Challenges Faced in Leading an Organization

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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................... 2
Challenges faced in leading an organization.......................................................................2
Overcoming challenges................................................................................................. 3
Recommendations....................................................................................................... 4
Conclusion................................................................................................................ 4
References................................................................................................................ 6

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Introduction
The role of a leader in the contemporary environment is not stress-free. The leaders are requisite to
lead and inspire a different group of people through the organization for improving efficiency and
attaining growth. The leaders have to face complexity in managing necessities of government,
keeping up with the competitors and meeting the expectations of stakeholders as a part of the external
environment. It is tough being a leader but it can be really rewarding if tackled challenges
appropriately. It can even inspire employees to accomplish their tasks within the given deadlines. The
leaders are required to educate themselves for modern needs and should redefine their leadership
skills from time to time. This report comprises the challenges of leading an organization in today’s
world. The changes required to meet the challenges of the lead ship has been also defined in the
report. Finally, the recommendations are given to enhance the quality of leadership development
programs. It will have a role in addressing the limitation of the approaches used to develop leader and
leadership.
Challenges faced in leading an organization
The leaders almost face the same challenges in leading an organization. These are:
Emerging managerial effectiveness: The challenges confronted in the leading organizations now days
are like time management, strategic thinking, prioritization, decision making, getting up to speed with
the tasks assigned along with being more effective at work.
Motivating others: The challenge of motivating others is faced in order to satisfy employees with the
job. Inspiring the employees to work smarter is also the concern of this challenge. This challenge is
faced as leaders do not follow their discipline and people are sometimes not on the right jobs (Hristov
& Ramkissoon, 2016).
Leading a team: The challenges of team building are faced by the leaders like team development,
team management, team support, ways of leading a big team and the steps taken for taking over a new
team.
Developing employees: The challenges are faced by the organizations in emerging employees
encompassing mentoring and coaching. The practice of emerging employees takes place in order to
engage employees in the organization (Cashman, 2017). The leaders are required to have a sense of
security, ownership, and enthusiasm as for what organization is all about and the impact made.
Guiding change: Managing, organizing, understanding and leading change are some of the encounters
to be faced by the leaders.
Managing internals stakeholders and politics: This challenge is faced in managing relationships,
politics, and image. It comprises managing up, attaining managerial assistance and buy-in from
segments (Hawkins & Edwards, 2015).
The three challenges out of six challenges, motivating others, evolving employees and leading a team
are associated with the relationship-oriented part of the leadership. It is significant in the
contemporary environment for the organizations to encourage leaders to seek and contribute to the
relationships which develop their team members. In order to overcome the challenges, leaders are
required to build and maintain relationships by encouraging and developing others (Clinton, 2018).