Leadership Skills Inventory

Leadership Journal Report Assignment

Skills Inventory:

The skills inventory, which includes technical, human, and conceptual skill, helps me to measure my three leadership competencies of me. It lets me to understand how my skills separate to three leadership skill approaches. According to our textbook, although all of three skills are important to leaders, the importance of each skill varies between different management levels. By scoring it, I got 19 in technical skill, 21 in conceptual skill, and 25 in human skill, which is the highest one. The result doesn’t mean I have really good people skill, but it means comparing with another two skills, I’m better at working with people and handling relationship in work places. After doing self-reflection

Obviously, I’m a man who likes to keep everyone around me feels comfortable but doesn’t like to told others what to do in my work place. According to the figure 4.1, the leadership grid from the textbook, I think I will be putted in the “Country –Club Management”. Comparing with other style, the country-club style represents a low concern about the task accomplishment coupled with a high concern for interpersonal relationship (Northouse, p.79). To be honest, I think the task accomplishments are important as well as the relationship. However, it is relatively hard to me to be serious to tell my coworkers doing their jobs. I know, sometimes we have to sacrifice harmonious atmospheres for keeping the task done. In Chinese, we have a proverb said, businesses are businesses and relations are relations, which means we should separate the private emotion from our works. The thought of keeping good relationships with everyone seems kind of a weakness for me in work place. In my opinion, a traditional leader should be authoritative to his/her followers. Therefore, I’m considering changing myself a little bit to focus more on doing tasks, but not caring too much about the

Among other things, it predicts that directive leadership is effective with ambiguous tasks, that supportive leadership is effective with repetitive tasks, that participative leadership is effective when tasks are unclear and subordinates are autonomous, and that achievement-oriented leadership is effective for challenging tasks. By taking the Path-Goal Leadership Questionnaire, I know that which way suit me to lead my followers. In my case, I score 27 in participative, which is the highest of four options. As a participative leader, I do reference the suggestions from the followers for making decisions sometimes but not always. Sometimes the leaders’ behaviors depend on the characteristic of the subordinates and tasks. For example, if the tasks are complex or the subordinates are not able to comprehend their task by themselves, the leader supposed to be more directive leadership to help followers by clarifying the path to the goal, making it less ambiguous. To be an effective leader, I have to behave different in different situations, sometime directive, sometime