STRENGTHS AND WEAKNESSES

Leadership Traits: My Strengths And Weaknesses

According to the New York Times best-selling author, John C. Maxwell, discusses ten traits of leadership in his book, titled “Developing the Leader Within You.” By reading this book, I’ve discovered that I have and will discuss the three strengths and weaknesses of my personal leadership traits. The three strengths of my personal leadership traits are attitude, influence and self-discipline. However, vision, staff-development and problem solving are the three weaknesses of my personal leadership traits.

The first strength of my personal leadership trait is attitude. I’ve developed this trait through my elementary school teacher in six grade and I have never stop working on it. Mr. Bender realized that we both hat trait. I still remember till this day when he cited to me that positive attitude would take me along away. I was able to attained two bachelor degrees from Tuskegee University regardless of the adversity. According to Maxwell, he discusses that our attitude are our most important asset.

The second strength of my personal leadership trait is influence. I have always believed that I was born to be a leader. Because of this trait, I have the skills and ability to have my family, friends, co-workers and classmates to follow my vision and me.  Maxwell stated that everyone influences someone and we never know who or how much we influence. I’ve found that to be very true because a many people have said to me that I’ve influenced them in some form or another. One Tuskegee student said I influenced him to lose 150lbs because both of us attended the same gym on campus and he saw how dedicated to working out five times a week.

The third strength of personal leadership trait is self-discipline. I’ve learned and developed this trait in high school and college. I had enough self-discipline to have maintained a 3.0 grade point average and worked a full-time job in high school while playing football. Maxwell defined that discipline in the beginning of life as the choice of achieving what you really want by doing things you really want to do. I am the only sibling that in my family that have attended college, participated in extra curriculum activities and graduated from college.

Vision is one of the weaknesses of personal leadership trait hat I strongly believe needs improvement. Even though, I have a clear vision of what I really want to accomplish in life, both personally and professionally. I do envision one day to run a successful entertainment or management company someday. In this chapter, Maxwell said that vision is the key that keeps everyone focused. I’ve also found that to be accurate because due to that fact that I owned two small businesses, that my vision does keeps me motivated and focused.

The other weakness of my personal leadership trait that I feel needs improvement is staff development. The staff development trait is knowing how to create a winning team and selecting the people I need to accomplish my objectives. In this chapter, Maxwell emphasizes that the growth and development of people is the highest calling of leadership. From experiences, I believe that it does take time developing and picking personnel and planning does, determines the future. It is also important that I work in making my team members more successful.

            The final weakness of my personal trait that I fell needs improvement is problem solving. I’ve discovered that I need to focus more on approaching problems as opportunities, solve problems, and removed obstacles that prevent me from achieving my goals. Maxwell explains, that problem solving is the quickest way to gain leadership. This chapter dealt with the reason that causes many people to fail to reach their performance potential. The reasons are because problems continually occur at work, at home and life in general.

            In conclusion, I believe that all of my strengths and weaknesses of my personal traits can be improved. I also believe that knowing your strengths and weaknesses of my personal leadership trait will make me more focused and motivated. In addition, I will focus on making those followers who are not just not following me more successful and a leader.