Leadership and Management Development

This report discusses the importance of self-awareness in leadership and management development. It covers topics such as self-analysis, feedback, motivation, teamwork, and leadership skills. The report also includes an academic essay and a self-analysis section.

Leadership and
Management
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
PART A- Academic essay..............................................................................................................3
PART B- A self-analysis.................................................................................................................7
PART C establishing areas for development.................................................................................10
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................13
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................14

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management plays a vital role for the success as it is a part of directing
management functions and also focus on organising, planning, controlling and staffing.
Nowadays, leaders and managers focus on development, providing support, inspiring people,
encouraging them towards goals and building strong relationship with employees for doing team
work. The present report will be based on self-awareness and its importance and also provide
information about personal strengths and weaknesses to engage in reflective self-development.
PART A- Academic essay
As we all know that self-awareness plays a vital role for achieving success, people
nowadays use self-awareness skill in order to accomplish their task. Basically, self-awareness
means being aware about various aspects of the self which includes feelings, experience,
behaviours and traits. By having self-awareness people can easily focus on their actions. When
people are self-aware about themselves they can easily know about how people might react to
certain events and how they are performing (Koca and Erigüç, 2020). In today’s environment,
people are regularly practicing self-awareness in order to better understand why they feel what
they are experiencing and what are the emotions and why do they behave in a particular way. By
having self-awareness, the people can gain opportunity to make necessary changes. They also
make changes about themselves and find new ways to develop. The major importance of self-
awareness is that by having this, people can easily understand about thought and behaviour
patterns of other people. With this they can facilitates better and strong professional and personal
relationships with others. Not only this, one can easily know about strengths and weaknesses
which they need to improve and find out ways to develop it. It is essential for leaders and
managers to have self-awareness as their first goal setting so that they can easily motivate and
inspire others to work effectively. They can easily know about their mistakes which helps them
to correct it as soon as possible.
With the help of Johari window model, people can help themselves to better understand their
relationship with others (Johari window model, 2022). They can know about and understand
conscious and unconscious bias which helps them to increase their knowledge about own selves
and others behaviours (Koca and Erigüç, 2020). Basically, it is a framework used by people in
order to accomplish goals such as reducing the size of the hidden areas and increase the size of

the open areas without disclosing about the personal details about yourself in front of others.
With the help of Johari window model, the people can improve a self-awareness and develop in
group situation like how to react in particular event. It also aids two-way communication system
with the members of group. Apart from this, there is major drawback of this model, that is people
may pass on some important information they have received further than they desire. They may
use it in a negative manner which can create issues sometimes (Prasad and Rao, 2022).
Nowadays, people have a very open communication with each other, some of them accept
approach of open communication and enhance feedback and some do not like to use it.
Sources: (Mathew and Sebastian, 2020)

Talking about core topics, it is essential for leaders and managers to provide feedback
and receive it from others. By having feedback system within the sector or industry, they can
easily enhance people to work towards their goals, they can encourage people or team members
to make necessary improvement after knowing their strengths and weaknesses (Prasad and Rao,
2022). Feedback system in the working environment or learning environment can motivate
people to build strong relationship with others and also build team work. With the help of
feedback and motivation, the leaders and managers can develop self-awareness among all.
Giving and receiving feedback- by having feedback system in the learning and working
environment, people can grasp opportunity to absorb and listen things that are more essential to
improve their professional performance. If leaders and managers provide feedback and promote
feedback method in working environment, then it can increase the staff member’s morale. With
the help of self-awareness technique, people can help themselves more about how their actions
and behaviours affect other people (Johari window model, 2022). It can easily encourage
personal development and professional career too. Sometimes it may be negative feedback which
people needs to take it positively to improve those weaknesses which helps them to achieve their
goals. By having self-awareness and feedback together, people can break bad habits and enable
teams to work together a strong team and focus on their goals more effectively. Asking personal
feedback from other will embrace the idea which can help them to make better decisions.
Learning to work in a team- as we all know that self-awareness can help people learn
about want they need to improve and what are the steps they must take to improve weaknesses
(Oliver and Duncan, 2019). By working in a team, people can set team goals which helps them to
achieve success. it has been noted that teams with high self-awareness make effective team,
motivate people to achieve goals, make better and important decisions by using their skills,
manage relationship in teams and handle conflicts more effectively.
Motivating self and others- nowadays, in business and learning environment leader
motivate self and others with the help of their skills such as leadership and management skills.
They promote communication and share knowledge with each other and encourage other people
through the art of emotional intelligence.
Leadership and management- in today’s environment, self-aware leaders strive for more
than personal success. by using expertise and skills they enact changes on a very large scale

which helps them to build emotional intelligence. In order to become a successful leader, the
leaders can easily develop healthy relationship by using self-awareness. From the above
discussion, it has been noted that all the elements are really important to develop self-awareness.
As we all know it is essential to develop feedback and improve it as it can help people
evaluate themselves and make necessary changes. It is a tool that can be helpful for them to
inspire others (Oliver and Duncan, 2019). By using self-evaluation method, they can enhance the
growth and be a role model for people in the team. Feedback is really essential as it can easily
promote personal growth and encourage people to have professional growth for future success.
leaders need to have active listening skills so that they can easily analyse things and find out
better solution to perform better.
Talking to the next topic, that is motivation help people to achieve their personal and
professional goals. If leaders motivate people, they can easily enhance job satisfaction among
them. By using motivation and self-awareness both together, people can help themselves in self-
development which can gain by team work in the organisation. With the help of motivation
people can reflects something unique about each other and allows them to gain valued results
such as enhanced wellbeing of workers, provide support like improving performance.
Talking about leadership and management in industry, when a leader lack the important
skills related to leadership, employees of team may have to face issues such as lack of self-
confidence, lack of self-evaluation and low motivation (Yamanaka and Hassell-Goodman, 2021).
It is essential to manage a team effectively as it can be helpful to enhance their confidence level.
For the best results, the important skills in leadership and management are required such as
communication skills, active listening skills, good experience while handling people, conflict
management and dedication. So by using these skills I can easily cultivate self-awareness and
personal development. By having feedback from people, I am able improve my experience and
can empower positive change.
CONCLUSION
To conclude, by evaluating the report it has been concluded that self-awareness plays
vital role for people’s success. with the help of self-awareness, I am able to know about my
strengths and weaknesses which helps me to focus on my areas of improvement. I know that
self-awareness is all about being honest with yourself about your success and about your failure.

Key areas for self-awareness includes habits, behaviour, emotions, feelings and personality traits
that can drive people’s behaviour. By having self-awareness, I am able to make better decisions
in my professional career as it gives me more self-confidence and build strong relationship with
others. With the help of communication, I am able to understand things from multiple
perspectives which helps me to assume things and make decisions on the basis of that. As a
leader, self-awareness helps understand what they are bringing to their job role. By having this
self-awareness, people can allow themselves to better perform in their roles and responsibilities
at workplace.
PART B- A self-analysis
skills I have area of
improvement
Resources what will I do Time
communication
skills
nervousness and
self-criticism
online classes Regularly
practicing
relaxation
techniques
2 months
leadership skills delegation workshops Coordinating team
members and
building trust
1.5 months
team work lack of patience attending online
classes
Practicing
mindfulness
1 months
collaboration lack of
organisation
regular practice
for organisation
Maintaining a
healthy work life
balance by
attending seminars
2.5 months
Sometimes I can be too critical of myself, throughout my career I have noticed that I
often feel I could have done more if given more opportunities and support. I know I have done
well in my professional career, but I always think I need some improvements. In my earlier
career, when I do self-criticism I have ruin many task which has created issues for me. So, my
leader told me to implement some solutions to improve it. They give me idea to actively
celebrate my goals and achievements. This was magic for me as it helped me to improve my own

self esteem. By using this technique, I am able to appreciate my achievements and support my
team members. Since my high school I was too nervous while doing projects or tasks given by
my teacher. Due to this, I have started losing self-confidence when we have group discussion and
group assessment. To improve this, I have started online classes, it was really amazing
experience which has really supported me overcome my nervousness. With the help of this, I
have developed practical skills and build my self-confidence too. Now When I talk to people I
feel really confident and able to share my knowledge with them without being nervous. In group
discussion, I start talking to team mates which really helped me to know about what they are
thinking. To be honest, I need to develop my organisational skills too, because of this weakness I
am not able to build trust between my team mates. To improve this, I am focusing on developing
and regular practicing via online classes which helped me to refresh the important concept about
organisational skills (Yamanaka and Hassell-Goodman, 2021).
Strengths Weaknesses Psychometric tests
Learning new things Self-criticism Aptitude test
Communicating with others Nervousness Game based
Setting goals with team
effectively
Stress management Personality test
Obtaining feedback Over thinking Personality test
Active listening skills Prioritising things Interest test
In the professional career, talking about strengths is the greatest issues for many people.
It is challenging because they don’t know how to express their strengths in front of others. From
the above table it has been concluded that, I am very collaborative in nature and have always
wanted to work in a group and build team work. During my career, I have developed strong
relationship with people working in my team as it has developed their trust in me. They all were
motivated by my creative work and I inspire them to manage things properly. By this, I have
improved my productivity level by 20 percent over last few years. I have strong leadership skills,
which has helped me to work effectively and balance my career growth.
I always support feedback system, because with the help of 360-degree feedback I am
able to improve my areas which I am lacking behind. Nowadays, companies are spending
millions on employee engagement every year so that they can enhance their motivational level. I

think I am better at giving feedback as it has developed my team mate’s confidence. Not only
positive I have given negative comments also so that they can know about their weaknesses.
Some of my team mates also provided me feedback about my attitudes, behaviour and
personality traits. Whether or not someone is doing their best to use the tool because it helps
them to focus on development and improvement. As per my views, team work is more essential
than ever because with the help of teamwork I am able to change my behaviour, I can learn more
new things in my professional life which helped me to talk about my strengths and weaknesses.
Nowadays, use of team mates and working in team have been consistently increasing which
helped people to enhance collaboration in the organisation. When I talk about team I am
explaining about all different types of team members, having skills and knowledge. When I work
in team I am able to provide effective solution to solve problems (Yamanaka and Hassell-
Goodman, 2021. We all know that to be successful and learn new things one must have team
work. When people work in team they can easily develop their knowledge which can be
beneficial for them. If team members play off each knowledge, experience and skills they can
easily create solutions that are really helpful for them and provide practical knowledge. By
having team work I am able to work together to generate correct responses which helped me to
work effectively. When I started focusing on team work and self-awareness together I am able to
increase innovation which has helped me to enhance new insights. Nowadays, most of the people
think success comes from when you surround yourself with expert people who is having lots of
knowledge. I believe that so I decided to promote team work which helped me to increase my
productivity level.
With the help of implication of my current skills that is communication, collaboration,
leadership and self-confidence I am able to learn new things in my life and work effectively in
my job role. I believe that when I focus on upgrading skills and knowledge I am able to increase
self-confidence. With the help of learning and development I am able to take new tasks and
projects at workplace. By having implication of skills I am able to increase my ability to
articulate to employers. Nowadays it is really important to know what the most wanted skills
people need in today’s business environment. communication skills play a vital role in the
company. It is first set of skills that people must have and people will notice also. Whenever
people meet you they first see yours behave and how well you are communicating with them.

They always see the way your provide them detailed information on phone calls, on email, or
face to face. The people will always see how well you are managing things how well you can
carry yourself, they will always assessing whether you have effective and active listening skills.
With the help of flexibility and adaptability skills, I am able to manage different types of
assignments at the same time. Being flexible is one of the most important skill that one must
have while working in the professional career. in the organisation to be successful and
completing task one must always manage multiple assignments at same time. When people work
flexibly enough and work effective towards task they can easily manage things and highly
appreciated by leaders in the organisation (Rasheed, Younas and Sundus, 2019). If the people
provide positive commitment to the company, they can easily influence their career progression
which helped them to grasp big advantages and complete assignment on time. Being able to
adapt from one working environment to the very next, is highly appreciated by people. I also
believe that with the help of interpersonal abilities and skills I can complete my projects on time.
If people wants to work in team and deal with customers, investors and suppliers then they must
have interpersonal abilities which provide them definite benefit. In addition to this, the ability to
build relationships with those around you will inspire them to work effectively and provide
support.
I am ready to enter into the career, before entering in need to ensure whether I am eligible
or not. While entering I am able to decided what are my values, my interest my hobbies and
specialization. From the above discussion of my skills and attributes I think I am ready to enter
into the career of my choice.
There are different types of psychometric test which needs to be taken into consideration
they are game based, personality tests and situational judgement. The important one is
personality test which aims to identify a personal type. By having game based tests, the people
can use traditional psychometric test solutions. With the help of this test, I am able to increase
the predictability of the process of selection. Also, I can reduce the risk and staff wastage for the
betterment. Employers use psychometric test in order to differentiate between employees.
Moreover, by using situational judgement test, people can do recruitment process effectively.
Here, various types of situations related to jobs are suggested in front of them. Here they ask to
select which is the most suitable one and appropriate response.

PART C establishing areas for development
Where I am now Where I need to be in the future
I am able to handle and organise team work I want to achieve long term goals as a top level
management in my organisation ( long term
goals)
I am able to provide solutions to work
effectively
I need to achieve good position and earn good
reputation in the upcoming years. ( long term
goals)
My three areas for development are nervousness, lack of patience and delegation. In
order to ensure career success in my position I will be attending online classes, workshops and
seminar which will help me to build my confidence level (Rasheed, Younas and Sundus, 2019).
Due to nervousness, I have started losing self-confidence when we have group discussion and
group assessment. To improve this, I have started online classes, it was really amazing
experience which has really supported me overcome my nervousness. To improve this, I am
focusing on developing and regular practicing via online classes which helped me to refresh the
important concept about importance of patience skills.
ACTION PLAN
area of improvement Resources what will I do Time
nervousness and self-
criticism
online classes Regularly practicing
relaxation techniques
2 months (short
term goals)
delegation workshops Coordinating team
members and building
6 months
( medium)

trust
lack of patience attending online
classes
Practicing mindfulness 3 months
In order to measure my success, I will be using feedback method from which I will ask
my team mates and leader to provide me their points of view about my performance (Smeresky,
Rizzo and Sands, 2020). They can easily give me some suggestion from which I will be able to
develop areas. with the help of self-assessment method, I am able to know about self-
development and self-evaluation will help me to improve my weaknesses. The process through
which people advance their self-awareness, renew their identity and build confidence which can
easily develop their weaknesses and strengths too. By this they can easily fulfil their aspirations
and improve themselves in every aspect.
With the help of action plan and self-development I am able to respond positively to
change things. I will enhance organisational performance in my professional career which help
me develop my performance at individual level (Smeresky, Rizzo and Sands, 2020). When
people actively motive themselves to use self development and focus action plan then they can
build trust and promotes empowerment. By having self-development, I will be able to encourage
my team mates to develop self-determination among them. With the help of self-development, I
am able to increase interest, experience, skills and knowledge level which help me to lead a team
and enhance my creativity level in the workplace.
For this I will be using various type of key processes for self-development and self analysis
i will ask for 360-degree feedback from other people in the organisation.
I will focus on making action plan for the future success
I will keep track my progress through KPIs and record development progress
Also, I will try to engage in challenging situations in new ways.
I will try to focus on self-evaluation on frequent basis which will help me to reflect on
performance
Use method such as personal critical reflection
Keep monitoring, measuring and reviewing performance.

CONCLUSION
To conclude, from the above report it has been concluded that by using self-reflection
and self-development, I am able to achieve smart goals in my professional career. I am now
currently competent although I need some of improvement in few of my skills. I need regular
feedback so that I can easily develop management of my career. so, to be successful, it is
essential to focus on growth and development via methods like self-analysis, self-awareness,
self-evaluation, self-development and progress measure.

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