This short clip features former HP CEO Carly Fiorina. According to Fiorina, effective leadership demands individuals with self-awareness, communication, and self-evaluation skills. Self-evaluation is an awareness-related skill that assists leaders build on their strengths as well as mitigate their weaknesses. Leaders can take personality and leadership tests to measure the nature of their position within the organization. Such tests facilitate the extent to which leaders self-reflect for an ease in predictive leadership. Fiorina suggests that evaluation will help leaders and managers acquire the traits that help in driving businesses to thriving entities (Films Media Group, 2001).
Second, self-awareness imply that leaders are knowledgeable of their personal strengths and weaknesses. In essence, they acknowledge the need to function within their emotional capacities. Through self-awareness, they can build an organizational empire with highly respectable followers. Leaders with great self-awareness skills can project convictions as well as remain humble in a way that opens up the organization for criticism and change management. Ideally, such leaders have a vision to embrace vulnerability as well as optimize on their individual strengths for exclusive service delivery (Films Media Group, 2001).
Finally, there is a great need for leaders to know the importance of effective communication within the organization. This aspect has an entire attachment to the leader especially during change management. Fiorina reasons that effective communicators can help identify impediments to change as well as lead change managers. In essence, a major part of their role demands that they include employees, investors, clients, and other managers in decision-making. The idea is that effective communicators adapt to the various environments they intend to effect elements of change. They can empower groups at individual level based on a portfolio of experience and skills. Change-associated groups then require different leadership and communication styles to further drive the change at group level (Films Media Group, 2001).
References
Films Media Group. (2001). Examples of Organizational Communication (02:31). Challenges of Leadership.
