Cultural Dimensions of Leadership
February 12, 2025
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Leaders are responsible for creating and realizing the vision by encouraging the followers to work towards the fulfilment of a common goal. Effective leaders should be able to have a perfect assessment of their strengths/weaknesses and deal with it efficiently. By adopting remedial measures, they should reinforce their areas of strengths and overcome their deficiencies.
Leaders who are self aware are able to monitor their progress and areas of improvement both professionally and personally. They can chart a futuristic plan of action and identify the areas of development which will determine their future growth prospects and help them in achieving success in their professional endeavours.
Successful leaders should have exceptional emotional as well as personal qualities like diplomacy, leading by examples and maintain an empathetic approach. Inspirational leaders stress a lot on honing their interpersonal and emotional competencies for gaining acceptance as leaders.
This is another critical technique by way of which leaders can assess their areas of strengths and improvements. It can be used periodically to determine how you have evolved and honed your leadership qualities over a period.
Checklists & surveys help in improving self awareness related with emotional competencies, relationship skills and a lot of other areas like your level of enthusiasm, involvement and clarity of direction.
Steps involved in using checklists & surveys given below:
This technique offers a comprehensive view regarding how you are perceived as a leader by others and improves understanding about one’s strengths and weaknesses as a leader. For conducting 360-degree feedback, the following steps should be followed:
A leader designs his/her own 360-degree feedback survey formats. Some common leadership competencies that should include in the 360-degree survey are:
360-degree feedback surveys can be tailored and be developed suiting to the requirements of the organization.
In the end, we can conclude that self-awareness helps in changing and bringing about reforms in an individual’s behaviour. Self-assessment helps in improving self-awareness and in developing competent as well as promising leaders.
Various techniques of self-assessment provide vital feedback and inputs on the key strengths and qualities of a leader. Besides this, it acts as a guiding roadmap in determining the future strategies and areas of development of a leader with a vision.
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