Evaluating my own abilities in the framework of leadership is of great importance to me, taking into account the fact that I will soon apply for a job, and I intend to make an effective leader whenever accepted. I shall admit that I was lucky to receive an experience of working in groups in different countries and analyzing leadership through the lens of national peculiarities. The leadership and team-building class assisted me in synergizing my knowledge and working out a general strategy for my further development. Whether I will now decide to work in Europe, Belarus, or Russia, I will rely on the consistent knowledge base formed in the course of these studies. Thus, the relevant essay is an attempt to analyze my own leadership potential and identify the key strengths and weaknesses of my leadership style. Speaking of motivation and its roots, I would rather refer myself to the product-oriented leader. Thus, I normally tend to be utterly engaged in the process of organization and control, and my principal aim is to complete the targeted task in the most efficient way. Every time I have been assigned to be a group leader, I have been comfortable about allocating tasks and giving orders to other team members. I assume, though subjectively, that I have the skill to communicate with “subordinates,” maintaining the balance between being excessively soft and acting too assertively. Another aspect that makes me believe I belong to the product-oriented type of leader resides in the fact that I willingly accept risk-taking. I prefer to take risky decisions as they often lead to achieving outstanding results. In the meantime, I would like to enhance some traits of the person-oriented and the process-oriented leaders, as well. I firmly believe that only a reasonable combination of all the styles will allow me to make an effective leader. Therefore, every time I work in a group now, I try to see to the fact that the environment within which the team operates is tense-free and inspiring. Moreover, I try to make my leading activity more certain and ordered. In the course of my studies, I realized that order is of great significance both for a process-oriented and a group-oriented leader. The former appreciates order as it assures the step-by-step fulfillment of the target plan; the latter is likely to search for the order as it contributes to the atmosphere favorable for comfortable teamwork. One of the most challenging aspects of leadership, from my point of view, is generating common values and the vision of the problem. In other words, I feel I sometimes fail to differentiate between my own perspectives and the interests of a group. I would once act as a team leader, and I did my best to meet the standards. Meanwhile, I could not help feeling the team would not show the best performance possible. It took me quite a period to indicate the stumbling block – it turned out that all the team members had different perspectives on the problem and, consequently, different motivational levels. As a result, I had to spend some extra time on setting a common target and defining the values that would be equally critical for all the team members. In other words, the group had to start almost from scratch. Thus, I now treat the problem of common vision ver