How would you rate your level of professional effectiveness today (high, medium, or low)? Why did you assign this rating, and what does it suggest about you?
I would rate my level of professional effectiveness as high. Within an organization, Dennis Warren defined Effective Leadership as “doing the right things,” and Effective Management as “doing things right.” In regard to professional effectiveness, I believe in doing the right things as opposed to doing things right. I am a firm believer and follower of doing the morally upright thing, and not simply following what has been laid down. Effective leadership to me would denote that “the means justifies the end” and not “the end justifies the means”. This rating means that I strive and make sure that what is meant to be done to uphold dignity, respect and honor are followed because it is in accordance with the norm if it was to be done by anyone else who believes in fairness and justice. This suggests that I do what is considered morally and religiously correct as a Christian ought to do, and that I do not simply follow instructions and ask later because I could have followed the instructions, but the end results of which there was evil or a negative ending to it.
What other information related to Week 1 assignments did you consider to be of value?
The four-quadrant analysis was of great value to me. It awakened in me the awareness and challenges that each time when dealing with people, we are all different and reason and have worldviews that are from varying angles and perspectives. It helped me also to appreciate the differences that exist in all of us, and that when I have a different opinion from someone else with regard to a subject, it is simply the preference or dominating factors in us that are varying, that make us differ. This does not mean that I or the other person is right or wrong, it simply means that it depends from which angle one is looking at the subject at hand.
With which of Covey's four roles of leadership do you most identify? Why?
With respect to Covey’s four roles of leadership, I identify most with empowerment. According to Covey, “where there is disempowerment, we focus on empowering individuals and teams at the project or job level.” As a supervisor within my work place, I firmly believed and strived to ensure that each of my colleagues was able to be as self-sufficient as possible. If each one of them were to be chosen to take after me, they ought to have been confident, efficient and effective enough to do so. I also believe that a good leader should be one whom whose followers can easily and readily take over control of tasks because they were well trained. I always ensure that if I am in charge of a task, those to whom I am responsible for, sooner or later, they are equally empowered to perform my roles as well, or preferable even better than I did.
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