Pla Research Paper

Ho’okele—Navigating Leadership Challenges

Executive Summary:

Navigating your team for success is a significant leadership challenge. Applying direction will guarantee success! Providing you with complete job descriptions and job performance expectations, opening the lines of communications, training all personnel, monitoring tasks, providing direct feedback and creating a reward system based on performance will help place you on a road to success. Your ultimate proof will be in the recognition your employees and overall organization will receive based on its success!

Establishing a Performance Management System is vital to any organization and allows them to develop employees by focusing on setting goals, establishing performance evaluations, performance feedback and other ways to improve performance of employees. This is always a leadership challenge. However, once mastered the results will pay huge personal and professional dividends for followers, leaders and the organization.

"A person going nowhere can be sure of reaching his destination."

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(Ho’okele) Navigating

"The greatest thing in the world is not so much where we are ... but in what direction we are moving."

The term Ho’okele translates to mean “way finding” in Hawaiian. It is used to refer to the navigator or steer-person of a canoe. This word best depicts the leadership qualities of someone who is paving the path ahead for others.

Have you ever worked for a boss that delegates a task to you, but doesn’t share all the necessary information for you to be successful or to complete the project?

“To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing the sentimental. To reach out for another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings to risk exposing your true self. To place your ideas, your dreams, before a crowd is to risk their loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying, To...