Improving Management and Leadership Performance

This article discusses Peter Senge's five learning disciplines, personal vision, mental models, skilful discussion, and their relevance to effective leadership. It also includes references from various books and journals. The article aims to help readers improve their management and leadership performance.

IMPROVING
MANAGEMENT AND
LEADERSHIP
PERFOMANCE

Contents
QUESTIONS...................................................................................................................................1
What are five learning disciplines of Peter Senge?................................................................1
What is a personal vision? Explain three important steps involved in creating a personal....1
vision?.....................................................................................................................................1
Personal vision is described as the opinions of a person that they want to set for getting
success,...................................................................................................................................1
Discuss Senge’s mental models with reference to effective leadership.................................2
What are the five elements of skilful discussion as pointed out by Peter Senge?..................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................3

QUESTIONS
What are five learning disciplines of Peter Senge?
Peter Senge identified following learning disciplines:
Personal mastery: This learning discipline describes that an individual could work
towards their goals to become efficient and effective person. For instance, if a person is taking
responsibility of mentoring a people than they must be effective in providing them guidance.
Mental models: this learning discipline describes that if people want something than
they start observing that particular thing in their environment. For instance, if an individual
wants to have dog than they will start noticing every dog around them.
Shared vision: This learning discipline explains that leaders are required to have vision
and their teams must work towards achieving those missions (Reese, S., 2020). For instance, if a
leader wants to enhance the growth of company than they communicate it with their team and
they start working towards it.
Team learning: This learning discipline helps in determining that individuals learn from
each other. For instance, people working in team which helps them in developing their skills and
abilities.
Systems thinking: This learning discipline embraces overall theories that determines the
flow of activity at working environment. For instance, individual who is in sales field is familiar
with sales cycle.
What is a personal vision? Explain three important steps involved in creating a personal
vision?
Personal vision is described as the opinions of a person that they want to set for getting success,
The three steps involved in personal vision are
 Identify values: according to this step an individual must examine what values are most
crucial for them as a person (Piao, 2020).
 Define values: The second step includes explanation about chosen value and how it
provides success to person.
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 Put it all together: This is the last step where person must put all the statement in the
form of paragraph.
Discuss Senge’s mental models with reference to effective leadership
This is defined as conceptual frameworks which consist of generalized and assumptions
that people make according to which they understand their surrounding and take actions in it
(Carroll, Sterman and Marcus, 2018). Effective leadership is essential as it facilitate and motivate
learning among people of all department to adapt and transform in uncertainties or complex
environment.
What are the five elements of skilful discussion as pointed out by Peter Senge?
The five elements of skilful discussion are:
 I will pay attention to my intention.
 I need to balance advocacy with thoughtful inquiry.
 I will try to bring shared meaning (Chuah and Law, 2020).
 I will increase my self-awareness as a resource.
 I will explore impasses or roadblocks to look for ways to move forward.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Carroll, J.S., Sterman, J. and Marcus, A.A., 2018. 5. Playing the Maintenance Game: How
Mental Models Drive Organizational Decisions. In Debating Rationality (pp. 99-122).
Cornell University Press.
Chuah, K.B. and Law, K.M., 2020. What Is Organizational Learning?. In Project Action
Learning (PAL) Guidebook: Practical Learning in Organizations (pp. 3-14). Springer,
Cham.
Piao, B., 2020. Peter Senge: The Era of Global Corporations is Coming to an End.
In LEADERSHIP STYLE: BUSINESS AND LEADERSHIP IN CHINA (pp. 153-159).
Reese, S., 2020. Taking the learning organization mainstream and beyond the organizational
level: an interview with Peter Senge. The Learning Organization.
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