GUIDE TO LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT TABLE OF CONTENTS PROJECT 11

GUIDE TO LEADERSHIP
AND MANAGEMENT

TABLE OF CONTENTS
PROJECT 1.....................................................................................................................................1
1.What is involved in being a successful leader..........................................................................1
2.Can good leadership be developed and, if so, how?.................................................................2
3. Distinguish leadership from management..............................................................................4
4. Lesson learned from leadership from own experience at workplace......................................6
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

PROJECT 1
1.What is involved in being a successful leader
A leader is the person who is been involved in motivating people so that they can achieve their
goals and objectives. There are various traits, skills and styles. It includes the following:
Big five personality traits
Openness to experience- In accordance with Amanchukwu, Stanley and Ololube, (2015) in
order to be a successful leader, they need to have an innovative idea, curiosity, art and emotion
with them. People who are open to experience are intellectually curious, open to emotion,
sensitive to beauty and willing to try new things. High degree of openness can help the leader in
analysing and forecasting the upcoming risks and threats.
Conscientiousness- A successful leader needs to be conscientious in every situation faced by
them. If leaders are aggressive then this can hamper their work and they can also face serious
consequences. They need to pay attention to all the things said by their team members.
Extraversion- It means that for being successful leaders, they must know how to extract ideas
from other people. This can assist leader in growing. Also in this leaders needs to be enthusiastic
about their work.
Agreeableness- In accordance with Hallinger and Wang, (2015) a successful leader must agree to
the ideas given by their team members. It helps them in creating a positive relationship with their
followers.
Neuroticism- A leader must not express negative emotions to its team members. As this can
hamper the relationship between them and team members. They need to have a stable mind-set
so that they can achieve objectives easily.
Katz three skills model
As per the view of Bolden, (2016) a successful leader needs to have three skills that includes
technical, conceptual and human skills. In the technical skills a leader must have the full
knowledge of all the software’s and machines that is been used in the organization. They can
also provide training to their team members which can save their operational cost and can also
increase profitability of organization. A successful leader should also have the ability to motivate
their team members for working with new software and machines.
Human skills must also be possessing by a successful leader. In this they must have the
ability to communicate freely with other team members. Also they need to have ability analyse
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the problems, needs and demands of employees working with them. For being successful a
leader must adjust to all changing environment. If they are not able to adjust with change then
this can lead to failure and can also hinder their growth aspects.
Conceptual skills mainly refer to ability to work with broad concepts an idea. A
successful leader must motivate their team members to bring creative and innovative idea. They
also need to work on them. Strategies which can be used by leaders in this can include brain
storming and open discussion with team members. This will also help them in enhancing
relationship between their team members. It can also help them growing.
Lewin’s leadership styles
As per the opinion of Hallinger and Wang, (2015) there are three leadership style such as
authoritarian, participative and delegative which can be followed by leaders in order to be
successful. In authoritarian leadership style. Leaders give the power and authority to others in
order to perform and achieve their objectives. Giving authority to others can help leaders in
developing sense of responsibility in team members.
In participative leadership, leaders motive team members to show their active
participation in all activities which is going in and out of the organization. This style can produce
more creative problem solving and innovation than the Authoritarian approach so it makes sense
to adopt it in competitive, non-emergency situations.
Delegative leadership focuses more on delegating the wider opportunities to team
members. In this employees can set their own goals and objectives can be motivated by leaders
to achieve them.
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