Strategic Leadership and Stakeholder Management Report

Running Head: Leadership
Strategic Leadership and Stakeholder
Management
Report
System04104
5/20/2019

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
The essential Character of a good leader...................................................................................2
Analysis of leadership and stakeholder management relationship............................................4
The key strength of my leadership style.................................................................................4
The key strength of my leadership style.................................................................................6
Plan to overcome these issues and developing my leadership skills.........................................7
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
A leader is a person who not only motivates other people rather also set a positive and
inspirational image for the followers. A leader guides, motivates, encourages, and inspire
other people to perform better in both personal and professional lives. Leaders are the key of
any business organisation that determine the way of success and helps other people to
perform well in the organisation in order to achieve organisational goals and objectives
(Sugiyama, Cavanagh, van Esch, Bilimoria, & Brown, 2016). Some leaders are born with
qualities while some leaders are developed by acquiring skills and knowledge. This report
also shows the key characteristics of a leader and shows how a good leader motivates other
people. This report also reflects my leadership styles and capabilities to motivates, guide, and
inspire other stakeholders. This report includes my strength and weakness of managing
people and describes how I can overcome my weakness and issues related to leadership.
However, to overcome these issues to become an effective leader in the future, I have
formulated a plan that describes how I can develop leadership skills.
The essential Character of a good leader
Leaders plays an important role in motivating and encouraging people for the
achieving the life goals and accomplish the life ambitions. There are many leaders defines the
leadership traits in different ways but a best definition that can be considered and will be fee
anywhere was given by John C Maxwell. According to the John C. Maxwell, “a leader is a
person who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way (Amanchukwu, Stanley, &
Ololube, 2015)”. This definition of John C. Maxwell shows the importance and key
characteristics of leadership in one sentence. However, a leader is a person who knows that
how to turn the ideas into real world success stories. A leader has always a visionary power to
see things in long-term scenario and select the best choices available among various
alternatives to attain the future goals (Bullock, 2010). However, there are various
characteristics of a good leader but some of the key characteristics are as follow:
1. Honesty and Integrity: A leader should be honest with both with himself and
with others as well. An excellent leader always focuses on integrity and never
fears to speak reality or truth in front of people (Kurucz, Colbert, Luedeke-
Freund, Upward, & Willard, 2017). Accept the bad things and convey the truth to

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the followers and other stakeholders should be the essential qualities of a good
leader. Otherwise, how a leader expect that his/her followers will be honest and
speak truth if he does not speak truth or honestly to the people (Baron, 2016).
2. Confidence: A leader should always be confident in his/her decision-making,
approaches, and in life style. A leader should confident enough to ensure that
other stakeholders or followers follow the command of leader. If a leader will not
be confident in his decision-making and command, other will not follow the
command of leader (Johansson, Starmark, Berglund, Rödholm, & Rönnbäck,
2010).
3. Inspire others: It is one of the key characteristics of an effective leader but it is
also very tough for a leader to persuade other people (Thaler & Levin-Keitel,
2016). It is also possible for a leader to inspire other people if he/she sets example
for others. A leader should lead from the front and inspire other people to do the
same. If a leader handles the pressure very well, the other people follow them and
believe in him (McAdams & Olson, 2010).
4. Communication Skills: A leader should be a good communicator and having
abilities to perform better in front of others. If a leader can convey the message
properly to its followers and communicate his vision and mission to his teams, it
will help the leader to implement the strategy very well (Mullins & Schoar,
2016).
5. Decision-making capabilities: This is another key characteristic of a leader
because without decision-making capabilities or skills a leader cannot influence
the masses. A leader should take the decision after thinking properly and
positively and should stand by it. However, a leader should concern before taking
his decision to a key person or stakeholder, because sometime individual
decisions leads to huge loss for the organisation or for the other people (Winters,
Jackson, & Mohammed, 2016).
Apart from this, a leader should have several other key qualities like motivating other
people, accountability in works, delegation of work and empowerment etc. A leader should
also be creative and innovative who can beer risk and do not fear with negative outcomes or
consequences. A leader should also be empathetic and should take their decisions based on
humanity and ethics.