
With respect to the leadership I can state that my leadership brand is the transformational leadership. The transformational leadership allows the organisations to make significant and dramatic changes at times. The transformational leaders inspires and motivates its staff by establishing a clear objective for the future vision and further defining the essential steps required to be taken in order to achieve those objectives. The traits of the leadership generally allow the leaders to transform the organisation with their courage, confidence, and vigour. This specific type of leadership also requires competitive environment and such leaders introduce new ideas and creative ways for performing the tasks.
Get good at the technical part of your work if you’re starting your career. The experience will be important and you’ll develop competence and therefore credibility. Further develop empathy. The people you will lead need to view you as genuine, that you are looking out for what’s best for them in addition to what’s best for the organization (your primary duty). Depending on the nature of the organization (e.g. services) one could easily argue by developing people you are best serving the organization. I don’t have great advice on how to develop empathy other than try to put you in their shoes and keep in mind that we all have one shot at this trip called life, it’s precious.
Ask questions. That’s going to be your primary tool according to my interpretation of the intent of this method. You need feedback about products, processes, problems from the people that are closest to them, the workers. When you are experienced you may see additional layers they may not, but they will provide the observations/data you need to lead (the higher up you get the more you will lose touch with the details of the daily work people are doing).
Practice listening. Let the other person finish their thought, explain it back to them to see if you understand. Practice not finishing their words if you have that habit. Ask questions. That’s going to be your primary tool according to my interpretation of the intent of this method. You need feedback about products, processes, problems from the people that are closest to them, the workers. When you are experienced you may see additional layers they may not, but they will provide the observations/data you need to lead (the higher up you get the more you will lose touch with the details of the daily work people are doing).
Practice solving conflict in a healthy manner, another aspect of this is practicing not responding to the first emotion. No matter how good you get something will make you angry, it’s important to be aware of that emotion and let it settle before responding (for some of us like me it takes years and mentoring).
Acknowledge the problems that everyone can see. It’s horrible working under a leader who is either unaware or ignores problems the rest of the team is affected by. Examples: a poorly functioning policy, or lack of a policy, low quality, a slowdown in business, a project that is having difficulty. Another great example is an ineffective team member, while you shouldn’t publicly announce an active employee is not working out, deal with the situation so your team knows you recognize problems and will hold people accountable.
Learn to evaluate yourself. What do you do well, what do you not do well. What were your contributions to the organization? What were the failures? What do you want to improve on in the coming year? What goals do you want to set? Consider doing this at the end of each year. By doing this repeatedly you will get better at the technical work, become more self-aware, and more adept at doing this kind of reflection which will help you evaluate other people. If other people see that you evaluate your flaws honestly and work on yourself constantly, they will be more open to following you and your suggestions for them.
Micromanaging kills autonomy, which is what many leaders do when they don’t know how to control the work otherwise. Micromanaging can arise from deficits of the leader(s), such as: poor delegation, poor performance management, poor coaching, poor training, poor hiring (you can’t win with an incompetent team, if you have one it is your fault as a manager, if you inherit one it has to be the first thing you correct).
A path to mastery can be killed by not having a plan to develop/train employees, and/or not letting them try new challenges. Think of the highest level of a given skill, and the steps/experience required to get there. Provide a path for people to take those steps

With respect to the leadership and team building I also participated in an activity with the group members at the university. The game involved balancing the wood with the help of two bottles of water which each group had, where few long and short strings were attached which can be seen in the pictures too. Every group had to use the hand to touch the string and keep the wood balance. This was an interesting activity for team building.


