Lead Personal and Strategic Transformation: Leadership Analysis

This report analyzes the student's leadership journey and the development of their personal leadership style, drawing on the provided text about leadership competencies. It begins by emphasizing the importance of cognitive, administrative, communication, and team-building competencies for effective leadership, detailing each of these categories with examples such as time management, goal setting, clear communication, and employee evaluation. The student reflects on their own experiences, highlighting early leadership roles in school and university, and how these experiences shaped their understanding of leadership. The report discusses the evolution of their leadership style, influenced by mentors and experiences in sports teams, eventually aligning with a transformational leadership approach. The analysis emphasizes the significance of patience, understanding, and effective communication, alongside the need for continuous self-improvement and adaptability in dynamic environments. The report concludes by reiterating the importance of experience and the application of various competencies in achieving team and organizational success.

Lead personal and strategic transformation

Churchill, W., Determining your Own Leadership Style. Leadership and Personality
Assessments. PP. 24-35.
1. As a leader, it is necessary for me to fulfil the cognitive competencies as these plays
vital role in the personality development and for being an effective leader. It is the
nature of job that higher the position, scope of responsibilities and authority
increases. Person sitting on the higher position needs to manage more number of
people in comparison to the person sitting on the lower position. Thus, when a
person in the organization seeks for promotion, he/she needs to be ready for
fulfilling the responsibilities which will come along with the promotion.
In relation to this, several competencies are required to be managed and thus, it is
necessary to address those competencies through which the requirement of the
particular job could be fulfilled and these competencies comes in the categories of
administrative competencies, communication competencies, team building
competencies, and cognitive competencies. Following are the description of these
competencies:
Administrative Competencies
These are directly related to running a business or keeping the business organised.
These types of skills are required for almost all types of jobs and for a leader, these
must be followed in the appropriate manner for the objective of setting an
appropriate example in front of the teammates. Main components of administrative
competencies for a leader are management of time and setting priority tasks as per
their severity and requirement, setting goals and standards to fulfil the tasks, and
planning and scheduling work accordingly.
 Management of time: For a leader, time management is very crucial task as
it shows how an effective a leader is. In relation to this, this also shows the
understanding of a leader regarding the allocated project. Along with this, a
project consist of various tasks, thus, is the duty of a leader to differentiate

the tasks on the basis of their severity and significance so that desired goals
could be accomplished.
 Goals and standard setting: A leader is also responsible to set goals
according to the assigned task so that allocated project could be
accomplished. Along with this, it is the duty of a leader to follow standards
set up by the management in order to get the positive outcomes and as per
the expectations of the management.
 Work planning and scheduling: While working on a task, an effective
leader uses brainstorming process for the objective of planning all the tasks
as well as schedule them in an effective manner through which expected
outcomes could be attained.
Communication competencies
 Listening and organising: This is another significant competency required for
being an effective leader. A leader should be calm enough to analyse all the
related aspects before accomplishing any project. In the scenarios of disputes, it
is the duty of a leader to listen all the parties involved in the disputes before
reaching to a final conclusion and leader should be capable enough to find out
the win-win situation for all the parties in order to maintain the workplace
environment healthy and effective.
 Clarity of communication: Before using any communication tool, leader should
make sure that the information transferred to the teammates or to the upper
level management is clearly transferred. As there are various negative outcomes
of the unclear information shared, thus, clarity of communication falls on the top
in the priority list of competencies required for a leader and for the person
sitting on the higher position.
 Getting objective information: This competency defines that whenever a
leader works on a particular task, all the relevant information must be gathered
which is necessary for the accomplishment of a particular project. Starting the
project without getting appropriate and relevant information might affect the
expected goals and it could directly hit the organizational performance.

Supervisory or Building Team Competencies
These competencies are must needed for a leader as well as for the person sitting on
the higher position. A leader should be capable enough to bind the teammates in a
group not by the rules and regulations but also by their mind-set. This helps to
generate a positive environment in a team where all teammates respects each other
and walk together on the showed path by leader to reach towards the desired
destination.
 Training, mentoring and delegating: It is the duty as well as responsibility of a
leader to provide training to their teammates before working on a new project.
Along with this, in between the project, mentoring the employees is also
necessary in order to make the things favourable for the organization.
Delegating is assigning the right person on the right place without practicing any
sort of discriminatory practice. This helps the leader to gain respect amongst its
teammates which ultimately helps in accomplishing the assigned project with
positive outcomes.
 Evaluating employees and performance: In order to make sure that the team
is going on a right track as per the management’s expectations, leaders are
required to regularly analyse the whole team’s performance along with
evaluating performance at individual level. This helps in identifying gaps
between the management’s expectations and actual performance through which
relevant tools could be adopted to match up with the organizational
expectations.
 Advising and Discipline: Leader act as the role model for its teammates, thus,
he is required to perform his duties ethically. Along with this, he should be
capable enough to advice his teammates to bring changes in their performance
along with describing them the significance of being disciplined in the
professional environment.
Cognitive competencies
 Problem identification and solution: Whenever team’s performance is not up
to the mark, leader should take initiate to find out the issues faced by the

teammates which are acting as the obstacles for attaining the desired goals. In
relevance to this, appropriate solutions should also be evaluated by the process
of brainstorming in order to reach towards the expected results.
 Assessing risks and decision-making: Every project or task comes up with
certain sort of obstacles and risk factors. Thus, leader should use his knowledge,
experience and his skills for identifying the appropriate measure to deal with the
risk in terms of accomplishing the project with the positive outcomes.
 Thinking clearly and analytically: A leader never stops thinking because
business environment is considered as dynamic in nature and to deal with
different sort of business environment, leader needs to be ready with the
appropriate solutions. Thus, leader never stops thinking for generating
innovative ways to deal with the future challenges along with enhancing the
team’s performance.

2. Leader has a significant role in the organization as he not only guides a group of
employees, but he also binds them together and forms a team which ultimately
boost up the team’s as well as whole organization’s productivity. In my life, I have
considered leadership on the top in my priorities’ list and due to this; I have always
been offered varieties of leadership roles which have helped me to diversify my
skills and capabilities. This has helped me to describe my own leadership experience
and the journey throughout my professional career which has made me to build an
effective and unique leadership style or model. In order to reflect on my leadership
style to analyse the effectiveness, I have used various online tools to gather feedback
from my friends, family members and all those people whom I interact regularly.
This helped me to gather relevant information about my leadership style.
Leadership has always been an imperative aspect of my life and as I have been gone
through various leadership roles throughout career, I have been able to gather
unique experience which taught me to shape my leadership skills as well as
personality.
Currently, I am studying in the University of Management and I have been
associated with this university since last 2 years. During this tenure, I earned
leadership role and at present I am leading a team of 7 people group and we are
studying on different aspects of sales and marketing department. The whole journey
with the university as a leader as well as a non-leader has taught me certain new
things which have ultimately helped me to gain an immense leadership experience.
The foremost and most crucial things I have analysed in my leadership journey are
patience, understanding, listening to teammates, and way to deal with different
types of people. A leader should be capable enough to deal with all sorts of
situations along with coordinating with the teammates in order to ensure an
amicable environment. The first leadership experience I gained when I was chosen
as the prefect in the school and at that time, I happened at young age. At that time, I
felt so much responsibility on my shoulders and though, I fulfilled all the
responsibilities but I do not think that whether I was able to make any significant
difference.

After that, I was assigned the role captain of my school cricket team and there I used
to engage with every teammate to analyse their efficiency so that during matches,
appropriate player could be given relevant responsibilities. After so much, I realised
that my team was continuously losing matches and after certain failures, my coach
asked me to determine the gap which is leading the team towards negative
outcomes. Then, I realised that inappropriate culture has been followed by the
whole team including me and that too as a leader. We were not practicing before
matches and as practice is very necessary to face the real challenges, we were failing
continuously. At that time, I realised the importance of being a consistent performer
and I also obliged my coach who taught me and my teammates to bring effective
differences in the culture of the whole team to accomplish positive outcomes. My
coach has been a great inspiration for me and as a guide, he helped me to analyse
my qualities and the significance of other factors for attaining the desired goals as a
team and this ultimately helped me to shape my own leadership style which quite
matches with the transformational leadership approach.
It is worth saying that higher positions also comes up with huge responsibilities.
Thus, it is necessary for a person sitting on the higher position to use his/her all
experience to guide the team in the right direction along with fulfilling the
managerial roles including management of time, priority setting, goals and
standards setting, planning and designing the tasks for the objective of reaching
towards the desired destination. With regards to this, I have also realised that
communication competencies also plays vital role as it includes listening,
organising, clarity of communication, and getting objective information to assign
appropriate role and responsibility to the teammates as per their capabilities and
skills. For a building an effective team, I have observed that fulfilling team
competencies are crucial which includes training and mentoring employees,
evaluating their performance and advising them the significance of discipline with
the objective of enhancing their performance as well as to enhance the whole team’s
performance.