Leadership and Change: A Critical Reflection and Personal Development

Leadership and change

Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................2
Critical reflection of your current leadership.............................................................................2
Recommendations for your own personal leadership development..........................................3
Critical review of theories and paradigms.................................................................................5
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................6
References..................................................................................................................................7

Introduction
In the changing and dynamic business nature, leaders guide the organisations and their team
members to produce a sustainable and consistent good performance. Whereas, mistrust
among the leader and the subordinates which brings no commitment in the organisation
towards work. Most importantly, effective leadership does not remove the need for essential
teamwork. It is a key to accomplish the objectives and finish the projects. The report has a
critical analysis of various leadership theories. Apart from this, the report focuses on critical
reflection of leadership in oneself.
Critical reflection of your current leadership
Critical reflection focuses on my experience as a leader. I also suggest a personal leadership
development that analyse and evaluate the concept of various leadership theories, which I am
presenting. Leadership is a series of actions that are directed towards meeting the group goals
and on the same side; it should demonstrate the pattern of behaviour with an aim to achieve
the objectives (Anderson, Baur, Griffith, and Buckley, 2017). The problem with me was I
could not coordinate the work of my team. The way of executing my work was by delegating
the work to manage the myriad responsibility at workplace (Fein, Tziner, Vasiliu, and Felea,
2015). Meeting and discussion was conducted to manage the whole team. My listening skills
are good and in this way, I have never missed any single point of information. From this
heard set of information, each chunk of appropriate information was always a potential
contribution to how the team will achieve the goals and identify the problems (Hoch,
Bommer, Dulebohn, and Wu, 2018).
Teamwork is an important element of successful leadership. A good attribute is remarkable
when seeing a positivity in the scenario rather than perceiving worst in it. I am a democratic
leader who held final responsibility when delegating authority to others (Covin, and Slevin,