Leadership and Management- Doc

Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
1-What is involved in being a successful leader?.......................................................................1
2.Can good leadership be developed and if so, how?.................................................................1
3. What distinguish leadership from management?....................................................................2
4)What have you learnt about leadership from your own experiences, on this course and
elsewhere?...................................................................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7

MAIN BODY
1-What is involved in being a successful leader?
Leader is the person who works to provide guidance to team mates which assist in getting
positive outcome. Team is group of two or more individuals which works in achieve common
aims and objectives. There are different individuals having difference in their knowledge,
experience, working style, etc. Hence in this case, role of leader is important and significant
which assist in achieving targets within specified time with goals and objectives (Avolio and
Yammarino, 2013). There is requirement of some skills to become successful leader, some
theories are discussed under which assist in becoming successful leader. Some of them as under-
INDIVIDUAL
Traits- Traits are the skills which is differ from one individual to another and makes him
different from others. This is the quality which makes individual distinguish from others. These
are the characteristics, attributes, features which makes candidate different from others.
Big Five Personality
As per this model, there are five types traits such as openness to experience,
conscientiousness, etc. This model is also known as OCEAN model. This theory is discussed as
under-
(Source: Big Five Personality, 2018)
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Illustration 1: Big Five Personality