Leading Effectively in a Global Environment

This assignment examines the essential skills required for effective leadership in a globalized business setting. The document analyzes personal strengths and weaknesses related to time management, stress management, and communication, providing strategies for enhancing these areas. It also explores the perspectives of colleagues from diverse cultures on the identified skill gaps and proposes a professional development plan to address them.

Managing in global environment-
(Activity 3)
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION .........................................................................................................................3
1. What do you think are the skills need to lead effectively in a global environment?...............3
2. Why do you think you don't have those skills yet?..................................................................4
3. How do your office colleagues from different culture view your identified skills shortage?. 4
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
This section activity 3 mainly focuses on assessing and reflecting own past experience as
well as current level of the individual skills and the required skills needed to lead effectively in
the global environment. Along with this, section would also focuses on gap analysis of personal
skills and measuring their strengths and weaknesses.
1. What do you think are the skills need to lead effectively in a global environment?
With the expansion of Alphapharma pharmaceutical company in the colleagues home
country that is China it has been discussed that as manager I must have adequate skills that
support me to lead the cited company properly in the global environment that are as follows-
Categories
Leadership The foremost category of the required skills is leadership skills that
mainly support in the attaining the communication skills,
interpersonal skills etc. that support me in performing my activities
in the proper manner while engaging business activities in the global
marketplace (Mohamed and Lashine, 2003). Along with this through
effective communication skills I can easily engage allocating the
activities within the environment.
Managerial Another skills that need to be required by me for leading effectively
in a global environment is managerial skills related with planning,
time management as well as stress management skills so that I can
easily engage the business expansion in the global environment.
Through reviewing my current experience it has been assessed that I have overseas
experience that support me in expanding the Alphapharma activities in the other country. Along
with this, for becoming the successful leader in the international environment I must
transcending own culture so that I can easily engage the business in the new environment and
culture. Along with this, it has been further analyzed that I don't have sensitivity to the cultural
diversity that directly impact my activities in the global environment. On the other hand, I do not
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have skills and abilities related with global strategic thinking would impact my activities in the
different nation and country.
2. Why do you think you don't have those skills yet?
With the help of assessing all the different required set of skills among individual I must
engage in assessing my own strength and weakness that support me in gathering proper
information and knowledge regarding the skills that I do not possess for surviving in the new
market. The key reason that I have gained for the failure of my skills are that I am in effective in
managing my time as well as activities with the diverse culture and background personnel. As to
sustain in the global environment I must have proper management of my skills so that I can
easily perform my activities in proper manner. On the other hand, I have also assess my certain
strength that support me acquiring and gaining the skills that is that is strong perspective in
training so that I can easily enhance my skills. Along with this, my another strength is that I am
active in undertaking the program that support me in developing the skills so that I can easily
lead the pharmaceutical company in the new region.
3. How do your office colleagues from different culture view your identified skills shortage?
In order to successfully engage the business activities in the new region and country it
has been assessed that working as office manager I have to face different cultural views of my
colleagues and staff members. While expanding activities in the global environment I would
focus on recruiting the localize staff within the pharmaceutical company as they are aware
regarding the actual and current market of the region therefore it would support them in easily
understanding the activities of the company (11 key characteristics of a global business leader,
2014). Along with this, office colleagues from the different cultural views the identified skills
shortage as the weakness of the manager that need to be amended in the proper manner so that I
must deliver the required activities that would support me in overcoming and enhancing the
shortage of skills. Along with this, in the next year I must engage in professional development
plan so that I can overcome the shortage of skills. The plan mainly include-
Shortage of skills Activities need to managed Ranking
Time management I must engage in prioritizing the activities of
pharmaceutical company so that I can easily
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sustain in the international environment.
Stress management In order to manage the different cultural and
background colleagues I must have adequate
stress management skills that support in
managing stress and anger so that it may not
negatively impact the staff.
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Communication
management
For managing or development of the skills
shortage related with communication
management I must focuses on increasing the
communication among staff and colleagues so
that I can easily manage the issue related with
managing the diverse employees.
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CONCLUSION
From the above analysis I have focuses on assessing the gap analysis among the skills
that I possess and the required skills that would support me in leading effectively global
environment.
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REFERENCES
Mohamed, E. K. and Lashine, S. H., 2003. Accounting knowledge and skills and the challenges
of a global business environment. Managerial Finance. 29(7). pp.3-16.
11 key characteristics of a global business leader. 2014. [Online]. Available through:
<https://ideas.darden.virginia.edu/2014/01/11-key-characteristics-of-a-global-business-
leader/>. [Accessed on 25th January 2017].
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