Personal Narrative: My Face To Face Interaction

In my daily interactions with my future followers, I would like to have a face to face interaction, or something personal. I intend to have an ‘open door policy’ even though I may not have a true office, and I intend to make it a point to speak to everyone often. I’m not naive enough to believe that I will be able to have all personal face to face contact with my followers, and I know that there will be times when I will need to email, and call people on the phone, but hopefully those won 't be mass emails, and phone calls very often. I believe that a personal face to face contact, as close to daily as possible is a must when in a leadership position, I personally do not like when I am taking orders from a “faceless giant” an imposing …show more content…
I hope that in this future relationship that the people I must treat as human robots will be the young and new employees that need some time to learn and grow into what they will become, and as they settle into their job, and learn what is expected, then I will be able to treat them in a more relaxed manner and become a more friendly coworker as opposed to a strict ‘boss’. I personally dislike being treated as a ‘human robot’ where I am told what to do and how to do it in every situation, I hate being micromanaged, and because I do not like it, I strive to not do that to my followers. Theory X and Theory Y are useful in their own respects, with specific people at specific times, but neither one of them is useful in all situations with all …show more content…
To constantly better the organization and workplace to be the best and most effective it can be, and for it to continue to grow even after I leave. This is the most important thing to me when considering a leadership position, because no matter how great of a leader you may be in your time as a leader, all of that is useless if you do not leave a lasting impact on the organization when you leave. To me the best and only way to leave a truly lasting impact is to train up the next generation to fill the shoes you leave, and after every leader steps down for a new leader to step up, those shoes should get a little bigger and a little