Leadership and Management Characteristics

Management and Leadership Qualities There are multiple management and leadership qualities that I have acquired during the duration of this course. The vast majority of these are responsible for making me more marketable in a competitive business environment. At a high level, I can say that the qualities I have gained from this class have made me much more flexible and even agile in my approach to leadership.

This fact is corroborated by the reality that the chief management and leadership quality that I have gained from this course pertains to extensive knowledge of these two disciplines (which are inherently interrelated). Quite simply, I have learned much more about management and leadership while taking this class than I have ever before. Previously, I was familiar with the basics -- transactional and transformational leadership.

However, in the course of taking this class I have expanded my breadth of knowledge to include multiple nuanced styles of leadership and management, from visionary to servant-based paradigms and the Servant Leadership Survey (Van Dierrendonck & Nuijten, 2010). Thus, I have confidence that I can be a much more versatile leader after having taken this course and absorbed this knowledge. I truly believe that I have the knowledge to effectively cater my style of leadership and management to a particular organization's needs, resources, strengths, and weaknesses.

In addition to the theoretical underpinnings that this class has equipped me with to bolster my knowledge and versatility, it has also given me a more profound understanding of what sort of factors are required to determine the most apropos style of leadership. Specifically, that relates to incorporating various factors of personality, society, emotional intelligence, and culture -- both at the company and at the country levels.

Moreover, there are also personal qualities that I have gained through this course and which I can emphasize in my own demeanor to optimize my chances for success utilizing any of the different leadership and management styles I have studies. These include positivity, likability, and an awareness of the concerns of others that are traditionally rewarded with increased levels of productivity and means of accomplishing organizational objectives (Cavazotte, Moreno, Hickman, 2012).

The career path situation in which I will be able to apply my leadership, management style and research skills to address diverse organizational problems will be multi-faceted. Eventually, I hope to attain a position in upper level management for a Fortune 500 company. To achieve this objective, I believe it is first necessary for me to refine and utilize some of the leadership and management styles I have learned in this course by working in less conspicuous positions.

My career path will begin as merely one of the many workers in a marketing department. My goal in working in this position is to not only gain additional experience to further my career, but to labor in a position in which I can showcase my skills as a leader without being a manager. I would like to first become socially connected to my fellow employees in this department to get a pulse of their sense of the department, as well as that of other departments.

In such a role I will attempt to leverage some of the facets of positivity and likability that are vital to leadership to.