INDIVIDUAL PERCEPTION & LEADERSHIP

Individual Reflection, Leadership & Control

Abstract

As every academic literature or research highlights the significant role regularly that are played by self-inquiry of an individual or reflection in order to guide an effective leader towards the expected achievements of his or her continued change that is perceived from the education. This essay paper will seek for the rectification of this oversight. Through first collating and reviewing several proposed perspectives regarding whatever is needed for an effective leader to be enable to do implementations of the change of his or her sustainable education, and this essay paper is then provides a outline and agenda that can be used for guiding such individual reflection as well as the self inquiry. This guided process of reflection will give some information that provides a precious and priceless insight into not just the progress that is related to it and the instant needs and requirements of the process of change but also regarding leaders themselves, as well as their suitability and authenticity that comes up with their performance which they show in their overall process of change.

Individual Reflection, Leadership & Control

Introduction

Why does any author write about the educational change that it sustains claiming that the leaders still require learning about leading the change more deliberately? Both Miles and Fullan argue about this commencement of knowingly organised and focused the change that came in an individual from education in the ending of 1950s and then acknowledge the enduring lack of certainty and clarity in only the ways of its effective implementation (Fullan & Miles, 1998, p. 15). In the year 2005, it was declared by Fullan that some progress and change has been noticed by some initiatives of better implementations of the processes of educational reforms, unchangeably they stay neither sustainable nor deep.

This essay gives description of several approaches that aims at the efforts for redressing this hopeless situation and it makes recognition of some considerable amount of current literature that can clearly describe the necessary practical as well as strategic aspects of the implementation of change and also highlights the change phenomenon that only comes from good leadership approaches. As, in 1982, Fullan claims that when the change phenomenology is neglected then it ultimately leads to lack of success (Fullan, 1982, p. 4).

Description

Here, in this essay, there will be an exploration of the related concerns of the change phenomenology and also provide a deep insight on the mandatory role of self reflection and leadership for better comprehension of its significance, critical role, and nature for the achievement of sustainable and effective change in an individual's personality.

Leadership is a powerful and strong association between the leader and followers who wish and hope for an absolute change that could be able to reflect some mutual objectives (Rost, 1993, p. 18). Moreover, the effective environments of work requires engaging leaders as well as mobilizing the colleagues for acting on some new ideologies and at the same time challenging the conservative thinking (Jones ...