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Milestone One: Leadership Skills Krista Scott Southern New Hampshire University MBA-530 Leading People and Organizations Instructor: Ibrahim Dabdoub December 29 th , 2023

I used the Leadership Practices Inventory® questionnaire to assess my leadership behavior. The report helped me gain a detailed insight into my leadership style. In the initial section of the report, I identified the key leadership behaviors where I ranked the lowest and the highest using the LPI Self Percentile Ranking. The area in which I scored the lowest was Challenge the Process. I would define Challenge the Process as someone who challenges the status quo and comes up with out of the box ways to get things done. It is someone who searches for opportunities by seizing the initiative and by looking outward for innovative ways to improve. It is someone who experiments and take risks by consistently generating small wins and learning from experience. (Kouzes & Posner, 2013, p. 16). In my current role as a contract specialist a lot of what I do is follow certain processes and checklists so it makes sense that this would be my lowest score. Regardless of their effectiveness, it is easy to go on autopilot and not stop to consider whether there is a better way, especially when the organization at large continues to encourage the status quo. However, as I grow as a leader, I hope to increase this score. Just because in my line of work we must follow certain rules and regulations doesn’t mean we can’t change how we get there. Often, work processes are so engrained that we don’t question why we do them. I believe this can cause mistakes and when it comes to government contracting there can’t be mistakes. And for these reasons I believe it is important for me to work on this to grow as in employee and future leader. In contrast, the leadership behavior in which I ranked the highest was Encourage the Heart. According to Kouzes and Posner, to encourage the heart, you recognize contributions by showing appreciation for individual excellence, and you celebrate the values and victories by

creating a spirit of community (Kouzes & Posner, 2021). Without this definition from the authors, I would define it very similarly. Hence, this is probably why I scored the highest because this behavior is clear to me and is very meaningful as a leader to me. We are human with human emotions and when you give praise to people for doing a good job, they will continue to do a good job. Understanding this skill helps leaders to motivate employees towards a common goal. Praising your employees also makes employees happy in their working conditions and helps raise your employee’s pride in an organization. Based on the Employee Satisfaction Survey, the specific leadership behavior that the organization needs to focus upon is ‘Inspire a shared vision’. There is a scope for the leaders to ensure that a consistent vision exists throughout the organization, which guides as well as motivates the employees to contribute to the work setting. Researcher Hasbi has argued that leaders need to understand that a well-defined vision could bring about a radical change in how individuals and organizations operate (Hasbi, 2012). By ensuring that there exists a shared vision, it would be possible to strengthen the relationship with the employees. They could get a clear insight into their goals and objectives and how their contribution could influence the performance of the entire company. By focusing on leadership behavior, the company would be able to strengthen its ‘working conditions’ focus area. Based on the Employee Satisfaction Survey, the leadership behavior that the organization is currently successful at is ‘Challenge the process’. The company has been able to create value for its clients and customers by continuously striving to create value for them. To create value for its stakeholders, the company focuses on short-term wins, which helps it to operate in a novel way and return value for its key stakeholders in the market setting. It can be a key strength for the business as it can increase the viewpoint of the company and create a win-win situation for

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itself as well as its customers. Focusing on the ‘client /customer’ focal area can help the business to manage the involvement between the leaders and the direct reports. This is because they would be able to operate in an organized and corresponding manner to serve the customers in the best possible manner. The leadership behavior can help the organization and its employees to think in a creative way by challenging the existing processes (Kouzes & Posner, 2013).

References Berber, N., Slavić, A., & Aleksić, M. (2020). Relationship between perceived teamwork effectiveness and team performance in banking sector of Serbia.BSustainability,B1 2(20), 8753. Gandolfi, F., & Stone, S. (2018). Leadership, leadership styles, and

servant leadership.BJournal of Management Research,B18(4), 261- 269. Hasbi, H. (2012). Leader Vision for Effective Leadership.BPolingua: Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education,B1(1), 18-22. Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2013). LPI®:

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Leadership Practices Inventory®. Varma, C. (2017). Importance of employee motivation & job satisfaction for organizational performance.BInternation al journal of social science & interdisciplinary research,B6(2). References Hasbi, H. (2012). Leader Vision for Effective Leadership. Polingua: Scientific Journal of Linguistics, Literature and Language Education, B1(1), 18-22. Kouzes, J. M., & Posner, B. Z. (2013). LPI®: Leadership Practices Inventory®.

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