Personal Leadership

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the author believes that she has a relatively extreme personality, which means that her strengths and weaknesses are often found in the same attribute. Next, the author identifies this characteristic as being a perfectionist and describes the way it affects her leadership capability. In addition, the paper relates that the author's main leadership competency that she needs to develop to meet her upcoming challenges is to become more objective.

Table of Contents:
Part One: Personal Leadership Audit
Overcoming Perfectionism
Cost-Benefit Analysis of How Perfectionism Impacts My Life
Examine My Own Perfectionist Behavior Trends
Business Setting
Academic Setting
Personal Setting
Actively Attempt to Alleviate Perfectionist Behavior
Gaining Objectivity
Examine My Own Inherent Bias
Develop Behaviors to Counter Bias
Minimize Bias in My Leadership Decisions
Part Two: Reflective Learning Summary

From the Paper:

"This reflection helped me become aware that my greatest weaknesses can be found in the very traits that I have always considered my greatest strengths. I have always prided myself on my perfectionist tendencies, and have even felt like people who complained about me being a perfectionist were simply lazy and unable to work up to the standards that I set. Because I always set higher standards for myself than I set for others, I did not believe that my standards were unreasonable."

Sample of Sources Used:

• Benson, E., 2003, 'The many faces of perfectionism', Monitor on psychology, [Online] Available at: http://www.apa.org/monitor/nov03/manyfaces.html
• Davis, J., 1990, 'News: beyond the myth of objectivity', Media and values, [Online] Available at: http://www.medialit.org/reading_room/article48.html
• Hanson, R., 2007, Enhancing our truth orientation, [Online] Available at: http://hanson.gmu.edu/moretrue.pdf
• Messina, J. and C. Messina, 2007, 'Tools for personal growth: overcoming perfectionism',Coping.org, [Online] Available at: http://www.coping.org/growth/perfect.htm
• Perfectionism, 2007, Suny Potsdam Counseling Center, [Online] Available at: http://www.potsdam.edu/content.php?contentID=7EB90335A0127D15A1DFEF824DE4E2CC

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