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Running head: LEADERSHIP0LEADERSHIP SKILLS
LEADERSHIP1Executive summary:The report focuses on analysing the leadership skills using various diagnostic tools. The variousdiagnostic tools that have been used to analyse the skills are visibility inventory test, big fivepersonality test, perceived leader integrity test, leadership style survey and self-assessmentquestionnaire tool. The report initiates with the discussion of 5 diagnostic tools that follows withthe literature review. The literature review helps in identifying the theoretical concepts of priorstudies done in this context. The last part of the reports deals with action plan framework. Thisaction plan helps in implementing the activities and the strategies to develop the leadershipskills.
LEADERSHIP2Table of ContentsDiagnosis and reflection:.................................................................................................................1Literature review:.............................................................................................................................3Action plan:.....................................................................................................................................5Gantt chart:......................................................................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7References:......................................................................................................................................7Appendix:........................................................................................................................................9
LEADERSHIP3Diagnosis and reflection:In order to identify the degree of leadership skills I possess, there are 5 of the diagnostic toolsthat have been selected for the analysis. These five tools helped me in analysing myself as theleaders so that I can find the gap and make the improvements. The first tool that has been usedwas leadership visibility inventory test. It was a scaling test in which my visibility and credibilitywas tested. First ten questions in the test were for visibility and I have scored 56 in that and otherquestions were for credibility on which I have scored 54. Score of 56 in visibility suggests that Iam a visible person scoring of 54 in the next section suggests that I am a very credible person.The overall discussion or the scoring of the test suggests that I have the capability to visible inthe crowd but there is the scope of improvement in it.The next tool that I have used was big five personality traits. This is the tool that deals with somecharacteristic of being a leader (Mumford, Campion & Morgeson, 2007). The scoring on thosecharacteristic helped me in analysing my skills. The first characteristic was extroversion. It is thetrait that deals with being social with the community. I have scored 31, and this suggests that Iam quite extrovert and social in nature. Another trait is agreeableness. In this I have scored 25and this suggests that I am in moderate condition. I agree with the people at times but sometimesI remain on my point. The next trait is conscientiousness, it is the trait that is about being hardworking and dedicated. Again I score 25 in this test and this suggests that I am dedicated towardsmy work but bit is required to be more dedicated. Neuroticism is the personality trait that showsthe emotional aspect in which I have scored 20 that means I am in middle of the scale. The lasttrait is openness to experience. In this trait, I have scored 46 that mean I am a dreamer. I used toaccept the new and innovative things that comes ion my way and this nature makes me aninnovative personality. I used to perform the same tasks with different methods and try to beefficient every time. Another tool that has been used by me was perceived leader integrity scale. It is the tool thatincludes the question which needs to be filled by the other person in order to take the concernabout the behaviour of the other person (Puccio, Mance & Murdock, 2010). My mates havehelped me in doing so. They have filled the forms for me. The appendix 3 shows one of the
LEADERSHIP4forms that indicates my scoring. I have scored 46 in the same and this suggests that I am highlyethical in nature. All the above used methods have shown my different traits. The next is leadership style survey that is about identifying that which leadership style I believein. around 15 questions have been asked to me and I have encircled the numbers that best suitedme. For analysis of the scoring, all the questions were divided into 3 sets and the scoring is doneas per the questions. The total of the scores have been calculated. The one in which I have scoredthe highest is the 2nd set that is about participative leadership, this suggests that I am the personwho use participative leadership style the most. After that, I used to apply delegative stylesometimes as per the analysis because I scored little less in this segment. The next and the most important tool is self-assessment questionnaire tool. This is designed inorder to measure the authenticity of the self-leadership. There are various components that needto be identified in this tool. The first one is the self-awareness, next is moral perspective and theother two are balanced processing and relational transparency. Comparison of the scores in allthese contexts helps in analysing my stronger and weaker points. The scores above 16 suggestthat I have the stronger authentic leadership in that context and low score suggests that I haveweaker authentic leadership in that particular context. As per the results of the analysis, it hasbeen identified that I am the leader who does not show authentic leadership in context of self-awareness and relational transparency but in other two contexts, there is large scope ofimprovement. It has been verified by the incidences that I have experienced in last few months. Once I haveexperienced that I was not a visible person in spite of the fact that I was the one who had done allthe preparation for the program that was conducted in our class activity. At the day of theactivity, all the credits were given to the students who were active in talking to the teachers andwere performing the fore front activities. This made me realise that I am lacking in this skills andit is confirmed by the diagnostic tools. Another incidence that was happened recently with mesuggested that I do not have the self-confidence to convey my things. Once I and my friendshave prepared the presentation and all the designing part were done by me. one of my friendshave presented the same in front of the class and my teacher asked that who have contributed inmaking the designs and I have not gathered the courage to tell her that I was the one and myfriend got all the credits. This incidence forces me to make efforts in developing the same.
LEADERSHIP5Literature review:Leadership is defined as the ability of the person to guide and influence others in order to makethem work in a particular direction so that the gaols of the organisation and the individual can beachieved, it has been analysed that the leaders should have some of the traits in him in order tobe the effective one (Heifetz, Grashow & Linsky, 2009). There are several leadership styles andtheories that has been postulated and given by the theorist in earlier as well as in modern times.These theories such as transformational leadership, transactional leadership, contingency theory,scientific management theory etc. have something in common and this is the leader as the rolemodel, who is followed by his followers (Spillane, 2012). Thus, this suggests that a leader shouldfollow the path that he wants his followers to follow. For this, it is required that the leader shouldknow himself very well and should be self-aware about his weaknesses and strengths. Thisdevelops the concept of self-awareness in leadership (Axelrod, 2017). As far as the above diagnosis is considered, it has been realised by my scores that I have two ofthe major weaknesses in terms of being an effective leader. The first one is the self-confidenceand the other one is the visibility.Self-awareness is the understanding of the individual about his own self such as his values,beliefs, ambitions, emotions, strengths and weaknesses (Paustian-Underdahl, Walker & Woehr,2014). This is not an easy task and requires years to develop this trait in oneself. Once it isdeveloped, it helps the individual to be self-aware and also helps in to handle himself and hisbehaviours in the situations (Dabke, 2016). It has been analysed that the level of self-awarenessis also linked with the influence and performance. It is suggested that the more the leader isaware of him, the more he can become influential and convince the others to follow theguidelines (Avolio, 2007). Self-awareness is the concept that is directly associated with theaspect of emotional intelligence and thus it has been analysed that the one who is aware ofhimself have the capability to understand the emotions of others (Rukmani, Ramesh &Jayakrishnan, 2010). Leaders who are high in emotional intelligence does not mean that they areemotional but they have they intelligently handle the situation and understand the emotions andthe perspective of the other person (Eragula, 2015). This does not act as the weakness but
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