Dynamic Leadership - Assessment 2: Leadership Plan

Dynamic
Leadership
Assessment 2- Leadership plan

Executive Summary
Team leader is a person who plays a vital role in managing a firm. Team leader is those who
fulfil the purpose of organization. The features of team leader are determined as the traits and
skills which are used by them for performing the organizational activities. Leaders include the
unique characteristics which make them different from others. An effective leader stays for long
term than the other people in the organization. It is amplified that the leadership is determined by
the feature of an individual which is used to lead team members for performing the activities and
tasks. Leaders support the team members in meeting the aim and targets. The leader of team is
imperative for long term, therefore, a leader confronted by a much-complicated leadership issue.
Currently, I am working in communication department wherein I comprehend many things.
Further, I lead 9 members in my team as it is very interesting for me to meet the organizational
task. This reflective represents my characteristics as a leader. This reflective report presented my
personality features as well as leadership skills. In this, I used a 360-degree feedback method for
evaluating my characteristics and making effective decisions. This study is effective in
evaluating own weakness and strengths that could be imperative for becoming a successful
leader. In last, it discusses the action plan for improving my weakness that could be essential for
leadership skills. It will support in meeting the purpose of the research issue.

Table of Contents
Executive Summary.........................................................................................................................1
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................3
Gallup’s strength finder...................................................................................................................4
Leadership development plan..........................................................................................................5
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

Reflection
Leadership is the method which is used to examine the ability of a person for directing
team and performing the organizational task (Koryak, Mole, Lockett, Hayton, Ucbasaran, &
Hodgkinson, 2015). I got many opportunities in my life for performing the role of leader which
positively impacted my career. It also aided in reshaping my behavior and it was great
opportunity for me to get a favorable result in developing leadership skills. It is illustrated that
leadership skills are helpful to me in order to deal with different cultures of people. It is
evaluated that the team leader must be accountable for managing all issues which are confronted
by the team members at the time of conducting the team acts for completing the particular task
(Breevaart, Bakker, Demerouti, &Derks, 2016). As a team leader, I was accountable for
comprehending the behavior of others and reflected suitable behavior for handling the situation.
It is also observed that the team leader of the firm gets positive result in the favor of the
organization by taking suitable action at the workplace (Smith, Lewis, &Tushman, 2016).
I developed trust in people who were working with me in team by completing the task in
a systematic manner. It also aided to make higher competitive advantages. Recently, I worked as
a team leader in a retail organization with a team of 9 members. However, after leading team
members from the last 10 months, I observed many things which include the different issues that
are related to organizational tasks. The effective leadership qualities are required in leaders from
competing the organizational task effectively and efficiently (Pearce &Wassenaar, 2014). My
journey as leader was quite complicated as I had faced various kinds of issues which I had faced
while completing the organizational activities.
Initially, I had focused on giving the weekly target goal to my group members but after
spending some time, I realized that most of the members completed their specified task but they