Leadership Skills: Reflection and Action Plan

LEADERSHIP SKILLS

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUDSION.............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................1

INTRODUCTION
Leadership refers to a quality that enable an individual to lead and influence its followers to
move towards the specified suggested direction so that they can grab their objective (Hallinger,
2018). This reflection will consist of the discussion of leadership and management skills and
qualities that I made realize with the context of my past experience and the inclusion of Gibbs
model. This reflection also includes SWOT analysis and the action plan.
MAIN BODY
Leadership:
It refers to an art or practice that will lead to creation of motivation among a group of
people to move towards the direction of achievement of goals. In simple terms, it refers to a
quality that lead the followers to motivate and influence so that they can act in a desired direction
(Pidgeon, 2017). An individual who possess these qualities are said to be a leader.
Management:
It refers to a process that includes a planning, organizing, directing, motivating and
controlling the human resource, physical, financial and other resources so that the goal of the
organization will be achieved. It is usually possessed by the managers (Ularn, 2018).
In order to become a successful leader or a manager there is a need of the existence of
certain qualities and capabilities that will lead to the development of the managerial and
leadership qualities. During a course of three year learning it would not be wrong to said that
when I make my self-analysis I found that, I also possess various leadership and management
qualities and skills. Right from presence of active listening, creativity, flexibility, ability to
inspire others, strategic thinking, and many more skills I found in myself. Likewise, I also found
that I have good communication, motivation, organization, mentoring, and interpersonal skills.
When I apply Gibbs model of self-reflection and its related steps, I would be able to reflect
myself along with my inner hidden skills. This model is concerned with the reflection of
ourselves (He, Parkinson and Doyle, 2018). Right from the first step of description where I made
detailed analysis of my situation that where I find that I also possessed the leadership and
management skills. When I deeply analysis the situation I remember that when I was in college I
was given a task of handling a team work. Here I first came to realize that I would be a good