Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Skills

Developing strategic management and leadership skills

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Contents
Contents........................................................................................................................ 1
Introduction.................................................................................................................... 2
Relevant literature............................................................................................................ 2
Critical Incidents............................................................................................................. 6
First incident........................................................................................................... 6
Second incident....................................................................................................... 9
Summary of Key strengths and weaknesses...........................................................................11
References................................................................................................................... 13
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Introduction
This report is the reflection on the importance of self-development and self- awareness to
become a successful leader. The report outlines the two critical incidents which used the two
self-analysis toolkits including cultural intelligence and Belbin. At the end of the reflection
report, a summary is provided regarding the strengths and weaknesses that analyzed through the
self- analysis. This report also highlights some of the important areas of personal development as
a future manager. Findings of used toolkits are also presented in this report.
Relevant literature
Managers and leaders play important roles in the organization as they are the ones who perform
their duties efficiently and effectively to achieve the goals of the organizations. Successful
managers and leaders are those people who have the ability to enhance the profit of organizations
(Constantinescu & Stevens, 2015). The success of the managers is highly dependent on their
extraordinary performance regardless of their age or working experience. There are many
qualities of the successful manager and leaders depending upon the different situations. The
researchers have found that the managers did not overlook the importance of self-awareness and
self-development because of which reasons they failed to become successful managers. Previous
studies identified the importance of the self-awareness which results in the excellent
management and leadership(Ugur, Constantinescu, & Stevens, 2015).
The definition of self awareness is given by many authors. According to Goleman, an individual
is said to be self-aware if he is able to identify and fully understand the strong and weak points of
himself or herself(Cherniss & Goleman , 2017). According to Church, the self-awareness is
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defined as the individual’s ability to identify the behaviour and skills at the organizational
workplace(Jung, 2017). Therefore, it states that the understanding of own behaviours,
emotions, skills, strengths and weakness is very important and all the managers should learn
about it. Self-awareness has many aspects which need to be assessed and has a great influence
on the growth of the individual. Some of the important aspects include personal values,
emotional intelligence attitude and learning styles of the manager towards the change (Hanssen,
2009).
Miller has the viewpoint that the managers in the organization failed because of the poor self-
awareness as they did not know the fact that their abilities to motivate and encourage other
people has the great impact on the overall results of the organization(Miller, Mandryk, Birk,
Depping, & Patel, 2017). Sometimes the high responsibility and workload on the managers
make the managers feel frustrates and stressed and affect the performance as well as
communication among the team member. Understanding and knowledge of these emotions will
help the managers and leaders to work on their emotional intelligence which leads to control
their emotions. This also helps in avoiding the harsh conversation with the colleagues. Therefore,
emotional intelligence becomes a significant aspect with the help of which the individuals can
manage their relationships to become a successful manager(BBPSD, 2012).
According to the study of Harris and Sutton, most of the managers compromised their moral
values and the ethical standards with the intent to achieve the goals and objectives of the
organization. it is observed that the managers who already used their own personal values and
developed a set of standards on the basis of his or her previous work experience can always
perform in a more efficient way and more successful in their careers(Sutton, 2008). This is
because the awareness of the personal values and development of a set of standards will always
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