Program Name

Management

: Masters of Science in Information Systems

Student Name

: Mohamed Sharif Adan

Student ID

: 2702297

Instructor

: Dr. Bing Ran

Learning Unit

:3

Module Name

: Learning and Leading Dynamic Era

Assignment Title

: Transformational Story (Reflective Journal)

Transformational experiences will influence the nature of a leader or

manager by teaching a lesson that the leader or manager can improve
his/her life style, building strong personality as it will also develop critical
thinking with problem solving approach. Therefore a leader or manager can
truly help to transform other. Transformational experiences will create new
pathways in life style to higher motivation (Tucker et al., 2004)
.Transformational experience will let you become a better self not just a
better professional level. It will properly you believe yourself as it will give
you an opportunity to prove yourself to yourself. It will let you develop new
strategies by producing awareness of leadership.
Transformational experiences can be typically learned or acquired a new
desired skills to develop a vision and assist inspire others to follow them
toward leadership. It will also help us to understand the impacts of a
particular situation or event by taking the appropriate decisions to handle.
Further in to this Transformational experiences will offer an opportunity to
build a solid and rich foundation for our future, it guides us by providing a
better experience when dealing future events, it is a stage for what we can
do differently tomorrow.
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References
Tucker, B.A., Acworth & Georgia. (2004) The Influence of the Transformational
Leader. Journal of Leadership and Organizational Studies, 10(4), pp.104-11

Program Name
Management

: Masters of Science in Information Systems

Student Name

: Mohamed Sharif Adan

Student ID

: 2702297

Instructor

: Dr. Bing Ran

Learning Unit
Module Name
Assignment Title

:2
: Learning and Leading Dynamic Era
: Leadership Resources (Reflective Journal)

Providing feedback to your subordinates will slightly help them be at their

best on a day to day basis, therefore they will fulfill their potential and realize
their talents. Best performance comes from using strengths based feedback
strategy as it will maintain motivation, full engagement and deliver greater
productivity. Further in to this, giving strengths feedback will also help the
leader or manager to build naturally energized strong team. According to
Gratton (2008) of the London Business School,
one of the most crucial organizational levers in the creation of
cooperative working environments and collaborative teams is managers
who coach and mentor others. othersby providing constant feedback
on employee performance (p. 9). Feedback encourages individuals to
capitalize on their strengths and develop their weaknesses, which in turn
produces high-performance teams and organizations (Gratton, 2008).
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Feedback is important to managers and leaders because employees

actions and behaviors ultimately determine the corporate culture and
success of an organization. Feedback shapes an employees
understanding of what is acceptable behavior within an organization or
workgroup. (Harms & Roebuck, 2010)
As a leader or manager, I should continually learn and strengthen my
communication skills which is very important part in the feedback system
and advance build my decision making capabilities (Deforest et al., 2002).
Boud believed that The skills of giving and receiving feedback can be
developed if attention is given to some of the attributes of worthwhile
feedback and how it can be given in ways which enhance its contribution to
learning. (Boud, 1995).
I would focus to improve different communication skills that are mostly
required when interacting people from around the world, however working in
such multicultural environment requires a certain amount of tact, willingness
to learn and to adapt compromise, further into this, there are other important
sides that I may need to further develop to work very effectively in a multicultural environment by understanding for different cultures and values
including religious believes.

References
Boud, D. (1995) Enhancing Learning Through Self-assessment. New York:
RoutledgeFalmer. Available at: HYPERLINK
"file:///C:\\Users\\Mohamed.S.Adan\\OneDrive\\UOR%20Course%20Readings
%20and%20Assignments\\URK1_MGMT_00001_Unit02\\books" books
[accessed Friday October 2015].

Deforest, H., Hargent, P. & Steinberg, M. (2002) Mastering the Art of

Feedback. In A. Bruen, ed. Mastering the Art of Feedback. ASTD Press. p.1.
Harms, P.L. & Roebuck, D.B. (2010) Teaching the Art and Craft of Giving and
Receiving. Teaching the Art and Craft of Giving and Receiving, pp.1-2.