Leadership Strategies From Theory to Practice
Throughout this course, we discussed leadership as a practice, strategies we can use to select our leadership style, how we can understand our leadership style and strengths to enhance our leadership development, and the most effective leadership strategies for a diverse workforce.
After reading Chapter 12 in Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework for Success (Dann, 2022), think about what you have learned about leadership practice and what type of leader you aim to be in the future. As you continually learn about yourself and others as leaders, reflect on personal experiences, encounters with others, challenges, and how you have developed your skills to refine your leadership abilities. Develop an original response to the following question:
Self-reflect on the leadership strategies, styles, and practices you studied this term. How will you transfer the strategies from theory to practice in your leadership roles? Provide two detailed examples of course findings and other scholarly research.
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Knowing the type of leader you are and the strategies and styles you can embrace to stimulate success in an organization is vital and challenging at the same time. "Managing and Leading Nonprofit Organizations: A Framework for Success” has pinpointed different strategies, styles, and practices necessary for a leader to make an organization flourish.
Building awareness at the team and personal levels is one of the leadership strategies necessary for a leader. Besides, having the right persons on the team in the right place is vital in stimulating the victory of the leader's effort. Employee ownership is another strategy that enables employees to develop a sense of ownership for their roles and responsibilities (Dann, 2022). Other effective strategies include supporting the right amount at the right time, having clear expectations and goals, efficient organizational culture, and recognizing employees. Conversely, leadership styles like transactional, transformational, charismatic, quiet, situational, and servant leadership are necessary as they help leaders in their leadership roles (Dann, 2022). Practices such as being antigravitational, using a compass instead of a road map, addressing inner pressures, and leveraging uncertainty are some of the effective practices for leadership learned in this term.
Learning and incorporating leadership strategies in your day-to-day operation is necessary as a leader. Building awareness at the team and personal levels that I lead is one of the goals I intend to deploy. I would set clear expectations, objectives, and goals fo...