Management and Leadership Skills Development

This assignment studies the management and leadership skills necessary to support achieving organisational goals. It examines opportunities for development of these skills and motivates employees to give their best performance. The report also updates a personal development plan, highlighting areas for improvement.

Personal Leadership and
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1...........................................................................................................................................1
Affect of organisational objectives, values and culture..............................................................1
Leadership and management skills.............................................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
Personal management and leadership skills and personal development requires to achieve
organisational objectives.............................................................................................................2
Opportunities for development of management and leadership skills........................................3
Personal development plan with clear objectives.......................................................................3
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
Personal development of leadership and management skills......................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
Review personal development plan............................................................................................6
Effectiveness of your personal development..............................................................................7
Areas for further development and update personal development plan......................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10
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INTRODUCTION
In this modern era, for making business successful in competitive market, it is necessary
for a person to possess the managerial as well as leadership skills. Leadership refers lead or give
proper direction to team members for doing work and on the other way people are controlled in
a group on the basis of the established values and beliefs. The personal leadership skill is
described as the ability and power to describe the direction in which all the working will be
executed so that growth and success can be easily achieved in life with consistency and
effectiveness. (Neck and Manz, 2010). This report is based on ASDA organisation which is
supermarket retailer. It provides various products, mobile phone, financial services etc. This
report will discuss about the effect of organisational objectives cultures and also value on the
part of leadership styles and management perspective. Plan of personal management with clear
objectives to create management skills will also become part of this file.
TASK 1
Effect of organisational objectives, values and culture
Leadership effects on success of business firm in competitive environment. Leader guide
or leads employees so that they can perform in a better or effective manner. Leaders bring
various culture as well as values in a business firm which help firm in incorporating the needed
changes, this results in achieving objectives of company. The main objective of ASDA
Organisation is to achieve goals by offering better quality of goods with in a given period of
time. The other objective of ASDA firm is to consider each option to accomplish goals. In
addition to this, it is a responsibility of this firm to motivate its staff members to work towards
achieving objectives at minimum cost (Anderson and Anderson, 2010). Organisational objectives
are defined as devising the goals for long time period. They directly impact on role of
management and leadership. For achieving organisational goals, the main focus of leadership is
on minimising wastage, assuring about product recycling which results in reducing cost of
goods.
On the other hand, organisational culture also effects on role of leadership and
management. In an organisation, culture plays a necessary role in developing healthy
surrounding which supports a person and also staff to provide better services. In ASDA, adaptive
culture is helpful for leaders in accepting external changes with structure and it will also assess
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staff to accept all kind of changes so that firm can provide better quality services to consumers.
In context to this, ethical values of firms also effect on management and leadership role in order
to perform activities in a proper manner. Through ethical values, firm should integrate health and
safety act, fair wage structure for its staff members in order to save their interest at workplace.
Leadership and management skills
ASDA plc is large size company and it deals in retail sector which offers large range of
grocery goods as well as services to consumers (Gentry And et. al., 2011). This firm operates its
stores in various countries in all over the world and serve large number of consumers by offering
them quality products. In addition to this, there are various leadership and management skills
which support in accomplishing organisational objective in effective manner. For attaining
objectives of ASDA firm leader should have various skills in order to supports employees which
are given below:
Communication skills- Manager or leader of ASDA company should have the better
communication skills which help in attaining objectives of firm. The communication skills are
also helpful in interacting with employees which directly provide services to consumers at
market place. If communication among employees and managers will be good then it will be
helpful in improving team work in company.
Decision making skills- In order to achieve objectives of ASDA firm, leader has to
possess better decision making skills which will support in overcoming many activities, give
satisfactory solution and also choosing proper decision for company. It is necessary that manager
or leaders should have ability to take better decisions in favour of an organisation.
TASK 2
Personal management and leadership skills and personal development requires to achieve
organisational objectives
For performing a role of marketing manager, it is very essential for an individual to have
management and personal leadership skills to guide and direct other individuals. Marketing
manager plays significant role at workplace and it is responsible for manage things at workplace
in better manner. (Nesbit, 2012). Marketing manager guide and encourage his team members to
complete individual's target. Final objectives of firm are interlinking with individual's target and
completion of that target contribute in success and growth of firm. Communication skill is
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known as one of the major skill which should be present in an individual for performing the role
of marketing manager. In addition to this, problem solving, strategic planning, decision making,
build and maintain relationship, negotiation skills, quick learning skills and many more are
known as the main skills or abilities which should be in person. Good communication, decision
making and skill of relationship building support manager in creating and maintaining good
relationship with customers. When manager has various skills then other team members get
motivated to learn same skills (Thomas, 2015). All this impact on growth and success of
company. Skills of marketing manager increase the sale of company's product. Different skills
help marketing manager in encouraging team members to perform well which ensure success of
entity. In addition to this marketing manager have to take part in various learning programmes as
this help in developing various other skills which are essential for achieving set business
objectives.
Opportunities for development of management and leadership skills
Development of management and leadership skills is very essential to perform the role of
marketing manager in an effective manner. Various ways are there to develop those skills.
Training and development can be used to develop skills of individual so that they can perform in
a better manner. Reading is very useful for a person to develop personal skills. Style adopted by
leader largely affect his actions and decisions at workplace. Democratic style of leadership is the
one which is used by most of enterprises, one of the main reason behind this is that it is very
flexible and it encourage involvement of participants in decision making process. In order to
develop required skills, proper training should be offer to individuals. To perform a role of leader
in an effective manner, it is very essential for an individual to have adequate amount of
knowledge related with the issue, technical knowledge and many more (Osland, 2013). It is very
essential for an individual to have negotiation skills as it is necessary for perform a role of leader.
Various opportunities are there to develop management and leadership skills of an individual.
One of the major sources through which an individual learn is routine activities, observations,
experience, sharing of knowledge and many more. Programs of training and development
support in developing the skills of individuals and support them in performing their job roles in
an adequate manner.
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Personal development plan with clear objectives
Personal development plan refers to a procedure of developing a better action plan which
is based on values, goal- setting, reflection, awareness for personal development in context of
education, self- improvement, career and relationship. The personal development plan with
various objectives given below as above:
Objectives Activities needed for
developing skills
Time period
Develop team building skills  Discussion with group
before taking effective
decisions.
 Developing teams at
workplace.
 Segmenting activities
to each person.
2 to 3 months.
Stress management  Relaxation technique
 Participate in the
physical activities.
 Brainstorming related
session (VanVactor,
2012).
2 months.
Develop effective
communication skills
 Meeting with staff on
continuous basis.
 Group discussion.
 Motivate employees to
provide their ideas and
thoughts.
1 to 2 months.
Interpersonal skills  Engage with
employees which have
common likes as well
Almost 1 month.
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as dislikes.
 Conduct activities to
communicate with
workers.
Decision making skills  Include staff members
in the process of
decision making
 Conduct formal as well
as casual group
meetings.
 Support participation
of staff.
2 months.
Developing better skills for
dealing with consumers
 Giving goods on the
basis of consumers.
 Listen consumers
attentively.
3 months
Time management skills  Allot time according to
activities.
 Ranking daily activities
or tasks according with
urgency as well as
importance.
 Empowering minimum
necessary undertakings
to other individuals.
2 to 3 months
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TASK 3
Personal development of leadership and management skills
After developing an effective personal plan, there is a need to execute that plan for
developing and increasing my abilities and skills so as to attain objectives in an effective manner
(Siemens, 2014). There are different ways to manage plan which are mention below:
Recording an action- In order to execute personal development plan in successful
manner, I should focus recording all kinds of learnings. Recoding of all achievements will assess
me to take better decision in future context.
Assessing own skills continuously- Under this, there is a need of performing periodic
assessment of work skills in context to ascertain core competencies and skills which are gained
according to future needs. So, I should examine the personal development plan in continuous
time period to manage leadership and management skills.
Proper review- Under this, I can manage programme through assuring proper
implementation of the personal development plan in addition to neglect any kind of negative
consequences. Under this, I can review my executing plan on regular basis to identify all
deviations which can occur while executing plan (Paterson, Henderson and Trivella, 2010). It
will be helpful in increasing management and leadership skills.
TASK 4
Review personal development plan
After reviewing personal development plan, it has been identified that I am very effective
for increasing my abilities and capabilities. With the help of executing personal development
plan, I can evaluate my skills which are not achieved by plan and they need more time.
Objectives Process review Activities undertaken
to attain objectives
Time period
Stress management Under this, it has been
determined that I have
to manage my stress
level at workplace by
doing relaxation
 Doing brain
storming
session.
 Include in the
physical
1 month
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activities. In addition
to this, I also require to
improve my
management skills to
manage my stress
level.
activities.
 Manage time
according to
activities
 Doing
relaxation
techniques.
Team building It has been identified
that manager or leader
is effective in
managing team in
ASDA firm. Its main
focus on perform
team related activities
in an effective manner
to engage all
employees in order to
collaborate in an
organisation.
 Developing
team at
workplace.
 Discuss with
group members
before taking
any kind of
decisions.
 Distributing
the activities to
staff members
on the basis of
their
capabilities or
abilities.
1 to 2 months
Effectiveness of your personal development
There are many different ways by which I can examine effectiveness of my personal
development plan in order to increasing management and leadership skills. Some various ways
mention below:
Consumer satisfaction- Effectiveness of the own development plan can have examined
by analysing the consumer satisfaction level (Lussier, 2011). Under this, better management and
leadership skills such as increasing communication, attending consumers, dealing with them
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which assess me in communicating with buyers. If firm will provide the better quality of services
to people then they will be satisfied from firm. Through this sales as well as profit level of firm
will be enhanced.
Reduce conflict- An efficiency of development of management as well as leadership
skills can examined through reviewing the conflict rate in ASDA organisation. Through
development plan, I can increase my abilities such as managing stress level in firm, increase
decision making skills, time management and many others. It will assess to me in minimising
dispute at workplace. If conflict will be arising less than in this case all team members will work
together to achieving aims of firm.
Areas for further development and update personal development plan
Through reviewing update of development plan and analysing efficiency of personal
development plan, I have determined that there are some of the areas which need to develop. So
regarding this, I need to increase my other capabilities which will provide better result in rising
my performance areas in ASDA firm. In this context, continuous learning will be helpful in
gaining some skills as well as knowledge for doing activities in better way and in future context.
I should be concentrate on adopting new techniques of learning in ASDA firm which can be
visual learnings by videos, images and many other ways (Connors, 2011). There are some of my
development areas mention below as above:
Needed skills Activities require to develop
skills
Time period
Decision making skills  Motivate staff
members to take part in
process of decision
making.
 Support employees.
 Conduct the formal
meetings.
2 months
Developing the technical skills  Offering effective
development and
2 months.
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training in order to
handle electronic
devices.
 Running activities on
the computer system.
 Using technological
gadgets so that staff
members can used.
Conceptual skills  Communicating with
top management
 Discuss with other staff
members in a better
manner.
2 to 3 months
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above given report that management and leadership both
skills are helpful in achieving aims of firm and motivate team members to perform in an
effective manner. Under this, report studied about the management and leadership skills which
are necessary to support achieve organisational goals. Opportunities for development of
management and leadership skills was also studied in this. The manager or leader of ASDA
organisation always motivate their employees to give their better performance. Under this
mention report studied about areas for development and update the personal development plan.
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