Leadership

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leadership
                                 By: Anonymous

                                 Getting To Know Yourself What is encouraged in being a good leader? After doing the exercise in the context that dealt with the study of leadership traits and characteristics that was done by Kirkpatrick and Locke, I found some of the importance of leadership traits. Knowing the importance is only one step in getting to know yourself. Its also being able to use the leadership traits in ways that make you more able to lead. Finding what it really takes to be a successful leader may be hard, but I can recall several events in my career as a manager that can make the normal leaders' head spin. Just looking back at what I have done so far as a manager makes me stop and think "what did I do to get me this far?" It is a very competitive environment in any industries standards. Upon reminiscing one of my days in training were I did not know how to handle a certain situation, I find myself laughing at the decisions I made, and what I thought to be the better solution to some simple minded problem. The problem was that I was asked if I could get a particular coworker some ones out of the safe. A customer was waiting for these ones so that they could leave. Being the first day working at the store by myself in training, I had forgotten the combination to the safe, and they were not written down anywhere. W ...
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