Question

Describe what you believe Organizational Leadership is and outline a organizational leader that manages within your definition. Also, outline the pros and cons of your description. One-two paragraphs. Cite if necessary.

Answer 1

Answer:

Organizational leadership is a field of business management that specifically relates to meeting the challenges and goals brought by both individual employees or an organization as a whole. Organizational leaders often rise to top administrative and executive positions of their organizations because of their abilities to manage the present while looking toward the future.

Organizational leadership means understanding both the strengths and weaknesses of the company’s workforce, business plan and day-to-day operations. Organizational leaders use their skills and knowledge to manage and strengthen the components of an organization by implementing change, confronting problems and creating a positive and productive workplace.

Organizational leadership requires the following:

• Ethics
• Communication
• Vision

Organizational leadership may include confronting ethically questionable situations. A manager can draw on his or her organizational leadership education and experience in order to remain impartial and engaged. This may also require high levels of skilled communication. The ability to talk to groups as well as individuals calmly and clearly and to practice active listening is incredibly important.

Organizational leaders must have a vision for the future. They must have the ability to solve problems regarding employee relations and productivity as well as make decisions that affect the direction of the organization. Vision is nothing without leadership. In order to enact and implement change, an individual must have leadership and motivational skills.

Here’s my thoughts coming from a business perspective.

Pros

1. When you are the leader you can drive the vision and create the culture. When I was merely a subordinate in various jobs, I would see inefficiency and poor leadership and it would frustrate me. Now as a leader I make sure that I do my best to create a positive message and vision for all. People want to be part of something bigger than themselves and that’s successful.

2. You get to bring the energy and enthusiasm. I am passionate about what I do and dive in full steam. When you get excited and show passion to those around you it’s contagious. It’s hard for others to not feel the buzz of positive energy.

3. If you lead right you can be authentic. I focus and enjoy on being myself which I feel connects better to your team. Don’t be fake and try to assume the “ideal” of what you think a leader is supposed to act like. It’s not genuine.

4. You get to lead by example. People rally around a leader who is willing to lead from the front. I believe you need to join in with your team or those around you and be part of the process.

Cons

1. The buck stops with you. You have to take responsibility for leading a team and the results fall back on you. Good or Bad. You have to be able to handle that stress and elevate your entire team’s performance.

2. You have to be able to handle large amounts of stress which can come from different angles. Customers, employee issues, service or product issues and be able to juggle various tasks.

3. You have to be comfortable being the “lead singer”. You are the focal point for good and bad. You are going to be the face of your team or company so you have to enjoy that to some degree or at least be comfortable with that.

4. You can’t control everything. Business is hard and success is never guaranteed. Things can go great for a period of time and quickly change not due to any fault of your own. All you can do is set your company and team up for success by doing everything in your power to tip the odds of success in your favor. You can’t put all of the pressure on yourself because you simply can’t control everything.