The reading assignments this week shifted from an organizational management perspective to a resilient leadership focus. Team members rely on their leader’s guidance to maintain a sense of direction and achieve organizational goals. Leaders must be able to bounce back from adversity in order to provide direction to the organization and navigate difficult circumstance. In short, an effective leader must be resilient.
Three Top Concepts
The group collaborated on three concepts to develop a resilient leader. The concepts selected were resilient leadership, selfless service, and risk management.
Resilient Leadership
Resilient leadership is an important concept for businesses to understand because it ensures that leaders will lead their teams
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Unfortunately, many of these decisions may not always be perceived favorably amongst their followers, however, these are the moments that resilient leaders must continue to remain strong and drive their organization forward. “Crises become “defining moments” between the leader and the led which cements relationships of trust and confidence that is needed for future challenges” (Dees, 2013, p. 43). During these defining moments, it is imperative that leaders are able to make sound and wise decisions. Therefore, organizations must develop leadership training programs to prepare leaders for the specific challenges they will …show more content…
Servant leadership puts the employees needs ahead of the leaders, which in turn builds rapport with the employee and contributes to enhanced employee performance. Greenleaf (1977) argued that servant leaders achieve trust with employees, customers and communities through selfless service to all of them (Bambale, (PhD.)., 2014, p. 3). The trust a leader achieves through servant leadership enhances effective communication, which contributes team. “Thus, inspired by their servant leader, employees learn and enact other-serving values, such as sharing their knowledge to help develop their colleagues and contribute to the success of their team and organization” (Tuan, 2016, p. 94).
Risk Management
One of the best ways to ensure that a leader’s decision align with an organization’s values is to develop a mission statement. A mission statement is as a succinct statement which conveys the organization’s values, goals, and ideals to its’ workers and customers. Effective leaders should use their company’s mission statement to guide their decision making in ethical situations where there is no clear right or wrong answer. In short, mission statements are essential guides to help leaders make value-based decisions and preserve an organization’s