Having an awareness of your leadership characteristics, style and skills are a very important part in the process of becoming an effective leader. Authentic leadership, path-goal theory, and skills approach are the three areas that can help me grow as a leader. The assessment tools used provides various areas of measurements that include self-awareness, internalized moral perspective, balanced processing, relational transparency, style, and skills. The assessments can provide me with data needed to improve my skills and style of leadership.
The authentic leadership assessment has four categories, they are rated as high = 16 – 20 and low = 15 and below. In self-awareness, I scored a 17 which is on the high scale. According to (Northouse, 2016, p. 202) Self-awareness refers to the personal insights of the leader.” I am very aware of my strengths and weakness and to become a great leader I know that I must constantly work towards the goal of becoming a better leader. Having an awareness …show more content…
Establishing long and short term goals, objectives related to the goals, time frames for achieving your goals and opportunities for achieving your goals. My long term goals include starting my own consulting firm within 5 to 7 years. My objectives related to me completing my task is to find a mentor that has experience in consulting and learn from their experience and also take as many continuing education courses as I can. I have already asked someone to become my mentor that has many years of experience in consulting. To increase my knowledge and experience in consulting, once I graduate I will volunteer with organizations with experience so that I can make achieving my goal more of a reality. Another long-term goal is to attend law school and my time frame for completion is within 3 – 5 years. Attending law school will be a major factor in the success of my consulting