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Personal Mastery 4 LDRS 310: Personal Mastery Paper Your Name in Given/Surname Order Trinity Western University, Langley BC Canada BA in Leadership 29 May 2020 © Given Name Surname Year [Optional] Personal Mastery Paper This paper explores my life-long personal mastery of leadership experience in four reflective moments: the past, the future, the analysis, and the synthesis.

This paper explores my life-long personal mastery of leadership experience in four reflective moments: the past, the future, the analysis, and the synthesis.

The Past

In the past, I have experienced leadership by being led and also by being a leader. The experiences have significantly influenced my current view on leadership, and they will be of significance to my future leadership endeavors. As a child at the elementary school level, I was mostly lead than leading myself. My actions were shaped by the guidance of my parents and the teachers.

My parents were supportive, encouraging, and committed to developing the best out of me. They encouraged me to be compassionate and always embrace positive values and principles. That has gone a long way to determining the person I am today. Similarly, my teachers acted as my leaders during that period since they shaped everything I did. They taught the values of hard work, as well as the importance of courage.

During the adolescence period, I was in high school. I experienced leadership by being the chairperson of several clubs and societies. I learned the importance of leading from the front. As a young adult, I am experiencing and practicing leadership by leading groups at the university and leading youth in the community towards various initiatives.

The Future

In the future, my vision is to build myself as a purposeful leader who is inspired and motivated to lead. I look forward to living an exemplary and principled life that is governed by values. I believe in values such as honesty, commitment to a course, and the need for a leader to lead as an example (George, 2016). I believe in both the behavioural and trait theories of leadership since a leader's conduct has a significant influence on the people he or she leads. I will embrace connectedness by building relationships at whoever level I meet people. Besides, I will embrace transformational leadership to influence the people I will be leading.

I will be result-oriented and will encourage people to deliver the best at the corporate or individual level (Squires, 2016). I will promote peers in the community to embrace moral values and ethics. At the corporate level, I will encourage the teams I lead to be proactive and to take the initiative on their own. One of my SMART leadership goals is to lead youths and help them to be champions of environmental conservation. By 2023, I look forward to mobilizing 1000 youths to plant 50 each across the State.

That will translate to 50 thousand new trees planted. Such a move will make the youth more responsible towards the environment and prepare them to take environmental leadership in the future.

The Analysis

Regarding self-development as a leader, I have various strengths that would help to achieve my leadership goals. Among my strengths is that I am courageous. I can stand for what I believe in while respecting divergent views and opinions. The obstacles likely to threaten my leadership is the lack of adequate platforms to exercise my leadership. However, in line with the transformational leader I want to become, I will become creative and establish platforms to launch my leadership (Powlus, 2017).

According to the Birkman personality report, I am proactive, resilient, and adaptive to change. The resilience in me will help me overcome challenges on the way while proactivity will help me find platforms to practice my leadership skill. I am also cautious, and that may hinder me from pursuing uncharted paths. As a young leader, I am creating enough tension to propel my journey to leadership by setting high goals and taking initiatives that will push me to become a better person and leader.

The Synthesis

The creative tension in me will be resolved by striving hard to achieve any goal I set. From my future experiences of being led, my current experiences of leading small groups are all in sync with my future dream to lead organizations and communities. The past and present experiences are building me for this role. To achieve my future goals, I will practice my skills in every avenue I get.

I will volunteer in organizations and take the lead in many of their initiatives. Besides, my project to mobilize youths for the environmental program is a way to test my ability to inspire people towards a common goal. Succeeding in all these initiatives will be the yardstick to measure the success of my leadership, I will also get a mentor to lead and assess me along the journey. I believe such initiatives will mould me to be the leader I dream about.

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