Leadership Styles and Tactics for Supply Chain Transformation at Vodafone

Career Development
Management Plan

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Question 1........................................................................................................................................3
Leadership style that Schultz could have adopted while transforming global chain supply
function........................................................................................................................................3
Question 2........................................................................................................................................5
Influencing Styles that Schultz could have adopted to effectively engage with key business
stakeholders.................................................................................................................................5
Question 3........................................................................................................................................6
Main Tactics that could have been used by Vodafone and the SCM team to influence external
stakeholders to overcome challenges faced by Schultz...............................................................6
Question 4........................................................................................................................................7
Effective Change Management Methods for Supply chain Transformation...............................7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Managing and Leading people seems similar and many times are used interchangeably
but there are various fundamental differences in management and leadership. These differences
are in their skills, characteristics and their roles. This report will include discussion over
leadership style needed for transformation and influencing styles to engage effectively with key
stakeholders at Vodafone. There are several tactics which can be used by Vodafone and its SCM
team to influence key external stakeholders to overcome challenges which are faced by Schultz,
global supply chain management director and chief executive director and chief executive officer
of Vodafone procurement company.
Question 1
Leadership style that Schultz could have adopted while transforming global chain supply
function
There are various leadership styles that leaders can adapt to but success of these styles
depends about the context in which leadership styles is adopted. Transformation is also an
important context and is an important activity which is carried out in organisation. This is an
important activity and leadership plays important role in effective transformation within the
organisation (Thibault, Gulseren and Kelloway, 2019). Detlef Schultz, in Vodafone also
undertook transformation process in Vodafone and he successfully completed transformation.
Some of the qualities of Schultz he applied and helped him in successfully complete
transformational process in Vodafone. These skills are his natural influence, persuasion and well-
developed communication skills. These were the skills and qualities which were used by Schultz.
Other than this for transformation in Vodafone Schultz could have adopted is transformational
leadership style (Buil, Martínez and Matute, 2019). This style of leadership significantly focuses
on transformation in organisation and how leaders can effectively implement changes in
organisation.
Transformational leadership style refers to style through which leaders inspire other members of
the organisation and team to be an active valuable part of the change. Such leaders are generally
energetic, enthusiastic and passionate, this is because such leader consider change as something

which is needed for future growth of organisation and for its development. Transformational
leadership style is involves few elements in leadership. these elements of transformational
leadership style are;
Inspirational Motivation
Such leaders have clear vision which means they are clearly aware of what they want to
achieve for organisation. Schultz in this element of transformational leadership requires
communicating their vision clearly to team and member of the organisation (Ng, 2017).. Schultz
has good communication skills and he can take advantage of this in this element for
communicating and articulating his vision to team and organisation.
Idealized influence
This means that to influence and motivate others to do what leader want them to do,
leader firstly have to do that This means that leader is required to do what he wants others to do.
This is done in order to build and create trust and respect of members.
Intellectual stimulation
This is concerned with encouraging and motivating followers to be creative and
innovative in the practices and approach. This includes that leaders motivate followers and
members to find new ways of working and improving existing practices.
Individualised consideration
This means giving individual consideration to members. This involves that members are
treated based on their competencies and capabilities (Tepper and et.al., 2018). They are rewarded
for their achievements and direct recognition is offered to those who come with new innovative
and unique ideas.
Other than this some of the leadership skills which Schultz would have required to
transform supply chain project at Vodafone a success are;
Curiosity- This is important skill which would have required by Schultz because along with
internal supply chain transformation also requires transformation in several external process.