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With unstable economies becoming increasingly more common, businesses look to different aspects of their company to save money, improve performance, and boost their position amongst their competitors. One of the most important areas of focus is human relations, which directly influences productivity, motivation, and employee retention. In order for you to succeed professionally, you will need to develop a special set of human relations skills that includes selfawareness, strong leadership qualities, the ability to motivate, and the ability to facilitate communication.

Your final project in this course will be a reflection on yourself in your organization and at Southern New Hampshire University. You will analyze your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as they pertain to your own leadership skills as well as identify appropriate skills that contribute to influencing workplace productivity, engagement, and motivation. The final deliverable will be a plan with three goals and action steps that you have determined are the best fit for you as a leader.

In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:

 Explain how individual personality, perception, leadership styles, and self-concept influence human relations in informing the development of a personal leadership philosophy

 Explain how the communications process in leadership situations affects positive human relations

 Illustrate how the relationship between motivation, stress, and time management influences workplace dynamics

 Identify appropriate human interaction skills necessary for managers to positively influence productivity

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OL 125 Final Project Guidelines and Rubric Overview With unstable economies becoming increasingly more common, businesses look to different aspects of their company to save money, improve performance, and boost their position amongst their competitors. One of the most important areas of focus is human relations, which directly influences productivity, motivation, and employee retention. In order for you to succeed professionally, you will need to develop a special set of human relations skills that includes selfawareness, strong leadership qualities, the ability to motivate, and the ability to facilitate communication. Your final project in this course will be a reflection on yourself in your organization and at Southern New Hampshire University. You will analyze your own strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats as they pertain to your own leadership skills as well as identify appropriate skills that contribute to influencing workplace productivity, engagement, and motivation. The final deliverable will be a plan with three goals and action steps that you have determined are the best fit for you as a leader. In this assignment, you will demonstrate your mastery of the following course outcomes:     Explain how individual personality, perception, leadership styles, and self-concept influence human relations in informing the development of a personal leadership philosophy Explain how the communications process in leadership situations affects positive human relations Illustrate how the relationship between motivation, stress, and time management influences workplace dynamics Identify appropriate human interaction skills necessary for managers to positively influence productivity Prompt Based on your knowledge of human relations, you will write a paper addressing the different factors that have influenced your leadership philosophy, including personality, perception, leadership styles, and self-concept. In addition, you will examine how your leadership philosophy impacts your understanding of the communications process, workplace dynamics, and management skills. Specifically, the following critical elements must be addressed: I. Personality and Self-Concept: In this section, you will devote one detailed paragraph to your identified strengths and weaknesses as you consider future leadership opportunities. You may draw from your SWOT analysis in your responses. Please be sure to address the following in the two sections of your paragraph: A. Strengths: Discuss the aspects of your personality and self-concept that serve as a particular strength as you consider your future leadership opportunities. Why are these important to you and to others you may be leading? B. Areas of Improvement: Conversely, what aspects of your personality and self-concept may lead to difficulties in your future work as a leader? What areas of improvement have you identified? II. Human Interaction Skills: In two paragraphs, you will identify at least two skills—drawing from your course readings and your own experiences—that can positively influence workplace productivity, engagement, and/or motivation. In your discussion of each skill, be sure to address the following questions underneath the skill: A. Description of Skill: What is this skill, and how is it used in personnel management? B. Engagement and Motivation: How specifically would this skill positively impact engagement or motivation? C. Intended Impact: How specifically does this skill positively influence workplace productivity? III. Personal Development Plan: Finally, you will bring together your reflections on personality, self-concept, and human interaction skills in order to create actionable steps for your future as a leader. First, include a final paragraph answering the first prompt below. Then, identify three goals to enhance your skills as a leader. A. First, reflect on how this experience has helped shape your personal leadership philosophy. Be specific. B. Next, using the provided plan template, identify relevant goals to enhance your skills as a leader, action steps to achieving those goals, potential obstacles you may face, and a plan to overcome those obstacles. Milestones Milestone One: Personality and Self-Concept In Module Two, you will provide an initial self-reflection that discusses your own strengths as well as areas you feel you may need to improve. You will consider how these aspects of your personality and self-concept will allow you to improve your skills in a future leadership role. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone One Rubric. Milestone Two: SWOT Analysis In Module Four, you will perform a SWOT analysis. The SWOT (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats) analysis will help you determine more information about where your additional strengths and weaknesses lie. This milestone will be graded with the Milestone Two Rubric. Final Submission: Personal Leadership Reflection In Module Seven, you will describe your personal leadership philosophy and then examine how that leadership philosophy informs your use of the communications process, understanding of workplace dynamics, and management skills. Draw from the feedback you received from your completed assignments throughout this course, and use the provided Personal Leadership Reflection Template to complete the final project. This submission will be graded with the Final Project Rubric. The Career Connection: Students are also encouraged to share their reflections with SNHU Career, both throughout the term and once they have completed their reflections. Our career advisors are aware of this assignment and are looking forward to working with you in using this plan to help you find your best career fit. You can reach SNHU Career by emailing cocecareer@snhu.edu, calling 888-672-1458, or utilizing their extensive online resources. Be sure to identify yourself as an OL 125 student. Final Project Rubric Guidelines for Submission: Your personal leadership reflection must be 4 paragraphs (300–400 words) in length using the provided Personal Leadership Reflection Template. Sources should be cited according to APA style. Critical Elements Personality and SelfConcept: Strengths [OL-125-01] Exemplary (100%) Meets “Proficient” criteria, and discussion shows reflective insight into how personal strengths relate to future in leadership Proficient (85%) Discusses aspects of personality and self-concept that serve as a particular strength as leadership opportunities are considered Personality and SelfConcept: Areas of Improvement [OL-125-01] Meets “Proficient” criteria, and discussion shows reflective insight into how personal areas of improvement relate to future in leadership Meets “Proficient” criteria and draws insightful connections between interaction skills and personnel management Discusses aspects of personality and self-concept that are areas of improvement and may lead to difficulties in future leadership opportunities Describes identified skills and how they are used for personnel management Meets “Proficient” criteria, and specific details are especially illustrative of how particular human interaction skills can positively influence motivation and engagement in the workplace Meets “Proficient” criteria, and specific details are especially illustrative of how particular human interaction skills can positively influence workplace productivity Explains how identified skills positively impact motivation and engagement in the workplace with specific details Human Interaction Skills: Description of Skill [OL-125-04] Human Interaction Skills: Engagement and Motivation [OL-125-04] Human Interaction Skills: Intended Impact [OL-125-04] Explains how identified skills positively influence workplace productivity with specific details Needs Improvement (55%) Discusses aspects of personality and self-concept that serve as a particular strength as leadership opportunities are considered, but discussion lacks clarity or detail Discusses aspects of personality and self-concept that are areas of improvement and may lead to difficulties, but discussion lacks clarity or detail Describes identified skills and how they are used for personnel management, but description is cursory or contains inaccuracies Explains how identified skills positively impact motivation and engagement in the workplace, but explanation lacks specific details or contains inaccuracies Not Evident (0%) Does not discuss aspects of personality and self-concept that serve as a particular strength Explains how identified skills positively influence workplace productivity, but explanation lacks specific details or contains inaccuracies Value 12 Does not discuss aspects of personality and self-concept that are areas of improvement and may lead to difficulties in future leadership opportunities Does not describe identified skills and how they are used for personnel management 12 Does not explain how identified skills positively impact workplace motivation and engagement in the workplace 15 Does not explain how identified skills positively influence workplace productivity 18 15 Personal Development Plan: Leadership Philosophy [OL-125-01] Personal Development Plan: Goals [OL-125-01] Meets “Proficient” criteria and shows reflective insight into the development of personal leadership philosophy Reflects on how experience has shaped personal leadership philosophy Reflects on how experience has shaped personal leadership philosophy, but reflection is cursory Does not reflect on how experience has shaped personal leadership philosophy 12 Meets “Proficient” criteria, and identified plans show a practical understanding of next steps for developing personal leadership skills Identifies goals to enhance leadership skills, action steps for achieving goals, potential obstacles, and plans for overcoming obstacles Does not identify goals, action steps for achieving goals, potential obstacles, and plans for overcoming obstacles 12 Articulation of Response Submission is free of errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, and organization and is presented in a professional and easy-toread format Submission has no major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization Identifies goals to enhance leadership skills, action steps for achieving goals, potential obstacles, and plans for overcoming obstacles, but response contains gaps in clarity or support for achieving goals or overcoming obstacles Submission has major errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that negatively impact readability and articulation of main ideas Submission has critical errors related to citations, grammar, spelling, syntax, or organization that prevent understanding of ideas 4 Total 100% Running head: PERSONALITY TRAITS IN LEADERSHIP Personality Traits in Leadership Brendon Cronin SNHU Human relations in admin. 1 PERSONALITY TRAITS IN LEADERSHIP Personality Traits in Leadership The understanding of personality type helps in identifying the kind of a leader and leadership style and individual develops. Leadership is a process through which an individual influences others to accomplish some set tasks or objectives as well as directing an organization in a way that makes it cohesive and coherent. It is important to note that leadership style is a personal thing and everyone has a natural style correlating to their personality type (Houpt, Gilkey, & Ehringhaus, 2015). It, therefore, makes it essential for one to know their strengths and weakness to be successful leaders. Some of my personality and self-concepts that comprise as strengths in my future leadership role include self-awareness, extraversion, openness to experience, and conscientiousness. Self-awareness has been crucial to most of the endeavors I engage myself in because it allows for the realization of some of the strengths and weaknesses within myself. The awareness of such developmental needs provides confidence and the realization of some of the crucial skills. Extraversion entails having the energy and propensity to seek interaction with people and the outside world. Interaction with people is ideal for one to be a successful leader since most leadership positions may require one to meet people in different settings and diversity as well different sets of interests and priorities (Houpt, Gilkey, & Ehringhaus, 2015). Openness to experience and ideas is a necessity in leadership as it allows the leader to buy into some of the precepts and intellectual expertise residing in the lower levels of the organization as well as allowing for the confirmation of its legitimacy. However, some areas that would need to be addressed include empathy and sense of humor. The failure to grasp the problems and needs of some of the people around me has been a problem and may affect my leadership aspirations. Leaders should be able to develop empathy with their followers that would allow for the development of a closer connection. 2 PERSONALITY TRAITS IN LEADERSHIP There is also the need to establish a sense of humor that may be necessary when the going gets tough, and people may need some humor to keep them motivated. My continued aspiration for achieving results resulted in the negligence of the part of humor thus requiring the need to address it. 3 PERSONALITY TRAITS IN LEADERSHIP Reference Houpt, J. L., Gilkey, R. W., & Ehringhaus, S. H. (2015). Personality Traits and Leadership. Learning to Lead in the Academic Medical Center, 35-44. 4 OL 125: Personal Development Plan – SWOT Analysis (Milestone Two) Student Name: Brendon Cronin Date: 11/22/18 Strengths (What do I do well?) ● Extraversion is one of my main strengths that entails the energy and propensity I have to seek interaction with people and the outside. The best leaders usually develop a good rapport with other people and interact well. ● I am part of a network that most people do not have that my extraversion has generated. The connection I have is with the leaders of other companies that may want to be partners with the present company. ● Commitment and passion is a strength that forms the basis for the other people to follow as well as help gain respect from the other people within the team. ● There is also the aspect of selfawareness that some people may not possess that allows for the realization of the strengths and weaknesses of oneself. Opportunities (What kinds of things could I be doing based on my strengths?) ● Engaging others in the provision of feedback regarding their experience of me ● Enhancing my abilities to manage the need to complete some set tasks quickly to allow for careful deliberation ● Building on my strengths as well as enhancing my equanimity about some work-related tasks ● Receiving coaching in the service of improving my leadership skills Weaknesses (Where can I make improvements?) ● Empathy is the primary weakness that arises because of my failure to grasp the problems and the needs of the people around me. ● Lack of a sense of humor ● Conflicting management styles that may contribute to some of the failings in the part of the leadership ● The problem of managing different personalities in a meeting or event Threats (Where could I be using my strengths and talents more productively?) ● Time pressure that can contribute to the derailment of my plan for selfimprovement because of it can catapult me back to my old habits ● The loss of leadership opportunities because of the growing number of people with leadership qualities ● The increased multitude of the everyday demands that conspires against self-reflection ● The huge expectation build around me Reflection: The development of a SWOT analysis is exciting in that it allows an individual to know their strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats. The specification of the actions corresponding to the identified elements is interesting since one may not have known of some of the elements in them. Besides, the analysis allows an individual to have a better understanding of oneself. The understanding from the results can help in improving the situation in the organization an individual is attached to as well as reduce the likelihood of developments that may contribute to the negative development of the organization. The understanding of such elements is educative as well as interesting to individuals analyzing themselves.
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Leadership Philosophy

A leadership philosophy is the guiding principles that model the attitude, behavior and
actions of both the leader and the followers (Hegarty, 2015). Leaders ought to set the bar,
operate from a position of strength to empower. More so, they are bound to inspire, motivate
and influence followers to exploit their potential. It is crucial for leaders to construct a wellthought leadership philosophy to empower him/her perform his/her functions.

My leadership philosophy is "Co-operation, consideration, and diligence are the keys
to prosperity." The philosophy envisions continued support/ teamwork (cooperation), integrity
and fair treatment of others (consideration) and persistence effort (diligence) towards common
and personal goals. The philosophy was ins...


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