Leader Reflection

Every team needs a leader that can lead them to success, a leader that treats them with honesty, fairness, and support. Workers look at their leader as their mentor and the source of knowledge in case of need. A good example of a great leader is the captain of a ship. A ship without a captain will not sail smoothly in the sea, nevertheless, the captain have to earn respect from his team of sailors so they can obey his orders and work together to reach the shore. This can lead to one question!! What are the fundamentals and requirements that a leader should have?

Other than courage, fairness, trustworthiness, and honor, a leader should develop his own style that truly suit his fundamentals and ease the journey for his team to achieve the goals. Building your own style would give you the privilege of managing the company or situations at a level of comfort. Furthermore, your followers or employees will understand what expectation you have and the rewards that can be received if they excelled in their jobs.

If I was a manager or a team leader, it's essential to know what motivates my people, how they respond to my feedback and recommendation, and what assignments suitable for them. McClelland's theory seemed to be the optimal choice for me. It will assist me in classifying my employees' personalities to identify each one of their motives and skills.

McClelland's theory classified employees into three categories "Need for achievement, need for affiliation, and need for power "

In the first category, McClelland addressed people who are ambitious to perfect any task they are assigned to do under the principle of need for achievement. Those employees are driven to achieve excellence in any challenge they face, suggest good solutions in case of problems, and take initiatives in leading projects that have been assigned . As a manager I have to ensure that their creativeness is noticed and reward them to keep them motivated to continue their good job. Moreover, provide them with positive feedback and not to forget to evaluate the task they are assigned to do to ensure fixing any problem they might miss and teach them how to fix for future reference.

Need for affiliation, on the other hand, is about relationship and social skills. Some people may be restrained from doing what they are capable of due to their lack of affiliation skills. Those employees can only work with their acquaintances whom they know and trust. This can be difficult especially in terms of large companies considering the high volume of employees, which may lead in shortage of employee productivity.

Addressing such difficulties by doing seminars or full staff meeting weekly, enforce positive feedback on the tasks they have accomplished, engage them in meeting's discussions can lead to revoke or improve those employees behavior which eventually