Personal and Professional Development

This presentation explores the concept of personal and professional development and its importance in an individual's career. It discusses the leadership theories and styles of Mark Zuckerberg, the co-founder of Facebook, and the impact of his leadership on the performance of the company. The presentation also provides recommendations for effective leadership.

Personal and Professional
Development

Table of Content
• Introduction
• Leadership theories
• Leadership style and skills
• The impact of Zuckerberg's leadership on the performance on Facebook
• Conclusion
• References

Introduction
The main goal of personal and professional development is to assist an individual in managing his
own growth and learning throughout his/her career. Mark E. Zukerburg is an american entrepreneur
who is famous for co-founding the biggest social networking websites, facebook. The company
develops technologies in order to provide people the power of connecting and networking with
each other across the globe, grow their businesses, find different communities and is headquartered
in california, united states.

Leadership Theories
A leader is important for the success of every team and leadership is the process of motivating and
encouraging a group or team of people to act towards achieving a specific goal or objective. To
make this simpler, various theories that support the concept of leadership are developed that
explain why individuals behave in a particular way.

Cont.…
Different theories of leadership are explained below -
Trait theory
Contingency theory
Situational theory

Cont.…
Transformational leadership theories
Behavioural theory
Transactional theories
Laissez-faire style approach to leadership

Trait Theory
This theory is used in order to predict the effective leadership and are based on the
assumption that people are born leaders and possess certain qualities like creativity,
intelligence etc. that make them leaders in the future. The theory also focusses on
analysing the mental, social and physical characteristics in order to gain a better
perspective of the same.

Contingency Theory
This theory claims that there is no better way in which an organisation can be
organised in order to make decisions. According to this theory, the success
of the leader does not depend only on his abilities (Gibson, 2016). Rather there
are a lot of factors like the working environment of the firm, its culture,
employees etc. that influence his/her success as a leader.

Situational Theory
This theory is similar to the contingency theory and states that the concept of
leadership depends on the situation that the organisation faces (Van Waes and
et. al., 2016). Thus, leaders should always respond a particular situation after
assessing various factors like the nature and type of the task, members of
the team etc. According to the theory, the most relevant and effective
leadership styles change varying on the situation and thus in order to be
successful a leader should be able to adapt his approach and style
accordingly.

Transformational Leadership Theories
The theory states that this is the process by which individuals interact among themselves
and are thus able to create solid relationships that will help the company later with an
increased motivation among the employees as well as the subordinates, both intrinsic
and extrinsic

Behavioural Theory
The behavioural theories focus on the behaviours of leaders within an
organisation. The theory divided leaders into two categories like the leaders
who were concerned with tasks and others who were concerned about their
team members. The theory focuses on specific behaviours and actions
rather than their characteristics and traits

Transactional Theories
These theories are also known as exchange theories of leadership and can be
characterised by the transaction that is made between a leader and his
team members. The theory thus values a relationship that is mutually
beneficial and positive at the same time. For the theory to show a positive
result, the leader should reward and punish his/her team members
accordingly for the tasks they are assigned to complete

Leadership style and skills
Mark Zukerberg is known to illustrate the transactional style of leadership and is described to be a
encouraging as well as aggressive leader. He is a person who constantly seeks innovation and
growth. Mark is also known to use autocratic, democratic and laissez-faire styles of leadership. He
motivates and encourages his employees to constantly work towards completing their tasks and
achieving the goals and objectives of the company but at the same time asks for feedbacks from
them and does not encourage discrimination among the employees in his company.

Cont.…
Being a transactional leader, his primary focus is on maintaining a balance between the workflows
of operations in the company and satisfying the deadlines on a daily basis. Mark, as a leader,
provides various opportunities to the employees of the company to grow and level up their careers
and not just sit around completing tasks for a particular job role life long. The leadership style of
mark promises a bright future for Facebook in the future as he understands the need of continued
growth of his company to be able to sustain in a highly competitive and dynamic environment.

The impact of Zuckerberg's leadership on the
performance on Facebook
The transformational style of leadership that Mark adopts can be seen to continuously move
Facebook to a bright as well as promising future. As a leader, he has a complete in depth
understanding of his company's operations and motivates its continuous growth. Also, his
transformational leadership can be described as encouraging, demanding as well as innovative.
He understands that he has made mistakes during the course of time and thus works constantly to
overcome them.

Recommendations
 Thus, a leader should show concern for his/ her employees and provide them various
opportunities to enhance their skills and overall productivity which can be seen in the output
they deliver after the completion of a project in the company.
 Also, he can adopt various styles of leadership depending on various situations that arise. This
helps them in retaining the employees and improving the overall performance of the
organisation.

Conclusion
From the above report, it can be concluded that personal as well as professional development form
an integral part of an individual's career and thus should be taken seriously. And the main idea
behind this concept is encouraging the growth of a person, not only personally but also
professionally. A leader is a person who is responsible for encouraging and motivating his team
members or subordinates to work towards achieving particular goals and objectives of the
company.

References
• Dias, P. C. And cadime, I., 2016. Effects of personal and professional factors on teachers’
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Pp.111-123.
• Gibson, d. M., 2016. Growing leaders: the parallels of professional identity and leadership
identity development in counselors. Journal of counselor leadership and advocacy. 3(1). Pp.31-
40.
• McMillan, D. J., McConnell, B. and O’Sullivan, H., 2016. Continuing professional
development–why bother? Perceptions and motivations of teachers in Ireland. Professional
development in education. 42(1). pp.150-167.

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