The significance of effective leadership style in companies has increased substantially in recent years. Leadership is recognized as a key element in ensuring the success of this transition. Also, enhancing an organization’s vision for development, as enhancing an organization’s ability to adapt, needs a trustworthy and effective leadership style. The traits, attributes, and abilities a leader must possess are heavily influenced by the needs of the scenario in which he would operate.
In my opinion, I feel that favorable leaders are relationship or connection-oriented—they must cultivate and sustain strong interpersonal ties. They generally have a positive opinion of their least favored colleagues. Task completion is a secondary concern for leaders and becomes significant only when the desire for connections is sufficiently fulfilled. With my experience, favorable leaders have helped me in my professional growth by providing support, training, and opportunities to show my full potential. At one point, I would see our leaders complimenting and praising our good performances and criticizing unethical acts, providing room to improve. Unfavorable leaders tend to assess those with whom they dislike working pretty adversely. They are task-oriented individuals, and it is only after tasks are completed that unfavorable leaders are likely to focus on developing positive social and interpersonal relationships. My experience with unfavorable leaders has been that they have shown poor listening skills. I witnessed this when one of our leaders did not listen to my honest opinion and suggestion to improve productivity. Instead, he strongly indicated that he was the one to give opinions. His decisions were final.
The boss-subordinate relationship is all about accomplishing particular objectives. Managing employees’ performance includes providing constructive criticism, determining their performance evaluation and raise, and assisting them (or not) in advancing their careers (Contributor, 2021). The answer to the all-too-common need to be liked is not to behave badly or misbehave. Leaders who were friendly, not harsh, always around to guide, provide support, or emotionally mature made me like their leadership. A pleasant leader. Ineffective leaders attracted my dislike since they provided ambiguous and erroneous commands and instructions, a leaders with poor communication also attracted my dislike (Contributor, 2021). I often struggle to comprehend the leader’s rationale for certain instructions since they make no sense and violate the general team’s set goals.
Leadership is critical to an organization’s success. As a nursing director, the essence of my current leadership is the ability to influence human resources, the competitive advantage of the organization, and the results that follow, ensuring quality healthcare and patient satisfaction. In order to influence my followers and connect nursing practitioners to their job responsibilities, my concern is to boost employee motivation since engaged workers are essential for a company to succeed and realize the patient quality of care. Having engaged the workers, there has been evidence of good financial returns, patient satisfaction, quality of patient care, and various individual-level endearing employee qualities like proactive and initiative. My current leadership style helping our nursing organization to realize our mission and objectives and effectively run the operations, is transactional and situational leadership styles. My leadership style enables me to keep up with the pressure of the shifting demographic and social trends, globalization, enhanced workforce expertise, and fast technology innovation, and devote all of my efforts to organizational transformation.
Others describe me as a leader who always possesses an act or sequence of actions that push my team in a direction to achieve results; they describe me as a person who embraces teamwork and goal-oriented person. As a result, we must acknowledge that leadership may come from anybody who exhibits leadership as an occasional, unique act of influence. The ideal leader possesses charisma, vision, emotional intelligence, integrity, the ability to inspire others, and impeccable character. The steps to becoming an ideal leader would involve understanding one’s leadership style and understanding your strengths and areas needing improvement. Secondly, you become an ideal leader by encouraging creativity and innovativeness, one of the transformative leadership characteristics (Gemeda & Lee, 2020). To become an ideal leader, I need to act as a role model to my subordinates, be passionate, implement good communication, and listen effectively. Always employ a positive attitude, and motivate employees by giving rewards and recognition, among other steps.
In summary, Organizations wishing to transition successfully, depending on their ability to provide change, must place a premium on their leadership conduct. As nursing practitioners, we must successfully build our capacity for adaptation to execute and manage the change process, which requires active, interactive, supportive, trustworthy, and responsive leadership. Transactional, situational, and transformational leadership are much more effective in developing an organization’s capacity for change, owing to the leaders’ inspiring, supportive, and active nature.
References
Contributor, D. (2021). These organizations show how best to support female employees post-pandemic.
Gemeda, H. K., & Lee, J. (2020). Leadership styles, work engagement and outcomes among information and communications technology professionals: A cross-national study. Heliyon, 6(4), e03699.