Personal Leadership Development Programme

The article discusses personal leadership and self-management programmes that help employees grow. It covers skill development training, continuous improvement strategy, and implementation plans. The article also includes Q&A on transactional and transformational leadership, communication strategy, emotional intelligence, and evaluating performance through change management.

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Personal Leadership Development Programme
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Introduction
The present article aims to demonstrate the scope of personal leadership and self-
management programmes that helps the employees of an organisation to grow. Employees
are the most vital resources in an organisation. With advancement in technology and changes
in the socio-economic scenario, the organisational structure undergoes necessary
transformations. In light of that transformation, the company, sometimes, comes up with new
products and services, or sell the old products in an innovative way (Winters, 2016). It does
so in order to gain and maintain competitive advantage. Along with products the company
also focuses on upgrading the quality of services it provides to its customers. To enable the
employees to act more competently at par with the organisational changes, skill development
training is provided. In the present article a company, ABC Ltd., is being considered for the
purpose of illustration of these skills that helps its employees to achieve overall progress in
specific domains. The concerned enterprise is based in Australia and specialises in market
solution.
Discussion
A. Professional Development Plan
Company: ABC Ltd.
Deadline by which the necessary criteria need to be achieved: 12 months (end of
December, 2019).
Name Bob Jackson
Position Senior Manager, Training and Development
Professional Development Title PD Type (webinar,
Workshop, External
Validation, Membership,
Date and Venue

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Networking)
Employee Performance Management
Programme Workshop Company premises
Leadership Development Planning
Workshop and Networking
Company premises
Personal Productivity and Wellness Webinar and Membership Company premises
Diversity Management Webinar and Workshop Company premises
Ergonomics Training and Safe Practices External Validation Company premises
Preventing Violence in the Workplace External Validation Company premises
B. Chosen Change that could be implemented in the organisation:
Continuous Improvement Strategy
A Brief Description of Market Solutions
A market solutions enterprise like ABC Ltd., aspires to achieve a consistent customer-
oriented platform that offers complete solutions of products, services, operations,
maintenance, recruitment and training and market evolution strategies.

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How does a market solutions firm implement the strategic changes to bring about all
round development?
A business firm primarily thrives on productivity, both of employees and the service
output. A desirable productivity depends on how efficiently the organisation is able to
transform the inputs in terms of raw-materials, labour, capital and machines into acceptable
goods and services. This is just one parameter. In recent times productivity has transcended
this convention to the concept of working smarter and making use of the available
opportunities to deliver an improved outcome. A market solutions firm like that of ABC Ltd.,
attempts to achieve this by making use of the following traits like:
Good Communication- Possessing good communication skill helps in building strong
relationships with clients and also ensuring proper consonance within the team.
Creativity- A group of employees who possess the ability to think out of the box always
gives an added advantage to the company they serve, in terms of competitive advantage.
Problem Solving- This is an important skill required in decision making. A successful
agency tries to troubleshoot by keeping viable alternative solutions at hand or expert advisors
who can identify the problems quickly and suggest workable resolutions.
Methods by which Continuous Improvement can be achieved through implementation
of these traits:
 Evaluating the entire organisational structure to find out the industry’s best practices
which can help in attaining competitive advantage.
 Perform SWOT and PESTLE analysis to acquire knowledge about those strategies
that cn provide ample competitive advantage.
 Using a gradual step-by step process to fulfil the objectives followed up by a holistic
approach.

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 Assign responsibilities to specific teams depending on their potential KRAs.
 Take note of those strategies that had helped the organisation in major
accomplishments in the past.
 Perform a comparative analysis with the present results to discover the gaps and
resolve those accordingly.
C. Implementation Plan
Activity Start Date Target Finish
Date
Responsible
person/department
Status/comments
Leadership
Development
Planning
15th October 15th December Human Resource
Development (HRD)
and Training and
Development (T&D)
Pending
Diversity
Management
1st January 31st March HRD and Operations Pending
Ergonomics
Training and
Safe Practices
5th April 20th July Human Resource Pending
Preventing
Violence in the
Workplace
1st August 30th September Human Resource and
Grievance Handling
Pending
Market analysis 3rd October 15th December Market Research and
Operations
Pending

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D. Question and Answers
1. Description of Transactional and Transformational Leadership
The transactional style of leadership pertains to promoting conformity and
compliance among the followers by means of rewards and punishments. It crucially
observes the faults or deviations that subordinates are committing in the course of
their work (McCleskey, 2014).
Transformational style of leadership focuses on the enhancing the motivation
and morale of the followers with a vision to improve their job performance. Such
leaders use variety of mechanisms to ensure that their followers can identify their own
worth through their contribution and also take ownership of their deviations. It is a
challenging role to play a transformational leader.
2. Communication Strategy to incorporate collaboration
As Stated by Lam, O'Donnell and Robertson (2015), it includes the following:
 Asking variety of questions to improve the understanding the strengths and
weaknesses of an information and also the preferences posed by the speaker’s
intentions.
 Improving one’s listening skill to patiently hear out what the speaker has to
confer and then conveying one’s doubts in that context.
 Asking the audience to share their feedback by restating the core thought at
the end of the speech. This is done to take care of the audiences’ correctness in
understanding the matter conveyed.
 Summarizing the main points of the deliverance in a brief statement while
concluding it.

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 Sharing one’s valuable inputs to enhance the idea conveyed in a speech. This
is important with a view to get a compact understanding of the shared matter.
 It is important that the Speaker draws a consensus among his or her audience
regarding the deliverance because otherwise it refutes the very idea of
effective communication which implies that when the receiver is able to
correctly comprehend the sender’s message, it becomes effective.
3. Developing emotional intelligence
Emotional Intelligence is a crucial aspect in achieving growth and
development within a workplace. It is exceptionally important in relation to leadership
qualities which states that a successful leader should invariably possess the qualities
of emotional intelligence in order to infuse the same among his or her followers
(Huffman, 2014). Such traits of emotional intelligence includes the following:
 Self-Awareness- It comprise of the ability to identify one’s states of mood and
understand how it tends to affect others.
 Self-Regulation- Following the aspect of self-awareness, self-regulation is the
ability to control one’s mood impulses, especially the negative one so as not to
adversely affect a situation or a person.
 Intrinsic motivation- It attributes to one’s intention to pursue goals but not
with the intention to receive a reward. It is more so for fulfilling a self -
development purpose.
 Empathy- It is the ability to understand other’s mental states or perceptions in
order to assess their motivational levels.
 Social skills- It is one’s ability to effectively manage one’s social skills and
network
4. Evaluating performance through change management

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This is just one parameter. In recent times productivity has transcended this
convention to the concept of working smarter and making use of the available
opportunities to deliver an improved outcome. With advancement in technology and
changes in the socio-economic scenario, the organisational structure undergoes
necessary transformations. In light of that transformation, the company, sometimes,
comes up with new products and services, or sell the old products in an innovative
way. It does so in order to gain and maintain competitive advantage. Along with
products the company also focuses on upgrading the quality of services it provides to
its customers. Successful companies are able to implement the change management
strategies and operational tools in order to gain sustainable competitive advantage
(Goetsch & Davis, 2014).
5. Role and Task description of leader through change management
Transformational style of leadership focuses on the enhancing the motivation
and morale of the followers with a vision to improve their job performance. Such
leaders use variety of mechanisms to ensure that their followers can identify their own
worth through their contribution and also take ownership of their deviations (Chang,
2016). It is a challenging role to play a transformational leader. Sharing one’s
valuable inputs to enhance the idea conveyed in a speech. This is important with a
view to get a compact understanding of the shared matter. It is important that the
Speaker draws a consensus among his or her audience regarding the deliverance
because otherwise it refutes the very idea of effective communication which implies
that when the receiver is able to correctly comprehend the sender’s message, it
becomes effective.

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