Leadership Styles and Personal Development Methodology

BSBLDR801 LEAD
PERSONAL AND
STARTEGIC
TRANSFORMATION
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Table of Contents
Assessment Task 1...........................................................................................................................3
Assessment Task 2...........................................................................................................................8
TASK A .................................................................................................................................8
TASK B ...............................................................................................................................10
Assessment Task 3.........................................................................................................................11
TASK A ...............................................................................................................................11
Assessment Task 5.........................................................................................................................13
TASK A ...............................................................................................................................13
TASK B ...............................................................................................................................14
TASK C ...............................................................................................................................14
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16
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Assessment Task 1
1. Describe leadership styles .
Dictatorial style
Dictatorial leadership focus on the decisions taken by manager or leaders. Dictatorial
leader will have to take their own decision on the basis of moral code (Guluta and Rusu, 2016).
This will lead to reduce the impact of mistake and effective decision making for company.
Dictatorial style will increase the productivity and performance of organisation by quick
decisions. For example conflict management station and performance management situation
Autocratic
Autocratic refers to style of management in which leaders or managers have full control
over decision. In autocratic style employees has less or no power to take important decisions as
well as share ideas with top authority. In this form of leadership and management style, one
person has right to control business activities and it includes very less inputs from other members
of the group. Autocratic style of management is very effective in order to take quick or effective
decisions for growth of business. For example high turnover issues and decrease in performance
of employees
Democratic leadership style
Democratic leadership style can be describing as way which includes free flow of ideas
within organisation. In this type of leadership style leader consider the view points as well as
ideas of employees to take better and effective decision for organisation (Bosiok, 2013).
Organisation which follow democratic style have better and strong relationship with employees.
Democratic style is also known as participative style and in this leads as well as manager also
take equal part with employees performance. For example lack of communicate issues and
enhancing organisational productivity.
Consultative leadership style
In this type of leadership, leaders take consideration of few people in order to take
organisational decision as well as resolve issues. Consultative style is considered as adapt for
taking best decision in possible manner. Leaders will consider opinions of subordinates to
perform well and enhance business practices. For example development of employees and
culture changes.
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2. Personal development methodology
Personal development methodology can be describe as process in which will lead to
increase the skills as well as capabilities of a persons (Aguinis and Bradley, 2014). This is a
proper plan that is beneficial for organisation and its employees in order to enhance overall
performance. Personal development methodology includes is a framework that consist of series
of steps. Analysing needs – This is the first step in which person needs to identity the needs of
improvements. Identifying issues – It is essential to identify as well as evaluate the issues that is
affecting the performance of an individual. Prioritize values – Once needs and issues has been identified it is important to prioritize
the values of person in order to take effective decisions. Determine outcomes – Set outcome needs to be identified so that person can perform
task in appropriate manner. Planning – In this proper plan needs to be developed and on the basis of this all activities
of personal development will be conducted. Implementation of plan – Execution of all task and activities that is developed in a plan
in order to accomplish set objectives as well as outcomes. Assess performance – Actual performance of person needs to be compare with the set
outcomes. Adjustments – In this step individual needs to adjust the actual performance in order to
enhance overall performance. Appreciation – It is necessary for organisation to appreciate the good work done by
employees as this will help in development of strong relationship with them. Rewards achievement – By providing rewards to employees, organisation will be able to
motivate them as well as encourage them to enhance their performance.
3. Techniques used to collect data when evaluating business opportunities
There are various methods that could be used by organisation in order to collect data for
taking better decisions. Data that is collected from different sources will help in determine the
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