Leadership and Management Skills for Leaders and Managers

This document discusses the importance of leadership and management skills for leaders and managers in organizations. It covers the assessment of capabilities and the development of activities to enhance these skills.

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Executive Summary
Leadership and Management Skills are quite important for the Leaders and Managers of
the different organizations. By making the use of such skills the leaders and managers in the
organizations will be able to ensure that they are able to enhance their abilities and competencies.
Therefore it is important for a Leader and Manager within an organization as by making the
appropriate use of these skills the attainment of the goals and objectives can be made without
facing problems and issues. Thus it important that the individuals aiming to become Leaders and
Managers develop important skills and competencies within themselves so that they are able to
make sure that they attain the overall goals and objectives quite easily.

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Assessment of leadership and management capabilities.............................................................1
Development and planning of a range of leadership and management development activities. .2
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and Management skills are quite important skills for a person so that the
attainment of higher-level of leadership and management goals and objectives can be made
within an organization (Azad and et.al., 2017). In this report, a detailed analysis will be made on
assessment of leadership and management capabilities. Additionally, development and planning
of a range of leadership and management development activities will be considered as a part of
this project.
MAIN BODY
Assessment of leadership and management capabilities
Scenario- I am working as a Senior Supervisor in a store at Sainsbury's. As a part of my
duty and responsibility I have to ensure that I am able to analyse the different aspects of the store
an to ensure that it is able to function in a proper manner.
I am a leader who believes in democracy and therefore I believe in taking the views and
opinions of my team members so that they are able to provide the base for taking of different
types of important decisions in a highly effective manner. Therefore in this way I can make sure
that I am able to achieve my goals and objectives without facing problems and issues.
I believe in making the use of Leadership which is Task-Oriented model. By making the
use of such a model I can make sure that I am able to assign different types of tasks to different
people according to their skills and capabilities (Bush, 2018). This has helped me a lot in
ensuring that the goals and objectives which are set in the front of my team can be attained. This
is also helpful in the enhancement of their overall level of efficiency and effectiveness without
problems and issues.
Thus on the basis of making the use of task-oriented approach I can say that I have the
following strengths and weaknesses as a leader-
Strengths-
 I am able to assign tasks according to capabilities and skills of the different team
members and therefore make sure that they are able to achieve the specific goals and
objectives of the organization.
 I am able to ensure that I can trust upon the strengths of my teammates and thus make
sure that the goals and objectives of the firm can be attained.
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Weaknesses-
 When the time of taking decisions quickly comes I am weak in this aspect. This is due to
the reason that I strongly believe in consulting different people in my organization before
taking a decision which therefore consumes my time in taking a decision.
 I do not believe in taking strong actions quickly. Therefore this hurts my organizations as
sometimes these type of actions are required quickly because the time which is available
for the taking of decisions is quite low and thus it has to be quickly decided on the action
which needs to be taken.
Development and planning of a range of leadership and management development activities
As a Senior Supervisor in Sainsbury's I am thinking of the way I can adopt the different
types of activities so that the different types of goals and objectives are attained. The following
activities will be considered for the development of leadership and management skills in the
company-
 Immersive team experiences- A part of the duty of the leader is to interact regularly
with the team (Pihlainen, Kivinen and Lammintakanen, 2016). Thus the immersive team
experiences are required for interacting effectively and efficiently with the teammates. I
will indulge in this activity to develop my leadership and management skills and thus this
will be quite helpful for me to ensure that I develop my strength of assigning tasks as by
interacting more with the team I can learn more about the members of the team and thus
accordingly assign the different types of tasks to them.
 Your favourite manager- In this activity the employees give their own perspective on
the manager who is their most favourite one (Willis, Clarke and O'Connor, 2017).
Therefore the use of this activity will ensure that the favourite manager of the employees
can be identified. This will help me in enhancing the strength of trusting the teammates.
Thus I think that my teammates will strongly vote in my favour because they like me as
their Team Leader who is able to trust their strengths and allows them to mushroom in
their respective roles without facing problems and issues.
 One-On-One Impact Coaching with a Pro- This activity is quite useful for the leaders
in identifying their different weaknesses and taking their coaching with a Pro Leader so
that the development of leadership skills can be done highly effectively and efficiently.
Therefore the use of this activity is helpful for me in removing my weakness of not taking
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decisions quickly as personalized coaching can be used by me so that I am able to
identify the way the leaders are able to take decisions quickly and effectively.
 Be Creative- This activity will involve being creative and taking strong leadership
decisions thereby helping the leaders in taking effective decisions. Therefore by making
the use of this activity I will be able to remove my weakness of not taking strong actions
quickly as the development of a creative approach will be helpful for me in identifying
the nature of the situation and therefore taking a desired action effectively thereby
helping in the attainment of the different types of goals and objectives without problems
and issues and development of leadership skills and abilities.
CONCLUSION
From the above report, it can be concluded that leadership and management skills are
helpful for leaders in taking the desired actions without facing problems and issues. These skills
are needed in the management of an organization so that it is able to function properly to attain
the different types of goals and objectives in the future. Thus the use of these skills is important.
Self-reflection can be made to identify own strengths and weaknesses of a leader. Also, the use
of various types of leadership development activities can be done so that the leadership abilities
are effectively developed.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals:
Azad, N. and et.al., 2017. Leadership and management are one and the same. American journal
of pharmaceutical education. 81(6).
Bush, T., 2018. Research on educational leadership and management: Broadening the base.
Pihlainen, V., Kivinen, T. and Lammintakanen, J., 2016. Management and leadership
competence in hospitals: a systematic literature review. Leadership in Health Services.
Willis, S., Clarke, S. and O'Connor, E., 2017. Contextualizing leadership: Transformational
leadership and Management‐By‐Exception‐Active in safety‐critical contexts. Journal of
Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 90(3). pp.281-305.
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