An example of one of the weaknesses I have as a leader involves my perfectionism which leads to task micromanagement and sends a vibe that I lack the ability to delegate and trust my team mates. Although this weakness isn't to the point of ruining my teams, I often have to remember that certain details just don't matter as much as team building and cooperation, and actually I had to remind myself of that just yesterday during my business project.

Basically, what happened was that my team and I were baking 57 box cakes for our valentines day project, and as I stressed about keeping the workspace clean and about baking the cakes as quickly as possible, I feel like I was coarse at times and stepped on my teammates toes just to speed things up by a little bit. I understand that efficiency is really important, however it is not as important as the people on my team, and I felt bossy every once in a while when I told/suggested someone go do this or that, or when I didn't wait for them to catch up with me, and things like that. But I think it was most especially the way I led verbally that needs work, as well as my efficiency standards/expectations.

Like we talked about in class, perhaps I could overcome this weakness by working on my strength in leading by example. Further, I think I need to establish for myself and for the team, the expectations and goals we have before trying out something new, so that way we can all be on the same page and I won't have to push and prod them into doing things more quickly or more excellently.

In my group project for this class, the strengths of my team involve the ability each of us have to submit to the ideas and leadership of others and just work together as a team. We are all pretty responsible and committed and I do not feel anyone does more to lead than anyone else. From this strength we all benefit and our project is far more likely to succeed .