Leadership and Communication: An Introspective Assessment
To become a leader, one must have discipline, values, vision, and a strategy in place to reach the goal of one’s vision. Effective leadership takes a team to make it happen. Teams that incorporate certain characteristics working together to ensure successful leadership of a company. To bring a team together, leaders must communicate their vision and goals with people who are willing to work together to accomplish the overall success of the organization.
First a strategy plan must be developed. Once a strategy plan is established, it then falls upon upper management to focus on certain factors that will decide the success or failure of an organization. These factors known as CSFs, …show more content…
Walmart is a great example of effective leadership. A single store opened by Sam Walton in 1962, has grown to be the largest retailer in the world, regarding revenues and number of employees. Sam Walton had a vision of leadership through service, by offering product at an affordable price to consumers. His belief that true leadership is dependent on willing service is the foundation that Walmart was built upon and is the backbone of business decisions Walmart has made over the …show more content…
Like any job, usually you begin at the bottom, develop experience, and promote to a new level. In doing so, I developed a clear understanding of the tasks each level entailed. Beneficial to me was the fact that I did the labor jobs prior to stepping into management. Management came with many challenges. Longer hours, bank deposits, and records, scheduling employees, dealing with vendors, machinery malfunctions, the list is long. As manager, I was on the floor most of my entire shift. I did not sit idly in the office while servers, and kitchen staff did the work. I worked with everyone in show of support to make a pleasant shift for customers and employees. I developed excellent listening skills, enabling me to communicate concerns and issues to ensure a pleasant environment for the customer and
To become a leader, one must have discipline, values, vision, and a strategy in place to reach the goal of one’s vision. Effective leadership takes a team to make it happen. Teams that incorporate certain characteristics working together to ensure successful leadership of a company. To bring a team together, leaders must communicate their vision and goals with people who are willing to work together to accomplish the overall success of the organization.
First a strategy plan must be developed. Once a strategy plan is established, it then falls upon upper management to focus on certain factors that will decide the success or failure of an organization. These factors known as CSFs, …show more content…
Walmart is a great example of effective leadership. A single store opened by Sam Walton in 1962, has grown to be the largest retailer in the world, regarding revenues and number of employees. Sam Walton had a vision of leadership through service, by offering product at an affordable price to consumers. His belief that true leadership is dependent on willing service is the foundation that Walmart was built upon and is the backbone of business decisions Walmart has made over the …show more content…
Like any job, usually you begin at the bottom, develop experience, and promote to a new level. In doing so, I developed a clear understanding of the tasks each level entailed. Beneficial to me was the fact that I did the labor jobs prior to stepping into management. Management came with many challenges. Longer hours, bank deposits, and records, scheduling employees, dealing with vendors, machinery malfunctions, the list is long. As manager, I was on the floor most of my entire shift. I did not sit idly in the office while servers, and kitchen staff did the work. I worked with everyone in show of support to make a pleasant shift for customers and employees. I developed excellent listening skills, enabling me to communicate concerns and issues to ensure a pleasant environment for the customer and