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Managing, Leading and Stewardship (21937)
Added on 2020-04-29
Managing, Leading, Organising & Stewardship – 21937
Managing, Leading and Stewardship (21937)
Added on 2020-04-29
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Managing, Leadership, & Stewardship1Managing, Leadership, & StewardshipBy NameCourseInstructorInstitutionLocationDate
Managing, Leadership, & Stewardship2Managing, Leadership, & StewardshipPre-Subject ReflectionBeing a Managing Director or a CEO of a company was something that I admired a lot asI was in school and that influenced my choice of undertaking Finance and Marketing course. Once I graduated in the Finance and Marketing field the interest of being a CEO in a company atsome point in life escalated and became a dream that I wished to come true. Any graduate with dreams of being at the top of any company is aware of the hard work and the mindset of the people in top management so as to be able to know the strategies required to reach that peak point of management. In my MBA study I came across an important topic where it pointed on the right ways that are necessary to lead a company. However, this topic gave me an entirely different reflection on management, leadership and stewardship requirements contrary to what I initially had in mind. To me leading a company meant understanding how to manage but this topic gave me an insight on how to separate leading a company where prioritizing investors and stakeholders come first and leading a company where people priorities come first. My choice to study Finance and Marketing was important as it enlightened me on three crucial pointers. One isit was my choice as it fitted with my career field. The other reason is because of my interest in learning leadership and finally this subject granted me the power to be able to change how management is seen externally. Stewardship in my assumption I can define it as the way people are supervised in an organization. Stewardship was also a subject of interest to me as I wanted to know its different approaches and dimensions. Other topics of interest that I came across was Organizational Dialogue and Theory and Practices that majorly dealt with importance of good leadership in an organization and both topics go hand in hand. Choosing this subject was a good idea to me as it helped me in learning and adding my interpersonal skills as well. Any leader should possess good interpersonal skills that help in efficient way of conversing as well as being an effective listener. This subject therefore will sharpen my interpersonal skills as a leader and I will be able to blend in into the corporate world. Another example of a challenge I faced as a leader was when I was employed as a Manager in a Sports Consulting Company. During that time as the Manager, most of the times I was not able to prioritize work for the team that I was leading. Having a team comprising of 12 people and working on different projects at a time was a challenge. We mostly dealt with
Managing, Leadership, & Stewardship3handling of the brand partners of the company, manning the office in India as well as ensuring customer satisfaction and customer care functions. All these responsibilities sometimes weighed us down and at some point, my team and I would work for 10 hours straight in one day and this was very strenuous because sometimes I would ignore calls from the brand partners which was bad for business. I got out of that company and now sometimes I look back and I am ashamed onhow I handled business there and I think I could have done better in my work as an effective leader. In the course of undertaking my bachelor degree, our school had a drama society whereby I was the President of that club. Drama groups are normally huge and contain a lot of participants and our drama group was no different. There were about 250 students who participated in drama and that was a challenge to me in terms of managing such a big number. I faced challenges as the President of the drama group especially in allocating equal opportunities to all the members and ensuring that all members felt their presence was valued. Being a leader (President of the drama group) made me feel like I was not fair enough to all members involved and this made me feel like I could have handled the leadership better. Undertaking this subject though, made me learn and gain more advantage in personal and professional growth as a leader. Mid-subject ReflectionDuring my first semester in my lectures in MLS, I encountered other students who were from vast cultures and backgrounds that were interesting as they shared their opinions and views in terms of their personal encounters and experiences with leadership. Incorporation of lectures and series of insightful tutorials every week was an eye-opener to us on what real world leadership problems were as well as sharpening theories that we learned in our lectures. Combining both class lectures and theories together with tutorials was insightful and made us understand leadership wholly. In-class activitiesReal and complex activities in week 4 put my mind to test and made me think even harder on real life practices. We were given a case study to work on as a group and I did a role
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