Managing People - Weakness in Leadership Skills and SMART Goals

Running head: MANAGING PEOPLE
Managing People
Name of the Student:
Name of the University:
Author’s Note:

1MANAGING PEOPLE
Overview of the leadership weakness
The past experiences of mine and also the analysis of my own leadership skills in this
assignment clearly indicates that one of the weaknesses of my leadership skill is my lack of
use of the use of the machinery of creativity. The effective use of this particular concept is
likely to help me in a significant manner to complete the same kind of tasks in a much more
effective manner and will at the same time also enable me to lead the different members of
my team in a much more effective manner. Thus, it can be said that the acquisition of this
particular skill is important not only from the perspective of the process of my personal
development but at the same time from the perspective of the development of my leadership
abilities.
SMART Goals
Specific
For the effective development of my creative abilities I would like to develop the skill
of expressing my thoughts or emotions in a creative manner. For the achievement of this
particular goal I would indulge in the activity of writing the morning paper every single day
of the week. In morning paper I would try to give vent to my thoughts and feeling in a
creative manner and at the same time would also learn to articulate my thoughts in a much
more persuasive manner.
Measurable
I would like to say that creativity is an intangible quantity and cannot be quantified or
measured like the other tangible entities. Thus, I would have to get the morning papers which
I written checked by my professors or others in order to check the progress that I am making
in the process of expression of my thoughts in a creative manner. In addition to these, I also