Leadership

According to four frames of leadership, my strongest leadership frame is human resource. I highly believe in the power of people, as one of the most valuable assets. People not only contribute to functional operations but also to organizational success. My leadership style is to empower my team members to use their creativity and innovativeness in performing their tasks, and also to facilitate them with various knowledge, skills, and motivation.

In terms of structural frame, I am a goal-oriented leader who carries in-depth analysis and develop well-structured plan in all business activities. Clear goals, time frame, and required resources are defined for all projects. During my online business project in 2004, I planned the whole project time frame with extensive activities for the period of 9 months. I faced challenges in controlling daily operations as planned due to situational changes and new ideas. Therefore, I had difficulties in accomplishing all the tasks in such limited time frame.

In terms of political frame, I encountered conflicts and competition almost everyday throughout my career. People in the organization have to fight for limited resources to achieve their interests. Likewise, I had to manage my projects under limited time and resources, so I need to negotiate with other departments, e.g. IT, to work on my projects that have higher priority than other projects. Besides, I learnt to lead and command low-level workers to work on their tasks on-time; I built power relationship between my staff and I. Without power, I could not control my staff, which could have affected my goals. I often found myself too compromised in many situations; therefore I hope to be more effective negotiator and powerful leader.

Another frame of leadership is Symbolic frame, which includes organizational culture in terms of symbols, vision, and missions. Corporate culture varies from company to company. Strong corporate values and identity helps integrate everyone in the whole organization together. The challenges I found was introducing new employees to accept corporate culture right when they first joined the company, and also to communicate organizational changes to existing employees who are accustomed to traditional business culture and reject to changes.

My Strategies to overcome challenges

According to my experience, I use several strategies to over come challenges at work as followings. In terms of human resource management, I tried to maximize employee potential in workplace and minimize conflicts. I started with recruiting the right persons to join the team by carefully analyzing their technical