Respond to two of your colleagues’ postings in one or more of the following ways:Offer an example from personal experience that validates the impact outlined by your colleague. Explain how your eval

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Evaluation

       Leadership style assessments certainly have a place within the organization. The effectiveness of a leadership style assessment will depend on what type of assessment and what the organizational needs are. Multi-source feedback assessments are supposed to give a 360 degree look at a leader and give the organization a valuable outcome in the evaluation of the leader (MacKie, 2015). Using multi-source feedback assessments can be extremely beneficial as long as the assessment is properly paired with the organizational goals and needs. Assessing a leader from multi perspectives is truly a holistic approach. But, organizations need to recognize that no leadership style assessment is not without its limitations. 

Next, the behavior approach is one of four approaches to leadership. Three of which all have weaknesses; traits, skills, and behavior. But the fourth approach to leadership, the situational approach demonstrates the flexibility of a leader (Northouse2016, 2016). In today’s dynamic and complex business environment, flexible leaders bring the most value to an organization. The situational approach allows the leader to apply the other three approaches given the circumstances. As an Army leader I found this approach to be extremely effective while leading in combat and non-combat situations. 

Explanation of Usefulness

Of equal importance is the usefulness leadership style assessments and the behavior approach have on an organization. Once an organization has clearly defined the goals and purpose of conducting an assessment, and then subsequently the correct assessment is used, the results will certainly help the organization. In this case, using an assessment to evaluate the benefits of a behavior approach to leadership will allow the organization to determine what needs to be done, how it needs to be done, and how fast it needs to be done (Saxena, 2014). Additionally, the behavior approach (if the relationship behavior is used), can give subordinates the motivation needed to achieve the desired outcome through a better understanding of themselves.

Explanation of Impact

The impact of leadership assessments on an individual can be positive or negative. Again, this directly correlates to the goals and expectations of the organization when the assessment is implemented. For the individual, it could potentially identify strengths and weaknesses. Thus, giving the individual the opportunity to grow and learn from the assessment. Simultaneously, the organization discovers how these strengths and weaknesses fit into the organization’s goals.  Once they have identified where and how an individual nest into the organization, a holistic approach to achieving those goals can be developed (Northouse2016, 2016). In comparison, using a behavior approach assessment will yield valuable information about subordinates’ behavior patterns. Which equates to the organization knowing and understanding their employees. Understanding behaviors is a good way to know the capabilities and limitations of the entire organization. Thus, allowing for focused plan for improvement. 

Marsheena 

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According to Cleverism.com, “Leadership is the ability to influence people to get things done. Meanwhile, self-leadership is the ability to consciously influence your thoughts and behavior to achieve your personal goals or an organization’s objectives.” (Cleverism.com, 2018) When taking the Leadership Behavioral Assessment, I answered every question with a five. What I took from the assessment is that my leadership style I enjoy helping the group and also like for everyone in the group feels valued in the group. As a leader, it is important for everyone in the group or organization to be apart and give their suggestions. Great leaders exist in each industry giving quality initiative and answers to issues that are difficult to settle. I additionally feel that strengthening can be a major piece of this because a decent pioneer that is ready to assign diverse things to various individuals could be exceptionally powerful in thinking of arrangements. 

Michael’s page goes to say that, “Great leaders understand that for people to give their best, they must have a sense of ownership over their work and believe that what they’re doing is meaningful. Communicate clear goals and deadlines to your team, and then give them the autonomy and authority to decide how the work gets done. Challenge them with high expectations and encourage them to be creative and show innovation.” (Michaelpage.com, n.d.) Leaders that can empower the hierarchical duty of his or her supporters are viewed as a viable pioneer. Other than that, a successful pioneer is capable and willing to share the vision, targets, and plan to the representatives. A skill pioneer will have the capacity to set an achievable objective and lead the supporters toward the objective together. An association that can create to hold the successful pioneers will accomplish a decent outcome in the efficiency and representatives' responsibility to the company.