Power Plan - Personal Attributes or Qualities

Part 1

Question 1

Power, politics, and influence are related since politics involve influencing others to follow one’s ideology. To achieve this, one ought to have power over his or her followers.

Question 2

I do not think that I am very powerful since I do not command influence on a large group of people who are ready to follow my ideas and who I can control their views.

Question 3

I believe that I lack the confidence, leadership skills and focus on influencing more people to a certain course of action or belief.

Question 4

I hope to gain more power to influence a large group of people to follow my objectives or ideas. This will require more effort to convince others to support me.

Question 5

Power plays a crucial role in driving change in an organization since one must be able to command, convince, and influence employees to accept change in the firm.

Question 6

I intend to ensure organizational success by influencing employees to work as a team and achieve their set targets.

  Part II

Personal Attributes or Qualities

I believe that some of my personal attributes will contribute positively to achieving my future goals. The first personal attribute is my communication skills. I have excellent communication skills, which enables me to communicate my ideas in a coherent, accurate, timely, and creative manner. These skills will enable me to communicate with the people that I will influence. In addition, I am a good listener, which will be useful since I should get in touch with the individuals that I intend to influence to understand their concerns. I will continue to improve my communication skills through formal education and practice.

The second personal quality that will enable me to attain my goals is that I am an honest person. For people to follow me, they must believe and trust in my judgment and ideas. I believe that my honesty will positively affect my success since I will create a trustworthy relationship with my followers. I always ensure that I tell the truth and fulfill my promises to others despite the circumstances. Trust is essential in ensuring that I gain more power by increasing my followers and improving their participation in my goals. It is not enough to convince individuals to follow a certain idea or goal, one also needs to influence and motivate them to continue participating in the objective.

The third personal attribute is that I am self-confident. For other individuals to believe in my goals, I have first to be confident that I can achieve them within the set period. My confidence level will continue to grow as I gain more knowledge, which will be useful in my future career. My confidence will motivate more people to join me in achieving the set goals. In addition, it will enable me to gain respect and power to command others.

Part III

Ambition

I am a very ambitious individual, who carefully plan and execute his plan in an intelligent manner. My ambition to be an organizational manager requires one to be patient and forego some goals to achieve the main objectives. On a scale of 1-5, I rate myself five since I can never give up on my goals.