Educational Leadership and Management | Report

Running head: EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
EDUCATIONAL LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Introduction
Leadership is the art of motivating the group of people or employees who will act
together in order to achieve a particular goal in the organization or in a project they are working.
The leaders are those person in the group who possesses both the combination of personality and
leadership skills in order to make others follow their direction. The paper will divided in to two
parts which are reflective review part and the pedagogical leadership part.
The reflective review part will be briefly demonstrate and identify early learning,
knowledge from past experiences in leadership through reflection. The Pedagogical leadership
will be demonstrating the understanding and knowledge of the key literature of leadership and
management. It will also identify and explain the strengths and weakness about pedagogic and
reflective leadership.
The paper will conclude will conclude identification of common points and critical
evaluation including the contradiction of key arguments such as gaps or the areas which needed
further research.
Reflect and Review
According to the author Adams, (2016) the role of reflection is a topic which creates a
topic for interest among the researchers and educators. It is also known for playing a very
important role in the early critical thinking process, self-reflection thus developing various types
of values and skills. Thus according to my critical thinking skills I have found out that these
types of reflection journal writings has helped me to critically review my learning behaviors
hereby transforming my leadership skills and thinking process (Shamisi, Chinyio and Ankrah
2019). During the classrooms learnings process I came up with the topic of leadership and how it

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is essential to bring success to an organization as a whole. As reported by the author Azad,
Anderson and Garza, (2017) in the present business world continued learnings foster the
development of various types of skills which are required for a successful career. Regarding past
learning experiences that is my work experience, I had worked in an IT sector for 2 years. Mr.
Robert used to task me as a way of managing various types of responsibilities within the
workplace. Three times a day meetings were called up in order to update the whole managerial
department and team to show the work that has been accomplished and the work that is yet to get
completed. Mr. Robert’s listening and managerial skills were excellent, he never used to miss
any kind of verbal communication that was meant for him to answer Cox, 2019). Thus with the
set of effective listening skills he used to a good grasp of information as a whole all along his
way. Therefore with every chunk of information he used to acknowledge he used to identify the
set of problems the team was possibly facing and used to highlight the challenges they are likely
to face in the upcoming days. Hence it was only possible as because he and his members both
worked as team, where it should be acknowledged that teamwork is the necessary element of a
leadership that should be considered as one of the most important element of leadership.
His characteristics showed that he was a democratic leader as a whole who used to take care of
the final responsibilities whilst giving responsibilities to other users in the team. Therefore with
this types of leadership my communication skills grew to a higher level whereas it can be said
that both the upward and downward communication was active. With this after a year experience
I had developed the characteristics of democratic leadership where I used to handle a team of
members who used to work as a whole in order to complete the aim of the company.
Few characteristics of different approaches of leaderships are: