Leadership Theories And Styles Supporting My Plan

Introduction Effective leadership involves having a plan. Although researches have been able to establish theories on better measure of leadership traits and style for effective leadership, a leader without a plan is just a leader with a wish. This includes personal and professional plan. This paper will analyze my personal leadership development plan with the goal of becoming an effective leader. This will be done first stating what my planned goal is, then discussing the leadership theories and styles supporting my plan. This paper will also analyze the requirement of my targeted plan in relation to my planned goal. I would need to be able to identity my leadership strengths and weaknesses and explain what I would do to capitalize on my†¦show more content†¦However, I haven’t been able to run the organization yet due to various reasons like time and finances. To run and NGO smoothly I would need to make an action plan, make a website, educate myself on these issues, access the N GO financial needs and network. Apart from all of this, it further requires that I have the ability to work with different kinds of people under pressure while meeting deadlines. In addition to this, I need the skill to be able to communicate with people, paying attention to their needs and solving their problems. Leadership theories and style to support my plan The leadership style that will support my plan is transformational leadership. According to Yukl (2010), transformational leadership â€Å"appeals to the moral values of followers in an attempt to raise their consciousness about ethical issues and to mobilize their energy and resources to reform institutions (p.263). Transformational leaders can emotionally content to their followers because they have empathetic and self-aware. Marie Winchester (2013) explains that a transformational leader â€Å"uses energy to instill that vision onto others, in essence transforming them to be a part of the vision as well.† (Para 2). Thus, the style of transformational leadership would impact employee outcome in an organization, leading to an increase in organization performance and