While enrolled the Seminar in Leadership class I was required to write an ethics reflection, focusing on what an ethical leader looks like, my leadership style, and how ethics plays a role in the type of leader I aspire to be. Working through the assignment, I learned that working in public service can be difficult and being a leader often requires making challenging decisions and responding to various interests. Given this, it is important that leaders have an ethical standard to adhere to. Throughout the course we constantly challenged decisions we all considered to be ethical. Working through the assignment I learned that public servants are held accountable not only to those they serve but also those within the organization. Writing this reflection made me consider my leadership style and the ways it can be both positive or negative in the public sector. I now feel better prepared to adjust my leadership and management style to best meet the needs of the individuals I lead as well as the public. I believe the hallmark of a good leader is one who adapts to the people they serve in order to provide the service that is needed. That is the type of leader I aspire to be.
In the Leadership class I also wrote a memo that required me to create an appraisal process that I could implement as the manager of an organization. The idea behind this assignment was to have me not only create the job performance evaluation but to also think about how it could be a success or failure if adopted in my organization. Any leader, regardless of their organization, must have a process in place that allows them to continuously assess the success of the organization as well as its employees. As a leader I have to be aware that any evaluation I create should be tailored depending on my position, organization, and the people who I lead. Being an effective leader is to keep my core values while adapting my delivery to fit those that I serve.
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