Importance of Leadership and Management in the Hospitality Industry

Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Covered in Infographics..............................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Self-audit.....................................................................................................................................3
Discussion...................................................................................................................................5
Action Plan for leadership development.....................................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Leadership practices consist of set of activities which an individual perform in order to
influence the group of people for directing their working practices toward the accomplishment of
organisational goals or objectives (Alhelalat, 2015). Leaders are visionary who formulate action
plan for providing employees with direction to perform operations. This report is based on the
importance of leadership and management for an individual and divided into two part. In section
one it contains an investigation over leadership requirement in accomplishment of organisational
goals using an example of Holiday Inn which maintains a chain of hotel throughout the world for
offering the accommodation and leisure related services. In section 2 it involve self audit
summary along with discussion of leadership and action plan for improving skills.
TASK 1
Covered in Infographics
TASK 2
Leadership is basically refers to the abilities of an individual to direct and guide the
employees in order to perform operation in a manner that support in accomplishment of
organisational goals and objectives (Huang and et. al., 2016). Leadership plays a crucial role for
an individual to perform its operations in effective manner and achieve better outcome by
directing the efforts of employees in effective manner. In order to evaluate my leadership skills
and capabilities I have decided to perform a self-appraisal which support me in determine my
strength and area to which I lacking behind so that appropriate actions can be taken for ensuring
development of my professional skills for a better career enhancement in future. This self-
appraisal is performed while making use of skill-audit.
Self-audit
Self-audit is basically refers to the process of evaluating the capability of an individual in
order to determine the strength or weaknesses along with area of improvement for better
performance (Crawford, Weber and Dennison, 2014). In order to perform my self-appraisal I
have used skill audit tool which is an essential process for recording as well as measuring the
skills of an individual. I have performed a skill audit by taking rating over my skills from my