Leader Analysis Based on Other Members' Opinion

What Hanna says:

Based on our group work, I find that our group leader- Poppy has got the potential abilities to be a good leader, but she still has some leadership skills to be improved.

She has already got some capabilities for leading. For example, she always performs well on her work and she tries her best to avoid making mistake. She likes motivating and helping other people who has got some difficulties to finish the work. She often establishes close relationship with subordinates; she still knows that “task” is more essential than “people”. On the one hand, without people’s supports, she cannot achieve the future goals. On the other hand, in order to gain the goals, leaders have to hold the right directions, but it does not mean she is an authoritarian leader. She has to use the power and relationships properly. In another word, she has to know that she has responsibilities for the whole team; meanwhile she can use the relationships effectively instead of over-managing.

She also needs to enhance some aspects of her leadership skills. First, she does not do the leader work effectively. For example, in my opinion, a good leader should be a good listener, so she listens to all the people’s ideas and makes good friends with everyone. Even if she found our group members were lazy at work, she would not tell them directly or sometimes she would not tell them. She hopes everyone in our group could think her as a nice person. It might influence my decisions of the organization. Second, as a leader, she does not tell us all the facts about herself. She only wants to tell us her success and ignore her lost. She always wants her group members show respects to her and in their opinions she is the best. She expects us think that the decisions made by our leaders are extremely right, and we could follow the directions without hesitation. Third, she is so shy to share her ideas with other people. I think it might because of her Chinese culture background. She is from China, and most Asian people especially girls are very shy to talk to others actively. I remember clearly that every time when she was standing in front of a lot of people to do the presentation, her face was keeping red during the whole time.

From my evaluation above, I hope in the future Poppy could keep her good abilities of leadership and improve the insufficient leadership skills. For example, she will not be so shy to talk to people. Instead, she will tell the other group members disadvantages directly, because it is helpful for both the group members and herself. The future communication between the group members and her should be honest, so that the group members could know more about their leaders. When the group members know what kind of people she was, they could trust her more than before. Anyway as a leader she has to adapt all the different situations and organize freely towards all the sudden changes. In this way, she can achieve organizational goals easier.

In our group we choose poppy as our group leader. After the first time meet Poppy in the class. I think she has the passion to be a good leader. These two girls in our group already know each other really well for a long time. They met each other in China since enter the same school. Hanna and I know each other since we met each other at the time we start the same course at the university here. I choose poppy become our group leader because I think she is really active and enthusiasm, more over she is a good organiser through further communication with her. She is really warmth and helpful and she is a type of supportive and achievement orientate leader. When we have some difficult and unsure about what I do in the work and she will give us the direction and suggest me what I can do.  As a leader her has excellent communication skills and can communicate with most of people really well. She is a good team worker such as allocate the tasks for each member in the group and always makes sure everything do smoothly. I am happy to work with her having group meetings and make the web site together. She keeps us working on the right direction all the time.

However for her further improvement some of the aspects that she could addresses in the future become an effective leader. Understand emotion of other group number and set at other people’s position and think about it. In the group she acts a little dominant personality. She could be more tolerance give other member some time to talk. With the time goes by she realised that and give us more opportunity to talk and express our opinion. As a good leader she still need ti improve his motivation skills to her subordinators how to achieve the goals more efficiently.

In my point of view Poppy can be a good leader through the leadership role she act. She learns from others and tries to make the group work more effectively and efficiently. She is the person learn and improve her skills all the time.