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Systems Thinking

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Systems Thinking white boarding animation project

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Daft, R. (2015). The Leadership Experience (6th edition). Mason, Ohio: South-Western CENGAGE Learning.

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http://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/SystemsThinking.htm

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Daft, R. (2015). The Leadership Experience (6th edition). Mason, Ohio: South-Western CENGAGE Learning.

Mpala.Live.(2017). Lesson 4: Food Chains. Retrieved from:http://mpalalive.org/classroom/lesson/food-chains-kenya

Thwink.Org. (2017). Systems Thinking. sRetrieved from:http://www.thwink.org/sustain/glossary/SystemsThinking.htm

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Systems thinking and employee motivation are the top skills for leaders to apply in management. Systems thinking helps leaders to make decisions that are the best for organizations and allows leaders to see the big picture hidden under problems. And motivation gives leaders the ability to increase employees’ productivity. Motivation does not only satisfy employees’ needs, but also increases company’s efficiency. After reaching these two goals, I will become a qualified leader for both of the company and employees, and be able to benefit them at same time.

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Motivation is one of the most necessary skills for leaders to have. By using external and internal forces, employees will be motivated to pursue certain behaviors and achieve organization’s vision and goals. (Daft, 2015). In order to motivate others, the first thing I need to do is to understand their needs. Different people will have various needs base on their backgrounds and situations, such as money, friendship, recognition, achievement, and vacation.(Daft, 2015). If the reward from companies meets the needs of employees, employees will get motivated to achieve organization’s goals. And when employees are rewarded, they will be informed that their actions and works are encouraged, so that they will keep doing it in the future to get more rewards.(Daft, 2015).

The second strategy I need is choosing appropriate leadership style in different situations or facing people with different problems. It is leader’s responsibility to motivate employees who have difficulty and help them to perform better. (Daft, 2015). For example, leaders should be supportive when employees lack confidence, or use participate leadership to employees who want empowerment. By using correct leadership style and behavior, motivation will become easier for leaders to use..

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In order to apply systems thinking, I will do thinking as a circle instead of a straight line.(Daft, 2015). Peter Senge who is the author of The Fifth Discipline believes that reality is made up of circle rather than straight line. Every link in the food chain matters, any damage to one link will definitely cause huge impacts to other links. (Mapla Live, 2017). Business is similar to the food chain, “the connections cause behavior of one part to affect another. All parts are connected. A change to any part or connection affects the entire system.”(Thwink.org , 2017. Para 13). When making decisions in companies, i will think about the consequences of decisions and impacts to other departments and company itself.

Another action is the communication between different departments. With systems thinking, I need to consider every links in companies, so that I can make decisions that will benefit firms from the organizational perspective. Therefore, I need efficient communications within companies to see the big pictures that hidden under simple problems.

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My second goal is being able to motivate employees in different situations. Motivation gives leaders the ability to use both internal or external forces to influence employees and increase their productivity.(Daft, 2015). By learning and using motivation in my future career, i will be able to know factors that influence employees’ behaviors and decision, so that i can promote employees’ initiative and motivate them to achieve organization’s goals.

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My first goal is being able to apply systems thinking in my future career. Systems thinking allows people to see the whole system rather than separated elements of a system . “The success of each piece does not add up to the success of the whole”.( Daft, 2015. Pg 144. Para 2). With systems thinking, I will have the the ability to see the big picture, connect people and departments together, and understand the whole system patterns.(Daft, 2015).

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My personal leadership vision is becoming a collaborative leader in my future career, and being able to unitize powers from different people together to achieve common goals. Collaborative leaders prefer to use soft powers instead of hard powers (Daft, 2015). The traditional leadership uses lots of hard powers, such as position power, but collaborative leadership uses more personal powers and people skills. The two goals in this storyboard will help me to go further on the collaborative leadership.

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Introduction

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As time goes by, my understanding about leadership has changed a lot. I have learned different categories of leadership and power, and how to apply them when facing different situations. My leadership goals are also changed while we keep learning leadership in class. The purpose of this storyboard is to illustrate my personal leadership vision, set up leadership goals, and establish actions and practices to achieve these goals. The two leadership goals I made in this storyboard is using systems thinking to make decisions and being able to motivate employees in my future career. I will use the combination of images, text, and videos to showcase the importance and benefits of systems thinking and motivation, and provide logic actions to reach them.