Interview With A Leader: Analysis

In the first part of the course work, I made a report about a business person who made impact on me. His behavior and aims which he has already achieved made him my idol in my life. “Nothing is perfect” this quote is true, the person I chose does not know English, so I have just talked with him in Uzbek, and asked his opinion and ideas about following five criteria personality, motivation, leadership, team and group working skills, and decision making.

I chose a person who made impact on me because he has very strong emotional control on himself, also he is very optimistic; he is a business person who manages a credit union in Tashkent. His name is Ilyaos, he was born in Samarkand in a simple family in 1981. In his childhood he wanted to study and work in Tashkent. During these all time I have learned many practical things from him. As he says: “I became independent in 1994, and started my own way”. So that is why he is so independent nowadays. In 1999 he passed entrance exam to the Finance institute in Tashkent, successfully. He had financial difficulties while he studied in institute. Because of that he had to work after the studies. He studied very hard and the result was a graduate ship red diploma of Tashkent Financial Institute in 2003. In 2005 he began working as a teacher in Finance Institute in Tashkent. In 2010 he got a PhD degree from Insurance. In addition, nowadays he teaches Insurance subject in the Academy of Bank and Finance and also in one time works as a manager of Credit Union.

If we look to the theory to the personality it could be said that personality is the sum of ways in which an individual reacts and interacts with others (Robbins, 2003). In the reference from the Jung’s theory that the personality of the individual I chose, can be clarified as an extraverted. Because, he speaks a lot, as we know that extraverted people first speaks and thinks. And also, according to the Big Five Model, Ilyos aka can be put into the personality group of extroversion, because he tends to be gregarious, assertive, and sociable.

In my opinion, difficulties in his student life made him very strong. When we talked, I said that difficulties make person stronger if he does not give up and solves them. Then Ilyos aka said that: “You will be stronger if you know something to give up and do not be upset”. He always says: “If you are making decisions, always remember that new things must be more useful and beneficial than your older ones”. His life experience and skill which he is gaining made impact on me. Because, when we are having discussions he always wins. He reads books every day, watches news and analysis. That is why, he always the first in discussions. Once I wanted to reflect on him, I wanted to be like him in talking and thinking. It was difficult, but one day I won him in discussion and then he said: “Good job, boy!”

Motivation

Motivation is a passion to work for reasons that go beyond money or status (Robbins, 2oo3). As we learned from lectures there are two types of motivation such as internal and external. For example, for the person I chose intrinsic motivation is his own future plans and extrinsically motive is money. “Before motivating others, you yourself should be motivated first, for the reason that if, someone hesitates, he/she will hesitate others, too” Ilyos aka said. As for him, money is the strongest motivator in the world. “In addition, in order to be motivated himself, a person should have strong personality, and optimism”, said Ilyos aka.

According to the Joyce S. Osland, 2001, most effective leaders are alike in one crucial way: they all have a high degree of what has come to be known as emotional intelligence. It is not that IQ and technical skills irrelevant. And also in this book there was given a research in “Leadership and management” which was done by author and his friends. They have found five components of emotional intelligence at work. Self awareness is the first component of emotional intelligence – which makes sense when one consider that Delphic oracle gave the advice to “know you” thousands of years ago. Also, self awareness means having a deep understanding of one’s emotions, strength, weakness, needs, and drives (Joyce, 2oo1).

When I asked him to speak about leaders and leadership skills, he bound leadership skills with motivation, as for him motivation is the most important tactic for leaders and managers, and said that without knowing motivation no one can be can have leadership skills. As I mentioned above he likes to read books about psychology, during the interview he gave example of ideal leader. He said the words of the leader who got one million dollar a month, “There is nothing bad for employees except the punishment of their manager”. As for me the same situation, I always tried to encourage the people with good words. Leaders should know what his employees want, and always should respect other’s ideas. Ilyos aka said that: “Your works and results should speak instead of you”. For example, when he worked in commercial bank as a manager, he had always a good communication with his colleagues. I think, having good communication is good, however manager should remember that he leads the company. So, my opinion is that managers should be a bit strict with his employees.

Team and group working skills

A team is a small number of people, with complementary skills, who are committed to a common purpose, performance goals, and approach for which they are mutually accountable. A group is defined as two or more individuals, interacting and interdependent, who come together to achieve particular objectives. Groups can be either formal or informal. (Katzenbach and Smith, 1993)

The nature of Teamwork occurs when a group of members work together in ways that utilize their skills well to accomplish a purpose.

The person I chose has some lack of team and group working skills because when I observed his speech in some meetings he always tries to be first and talks a lot and loud. According to Arts of Communication by Dale Carnegie there was written about that if a person wants to have more audience and friends that person must learn to listen to them. However, he always tries to be in the center of the attention. Speak a lot, gives interesting facts. As for me, it is cannot be seen as a good skills, he has some minus in team working. For example, he should learn how to listen to the other’s idea.

Decision making

Then he gave an example of buying his flat as a decision for his own purpose. On the other hand, when he chaired the meeting in his credit union almost always decides regarding to the purpose of the organization.

During the interview he talked about the success. Success – when you can see other’s success. Making decision always makes difficulties. But it always depends. Always you should know whether your new aim which you want to achieve must be worth than your present one. That means if you want to build a new house it should be better than your present one. Decision – can be known by the result, whether positive or negative. And he always analysis the situations which can teach him some life experience by learning other’s mistake. Learning from your own mistakes is always good.

Conclusion

To sum up, I can say that the person I chose, impact on me by his optimism and promotions in his life. I made a very deep observation on the personality of this person, because, as for me knowing personality somebody, one can say more about this person. The personality of the person I chose is extroversion and also he is emotional intelligent. Good leader with good motivating skills.