Personal and Professional Development

This report discusses the importance of employability skills and different leadership styles through the study of Jeff Bezos. It explores the skills needed for future career growth, such as communication, research, and ICT skills. The report also reflects on the challenges faced and the skills developed during the project.

Personal and Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
Task-1..............................................................................................................................................3
Task-2............................................................................................................................................13
Reflection...................................................................................................................................13
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................19

INTRODUCTION
Employability skills requires to be presented in each and every individual so that they can
achieve number of opportunities in future career perspective. There are lots of organizations
determines employment skills that must present in individuals at a time of hiring and recruitment
process so that right talent can be selected for specified job positioning. Employability and
academic skills include various skills i.e. communication, interpersonal, research, analytical
skills and others that must present in individuals so that these can give high contribution towards
growth and success of company. This report is reflection that will discuss over study and
employability skills which will develop while evaluating leadership’s skills and styles of
successful business leader.
Task-1

 The main objective of the professional and personal development is to help individuals to
maintain own learning as well as growth for future career.
 The main goal of the presentation is to evaluate different leadership styles and it’s
importance in the company.

 A ideal leader always supports individuals or group of people to improve their
capabilities as well as maintains their wellbeing at the workplace.
 There are various leadership styles i.e. autocratic, democratic, transformation, charismatic
etc. which follows by individuals to manage their subordinates in efficient manner.
 These leadership styles are not only supported to coordinate number of people towards
common goal but also maintains wellbeing of them in the workplace.

 contribution in the Amazon’ s success except Google, Apple and Microsoft.
 The main objective of the company is to offer high standard quality products and services
to the customers or users and in exchange gains high profit margin on each product.

 Jeff Bezos considers one of the best motivators in modern era due to his different
leadership styles and characteristics.
 He is not only brough success in Amazon Inc. but also keeps it’s staff highly
proactive by involving them in each business decision.
 However, Jeff Bezos still put more efforts in order to bring success in the business in
precise manner.
 He is also famous as great leader in the 21st century because he posses’ effective
leadership skills, qualities and styles through which Amazon Inc. has become one of
the largest online retailer in the e-commerce market.
 This leadership style adopted by Jeff Bezos for directing it’s staff in right direction and
manage their stress level with time flexibility in the workplace.
 However, there have a reason to adopt this leadership style is that this leadership style
emphasizes on business objectives on the other hand, servant leadership style focuses on
it’s staff only.
 Jeff Bezos is the great transformation leader because he does not require much direction
from others for motivation because he is already more self-motivated. This is one of the
major reasons of Amazon success in the online retailing sector.

 Situational leadership style is considered one of the best leadership styles because it
comprises four type of leadership styles i.e. directing, coaching, participating and
delegating.
 This leadership style supports leaders to choose appropriate leadership styles accordingly
company’s needs.
 However, each leadership style has own significance i.e. delegating leadership style
supports leaders to delegate different tasks in employees when workload is too high.
Then this leadership manages all functions related to business activity.
 As same directing leadership style helps to direct such employees who needs guidance to
deal complex tasks. With participating leadership style, leaders involve number of
employees in decision-making process and encourages them to keep their reviews
regrading decision. Such activity creates innovative working environment in the
workplace and maintains wellbeing of individuals.
 Coaching leadership style is used by situational leaders when company requires high
working performance at the workplace in order to raise goodwill of the business. The
situational leaders organize training session for the staff and encourages them to improve
their existing skills and learns new tactics which makes them more career-oriented.
Overall this leadership supports company to keep it’s staff self-motivated and proactive
in the workplace.
 Jeff Bezos also posses’ all characteristics of situational leaders due to this he enables to
keep workforce highly productive in the company.

Autocratic leadership
 However, Autocratic leadership style often adapt by Jeff Bezos during peak period so
that employees can achieve short-term goals in efficient period.
 With this leadership style, CEO of Amazon Inc. delegates different tasks among staff
so that individuals can perform delegated task efficiently and achieve all objectives.
Thus, Amazon Inc. enables to gain competitive advantage in it’s sector.
 However, Jeff Bezos has implemented Adam’s equity model to keep motivated it’s
staff in the company. He flexibles with the time that reduces pressure on individuals
and encourages them to give productive performance in the workplace.
 He also keeps transparency in decision-making process, promotion policy etc. that
influences individuals to give honest performance in the workplace which leads
desirable outcomes in the company.
 The main goal of the Jeff Bezos is to make company highly successful in it’s sector
and brings strength in the workforce.
 So, Jeff Bezos with HR managers of Amazon Inc. works together in the workplace to
recruit highly efficient and talented candidates in the company who can support to
achieve organization’s goal in effective manner.

 Due to this strategy, Jeff Bezos enables to lead strength in workforce at the
workplace.
 Team leadership style also follows by Jeff Bezos for delegating challenging tasks to
the staff in a team and maintains manage their wellbeing in the job place effectively.
 Jeff Bezos posses cross culture leadership style that supports him to understand
individuals needs and expectation for the workplace and achieves competitive
advantage from the competitors.
 Team leadership style also follows by Jeff Bezos for delegating challenging tasks to
the staff in a team and maintains manage their wellbeing in the job place effectively.
 Visionary and Charismatic leadership style has applied by CEO of Amazon Inc. and
developed vision for the company that it will count in big technology company like
Google, Microsoft and Apple Inc. and as resulted it has famous as most successful
and potential technology company.
 Such priorities often support Mr. Jeff Bezos and his team to think in such manner like
what users would feel and react over their decision.
 Thus, Jeff Bezos and his team enable to proposed gain creator and pain alleviator
products for the customers.

 Another reason is that Mr Jeff Bezos was aware about importance of internet in that
period, that internet will play significant role in human life in upcoming years.

 From the above discussion has been summarized that Jeff Bezos is the great business man
and leader. Due to his different leadership styles and qualities has brought immense
success in the Amazon Inc.

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Task-2
Reflection
Gibb’s Reflective Cycle is a self-reflection model that uses by individual to share their
experience which they have achieved by learning or event. This model is proposed by Graham
Gibb’s in 1986. I also used this reflective model to express my feelings and experience which I
have experienced while evaluating different leadership skills and styles of Jeff Bezos who is the
successful business leader of the Amazon Inc. I have learnt various employability and academic
skills which are needed to perform various tasks and activities for becoming career-oriented in
future. I have leant that communication skills are one of the most crucial skills because it
supports to express own viewpoints in front of others. in addition, it also brings effective
interaction between people (Dhaliwal, Singh and Singh, 2018). By conducting research on Jeff
Bezos leadership style, I realized that for effective verbal communication I require to coordinate
my body language, gesture, posture etc with my communication then other people can
effectively understand my feelings. In contrary, I also learnt that written communication skill
also plays significant role in expressing individuals’ feelings. This skill can be improved by
learning new words, vocabulary that are used by people through email. So, to improve my
written communication have learnt to use words that posses similar meaning in order to reduce

miscommunication consequences. There is one of the other skills that have developed by me
while evaluating leadership skills and styles of Jeff Bezos which have used to make it’s business
successful in the business market that is research skill (Li, Castaño and Li, 2018). I have
instructed to collect authentic information about Jeff Bezos’s leadership styles and skills so, I
have conduct different research to make my project more effective and relevant. I know that such
research skills will support me to develop and improve in future by conducting research on
numerous topics so that new ideas and thoughts can be generated in efficient manner.
Information communication technology (ICT) skills also have learnt by me while preparing this
project. However, I have applied numerous professional methods and technology to send mail in
order to share views and ideas to other. To effective conduct research over jeff Bezos leadership
style I have to management time and myself then I can be performed all tasks within timeframe
which can make project more successful (Kehoe and et.al., 2018). However, I have faced various
challenges while working on my project such as I was not enabling to perform different tasks
within team and in a time unable to resolve issues which were facing during project. So, Gibb’s
reflective model will use to evaluate different study and employability skills that have developed
and improved while evaluating leadership styles that are applied by Jeff Bezos to manage
resources as well as people effectively within company so that desirable outcomes can be
received. This model comprises six stages that are mentioned as follows:
 Description: In academic period my teacher assigned me a research project that was
based on Jeff Bezos various leadership styles which have used to promote other people in
order to work in efficient manner so that better outcomes can be collected. However, I get
to know about various skills that already present in me while conducting research. Even
others have to be developed so that they can achieve their future goals. Assigned project
was made quite effective as compared others after management of time and hard work.
Thus, I aware about myself that I have ability to manage time and myself effectively.
 Feelings: I really feel too enthusiastic, satisfied and happy to know about different
leadership styles that are practiced by successful leader Jeff Bezos for leading it’s team so
that organization can fulfil it’s all goals and objectives within time deadline (Asghar and
Oino, 2017). This project has improved my existing skills, for which I unaware and
brings high understanding in me about different employability skills that are needed by
individuals to achieve advantage of all opportunities in future career. I am really happy to

know that leaders require to have various skills i.e. communication skills, interpersonal
skills, decision-making skills, influencing abilities and social skills (Pullman, 2018).
While preparing this project I felt that there have some skills, from which I am lacking
behind that makes me disappointed. So, I have decided to improve some skills which I do
not have. But when I will develop these skills that will support in growth and
development for future career perspectives.
 Evaluation: By making project I realized that there were some good skills which I have
such as good verbal communication skills, research skills and ICT skills which supported
me to conduct research quickly. But I also have faced some challenges while preparing
project i.e. inability to communicate other through written form, weak ability to promote
others or work as team so that desirable results can be gained (Sekarwinahyu and et.al.,
2018). Apart from this, I also have felt challenge in resolving some of the issues that we
have faced while preparing presentation, so I have learnt such skill because I know it will
support to grow in future career. Me and my team are not enabled to distribute work or
communicate with each other’s which have led some challenges in management but my
time management skill has made our team to be prepared project on time so that effective
outcomes can be achieved.
 Analysis: From the above discussion can be analysed that there are numerous skills that
can be developed and improved while preparing presentation i.e. creative,
communication skills, time management, ability to work in team as well as problem-
solving abilities so that effective decisions can be taken within timeframe and cost
infrastructure. I have examined that individuals’ posses’ limited knowledge and time but
when they work as a team in that state different skills and development of individuals can
be applied to perform specific functions effectively. There are various companies’
managers practices different leadership styles in order to motivate and promotes
individuals to put more efforts in the workplace so that desirable outcomes can be
attained (Yasir and Mohamad, 2016). In addition, I have analysed that I require to
develop some key areas i.e. team management skills, problem-solving skills and written
communication (Salter, Douglas and Kember, 2017). These skills will support me
perform different functions in both perspectives professional and personal.

 Action: It is last stage of Gibb’s reflective model which states that actions that are taken
by individuals after analysing numerous academic and employability skills which are
presented in individuals. I have decided to improve my written and verbal
communication for solving problem effectively so that number of tasks can be fulfilled
within time frame and cost (Rolfe, 2017). So, I have planned to develop personal
development plan which supports me to improve my existing skills as well as knowledge
to grow in professional and personal life i.e.
Skills to be
improved
Resources Activities to be
undertaken
Time to be
undertake
n
Evaluation
Oral and Witten
communication
Online
communication
course, participates
in debate and essay
competition and
effective journal
books
I take online
communication
classes whereas
trainers make me
understand how
to coordinate
body language
and gesture
accordingly
speaking. I take
guidance from
my teachers to
improve this skill
more effectively
like them. Thus,
I improve my
oral and written
communication
skills.
2 weeks To evaluate my
oral and written
communication
skills participate
in debate and
article
competition and
follows all rules
that priorly sated
by senior
authorities. As
resulted I got
good marks in
article and debate
competition, thus,
I improved my
existing skills
effectively.
Team working
skills
Reading books and
journals, teamwork
To improve my
teamworking
4 weeks I participate in
trade fair show

projects and others skills have
planned by me
that I will put
more efforts
while working in
a team (Mirriahi
and et.al., 2016).
I read good
journals and
books to
understand how
to work in a
team. I try to
work in a team
on common
project so that I
enable to work in
a team as
effective team
member.
competition
which is going to
be presented at
academic level so
I participated in
this competition
whereas me and
my team work
together and
allows individuals
to share their
viewpoints
regrading
creativity. Thus,
we all work well
in team and my
teachers also
praise for our
work because we
all work quite
effective. Thus, I
evaluated my
teamworking
skills.
CONCLUSION
It has been summarized that academic and employability skills supports individuals to
perform various tasks and responsibilities effectively so that desirable outcomes can be gained.
With the Gibb’s reflective model, I enabled to determine my weak areas and skills that required
to developed and improved so that I can get better option for future career perspective.

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