Leadership for Managers: Reflection and Key Learning

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5/24/2019

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Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................2
Reflection.........................................................................................................................................3
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Leading a group of people is not an easy task for any individual. There have been various
researches conducted by various scholars who had considered understanding leadership and
related aspects. It can be said that leadership is leading a group of followers, where a leader can
be a social leader, a political leader, or an organizational leader. Moreover, leadership in
organization would work towards the company’s best approach and effective performance as
well as considers the employees of the company, as they are the key asset that needs to be
managed and motivated to perform for the organization while working for their personal
objectives as well. The report will discuss considering leaders in the organization and their role.
This report would include personal experience, which can be analyzed through reflection for a
better understanding of key learning for the future (Hill, 2016).
Reflection is one of the methods including sharing of personal experience in a structured form so
as to provide meaning to the experience and understand the key challenges faced so that can be
avoided in future and key learning’s that would be helpful to the individuals in further
experiences (Fook, 2018).

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Reflection
From the last experience, I was assigned as a project leader in a multinational corporation. I was
not sure if I would be able to lead a team, as it was my first experience being a leader of a group
of people in a corporate organization. I was confident with some of my strengths like effective
communication, analytical skills, and managing things effectively (Dosser & Nicol, 2016).
At the time of experience, the team was formed and I was assigned as a leader. I introduce
myself to everyone and try to understand my team members. Another thing I did was to assign
duties and responsibilities to the individual; this was done to avoid any kind of confusion or
duplication of work among the team. The project was the development of the new product for an
organization. The leadership style I applied to the team was the autocratic leadership style, which
is getting things done through others while keeping the decision authority to myself. The reason
being I wanted the project to be completed on time and I believe in my own decision for my
team (Shamir, 2018). However, there were some challenges that my team faced, which was
demotivation among the team members, due to which the productivity was lower than the
standards or the expected performance from the team. It was observed that the key positive
experience included the accuracy of the work that is the work quality was up to the market.
Nevertheless, the key negative aspects of the experience were lower level productivity,
demotivated employees, and the unwillingness of the team members to contribute. Moreover,
due to the key challenges faced by me as a leader, leadership training was provided, which was
very effective and would be helpful to me in my near future. The leadership training changed my
perception to a great level (Schon, 2017).
After the experience, the key learning’s from the experience for me included
 Effective communication
Communication was found to be one of the most important factors when it comes to
effectively leading a team and making them understand what they are expected to do and
what would be the consequences for the team and organization in case of their team
inability. This reflects that being a leader I must have been used the interactive way to