Reflecting on Management and Leadership Skills

1. Reflect on own management and leadership skills using a range of models, and
develop and justify a personal development plan that will facilitate an increased level of
effective management and leadership
To my point of view, there are several strengths of mine that I think makes me
capable enough to be an effective leader in my future career. The most significant of all to
mention are excellent communication skills, excellent social skills, effective skills of
listening, determination and the capability of team working. I am very clear on my goals that
I set and I ensure to do the same because I believe that the performance of mine in order to
achieve my goal would be reflected back to me, whether be it good or bad. With the same, I
always make sure that I am speaking clearly while taking to my peers and I also ensure that
the electronic messages that I share are not vague in any way. I want to choose a career path
that involves working closely with and taking deep interest in the people I interact with, both
my colleagues and clients. For developing my skills of managing or management, I am
focused on pursuing different ways by means of which I can improve the effectiveness of all
those interactions that would be highly rewarding for me in the near future. However, at
present I have several management skills that I feel like would be helping me in my future
career paths and in my job role. These are of problem solving skills, technical skills,
interpersonal skills, planning, managing myself, and most importantly, of effective
communications. I am sure that all these attributes would be helping me in fulfilling the
assigned tasks in my organisations. Good management skills is very important for any
organisation to become successful and achieve its mission and vision, goals and objectives. I
do believe that I have good technical skills as of the fact that I am good at using variety of
techniques in order to achieve my objective. I do make use of machines and software and
different pieces of equipment in order to attain my objective but at the same time, I also have

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the skills necessary for boosting confidence and productivity. I am good with computer and
software and can actively participate in project management as well.
With the same, I am good at planning things. I do plan to attain my objectives. For
example, in order to complete a particular project and assignment given by my teachers in the
given time frame, I always opt for making a work plan. This helps me easy going with my
work and get them completed within the deadline. Thirdly, my interpersonal skills have
always helped me in interacting effectively with people I get to interact with. They enable me
in making use of the human potential in my work environment and motivate my peers for
better results. I am sure that they will also help me in my company where I would be required
to motivate my employees for achieving the desired outcomes.
Furthermore, I am good at decision making and I believe that it is one of the most
important management skills that every manager must possess. It is due to the fact that
managers need to make several decisions on a daily basis. Making effective decision is the
key to success in a company (Ariyachandra and Frolick 2018). Right and proper decision will
lead to the success of the company and on the other hand, the poor ones lead to poor and
failed performance. However, I believe that a good manager is always a good leader. Right
from my early year, I sought for being a part of people who were stronger, older and were
more skilled. I used the opportunities present in front of me to rise up my aspiration growth to
training and my active attitude to life everywhere. This had brought in me good qualities and
they include influencing and leadership skills. I have never been afraid of taking part in any
competitions. I always participated in more than two competitions and have attended
hundreds of conferences and international seminars too. Being a leader, I am very passionate
regarding my organisation activity. I got some fantastic opportunities in order to improve my
skills like by learning Korean language. At present, I am fluent in many international
language including Hindi, Chinese and French. It is to note that as a part of preparedness for

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leadership, I was once given the task of tutoring and bringing out the best in my younger
brother by my parents when there was the need for stepping up his school performance. Also,
during my undergraduate study as a group leader in one of our group presentation, my group
was ranked second among the top five groups and that have helped in enhancing the skills of
leadership in me. Actually, the group had very low morale because the topic that was
assigned to us was very new and unknown to us. There was not much information available
for that topic. The members had very little information presented from the individual search
and were hence, demoralised. Being the leader, I was the one to strengthen the members of
my team through giving them motivation and said them that the task was very surmountable.
I then divided my group as two different sub team and assigned each one of them to search
for resources online and the other one in the University Laboratory. I showed my leadership
by harmonising and collating the resources that were sourced by me as well as my sub-teams
into the form of presentation and that restored my confidence among the team members. My
potential of facilitating communications as well as encouraging feedbacks among the group
made our final presentation a top notch and a good example for many. I presented the work to
the admiration of each and every one as well as our Couse facilitator. From this incidence, I
am sure enough that I use charismatic leadership. According to Storey (2016), charismatic
leadership is a type of leadership model that is very similar to the transformational leadership
model. In this model, leaders are the ones to inspire their followers and teammates in order to
be energetic and to not lose hope. The main focus of the leaders is motivating the teammates
to more forward along with right goals. They create team spirit, excitement, commitment that
prove to be beneficial for the team and the organisation.
However, I still believe that I do need to work more on both my management as well
as leadership skills by means of further learning and having practical experiences as a
manager in an organisation. I feel that leadership is not all about ruling the person who is

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working under us. Rather, it means helping the ones who are performing poorly and helping
them in doing well in order to ensure that they can do much better in their future.
Through a Personal Development plan, I can assess my own management and
leadership skills and at the same time, also can determine the development and improvement
that are necessary in order to ensure that I can support in executing and achieving the
objectives of mine and my workplace in my future career (Sendjaya et al. 2016). It is a
process by means of which I can create an action plan on the basis of my strengths and
competencies for enhancing my skills and abilities present within me in my organisation. It
will also support me in taking a back and then for indicating the knowledge and skills that are
attained by me in an organised manner.
Personal Development Plan with clear objectives for developing my leadership and
management skills
What are my
development
Objectives?
What activities do I
need to undertake to
achieve my
objectives?
What
support/resources
do I need to achieve
my objectives
Target
date for
achieving
my
objectives
Actual
date of
achieving
my
objectives
To develop my
communication
skills
 Daily meeting
with new
people
 Encouraging
my peers to
give their ideas
and thoughts
 Group
discussions
 Reading
 Exercise
 Friends
 E-mail
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20
To develop my
decision
making skills
 Encouraging
peers to play
active role in
the process of
decision
making
 Supporting
team
participation
 Formal and
 Friends
 Teams
 Meeting
arrangements
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