Psychology

Effective leadership is the process of successfully guiding organizational goals by utilizing available resources. This paper analyses the characteristics of my leader and explains the approach used in this case.

I work in a childrens welfare and a leader in my organization would be my supervisor because she has been with the company for 25 years and she is very smart. My supervisor has helped greatly in the achievement of organizational goals through guiding the marketing She has achieved this through a combination her individual characteristics. Enhanced organizational abilities are one of the characteristics identifiable with my supervisor (Martin, 2007). This supervisor has managed to steer the management team by ensuring that all assignments pertaining to children affairs are completed in time by matching each team members individual strengths to the task. Besides the supervisor guiding the team, she has also succeeded in integrating the team to the top leadership in the children welfare organization hence enhancing efficiency. The supervisor has strong decision-making skills. She uses this ability quite often in successfully help in achieving team goals. She motivates the team members by giving rewards for good work while discouraging poor performance (Theodore, 2002). This has led to an improvement in performance for the all team leading to achievement of targets. This approach of analyzing effectiveness is the best to use in this case. It is an approach based on personal traits and individual characteristics. The reason for using this approach is due to the nature of effective leadership, which is a social art and science that maximizes the utilization of organizational resources to achieve set goal.

Conclusion
Effective leadership plays a big role in enabling organizations to achieve their objectives. Leadership is a social skill and therefore the analysis of individual characteristics can provide a basis for the measurement of effectiveness. Employers should therefore use this approach in determining the effectiveness of their staff in achieving organizational goals.