Essay - Leadership Practices Inventory (Lpi) the Leadership Practices Inventory Relies on...

Leadership Practices Inventory (LPI)

The Leadership ***** Inventory relies on Kouzes and Posner's work ***** ***** what they called The Five Practices, that is challenging the process, inspiring a shared v*****ion, enabling others to act modeling the way and encouraging the heart. Following these five practices, ***** developed the LPI, an instrument that would help determine leadership practices and capabilities for a person.

***** LPI st*****rts with a Five Practices Data Summary, however, I prefer ***** evaluate and thoroughly discuss each of the practices in part and the scores ***** have obtained here, compared with ***** average ***** all LPI observers rating and use an analytic summary for each case in part. I will leave the leadership behaviors ranking for ***** very end.

*****. Model the *****

In this practice, you have obtained three 10s, one 9, one 8 and one 7 (on a sc*****le ranging from 1 to *****0, with 1 being equivalent to almost never ***** 10 to almost always), with a *****tal score of 55 out of ***** 60 possible. This will be *****ed in comparison with the average 31 for all other LPI observers.

Let's first analyze the ***** statements you ***** scored a 10 for. First of all, you almost always "follow through on promises and commitments." As a leader, this means that *****r subordinates will always count on your word and will trust you ***** it. If we have ***** example ***** mil*****ary leaders, when trusting the general was usually ***** with the differences *****t*****en life and death, we may have an idea about the import*****ce of ***** that what *****r team or group leader is saying ***** prove right. In an org*****izati*****, where the ***** leader is often the connection between team members and top management, following ***** on promises and ***** means that you trust *****r leader to represent you be*****e ***** ***** management team ***** ***** trust him or her ***** take decisions f***** you there. Further more, ***** ***** that these will be the ones you *****rself would have taken.

You have also scored 10 on setting a person*****l example of what is expected. Again I must turn to military leaders in order to emphasize the importance of ***** statement and of ***** score you ***** obtained. Indeed, many times in history, battles were won ***** a personal example from the leaders, a ***** example ***** encouraged the troops and boost morale. The idea was that you ***** more likely to be brave or to endure hardship if you saw your leader standing besides you in ***** challenge.

In business ***** in an organization, it is pretty much the same. Work*****g fifteen hours a day on a project ***** the kind of commitment that a subordinate needs to see from his team ***** in order ***** perform the same way. It is *****ten not always ***** quantity, but about quality as well: a leader ***** performs well and does h***** job properly is most ***** to influence ***** ***** in*****