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May 23 2021
Running Head: WHO AM I AS A LEADER AND MANAGER? 1
WHO AM I AS A LEADER AND MANAGER? 2
WHO AM I AS A LEADER AND MANAGER?
Table of Contents
Introduction 3
Leading through Communication 3
Leading Conflict Resolution 5
Leading Decision Making and Ethical Practices 6
Leading Collaboratively 8
Leading Professional Development and Changes 9
Conclusion 9
References 11
Introduction
A leader is one, who knows the way, goes the way and shows the way. Leadership is all about the vision and the responsibility, not the power. As children are the priority and change is the reality, therefore collaboration is the strategy. As we all know, that education is the mother of leadership, so it means not only a position or a title but also an action and an example.
Hence, as stated by Tabak and Le
on (2017), leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. Through this paper, the author will express the aspects of leadership in practice, which will lead through communication, conflict resolution, ethical decision-making, collaboratives and finally dealing with professional development and changes.
Leading through Communication
Education is the most powerful weapon, which you can use to change the world. However, in order to change the world communication is needed. As stated by Johnson and Hackman (2018), the art of communication is the language of the leaders. Hence, it is the real work of leadership. Through this paper and with the help of the subject guide the author expresses the basic qualities a leader should have while leading a team. Successful leadership in early childhood is totally a matter of communication as the pedagogical activities are based on the building blocks of communication and interpersonal relationship. A responsible leader will develop their own communication skills as well as motivate the team to exercise this skill within power in order to achieve the best result.
Therefore, as viewed by Anderson (2017), a leader should adopt the policy of integrity in order to guide the team in a right track. The leader should acknowledge the qualities of representatives to support his team rather to dominate them. Therefore, the leader of the team should posses’ certain basic qualities such as gratitude, showing empathy, managing the conflict, practicing the emotional intelligence, encouraging the team with inspirations activities and many more. Soft-spoken person is needed to communicate gently with the team members, thereby building a trust worthy relationship with them. Generating self-awareness is highly praiseworthy quality that should be there in a leader in order to protect the team from diverse circumstances.
Communication should be purposely used by the leader to inspire and motivate other within the team. Communication skill should undergo with active listening and understanding of the saying of team members. Communication should be done effectively as well as influentially in order to deal with emotional intelligence as well as the conflict management. Early childhood services are the service for people where the business is supposing to provide the quality learning opportunities as well as education for the young children by understanding their families, expectation, requirements, circumstances, supporting and protecting them in case of child-rearing and employing available in human resource.
In order to serve all these purposes communication is highly required. Emotional intelligent leaders tactfully and genuinely deal with personal biases. They possess resources and skills for flexible responses by overcoming the challenges and managing the personal feeling while communicating in workplace.
As stated by Dartey-Baah and Mekpor (2017), the literature review here connects the transformational and transactional leadership theory with emotional intelligence in order to present their relationship. The leader should maintain the transparency and clarity in their communication skills as a good communication skill helps to develop a better understanding and belief within the team member, which thereby inspires them to follow the ideologies and the value, which their leaders want them to inculcate.
Leading Conflict Resolution
Conflict is the beginning of the consciousness and dialogue is the most effective method of resolving conflict. Through cooperation, conflict can be managed. The author here demonstrates the idea of discord, disharmony and conflict, which appears in many forms in early childhood services. According to the author, a leader must identify and understand the diverse perspectives and handle it by implementing several...