Guide to Leadership and Management

Guide to
Leadership and
Management
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What is occupied in being a successful leader?...........................................................................4
Can good leadership be developed, how?....................................................................................5
What distinguish leadership from management?.........................................................................6
What have you learnt about leadership from your own experiences, on this course and
elsewhere?..................................................................................................................................10
REFRENCES.................................................................................................................................13
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What is occupied in being a successful leader?
Leaders are those individuals who held the responsibility to accomplish organisational
goals by influencing and encouraging behaviour of other individual. Most important activities
that have been undertaken by leader are leadership that effectively provide guidelines for
employees. In addition with this successful leader have different types of Style, skills and traits
with the help of which they can fulfil organisational objectives of an individual Richard Branson:
Big Five personality traits: Richard Branson is undertaking use of five personality
dimensions in order to provide support and guidance to employees. By undertaking these
dimensions with the help of they can further able to influence other individual personality traits
that has been undertaken. The personality traits which are being followed by Richard Branson
for being successful are known as OCEAN model are further being defined below:
Openness:
Leaders are the individual effectively guide, motivate and direct individual’s efforts to
increase performance. In addition with this they are those person who actually put their efforts in
order to acquire and learn new experience and things with the help of which high score can be
accomplished in openness. It mainly involved traits such as insightful, imaginative and further
process broader scope of interest. With the help of this Richard Branson can effectively able to
become a successful leader with the help of which organisational goals can be attend.
Conscientiousness:
Leaders are conscious that mainly involves skills like thorough, methodical and
organised. It has been identified that persons who have higher degree of consciousness are
reliable and prompt. In order to become a successful leader and accomplish objectives in given
Framework it is essential for Richard Branson to undertake this trait.
Extraversion:
These are those individuals who acquire energy by communicating with other
individuals. It has been determined that Richard Branson have traits like energetic, talkative and
assertive. These leaders effectively impact on other employees and can further ensure more
developmental success.
Agreeableness:
Leaders with having these traits are friendly, compassionate and cooperative in nature.
The trait that has been hold by Richard Branson include affectionate, sympathetic and kind.
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