Developing Personal and Management Skills

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developing personal and management skills

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1)
Reflection on own leadership and management skills
Leadership is one of the essential concepts that is required to effectively used in the
organization for proper management of people. I have learned various leadership approaches
and working experience during my internship. At the time of my course study, I have learned
the ways to manage people by using several techniques (Storey, 2016). I adopted the model
of situational leadership because internal, as well as external factor, can change at any time. I
have also seen that various external factors affect the company in great way. In this way,
when external factors affect the organization, I analysed that several changes required in
order to manage several people in the organization (Grint, Jones, Holt and Storey, 2016).The
other thing in following such approach is that there are no such rules for the leaders. This
leadership management approach I founded to be the most effective for the organization.
It is true that several principles are attached to the leadership approach. I believe some of the
skills to be effective in the organization. These are self-confident, motivating power, effective
communication, cooperative, adaptable, and achievement oriented. As I use the situational
leadership approach, motivating power is an essential skill in order to manage people.
Besides this, self-confidence is also essential inner quality that helps us in managing the job
confidently. It also helps me in making effective decisions (Fiaz, Su and Saqib, 2017). I
believe that when a leader is confident, it will be able to step forward. Effective
communication is another effective principle in my approach to leadership management. By
using effective communication skill, I communicate with my follower. Whenever people
come up with any problem, I used to solve them by using effective and proper
communication skills. In this way, using such principle will help the organization in
achieving the goal in effective manner (Khan, Qureshi, Ismail, Rauf, Latif and Tahir, 2015).
For my better future, I want to be participative or democratic leader. It is true that questions
will arise when there are various leadership style, why to choose the democratic and
participative leadership style. I think that democratic leadership style helps in motivating the
followers for bringing innovative ideas, services as well as products, I will also encourage all
my followers by using the power of motivation. This leadership style also matches with my
traits and skills. Democratic leader should have effective communication skills in order to
motivate the employees (Solaja, Idowu and James, 2016). I believe that I have both the skills,

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motivation power and communication that will support me to become democratic leader. I
also wanted to become democratic leader by adopting required skill for becoming democratic
leader. I will also respect every idea that will come from the staff and followers of the
organization. I will also adopt the best idea and change that idea for getting an effective
result. As a democratic leader, I have found that I can engage with all my subordinates. It will
further encourage them to do the task in proper manner.
I also believe that participative leadership model also plays essential role in the smooth
functioning of the organization. By using such approach, I always try to give more emphasis
on the talent, creativity, and skills of subordinate. It also provides opportunity to me in
recognizing and determining the potential of people for becoming future leader in the
organization. Moreover, it also promotes various dimensions of learning and growth in
relation with communication. The reason behind considering me a participative leader is that
I make use of the authority whenever it is needed. I also think that using this model helps me
in interacting with the people properly. It also assists me in identifying changes that are
required in the workplace for better functioning. I also feel that I am better in delegation as I
am able to see the knowledge of people and delegate some of the leadership responsibility to
them. I also know that I am not an expert and 100 per cent effective in all these aspects of
organization but I always welcome the inputs from all the other leaders and employees for
helping them to come up with solution (Cunningham, Salomone and Wielgus, 2015). I also
believe that effective leadership and management begins with self-awareness. It means that a
leader is required to work hard by properly understanding the strengths and weaknesses
model. After knowing my strengths, I founded that I have a strong sense of core values for
practising a higher level of professionalism. I also think that integrity is the essential skill
attach with effective leadership and management. Integrity, according to me is keeping our
self-attaching with each task whether it is big or small. Therefore, keeping the work to
yourself as well as other is the required skill for a leader according to me (Iqbal, Anwar and
Haider, 2015).

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Personal development plan that will facilitate the increased level of effective leadership and
management
What are
my
developm
ent
objectives
?
What activities
do I need to
undertake to
achieve my
objectives?
What
support/resources
do I need to
achieve my
objectives
Target date
for achieving
my objectives
Actual date of
achieving my
objectives
Active
listening
 Group
discussio
ns with
all the
team
member
 A proper
meeting
with staff
members
.
 One on
one
discussio
n with
the
members
so that
all can
share
their
ideas.
 People for
the meeting.
 A proper
room for
active
listening and
effective
meeting.
 questions to
discuss in
such
meeting.
Right after the
meeting, the
target date for
achieving the
objectives is
one or two
months.
Approx. one
month after the
discussion
Problem-
solving
skills
 Collectio
n of data
and
putting
all those
facts for
solving
problem.
 Dealing
of day to
day
problems
 Assistance
of staff
members
and all the
team
members
that are
facing
problems in
organization
.
 Support of
It is possible
that solution to
the problem is
required instant
or after some
time.
Therefore, the
target date for
achieving the
target depends
on the
complexity of
The actual date
for achieving the
objectives is ten
to fifteen days
after taking two
or three
problems.