Reaction Paper: Leadership Skills

Unlike leadership traits, leadership skills are learned competencies which can be can be developed over time.  Leaders need strong Administrative skills for planning and organizing work.  Interpersonal, a.k.a.  “people skills”, are necessary for working effectively with employees, co-workers and bosses all in an effort to accomplish the organization’s goals.  Conceptual skills refer to the leader’s ‘thinking’ skills’  and are essential for problem solving and strategic planning. Essentially, leaders who are skilled in all three areas (administrative, interpersonal and conceptual) are better equipped for their role.

Complete the Leadership Skills Questionnaire (pp 226-227) and respond to the questions noted below.  Link your reactions to the text citing the referenced page. Of course, papers should be organized, thorough, with proper sentence structure and grammar.

1. Describe the three broad skill areas assessed in this questionnaire and provide an example of each from your personal leadership experience or from observation of other leaders in your life.  Please do not use examples who are public figures..

2. Analyze and interpret your results from this questionnaire.

3. Revisit your results from Conceptualizing Leadership Questionnaire (Chapter 1 p 50-52) and Leadership Styles Questionnaire (Chapter 4, p 164-165). In light of all three questionnaires what new or revised insights do you have regarding leadership in general and in particular  of your own leadership?