Development as Strategic Manager

Development as
Strategic Manager
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Critical analyse of organisational strategic direction.............................................................1
1.2 Critical evaluation of strategic skills required of leaders that operates in complex
environment for achieving personal along with organisational strategic ambitions...................2
1.3 Assessing relations among existing, required together with future skills in order to
accomplish strategic ambitions....................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
2.1 Critical discussion related to opportunities for supporting leadership development.............3
2.2 Designing personal development plan...................................................................................4
2.3 Devising implementation process for underpinning success of development plan which can
realise changes in styles of leadership.........................................................................................6
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................7
3.1 Critical evaluation of achievement of results of the plan against original objectives...........7
3.2 Evaluation of impacts of leadership styles as well as achievement of objectives on strategic
ambitions within distinct organisational setting..........................................................................7
3.3 Review and updating of leadership development plan..........................................................7
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
4.1 Critical evaluation of impacts of corporate commitment of employee welfare on strategic
organisational objectives.............................................................................................................9
4.2 Discussion about the ways employee welfare environment can affect attainment of
strategic organisational objectives...............................................................................................9
4.3 Determining influences of corporate commitment of employee welfare on developing
organisational values which will realise strategic ambitions.....................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTION
Strategic manager is defined to upper level professional of the enterprise who has
responsibility for forming and implementing projects together with goals on behalf of the
business. It assist top leadership establish along with prioritising business objectives which align
the firm with opportunities as well as provide protection against unwanted risks (Baugus and
Diemer, 2016). To understand development as strategic manager, Orbis Coffee is considered
business unit which is one of medium sized enterprise in coffee industry of UAE. The head
office of the entity is located at Dubai, UAE since the year 2007.
The present report researched about strategic directions of the business, strategic skills
required of leaders, opportunities to support development of leadership, personal development
plan and implementation procedures for the development plan. Further, it highlights evaluation
of achievements of outcomes of the plan, updation of development plan for leadership, impacts
that commitment of employee welfare have on strategic organisational objectives and influences
of employee welfare commitment on realising strategic ambitions.
TASK 1
1.1 Critical analyse of organisational strategic direction
Orbis Coffee is the coffee company which was established in the year 2007 in Dubai,
UAE. The company offers best quality of coffee at fair prices. It has expertise and efficiency for
serving customers for ensuring that they meets satisfaction of each clients or guests. It is medium
sized enterprise which serves customers of United Arab Emirates as well as Oman with wealth of
knowledge together with experience in all areas connected with roasting fantastic coffee (Orbis
Coffee, 2019).
The mission of Orbis Coffee is to inspire as well as nurture human spirit with one cup,
one neighbourhood along with one person at a time. It also aims to become largest operator of
coffee houses within UAE. The vision of the business is to establish the company as premier
purveyor of finest coffee in entire UAE while maintaining uncompromising principles in the
expansion and growth. The long term objectives or ambitions of strategic manager of Orbis
Coffee are to expand in untapped market within global market. At same time, the manager has
also prepared strategies for growth, development and profitability of the entity.
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1.2 Critical evaluation of strategic skills required of leaders that operates in complex
environment for achieving personal along with organisational strategic ambitions
Strategic skills can be said to the acquired ability for automatically together with
unconsciously applying multiple strategies with the purpose of accomplishing objectives and
ambitions (Bjorklund and Causey, 2017). With strategic skills, managers and leaders of Orbis
Coffee promotes creativity and discipline within the business, understands drivers of success and
ways to personally contribute in organisational strategies for preparing employees for future.
Management theory includes certain strategic skills required among managers and leaders to
operate within dynamic and complex environment for accomplishing individual together with
business strategic ambitions are as evaluated:
Delegation skill: Organisational leaders have delegation skill with the help of which they
clearly assign responsibility for making decisions and completing tasks, monitoring process and
results as well as empowering the team to achieve strategic ambitions. In context to leaders of
Orbis Coffee, delegation skill benefits leaders in allocating and distributing team accountability
in equitable manner, supporting succession planning, performance management and working
towards achieving set ambitions promptly. In contrary, organisational leaders have limited trust
in employees and also do not delegate sufficient responsibility that creates issues in achieving set
ambitions of company.
Communication skill: To achieve strategic ambitions related to individual and company,
communication skill is required of leaders for leading larger teams (Clarke and Higgs, 2016).
With effective communication skills, leaders of Orbis Coffee are able to share or express what
needs to be performed, what are the end goals, strategies to attain them and so on. The strategic
skill benefits in achieving defined ambitions through increasing employee morale and loyalty,
engaging them in decision making and supporting their thoughts. In contrary, communication
skill leaves vulnerable situations where in various confusions may arise in achieving defined
ambitions.
As per the mentioned information, it is evaluated that communication and delegation
skills are important for leaders and managers of Orbis Coffee for achieving identified ambitions
at personal and organisational level. According to the viewpoints of Farmer, 2017, it is evaluated
that there are few significant skills such as financial knowledge skill, emotional intelligence skill,
problem solving skill and decision making skill that are required by the Orbis Coffee for
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