A detailed assignment examining Leadership style management (Doc)

DEVELOPE A REPORT ON
YOUR LEADERSHIP
REFLECTIONS IN THIS
SUBJECT, INCLUDING A
SELF ANALYSIS AND A
LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT PLAN

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
PART A...........................................................................................................................................3
PART B............................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Leadership style is generally the ways which the leaders use to direct and motivate people
as well as implementing the plans and solutions to a problem. For the effective leadership, one
should have the required traits which will eventually help the subordinates to work with greater
productivity. This report addresses the different leadership styles adopted by the leader, skills
along with the traits which are required in successful leader, self assessment on the type of leader
and its relation to contemporary approaches of leadership, strength as well as weakness of the
leader.
MAIN BODY
PART A
Leadership styles
Leadership style is basically the approach which focuses on providing the right direction,
implementing the plans and thus motivating the people. I use participative leadership style where
I takes into account my subordinate as well as other people views and opinions while making the
decision and solving any problem. Participative leadership style helps me to assess the
knowledge as well as the abilities of people to innovate and thus assist me applying the best
ideas which will bring success in the organization like when I was working in an organization,
the sale of newly launched product declined on a sudden thus I called on a meeting and asked
everyone to give their ideas and suggestions for boosting up the sales and revenue. Thus I
requested everyone to equally participate and offer their innovative ideas (Conger, 2015). This
style eventually helped me gaining the confidence of my subordinates and motivating them on a
great level that ultimately increased their productivity. This has made me aware of the fact that
the opinions from all around brings out the some innovation in the company and made me realize
that engaging the subordinates in each and every problem whether it is big or small generate a
sense of self valuation inside them which eventually decreases the organization turnover.
Traits
Honesty
No matter how complex the situation is, I always tries to stick to my values and makes a
commitment to be transparent to all the people. If I make any mistake regarding the work done
by me, then I take full responsibility of to resolve it. I remain committed to my ethics for the
work and remain honest to my team as well.

Commitment
When I commit to do something, I make sure that it gets done or before time.
Commitment towards the work motivates me for the achievement of my objectives and goals.
Once I am given any responsibility or task, I display a great degree of dedication towards it and
analyse every perspective for completing it like during the college presentation given a short
deadline, I dedicated all my time towards completing it successfully thus delivered it before time
which helped me secure greater grades.
Enthusiasm to learn
I remain curious and enthusiastic to explore new opportunities and learn from my
mistake. Learning the new things gives me a sense of happiness and increases my knowledge
apart from helping me to overcome my mistake. I have the willingness to learn even the minor
things which are outside my area of interest (Antonakis and Day, 2017). This enthusiasm helps
me to solve the problems by considering each and every alternative like when I was under a team
where the project given was outside my subject, then I made the commitment to myself that I
have to learn every aspect of this project no matter what. This eventually helped me grab the
knowledge of various dimensions of that subject.
Skills
Motivation
The most important skill which I have & believe is significant is motivating my team
members. I am able to influence the people with my great ideas which ultimately motivates them
to complete their work with great productivity. I have the potential to motivate my team
members by appreciating their work and providing them with the feedback in the areas of
improvement. During the internship, I was once assigned as the mentor for my team. One of my
team member was unable to work efficiently thus I talked to that individual to know the issue for
such low efficiency which eventually motivated that member to work with high efficiency.
Communication
I have the ability to communicate effectively with my subordinates as well as the top
management. I am able to establish a constant and steady flow of interaction between me and my
team member (Robertson, 2016). Besides this, I believe in active listening which ultimately
facilitates the active engagement of my staff members. During the internship, some of team

members was not performing well so I decided to interact with them to know their issue. After
talking, it appeared that they were having some personal issues which reduced their efficiency
thus this short communication with them built a trust factor between us and made them more
productive towards their work.
Type of leader
Although different scenario calls for different leaders, but I believe in keeping the team
members together in every situation thus I am a motivational type of leader where I mainly
emphasis on taking the views and opinions of all the people which concerns me to take the final
decision or for solving the complex situation. While decision making, I solicit the views from all
around and encourage them to participate in feedback as much as possible which generates a
sense of self valued within them and also present a great bulk of alternative in front of me
(Rosenbach, 2018). During the peak sales, When my team members was unable to make heavy
sales and meet the sales target, I called for a short meeting where I encouraged my team to give
their individual reason for low sales and also encouraged them to give ideas for increasing it.
This eventually created a pool of suggestions which provided the members with various ways to
enhance their productivity. This relates to the participative as well as democratic leadership style
where the leader makes decision after taking opinions from their personnels. Leaders in both the
scenarios seeks for the mutual benefit which helps themselves as well as others.
Strength & weaknesses
As a leader in the company I have to identify my strength and weakness. In order to measure my
leadership style I am going to apply the personal SWOT analysis to find the strength and
weakness. Personal SWOT analysis is a plan for identifying the leadership quality of the leader
of any company. As a leader I follow the personal SWOT analysis to access my strength and
weakness and this will help to achieve the success and growth of the company. My strength and
weakness as a leader are expressed under.
Strength:
As a leader my aim is to work in such a manner to achieve the success and growth of the
company. Communication skills of any leader is very important because they have to
communicate with every team member of the company in a good manner. A proper
communication skills of the leader gives efficiency and effectiveness in the work of the
employees. Motivation is very important for good leaders because motivated leader gives proper

motivation to the employees of the company to a work in such a manner to achieve the success
and growth of the company. Motivation is the key to success and growth of the company because
without motivation a person cannot work to achieve the productivity of the company. As a leader
I give the motivation training my team member so that they could work to achieve the
productivity of the company. Not only team member a leader also have to be motivated towards
their work. As a leader I have to increase my creativity skills towards my work. A creative leader
brings innovation in their working style and gives different ideas and suggestion to their team
member in the company. Creativity relates to the good working style of the leader.
Weakness:
As a leader I have so many weaknesses which affect my working condition in the
company. Weakness of the leader stops them to work in optimum level. Some of my weakness as
a leader are.
Time management:As a leader I cannot manage my time according to my work in the company
so time management is my biggest weakness. Many times company faces problems due to some
time issues that I cannot manage my work. Time management is very important in any business
to achieve the specific objective and that is my biggest weaknesses.
Decision making:Lack of proper decision-making is sometimes creates problems between the
employees of the company and also affect in the working condition of the company. As a leader I
have to face lots of problems due to bad decision-making skills of mine.
Conflicts management:In any company it is a duty of the leader to solve the conflicts between
the employees of the company and I lose in this management because I cannot face the fights in
the organization between the workers.
Analytical skills:As a leader I do not have the ability to collect and measure the information and
solve problems related to the work in the company and decision-making of the company. It will
affect the success and growth of the company.
Autocratic style: I have the overall control over the team member on their working and
performance. I'll take decision on the activities of the team member and guides them
Conclusion
From the above study I concluded that as a leader I measure the style, traits, skills and
behaviours to achieve the success and growth of the company. I also identify the strength and

weakness which affect the performance positive and negative. In this study I'll take actions to
increase my strength and to improve my weakness as a leader.
PART B
Introduction
Leadership development plan is help to create the plan for future development, improves
the role of the leader and also improves the skills of the leader. This plan gives the leader overall
satisfaction the career. Leadership development plan inspire the leader to improve their weakness
and helps them in their future benefits. This plan helps the leader to set the goals of the company
in the future. This leadership development plan motivates the leader to work in such a manner to
the objective of the company. Leader makes sure about their future goals and achieve success
and growth in the future to organize this plan is necessary for every leader for better career in the
future. Leadership development plan helps to develop the methods of the leader. This plan also
improves the working style of the leader with aim to future growth and success. Leader improves
their decision-making process by the leadership development plan.
Vision and approach
My vision and approaches towards my leadership style is to minimize my weakness
according to the leadership development plan. As a leader my aim is to work according to the
time that could help in achieve the success in the future. My vision is to maintain the proper
working environment in the company to solve the conflicts between the team member. Giving
proper motivation to the team member so that they could work in order to achieve the objective
of the company (Bernheim and Bodoh-Creed, 2017). My vision is to set the better career in the
future by adopting good strategies to achieve the success and growth. A proper vision of the
leader is to work according to the career satisfaction in the future. An effective leader must work
to fulfil the future perspective. By improving my analytical skills in the leadership quality to
achieve the success of the company. Leadership development plan helps the leader to develops
their strategies and approaches to work according to the future growth of the company (Grint and
et.al., 2016). As a leader my main aim is to increase the productivity of the company and guides
the team to achieve them in the best possible way. My plan is to increase the ability to solve the
problems in the company and to improve the decision-making ideas. Being a leader I also have
to motivated towards my work because motivated leader leads to the success and growth. I have

to improve my working style in the organization with aim to increase the productivity of the
company.
Short and long term goals
Leadership has both short-term and long-term goals to achieve by the leader. Short-term
goals of the leader is to solve the conflict in the company and guides the team member to
maintain the discipline of the company. By identifying the reason related to the conflicts between
the team member I can solve the problem of fights within the company. Improvement in the
analytical skills is also comes under the short-term goals. Short-term goals helps to measure the
progress of the leader in their work. Time managing with proper efficiency by the leader helps to
improve the progress and leads to the future growth of the company. Long-term goals of the
leader is proper decision-making, time management and autocratic style to achieve the success
and growth in the future (Klenke, 2016). Proper decision-making power of the leader improves
the productivity of the company. My autocratic style helps in improving the work of the team
member so that they can achieve the future of the company (Western, 2019). As a leader I
control all the activity and work of the team member and motivates them to achieve the goals of
the company. With the autocratic skills I could give direction to my subordinates and the team
members in positive way. I can guide them, inspire them, direct them, towards the success of the
company
Leadership Development Plan
Areas of
improvement/objecti
ve
Action taken Areas of
improvement/objecti
ve
Action taken
Time management It focuses on effective
use of time by the
leader and aims at
achieving the success
and growth.
Management of time
makes the things
simple, easier and
faster. Measures taken
Time management It focuses on effective
use of time by the
leader and aims at
achieving the success
and growth.
Management of time
makes the things
simple, easier and
faster. Measures taken

by the leader helps to
manage the process of
decision-making.
by the leader helps to
manage the process of
decision-making.
Decision-making Leader try to improve
the process of
decision-making by
proper command on
his team member.
Leader try to find out
the when to take fast
decision and from
where to collects
information.
Decision-making Leader try to improve
the process of
decision-making by
proper command on
his team member.
Leader try to find out
the when to take fast
decision and from
where to collects
information.
Autocratic style A leader adopts this
style for making
proper decision for the
team member to
achieve the success
and growth in the
future
 Improves team
work
 Improves the
ability of
decision-
making
13 months
Analytical skills It is the ability of the
leader to identify the
problems and solve the
organizational
problems. It helps in
maintain good career
in the future.
 Problem
solving
 Measure to
identify the
information
related to the
issues and
problems
6 months
Conflicts
management
Leader try to resolve
the conflicts between
 Improve the
low trust
6months

the team member and
maintain high trust in
the atmosphere which
helps in success and
growth of the
company.
environment
 Resolve the
unhealthy
environment
due to conflicts
Personal and environmental obstacles
There are various personal and environmental obstacles that I have to face while
performing the leadership role in the company. I have to manage all the working styles of the
team member and identify the challenges which is faces by the team and take suitable actions for
removing them.
Personal obstacles: as a manager I have to deal with the isolation in the company by losing
connection with the employees and it disconnects the employees in the future (Mendenhall and
et.al., 2017). So to solve the problem of isolation I started to maintain proper communication
with the employees and team member. Building the proper in the company is the biggest
challenge for me because a proper and efficient team leads to the success and achieve objectives
of the company (Komives, 2016). I will take the action to give proper training to team member
so that they could work to achieve the profits. In the company I change the things which are not
going useful for the company productivity and are not useful for the team members.
Environmental obstacles: I face lots of environmental factors which affect my styles of
working as a leader like technology, cultural, economic, political, organizational factors,
characteristics of the staff. To overcome these environmental factors I'll make several actions for
proper and efficiency in performing the leadership roles. The cultural factors show the rules,
regulations, customs, tradition of the company. Social factors relates to the culture of the
customer and market (Martin and et.al., 2017). I can design the products and services according
to the market and customer to overcome the factors. Technology factors is affects because there
is rapid change in the technology. The action I'll take is the research and development to create
the innovation and ideas for making these factors easy.
Development and success of a leader
The measurement of success and development of me as a leader I could engage my team
members with each other and interact them so that they could work with efficiency to achieve the

team goals. I give proper training to the team members about the products and services of the
company. The measurement of success is depended upon the growth of the employee. I can
maintain respect for the team member and motivates them to achieve the success and
development of the company (Northouse, 2017). I will solve the problem in the company that
measure the success of the leadership.
Conclusion
From the above study I can conclude that the leadership development plans is very
important for the leader to achieve the success and growth of the company. I can can identify the
styles of the leader is minimizing the weakness and increasing the strength towards the team
member and goals of the company. I can measure both short-term and long term goals of the
company which could help me in my future career as a leader of the company. Proper decision-
making and problem solving are comes under the short-term goals which I can apply in the
company. I face lots of obstacles in the role of leadership which affect the success and growth of
the company. I measure the success and development of my leader role by identifying the
personal and environmental factors which affect the performance and take suitable actions to
overcome these factors.

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