Leadership and Management: Developing Skills for Effective Leadership

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
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Table of content
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Identifying the three leadership qualities present and how the following were gained...................3
Skills of delegation.......................................................................................................................3
Skills of creativity........................................................................................................................3
Positivity and responsibility.........................................................................................................4
Identifying the three qualities which is to be developed.................................................................4
Communication............................................................................................................................4
Motivation....................................................................................................................................5
Relationship building...................................................................................................................5
Development plan............................................................................................................................5
Attain communicational skills.....................................................................................................6
Increase my behavioural skills.....................................................................................................6
Relationship building skill...........................................................................................................6
Explaining how will I lead in context of sustainability and social responsibility...........................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Appendix........................................................................................................................................11
Journal............................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Leadership is a very essential element which is required in order to be able to lead a
group of people with common objectives to their goals. I have clarified in past experience that
leading is a conventional process it requires skills and competencies in order to be conducted in a
prominent way. Acquiring skills related to the leadership helps a firm to become an efficient
leader. In this assessment I will be providing a reflective essay on how I developed by existing
leadership skills and what are my requirements of skills which will be needed by me in order to
become a good leader. The development plan will also be laid out to describe the ways in which
the skills will acquired to become a good leader.
Identifying the three leadership qualities present and how the following were
gained
The following are the 3 leadership qualities and skills which I have and the ways in which the
following skills have been acquired:
Skills of delegation
Delegation is an important skill to master of an individual wants to become a leader. I
have the skills of delegating my authorities to my teammates of follower which makes the
task easy to perform and involves every member which help me in gutter to the collective
goal of the team. I have learnt the following skills through my academics as well as my
involvement in sports. I have known the importance of delegation as well as the ways in
which authorities or work can be delegated to my teammates of colleagues (Krell, 2015).
I have played sports and this has helped me to experiment delegation of authorities by
defining the role of very teammate within the game and moving towards the goal
collectively. This has helped me attaining effective skills of delaying many authorities as
a leader to my follower and co workers in order to reach a collective objective through
team work (Ward, 2016).
Skills of creativity
Creativity is a very important element within leadership of leader. Leaders need to be
creative and innovative in order to become an efficient leader. Thinking something out of

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the box for the purpose reaching the goal in evident manner helps a team to efficiently
reach of common goal. I have creativity in me as I desire of knowing the different paths
and ways through which a goal can be reached in an evident manner. I have learnt the
following skills through the involvement in art and interest within technologies.
Innovation in modern days have helped me learnt that there are new machines and ways
which come every day and help a individual to reach their desires and gola in a different
(Cleeter, Arms, Peter, Bemis & Swint, 2017). This has helped me to understand the
importance of creativity in every aspect of life and leadership. Hence my approach to nay
work is creative as I think a creative path through which I can reach my goals in evident
manner (Sosik & Jung, 2018).
Positivity and responsibility
I have the skills of staying positive and taking responsibilities for my job role. Positivity
and responsibility is a very important behavioral skill which should be acquired by a
good leader (Clinton, 2018). This helps the leader to spread positive environment for
team and workforce in which they are operating in. I have acquired the skills of staying
positive and responsible through my academic life (Alter, 2017). The education provided
by my schools and high schools have helped me too learn that staying positive and taking
responsibilities for own action help a person to become a leader one day.
Identifying the three qualities which is to be developed
The three skills which I lack and desire of acquiring are discussed as follows:
Communication
Communication is one of biggest needs which good leaders need to have in order to
become an efficient one. Communication skills are required by a leader to communicate
and share information within a team. I have not been very good at communication and
my communication skills are not good which has played as major barrier in my
leadership goal. As I am not good at communication there can be communication gap
between me my and followers which can lead various problems between the workforce or
team in lieu of reaching a common goal (Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm & McKee, 2014).
These have been major shortcoming which I have faced in order of becoming a good
leader. I desire that I gain proper communication skills so that I am able to properly