Over the course of my professional career, I have worked with great leaders with tremendous leadership qualities and I have tried to model my leadership practices based upon their successful leadership. Putting into considering my current leadership strengths, I will use a participative leadership theory to analyze my own competencies. Participative leadership is defined as shared influence and joint decision making between a leader and their followers (Armenakis, Harris, & Mossholder, 1993; Koopman & Wierdsma, 1998), and its goal is to give followers greater discretion, extra attention, and support, and involvement in solving problems and making decisions (LAM, C. K., XU, H., & CHAN, S. H, 2015). Participative
Over the course of my professional career, I have worked with great leaders with tremendous leadership qualities and I have tried to model my leadership practices based upon their successful leadership. Putting into considering my current leadership strengths, I will use a participative leadership theory to analyze my own competencies. Participative leadership is defined as shared influence and joint decision making between a leader and their followers (Armenakis, Harris, & Mossholder, 1993; Koopman & Wierdsma, 1998), and its goal is to give followers greater discretion, extra attention, and support, and involvement in solving problems and making decisions (LAM, C. K., XU, H., & CHAN, S. H, 2015). Participative