Interactive Leadership Analysis

Through interactive leadership I have built several strengths, including mentorship, collaboration, and team building. These three strengths all work together in similar ways.
As a mentor, I work with several staff within my organization as well as from other organizations and companies, to help them identify their career goals, near term and long term goals, strengths, weaknesses and opportunities. Interactive leadership is a way in which I can help others, but also learn and grow my own personal and professional skills through mentorship. Working with other staff and young leaders, I have strengthened my listening skills and, through researching programs that may be beneficial in these individuals development, I have also discovered programs that have supported my own development. For example, while working with a peer who was struggling with an older supervisor, I spent time researching different leadership models from the 70s and 80s. Through that research, I picked up new insight into how older leadership …show more content…
The study found that barriers to collaboration existed due to several factors, including different professional languages, opportunities to collaborate and a lack of understanding the scope and value of each position. However, had these two professions been brought together, it’s likely they could have worked towards a common goal that built upon each of their areas of expertise. Similarly, I have pulled together multi-functional teams to build collaborative work on common goals overcome uncommon problems. Bringing together industrial hygiene professional, nuclear safety experts and national security technology developers, we have developed and deployed advanced technologies to detect smells that a human nose cannot detect, in order to better monitor for chemical and nuclear waste