Developing Leadership and Management Skills

Developing Leadership
and Management Skills
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Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
Assessment of existing leadership and management capabilities utilizing academic and
theoretical models...................................................................................................................3
Planning of management and leadership developmental activities........................................4
Personal development activities.............................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Self-reflection is referred as the ability to witness as well as evaluate own behavioural,
emotional and cognitive processes. It is the ability to pay attention to own thoughts, behaviours,
decisions and emotions that makes an individual able to utilise self-reflection in real time in
order to enhance own decisions and behaviours. This is a self-reflection report in which I
critically assess my existing management and leadership capabilities utilising theoretical and
academic models and developer plan of developmental activities to improve the skills and
address my weaknesses effectively.
MAIN BODY
Assessment of existing leadership and management capabilities utilizing academic and
theoretical models
I am a student studying in the module "Developing leadership and management skills".
When undertaking the module, I was assigned with the task from my tutor in which I need to
analyse different leadership and management skills and compare them. These activities were
assessed by using different theoretical and academic models which help me in determining my
leadership strengths and weaknesses. We needed to perform this task in team. During performing
the task, I learnt that leadership and management are two essential aspects which help in personal
and professional development of a person. Having good leadership and management skills will
help in performing well both in academic career and in professional career. By performing the
assigned activities, I learnt that transactional theory is also referred as management theory which
studies leadership as system of penalties and rewards. The theory revolves around role of
teamwork, organisation and supervision. This theory sees effective leadership as an outcomes
oriented and hierarchical. Apart from this, I also learnt about transformational theory which
highly emphasizes on the relationship between the followers and leaders. This theory depicts
about kind of leader who is charismatic and inspirational and encourage team members to
transform and be better in a task. This leadership theory helps in sharping the skills of an
individual. By studying the theories, I found that in order to perform leadership effectively, I
should possess good team working and organisation skills. Apart from this, in order to being a
good leader and manager, enthusiasm and passion is highly required to motivate and inspire
others. In addition to this, the scientific management theory helps in analysing the workflows in
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