Management | Leadership: Self Reflection

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Leadership Development Plan

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Leadership: Self Reflection
Leadership is a way of influencing others or guiding others to achieve their goals. At
present, leadership is found not in work but all around us. Leaders have the ability to take stand and
charge of any situation (Northouse, 2018). This paper describes my leadership weaknesses,
capabilities, and strengths and on that basis, a skill is identified that helps me to be successful in
professional and personal life. Further for the development of skill an action plan is recommended.
Current leadership capabilities
The most important quality that differentiates a leader from others or its followers is a clear
vision and ability to influence and manage people. I get to know about my capabilities when I
worked in a team at my college where I always focus on distributing task according to their
strengths such as if someone is good in explaining I provided him to give a presentation, one who is
innovative and creative I gave him responsibility to find new ways of solving issues. Hence from
that, I identified that I have organizational capabilities that include inspiring others to work,
completing work on time, flexibility and adaptability. I am passionate about my work and stay
motivated during my tasks as I always try to find innovative ways to do a task and in doing that I
keep myself up to speed. Hence, I identified that vision and organizational capabilities are areas
where I excel.
On the other side, I remembered an incident when I was attending an occasion and was not
able to give a speech instantly. That was the time when I identified that I need to improve my public
speaking skills and self-confidence as in corporate world instant answers and reactions according to
the situation are required. Self-confidence and public speaking are two main areas that help a leader
to be successful in corporate life. The companies require people who have the ability to deal with
uncertainties and take quick action whenever required (Tang,2019).

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Leadership Skill to improve
By identifying skills that I don’t have, I want to develop it in order to be a leader. The skill
that I am going to develop includes public speaking skills. Public speaking is considered as an
important skill in the business world and for a leader as well. This is important to develop because
it helps to win over the crowd, helps to motivate people and leads to effective and timely
communication of leaders with followers (Gordon & Gordon,2017).
I believe that if I develop my public speaking skills other two skills where I am lacking will
also develop that are self-confidence and networking. As in order to speak and perform in front of
others, self-confidence is required if I work on to develop public speaking skills my confidence will
also boost. At last, the development of this skill resultant in higher self-confidence and strong
connections or network. These skills will benefit me and help me in order to be successful in my
professional life as I will able to communicate with my team members, helps me to influence and
motivate others to attain organizational objectives and to build strong peer relationships. In a
nutshell, If I develop public speaking skills, I feel confident and able to communicate with others
effectively this will help me to stay one step ahead in my career as strong communication skills are
the common requirements of corporates.
Recommendations
Leaders should possess public speaking skills as this helps in motivating, communicating
and building a network. A leader who is an extrovert has an additional advantage that helps to
build a strong team. Hence I am keen interested in developing this skill, for that, I am going to
spend time watching videos of relatable speakers that helps me to understand the ways I have to
deliver the speech and to start at the initial stage. I will focus on identifying what is best in me in
order to bring self-confidence.

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Later, I will try to deliver a speech in front of small audiences like in front of my team
members, then in front of my class and then try to deliver a speech in front of a large audience. In
the process, I might discover more extrovert parts of myself and with the whole experience I will
end up feeling exhilarating and liberating instead of anxiety. Moreover, this skill can be learned and
develop with practice and time. Hence, I will record videos of myself to know where I am going
wrong and what areas I need to improve. At last, this helps me in developing my other skills too
such as self-confidence, communication skills, networking, creativity, influencing and motivating
others (Reichard, Walker, Putter, Middleton & Johnson,2017).
Action plan
Firstly I will set an action plan for 3 months in which in the first week I will work on my
confidence level by spending daily 2 hours watching the best speakers in the world and observing
their way of communicating some of them that I admire are Steve Jobs and Tony Robbins. After
that in the second week, I will try to participate in college events and activities and will initiate in
order to develop confidence and will communicate on daily basis with others and colleagues in
order to come out of my comfort zone.
Secondly while practicing I will attend seminars and training sessions of public speaking
that help me to build a strong network and to provide me the opportunity to interact with people.
Third, I will practice daily so that in the second month I am able to deliver a speech in front of my
classmates. Fourth, with practice, training and sessions I am able to speak publicly at the end of the
third month and I will measure my performance by taking feedbacks from tutors and friends this
will help me to be successful as a leader in the future.

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References
Gordon, P. A., & Gordon, B. A. (2017). The role of volunteer organizations in leadership skill
development. Journal of Management Development.
Northouse, P. G. (2018). Leadership: Theory and practice. Sage publications.
Reichard, R. J., Walker, D. O., Putter, S. E., Middleton, E., & Johnson, S. K. (2017). Believing is
becoming: The role of leader developmental efficacy in leader self-development. Journal of
Leadership & Organizational Studies, 24(2), 137-156.
Tang, K. N. (2019). Leadership in Business Organization. In Leadership and Change
Management (pp. 1-9). Springer, Singapore.