Leadership Style Assessment Essay

The assignment this week consisted with both reading and conducting a Leadership Style Assessment. When scoring the results of my self-assessment I scored five on most of the traits. The two traits which I consider my weakness are the self-confidence and the self-assurance. According to Northouse (2016), “Leadership involves influencing others, and self-confidence allows the leader to feel assured that his or her attempts to influence others are appropriate and right” (p. 24). Granted, these are traits that I have realized need strengthening when I conducted a personality test in my prior class. Defining leadership and management is similar to comparing apples and oranges.

Although, leadership and management share many similarities, whereas they differ in both definition and traits. Leadership could be defined as a “who you are”, as to

“Leadership versus management, although relatively easy to distinguish between the two, is complex because many people are both” (eba, 2016). At my current place of employment I wear the title of Manager. This is not the first place of employment where I held a title of management, and I have experienced first hand the definition between leadership and management from a personal learning experience. For example, I worked in retail as an assistant manager. I trained under a manager that not only lacked people skills, but she also lacked intergrity. On the negative side, she spoke negatively about certain employees job performance to fellow employees, and in the presence of customers. Consequently, I was one of the employees that she spoke about behind my back but, praised me to my face. For this reason, I am always straightforward with my employees and never encourage gossip at my workplace. Generally speaking, anyone can hold the title of “manager”, but a leader is someone who is part of the team and leads by