Leadership Skills in Organization

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ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT
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ORGANIZATION CHANGE AND DEVELOPMENT 2
Introduction
Organization moves forward through effective leadership that is capable of bringing together all
the members into a common goal. Without leadership skill, there tends to be numerous conflicts
among the employees leading to drop on productivity level of an organization. These leadership
skills are always gained through training and work experience that exposes every leader to
different social environments that have different cultural backgrounds (Shea et al. 2014, p.486).
Every employee goes through change and development that affect the operations of the entire
organization. Change has dependably been there in human life in all angles, for example,
political, financial, and political. Notwithstanding, globalization has given greater chance to the
development of different parts of human lives, prompting quick change and improvement in both
the human life and the tasks of associations. The individual changes results into the entire
development of an organization. Therefore organization development refers to the planned
changes in an organization to bring a change such as projects . These changes need effective
leadership skills to succeed. The process of learning to deal with diverse behaviors helps the
organization to reduce employee’s conflicts (Lillingsworth & Eschenbacher 2018,p.450). The
paper explores the organization change and development with respect to the leadership skills in
XRS laser. The paper explores the leadership skills that have led the increased gap between the
staffs, pointing out the macro and micro problems in the leader. The paper also examines
available problem solutions strategy and further provides recommendation for the problems.

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Leadership
Leadership is a skill that propels every organization to higher levels. Leaders are managers that
have the capability of tapping and motivating the employee’s talents to achieve the
organization’s objectives. Such leaders have different skills such as clear communicator, an
organized person, confident in the team, high integrity, influential Powerful facilitator, and
skilled negotiator among others (Horral et al 2018, p.449). A poor leader tend to have negative
impacts on the employees and destroys the company’s bottom line, for example leads to frequent
unresolved conflicts among the employees, poor or reduced productivity level, high rate of
employee turnover, poor employee engagement and among others.
The leadership skills are subdivided into macro and micro: the macro leadership skills require the
leaders to entail fully into trail-finding and building the culture. The trail- finding is summed up
as a process of identifying a way into the fruitful future, whereas the culture-building refers to as
a process of drawing employees into purposeful organization so as to exploit the current
opportunities extensively (Jackson & Garcia 2010, p.241). The micro leadership kills majors on
the styles that are capable of creating efficient working conditions and obtain a willing
cooperation so as to get the assigned task to be completed. John faces both the micro and macro
leadership skills
XRS Lase Leadership Problem
John the XRS team leader has been under pressure from Kate his boss to improve the
performance of the team. The team is underperforming mainly because John doesn’t offer
effective leadership resulting into friction among the employees resulting into poor performance.

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John does not participate with the team members in the training , rather is seen busy with non-
important issues during the whole training.
The Macro Leadership Skills Missing in John
Lack of focus of the task at hand- John faces a problem of always loosing as focus on the task in
the hand (Zhen et al 2014, p.689). This is evidential at the training when most of the time john
just joked, joined his team averagely 30 minutes later and at some point didn’t join the team
totally. Joking all around fro along time makes john not to make follow up of what is happening
within the group and the whole organization.
Communication skills – John lacks communication skill, an essential aspect in leadership.
Communication is a form of information exchange media, that have the capability in bringing
together of the same kind of culture. John’s inadequacy of the communication skills is evidential
first from inability to have a mutual communication with the team members to identify the
source of the problem, secondly, most of the conflicts within the organization (Taplin, Foster &
Shortell 2013, p.280). Effective communication aids in aligning and executing the set objectives
of an organization. In XRS Laser’s poor performance is as result of John failing to address the
team members conflict. It is evidential in many organizations that have faced conflicts,
communication have always been the best solution.
Lack of confident- John as a leader is faced with lack of confidence. Being John’s first job to
lead a project team, john doesn’t know how to go about the leadership challenges. John tends to
be intimidated by the group member hence making him to have less contribution toward the
topic of discussion (Strnadova et al 2014,p.16). A confident leader tends to be positive, happy
and ability to lead and resolve challenges, an aspect that John is lacking, the conflicts that john