Leadership Self-Assessment From the distinctions made by John Kotter and Warren
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Leadership Self-Assessment
From the distinctions made by John Kotter and Warren Bennis, assess your own potential as both a manager and a leader. Please have evidence to support your assessment and only consider those 18 criteria in the "Management vs. Leadership" in the table below:
According to …
A Manager ………………
A Leader ………..
Warren Bennis
· Promotes efficiency
· Is a good soldier
· Initiates
· Accepts the status quo
· Does things right
· Promotes effectiveness
· Is his or her own person
· Originates
· Challenges
· Does the right things
John Kotter
· Copes with complexity
· Plans and budgets
· Organizes and staffs
· Controls and problem-solves
· Copes with change
· Sets a direction
· Aligns people
· Motivates people
According to …
A Manager ………………
A Leader ………..
Warren Bennis
· Promotes efficiency
· Is a good soldier
· Initiates
· Accepts the status quo
· Does things right
· Promotes effectiveness
· Is his or her own person
· Originates
· Challenges
· Does the right things
John Kotter
· Copes with complexity
· Plans and budgets
· Organizes and staffs
· Controls and problem-solves
· Copes with change
· Sets a direction
· Aligns people
· Motivates people
Explanation / Answer
This is a self assessment question That means it is subjective,you can pick up any of the 18 attributes under manager and leader for yourself that best describes you and give an incident or example where you have shown this attribute.
For example: Let us take under manager: Copes with complexity. So you need to describe a time where you did this. In my case, I was the project manager for a company that was launching an healthcare app and at the start of my career in the company, I had to understand the functions of the app quickly as I had to present it to a very important client.
This was complex as I come from a purely academic role and this was purely technical. I was able to overcome this difficulty by breaking down the complexity of learning the app and its features by sitting with the technical team and jotting down the relevant points.
Making any process that is complex into simpler versions so that one can understand and relate to and impart the nuances of the process is how one copes with complexity.
so you can chose as many attributes you want for your self and back it up with evidences to support those attributes.
Let us take another example under leader: Motivates people: Being a team leader often sees me encouraging people to give their best. All people are different and each one works differently and to be able to keep everyone in the team motivated, I give the team memebers a brief pep talk in the daily meetings and ask about their problems that are hindering them to achieve the set goals for the team.
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