Chapter 10 Leadership styles and capabilities

After you have carefully reviewed Ch 10, write an evaluation of yourself as a leader against the many capabilities and functions of a project manager. For example: on page 241, during stages of team development, the leader of the team needs to have different styles and capabilities. Which one are you most capable of? Which one are you least comfortable with? Be frank and reflect upon real situations you have faced in the past.

I am not a team leader, so what I am going to reflect here is my experience as a team member. The most I am capable of is attending to the team members. My supervisor evaluated me that I am a very good team player and flexible. I respect individual teaching perspectives and support them. For example, our current team had a team building workshop three months ago and one of the assignments was to write about the person next to us. My partner, who was my team leader in my previous team, wrote that I was very dependable person. Some teachers tend to blame other teachers who have different point of view from themselves and hate each other. But I believe that people have different beliefs, career goals, and nonwork interests. I should not blame them because they have different goals or point of views from me. What I do to be a good team player is to find good things in the person and try to do what others believe to see if it is better than what I believe. When it is turned out to be better, I take practice them so that I can develop my professionalism.
The least I am comfortable with is maintaining the strategic vision. I think the strategic vision comes from many years of experiences. Good project leaders are also subject matter experts. As a team member it is hard to see the big picture and the path toward the goal because I do not have any experience as a team leader. My assignments are different from the team leaders. What I do is to work with the things assigned to me by the team leader. If I have to lead a team, I need to have an ability to see what is ahead of me and make the clear path to the goal with the strategic vision.