Self Understanding Leadership

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Self-understanding and Leadership

Part 1

Talking about an effective leader, there is no doubt that quite a large numbers of related attributes can be listed. According to the theory which is first propounded by Lussier, R. N. and Achua, C. F. (2010), the five key elements of leadership are about reaction of changes, relation between leaders and followers, influence to others, relationship with people as well as organizational objectives. For instance, an effective leader should have high cognitive competence, great resilience, good trustworthiness and interpersonal communication competence and so on. Besides all these characteristics listed above, self-understanding is also one of the key competence of leadership considering that an authentic …show more content…

(1976) came up with a theory that the self-concept could be described as the following seven features. They are organized, multifaceted, hierarchical, stable, developmental, evaluative, and differentiable. A particular memory system will be adopted by a particular person to sort and label his or her experiences. It shows a way of organizing experiences and giving them meaning. And being well organized is one of the main features of self-concept. Multifaceted means those particular aspects reflect the previous memory system adopted by a certain people, such as family, social acceptance, physical attractiveness, and so on. And for hierarchical, in other words, to classify into different ranks, general self-concept could be divided into two constituents, academic self-concept and non-academic self-concept. And for non-academic self-concept, it could be divided into social self-concepts, physical self-concepts, as well as emotional …show more content…

Good self-understanding could help a person to clarify what is really being expected and what is really important. A clear goal can greatly improve the efficiency of working, and it also helps people knowing what is motivating themselves from their inside so that they could motivate others in a better way. Developing of self-understanding is a life-long task for every one of us, and it is essential and truly helpful to help people being better