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Daft, R. L., & Lane, P. G. (2015). The leadership experience. Australia: Cengage Learning.

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In my opinion, showing empathy can create a strong relationship between members of the group. Being able to understand others can help me to understand better about my members, their strengths and weaknesses, and to gain the trust from members within the team.
Due to the practice of showing empathy, I will be able to create better communication channels between team members, that will result in higher work satisfaction. And to me, I can break the barrier between a leader and my team, to make what remains is a group of skillful and energetic team members.

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The first action that I would want to practice to become more social awareness, is to listen more to others. Paying attention to people when they talk, trying to understand what they think would be a great practice for me in developing my empathy.
The second action to me, is to try thinking in other people’s perspective. This action would require time and effort to achieve, due to different personalities and ways of thinking of each individual. After listening to people talk, it is time to stay silent and think of what would the others think in their minds, to predict the next right actions or decisions.

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knowing as empathy, is explained as “one’s ability to understand others.”, to understand other perspectives and feelings (Daft & Lane, 2015, p.151). In addition, I think a social aware leader can keep an open mind while dealing with different situations, that allows them to solve the problem in different views.

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Being a successful task-oriented leadership will definitely have a big impact to my own personal development, and maybe to my relationships with people around me. I can be goal-oriented, remaining focus on my own projects, while maximizing my work quality. Not everyone around me will like this change, but I think it is a suitable change that needs to be made, because in the end, the final goals of the business and the team should be the one to be focused on.

To me, being a leader means I need to know it is my responsibility to lead the team to success, to achieve our common goals, and our own goals. Having the ability to lead the whole team and providing clear structures would help my members to achieve our team goals, as well as their own projects.

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To become a successful task-oriented leader, the first thing I can think of is always remember to focus on the whole team goals. Outlining what would be the goals of each individual, my own goal, and to come up with the goals that we will all agree would be the primary factor to become a good leader with this leadership style. I believe a leader needs to know the team needs, and how to achieve it by understanding their own strengths and weaknesses.

The second action strategy that needs to be implemented for this leadership style, is to differentiate personal emotions and works. Defining clearly the relationship between me and my team members, and to understand that it should not be acceptable to make decision based on personal relationships is what I think that should have had from a task-oriented leader.

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A part of the Fiedler Contingency Model. In the book The Leadership Experience by Daft and Lane, it is explained that a task-oriented leader is a person who is “primarily motivated by task accomplishment”, and “provides clear directions and sets performance standards.” (2015, p. 73). The task-oriented leader is believed to provide clear task direction and having the power to lead the whole team to achieve the goal.

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To think of how my personal impacts can have on the business or organization, to the clients as well as to my team members. No matter what industry that I will pursue in my future career, there is a need to be aware of how my words, actions and decisions can affect others. Running a business is not a one-man game, and running a successful business is even harder than that. A successful business in any industries would require an effective teamwork behind that.

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In this leadership journey, I will demonstrate my leadership vision by using the materials from the class readings and activities of the course IHMN 354, with two leadership goals: task-oriented leadership behavior and the social awareness, with a brief rationale for pursuing each goal. Moreover, I will explain the potential outcomes for me and people around, and what can be the benefits for me and others if I can achieve these goals.