People, Culture and Contemporary Leadership | Assignment

Running head: PEOPLE, CULTURE AND CNTEMPORARY LEADERSHIP
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Week 12
Question 1: strategies to continually develop my leadership skills
In order to become a highly efficient leader, it is highly crucial for an individual to develop
his or her leadership skills on a continuous basis. The first strategy that I will implement to
ensure a continuous development is assessing my leadership skills, my strengths and weaknesses
on a regular basis. According to Chadwick and Dennis (2017), a leader can only enhance his or
her leadership skill once he or she obtain in-depth understanding of his/her strengths as well as
weaknesses. For instance considering the fact that I have already detected lack of communication
skills as one of my weaknesses, I will be able to work on it and develop the same in near future.
The second strategy that will be implemented by me for developing my leadership skill is to
practice discipline. According to Lawson (2016), discipline can be considered as one of the chief
aspects of a good leader since it helps an individual to achieve success. Discipline will help me
to meet my deadlines keeping the appointments as well as ending meetings on specific times.
Not only this, it will help me to be organized. Not only this, a leader who practices discipline
also motivates his/her followers to practice the same.
Question 2: Three key actions I need to take to further develop my leadership skills and the
reason behind selecting the actions
Considering the fact that I need to develop my communication skills for future developing my
leadership skills, I will take the below mentioned actions to further develop my communication
skills:
1. I will go through videos and books specially written for developing communication style
of the leader: As a leader, it is highly crucial to clearly as well as succinctly explain the

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employees about the organization goals. Along with this, communication skill of a leader
is also necessary to develop effective professional leadership with the employees and
motivating them so that they can reach the goal. Being an introvert individual, I believe
that in need to develop the skills of communicating effectively with the employees so that
the above mentioned tasks can be done efficiently by me.
2. I will take extra sessions in order to develop my verbal communication skills and cultural
competence: Considering the fact cultural competence of the leader plays a major role
while working together with employees from different cultural background, for further
developing my leadership skills, I will learn more about different cultures across the
world. It will help me to acknowledge, demonstrate respect as well as encourage my
followers to ensure cultural competence.
3. Setting my own work ethic standard: Considering that it is highly crucial for a leader to
be ethical in order to retain skilled as well as experienced employees, I will develop my
own work ethic standard by demonstrating reliability and trustworthiness to the
employees.
Reflection on Use of Psychometric testing
The psychometric test can be defined as a standard as well as scientific methods that is
used for measuring the mental capabilities as well as behavioral style of an individual. In
leadership context, the psychometric tests are used for assessing as well as evaluating specific
characteristics of personality that is linked with successful leadership. The leadership
questionnaire for the psychometric tests includes a 50 item self report psychometric test. Once
the leer complete answering the questions the responses are analyzed as well as presented with a