Business Skills for Leadership

This portfolio draft plan focuses on reflection and improvement of leadership skills in four areas: effective communication and delegation, decision-making and problem-solving, performance management, and self and self-management.

BUSINESS SKILLS FOR
LEADERSHIP

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
A. 4 areas of leadership................................................................................................................1
B. Reasons behind choosing two optional areas..........................................................................3
3. Reason behind setting 4 topics in this order............................................................................4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................4
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................5

INTRODUCTION
Development of business and leadership skills are two different important terms of a
business environment. There are development of business directly reflect progress of business.
On the other side, development of leadership skills refers, a leader always need to develop their
existing skills to gain effective results in daily operations. This portfolio draft plan mainly has
included reflection on leadership skills.
MAIN BODY
A. 4 areas of leadership
I focusing on four areas of leadership called “Effective communication and delegation”,
“Decision-making and problem-solving”, “Performance management” and “Self and self-
management”. I think these areas plays great role in the job role of a leader. A leader can achieve
any target in its decided time period if it has these skills. These four areas of leadership has been
putted below which I'm going to discuss.
1. Effective Communication and Delegation
Effective communication and delegation skills are highly needed in the job role of a
leader. According to my experience, a leader need extremely need to improve or develop these
skills to gain effective results in daily operations of leadership.
Reflection: I always like to work in a teamwork. When I work in a teamwork or a formal group-
work, my colleagues are always made leader, because I think I have some effective leadership
skills. I always try to more and more improve my communication and delegation skills, because
these are the best keys to do my best in a teamwork (Nye, 2017). Currently I have excellent
abilities to communicate with anyone. People have get impressed by me when I interact with
them, because I always try to listen them properly. This is my very positive habit that, I always
maintain a proper balance between speaking and listening.
My experience says, people like to talk that person who give first priority to listening.
Reason is, nowadays each one give first priority speak. In a teamwork, leader always need to
listen their team members carefully, because it is a way of making an effective teamwork. That's
why these skills are too necessary in the job role of a leader. As a team leader in any place, I put
focus on improving my communication and delegation abilities more and more effective,
because these can capable me to take productive work from my employees and team members.
These abilities are too helpful in building effective relationship between leader and team
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members as well. Now I completely understand the value of effective communication and
delegation skills, because these supports in removing various errors from business environment.
2. Decision-Making and Problem-Solving
Decision-making and problem-solving solving skills are also too necessary in the job role
a leader. With the support of these skills, a leader enables to take various productive decisions in
their teamwork (Tie Suk Kee and et.al., 2020). Many times a leader face such situations in
workplace where it needs to take some effective decisions to deal with different situations. On
the other side, many problems are also raises in a teamwork, in which a leader can easily solve
these problems, it has problem-solving abilities.
Reflection: As a leader I should take various steps towards improving my decision-making and
problem-solving abilities as well. These are such abilities which will help me in taking some
effective decisions in teamwork. According to my experience, a leader always need to take
various decisions in their teamwork to run daily operations in more progressive manner. On the
other side, problem solving abilities are also too necessary to me, because I know a teamwork
face different problems also in their activities. That's why I need to develop and improve these
abilities as well.
There are various ways available to me for improving these abilities. I will read some
books & journals, internet blogs, magazines which has based on decision-making and problem-
solving abilities. With the support of these ways, I can easily improve these. When I completely
have improved these abilities, then I can capable to take effective decisions in the workplace. On
the other side, I will able to solve various problems also in daily operations of a teamwork. At
the end my these all steps indirectly contribute in making of progressive business environment.
3. Performance Management
Performance manage is another major task to a leader to take productive steps towards
improving existing performance. Each person need to properly manage its performance to put
their huge efforts in daily operations. Performance management really help to a leader to develop
their abilities and skills in its teamwork.
Reflection: Performance management is also a king of skills which I need to more develop to
become a successful leader. These skills basically shows which things I should improve to
improve my existing performance. According to my knowledge, many successful businesses in
the world properly focus on their performance management aspect, because this is an aspect
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which enables to a business or a person to improve current performance (Aslam, 2018). I need
effective performance management skills which will help me to systematically manage
performance of mine and my team members.
I really need to take various steps to improve my performance management skills, like I
can take training classes which provides specific knowledge of how to effectively manage
performance. These type of steps are really become productive to improve my performance
management skills. I have learnt somewhere that if a leader have effective performance
management skills, then performance of its business environment can automatically grow.
4. Self and Self-Management
Self and self-management abilities plays great role in managing ourself in workplace.
These abilities enable to a leader to manager themselves in a teamwork. With the support of
these abilities a leader can easily achieve positive results from their daily activities.
Reflection: Self and self-management abilities will help me to properly manage my own
strengths and weaknesses in a teamwork. These abilities give opportunities to develop self skills,
performance, workability, efficiency and qualities in the workplace (Lemons and Strong, 2016).
Me as a leader able to take excellent work from my employees in activities of teamwork.
There are different productive ways available to me for improving these skills. Suppose
firstly I need to understand my existing strengths and weaknesses. Then I'm responsible to take
various steps towards improving strengths and removing weaknesses. When I get succeed in
development of my self-management skills, then I can easily be capable to improve business
environment of business or company.
B. Reasons behind choosing two optional areas
There are many reason behind choosing two optional areas called “performance
management” and “self and self-management”. By choosing these areas, I can easily understand
the actual value of performance management and self-management abilities. Now I'm completely
known the value of these areas. Performance management is very helpful to manage own
performance in the workplace. On the other side, self-management plays very supportive role in
knowing own strengths and weaknesses. According to my experience, each leader need to
improve these skills and abilities to do their best in a teamwork. A leader face different
challenges and conflicts in their daily operations, so these areas help them to deal with these
challenges and conflicts. Performance management give opportunities to a leader to more
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increase level of their hard work, workability, efficiency etc. by managing own performance in
workplace, a leader can easily put its great efforts. Currently I'm able to take great advantages
from these skills and abilities.
3. Reason behind setting 4 topics in this order
The main reason behind setting four areas or topics in this order is to properly improve
these leadership skills. Firstly I have added effective communication and delegation topic,
because to improve communication and delegation skills is my first priority in the role of a
leader in a business environment. Then I have taken decision-making and problem-solving
abilities, because I highly need to develop these abilities as well. After these, I have set
performance management topic, and at the forth stage I have chosen self and self-management in
this order. Reason behind choosing performance management before self-management is,
managing performance is major task to me than self-management. Because if I succeed in
managing my performance, then I can automatically management myself. That's why I have
given priority to these skills and abilities in this order. I have learnt that, if any person want to
develop of improve its all over performance, then it needs to improve their skills and abilities on
by one in an order of skills' value. By the way, this order give me full support to improve my
existing performance.
CONCLUSION
It can be concluded that a leader highly need to develop different abilities in their job role
to well perform in teamwork. If any leader have those all abilities and skills, then it will able to
give their great contribution in the growth of business environment.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aslam, M., 2018. Perceptions of Leadership and Skills Development in Academic Libraries.
Library Philosophy & Practice.
Lemons, L. and Strong, J., 2016. Developing Teamwork and Team Leadership Skills through
Service Learning. The Agricultural Education Magazine. 89(1). p.18.
Nye, L. L., 2017. Millennials and leadership: Beliefs and perceptions of leadership skills.
(Doctoral dissertation, The University of the Rockies).
Tie Suk Kee, V., and et.al., 2020. Leadership Skills and Competencies of Global Business.
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