leadership style psychometric tests have been much important to derive to a proper decision on the quality of the leader. This will sum up my performance as a successful leader indeed.

Approach	Grades
Pragmatic	7.5/10
Creative	9/10
Positively intolerant	6/10
Group oriented	8.5/10
Stable	8.5/10
Communicator	8/10
Motivated	9/10
Total	56.5/70= 80.71%.

I cannot only rely on my own capabilities to get the best outcomes for the organization. O would need the help of my partners and colleagues in this task as well. The leadership style will become much effective only when I can direct my team towards achieving the goal for the company. Now I like the task of communicating with our customers. This helps me to come close with many customers with different cultural backgrounds and languages (Lussier & Achua, 2015). 

This leads me to collect the information about their culture and language. Thus I keep on learning the new things all the time. This keeps me dynamic and I enhance my leadership skills. This learning process always helps me to motivate my subordinates and I can show them myself as an instance about how to grow as a passionate leader (Iqbal, Anwar & Haider, 2015).  I just do not want to bark orders at them. Rather I want to engage with them passionately and know about their point of view. This becomes very much influential for everyone in the process. I have collected the opinions from most of my team members and most of them said that they like the way I lead them (Burke, 2017).

I take their opinions under consideration and finally take the decision by consulting with them. Thus my interpersonal and social skills also improve as well. I make personality assessments of my juniors and this helps me to understand what kind of modifications will be important in this scenario (Iqbal, Anwar & Haider, 2015).

Summary results of personality leadership styles

The feedback process on the leadership style is a very important factor for all the organizations. The subordinate employees all have shown a positive state of mind in dealing with the complex workplace situations under me. As the Marketing Manager I had to be authoritative in many situations. I had to face many situations in which I had to take the decisions very quickly. I needed the support and opinions of my colleagues. This is the time that I got the support from all my colleagues indeed (Northouse, 2018).  My colleagues have motivated me much to achieve the objectives of the company. They have always backed me up whenever I wanted for it. My philosophy of coaching and leading the team has been effective since the employees have also been motivated enough. This motivation has wonders as our company has gained a huge success in the market competition in the last three years. This success would not have been possible without their help (Northouse, 2018).

The different theories and frameworks can be applied in this context. The theories that can be applied to my philosophy of leadership are the transformational and democratic leadership. As a transformational leader, I always communicate between the top management and my subordinate employees in a way that they can achieve the goals of the company indeed. I always motivate the employees in a way that they can be able to achieve the goals of the organization successfully (Burke, 2017).  I try to say them that they can earn more if they work with full potential and get good opportunities for their future. I have worked as a successful democratic leader as well since I have always wanted the opinions of my fellow colleagues. This is because I admire their efforts and believe that their opinions can bring in the better change for the company as well. This has helped the employees when the changes have taken place. They have been able to adapt to these changes very easily. The democratic leadership style has helped to grow as a leader positively. This is why I am indebted to all my colleagues and subordinates who have helped me to grow as a leader.

Conclusion

I have highlighted on the leadership styles and the challenges that have helped me to grow positively as a leader. These leadership styles have been very important for me to realize my strengths and weaknesses. I have worked on improving my capacity to lead my team to achieve the goals for the organization.

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