Flexible Leadership

This week’s lesson, dealt with leadership and how good or bad leadership can have a great affect not only on the working environment but society. Also, that a leader who displays bad leadership doesn’t mean that they’re a bad leader especially if there are successful results that follower their lead. One great trait to have as a leader, is to be flexible. Flexibility as a leader is crucial, as often you will have to deal with issues that may go against the normal way of doing things. A leader who shows that they’re flexible enough to adjust regarding their decision making and tactics will likely prove to be a more affective leader. My travels have instilled in me flexible traits that I believe will come in great for me in the future, but I think that this program will continue to help me become even more flexible as a leader. 

While completing the skill-building exercises I realized a few things about myself and one of those things was that I’m not as flexible as I thought. I feel that there is a strong difference between being flexible and being too understanding. Sometimes a leader must be firm in their position or their meekness can be taken advantage of.  When office politics are concerned, after answering some of the questions on the skills building exercise I found out that I don’t separate my personal life from my office life. I don’t show that type of flexibility and I believe that has more to do with how society is structured now. People find themselves getting in trouble at their jobs more away from work than at work because of what they post on social media and the stances they take in their personal lives.    

The other thing that I realized was that I’m more of a transformational leader than a charismatic leader in the fact that I tend to place responsibility in front of people to see if they will meet the challenge in the hopes that it will make them more confident and increase their value. Although, while playing basketball I would lead by example with my play, I never saw myself as a charismatic type of leader because most of the time I chose not to be the one yelling to verbally trying to inspire my teammates. I would encourage them by putting them in positions to succeed on the floor and have confidence in them to make the correct decisions