Leadership Development Plan

Running head: LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT PLAN
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Introduction
Leadership is the process of action, creativity and emotions of mind and soul. A leader is the
only person who inspires others for the fulfilment of organisation goals (Schoemaker, Krupp and
Howland 2013). A leader works for the foundation of mind, relationship, attachment and
success. All excellent leaders require several soft skills to interact with workers. A good leader
must have the ability to inspire their workers, communicate well, listen to opinion, organisational
obligations and have the flexibility to resolve problems and difficulties in the organisation. A
leader is a one who provides directions, instructions and specific guidance to a group or team to
achieve particular goals. A skilful leader will know his employee's motivations, strengths and
weakness (Northouse 2014). These paper focuses on Steve Jobs personal leadership traits and
qualities and identifies why I am different from Steve Jobs and discuss my leadership skill, my
strength, weakness and in this paper I create my own leadership development plan. In this plan I
will explain how I will improve myself as a leader.

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Discussion
Part 1
Chosen Leader
If I make a list of popular leaders, the chart cannot be complete without this man. The person
happens to be a motivation for many individuals who want to be a good leader in society. Steve
Job’s leadership traits contributed to turning Apple into one of the leading tech giants. Innovative
and genius are just two words, which is generally combined with the legacy of Steve Jobs. Steve
Jobs is a person from whom much can be learned.
Steve Jobs personal traits
There were a lot of personality traits that encouraged Steve Jobs to become the most effectual
entrepreneur as well as the leader of our time.
Imagination and Vision
Like many innovative entrepreneurs, Steve Jobs was not looking to imitate what’s already been
performed. The man did not like to play the “I can do it better”. He played the “I am going to do
something which is completely different” that thinking is demonstrated with the iPad (Chen
2014). Before its introduction in to the market, no one would have wanted a cross between a
computer and smartphones. However, now, the iPad stole the hearts of the customer and
modernised business operation.
Urgency
The person was known for acting with a sense of urgency, which gave him drives. Many times
Steve Jobs spoke of human’s life and death. He believes that time is the most excellent tools of

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our life for achievement. Jobs knew that not grasping onto an idea “until it’s the right time”
would never cut it. For that, reason he wanted a unique solution and built the products before a
consumer realised they needed it.
Failure could not stop Steve Jobs
The Person supposed that though medicine taking is horrible, but if any patient wants it, it has to
be given. When the company Apple grew up as a famous brand, Steve’s hired John Sculley, and
at this board meeting, Steve was kicked out of this organisation (Menzel 2015). But that’s not
where Steve jobs stopped. It assists him more to grow. After this situation Steve Jobs started two
new companies, one is NEXT, and another is PIXAR. Apple bought NEXT stock resulting in his
return to Apple. Apple used NEXT hardware for operating its system.
Taking responsibility end to end
The personality of Steve Jobs was very regulating, but it was driven by a passion for perfection,
as Steve jobs felt a need to make ideal products and took accountability. Unlike other leader,
Jobs mainly focused more on production than making revenue or financial benefit (Toma and
Marinescu 2013). He always said that- if employee focus on producing the correct product and
benefit would follow. Steve Jobs motivates his workers differently by focusing on the unique
products. Steve Jobs said caring about consumer was very different from asking them what their
requirement and hence used to create an appropriate product according to customer requirement.
Steve believed in confidentiality
Limitations prevailed in Apple, as Steve Jobs was a believer of desolation (Northouse 2017). In
his organisation, the IT worker were not endorsed to see the products. The operators of the
company were divided into a few seperate groups to work on different places. Employees were

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fired without any prior notification on sharing the organisation’s secrets with anyone outside the
company. The operators were not allowable in to the design studio.
A strong believer of perfection
Steve Jobs was a firm believer of perfection if any product did not turn up accordant to his
expectations, then he would do something to make things meet his level of expectations.
Jobs had some unique skills that allowed him to succeed,
 Technical skills comprise Knowledge and ability to utilise tools. In the case of Steve
Jobs, this was his abilities in the design and development of hardware and software.
 Human skills refer to the interpersonal ability, or ability to motivating, communicating
and getting people to you. In case of Steve Jobs, these were his abilities to negotiate,
direct, motivate the employees and his inability to exhibit kindness.
Steve Jobs as a skilful problem solver and he was excellent at the social judgement when he
wanted with outstanding knowledge skills. He was a very empathic person, sensing human’s
emotions and understanding people’s motivation quickly. Steve Jobs was very adaptable in
changing situation and could read social cues very well.
Relevant theories
Hersey Blanchard situational theory relates Steve Jobs leadership skills
As per Hersey and Blanchard an organisational leader will have to adapt his style to level of
maturity of the employees. If the level of maturity increases, then the liberty of workers also
increases (Meier 2016).The situational theory contains four different leadership styles that are-
telling, participating, selling and delegating.

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Delegating style: In an interview, Steve Jobs argue that- If he has employed good persons, and
that they have high potential, then he would deliver them freedom and left them run on their very
own (Neibuhr, Vobe and Brem 2016). When a new innovative concept comes, then he just
observes different thinking of peoples, get people talking about it, gets new concepts moving
around that group of hundred people, get different humans collectively to explore multiple
aspects of it.
Participating style- in an interview, Steve jobs talks about the way he is taking a brand new
concept to his employees is the environment of excellence, and the way his employees are self-
influenced, he does instruct them at first and inspire them, and then the workers surprise him
time and the best of their performance.
Telling style- In a television interview he says that his major aim has always been for the
betterment of the company where he believes that he is totally dedicated to the vision rather than
the financial benefit (Shafie 2013).
Part 2
What I learnt from Steve Jobs
Steve Jobs was one of the greatest leaders that the world has ever encountered. His personality
kept people and spectators absolutely spell-bound (Dong et al.2017). Although he was an
extremely introvert person, his passion for work and technological advancement created an
exquisite enigma around him. He was sometimes considered to be an abrasive man. A brutally
honest person who never feared to provide his opinions about others. As a leader, I would
consider myself to be an opposite, a complete to psy-turvey of Steve Jobs. Narcissism is never a
characteristic that inhabits in me. However, I have learnt that in order to be a great leader, one