Developing Leadership and Management Skills

This report discusses the importance of developing leadership and management skills. It explores various theories and approaches to leadership and management, and provides a plan for improving weaknesses in these areas. The report concludes that activities such as attending seminars and training sessions can enhance empathy and self-confidence.

Developing leadership
and management skills

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
Presence of effective leadership skills in an individual helps them encourage others to
enhance their skills and enhance performance of their team while existence of impressive
management skills helps the organisation formulate plans which improve working environment
of the organisation and increases the productivity of the company.

Table of Contents
EXECUTIVE SUMMARY.............................................................................................................2
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................4
Reflection ..................................................................................................................................5
PLAN..........................................................................................................................................6
CONCLUSION...............................................................................................................................8
REFRENCES ..................................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Communication, motivational, strategic skills are required to become good leader while
main management skills include time management, delegation and planning skills. This report
will be in form of self reflection that describes the overall learning and experience gained from
conducting study about “developing leadership and management skills” along with this a plan to
eliminate weaknesses of will be provided.
Reflection
After conducting study on the topic of developing leadership and management skills, I
have analysed that various leadership and management theories are adopted by the respective
organisation in order to effectively run their corporation. I have learned that leadership theories
such as contingency theory help leaders adopt their skills in a way which yields the most
favourable result for the organisation. I have learned that it is the responsibility of the leader to
encourage their subordinates to achieve their highest potential and maintain a healthy working
environment where employees feel valued and are motivated to work with utmost diligence. I
have concluded that situational leadership style is a suitable leadership approach for leaders who
face different situations in their daily life as it helps them understand different needs of a
situation and modify their existing abilities depending on the given situation. I have determined
that the role of the management staff at an organisation is to supervise smooth functioning of
various operations by making decisions related to company paperwork and formulating
strategies which enhance the productivity of the existing human resources. I have learned that
the scientific management theory helps the managers increase the efficiency of each individual
employee by identifying proper techniques which help the employees complete a task with
maximum efficiency, this is achieved by training all the individual team members various
methods which not only enhance their existing abilities but improve their learning capabilities. I
have determined that formation of good relations with various members of the workforce help an
organisation in developing management abilities, because presence of good employer-employee
relations increase employee engagement and encourage employees to complete their work with
more dedication and commitment. I have concluded that it is necessary to adopt leadership style
which is most suitable for the individual and helps them utilise their skills to effectively inspire a
group of people to work for the completion of a common goal for the growth and development
of their organisation. I have gained knowledge related to various performance index that are used

by the organisation to measure their progress, these indicators take various factors into
consideration such as aggregate transaction worth, return on investments and strength of
relations forged between an organisation and their consumers. I am able to identify various
performance development metrics related to British retail industry after conducting this study. I
have concluded that various skills possessed by managers and leaders such as communication
and time management skills help an organisation achieve stable growth rate and expand their
operations without any major difficulties. After conducting this study I have learned about
significance of coordination between leaders and managers within an organisation and the
significance of their functions which help the organisation achieve success. My research abilities
have improved after this study as I am now able to identify accurate sources for my subject
matter, select relevant data, with neat presentation in order to complete my report.
PLAN
Development
area
Measurement Criteria How to achieve? Time required
to achieve skills
Friendly In order to accurately
measure my progress related
to friendliness, I will take
regular feedbacks from my
classmates and I will conduct
self assessment after meeting
new people about their
perception about my nature.
I will start interacting with
my classmates and
participate in social
gatherings. I will be
taking help of various self
help books to enhance my
friendly nature. I will
actively take part in
various online
programmes which
improve emotional
intelligence and help me
become more friendly.
Time required to
develop this skill
is approximately
1 to 2 months.
Self confidence I will be measuring my
proficiency in public speaking
to measure my self
In order to enhance my
self confidence I will be
attending various
I require time of
4 to 5 months to
develop my self

confidence and also take
recommendation from
supervisors of my seniors and
faculty of seminars which
help improving self
confidence.
seminars which provide
techniques to improve self
confidence. I will also
participate in online
conferences which share
mental exercises to
improve my self
confidence.
confidence.
Empathy I will take the help of my
seniors and members of
various online programmes to
evaluate the progress of my
empathetic abilities. I will
also examine the results of
various easily accessible
online quizzes and tests
which are designed to
measure empathy.
I will be attending various
seminars and programs
and conducting various
personnel activities to
develop empathy. I will be
reading various research
papers and books based
around increasing
emotional sensitivity to
increase my empathy.
Time required to
develop this
ability will be of
2 to 3 months.
Outgoing In order to check my progress
regarding outgoing nature I
will be taking help from my
classmates and team members
from my group projects and I
will also conduct regular self
judgement to evaluate various
activities which have helped
me enhance my outgoing
nature.
I will be participating in
group projects and
challenges which require
me to be outgoing and
socialise with my
classmates. I will read
various books by
prestigious authors which
help me understand social
cues and interpret various
social situations which
will improve my outgoing
I require time of
1 to 2 months to
develop this
area.

nature and help me blend
in various situations
easily.
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that in order to develop leadership and
management skills various activities such as attending seminars and training sessions are
undertaken for enhancing empathy and self confidence.

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