Developing Leadership Skills: A Journey of Self-Reflection and Improvement

Running head: LEADERSHIP SKILLS
LEADERSHIP SKILLS
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Executive summary
The report has discussed the leadership journey and methods to develop leadership traits. This
focuses on own leadership journey and theoretical concept associated with them. This report has
aimed to enable for building a self-awareness and a clear sense of how to be an emerging leader
in the near future. It has encouraged deep reflection on the life and leadership journey to present
position. It helps to increase personal understanding of current leadership capabilities and
potential. This report has discussed theories and approaches for understanding the effect of the
Gallup test and the feedback of the other classmate. It concludes with the implementation of
strategies to develop professional outlook and leadership qualities.

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Table of Contents
Introduction:....................................................................................................................................3
Discussion:.......................................................................................................................................3
Current role:.................................................................................................................................3
Leadership journey......................................................................................................................4
Results of the Gallup...................................................................................................................4
Feedback......................................................................................................................................5
Implications of the feedback........................................................................................................6
Theory and conceptual frameworks:...........................................................................................7
Conclusion:......................................................................................................................................7
References:......................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction:
The aim of this report is to discuss the professional life of a person who develops
leadership skills gradually. This report will be detailing the aspects of the personal and
professional life so that the leadership qualities that I possess come out and be presented to the
others around me. This method of reflection about my own strengths and weaknesses can
effectively help me to increase efficiency as a leader. The report will discuss the result of Gallup
test in one hand and my classmate’s feedback about me on the other which will reveal some most
important facts of my feature as a leader. The theories, approaches and test results will be vitally
analyzed so that each factor can be minutely attained so also developed.
Discussion:
Current role:
As mentioned previously, I have been playing a role of commercial cleaner in Playford
Hotel. This is a part time job as I am still a student from other country. I have been balancing my
study and job therefore there are issues that affect me more than the others. My immediate boss
has found out the accountability factor in me for which I have been made the supervisor of the
other cleaners of this hotel. Despite the fact that in my home country in India, I never had done
any job for my living but here I have successfully satisfied my boss with my work. This reveals
that I have some leadership capabilities in me.
However, in doing this type of job, I have come across different types of challenges. First
of which is associated with the other employees who initially did not support me as I got
preference from my immediate boss. These colleagues of me tries to create issues so that I leave
the job or at least get offensive remark from my boss. However, this type of problem has been