Leadership: Reflection, Recommendations, and Theories

This document provides a critical reflection on current and recent leadership effectiveness, along with recommendations for future leadership development. It also includes a review of relevant theories and paradigms. Explore the importance of leadership and enhance your skills.

Leadership

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAINBODY....................................................................................................................................3
Critical reflection of current and recent leadership effectiveness...............................................3
Recommendations for future leadership development................................................................4
Critical review of relevant theories and paradigm......................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Leaders are the person who are consistently looking for a ways to develop better result
from group efforts. Leader are responsible for influence group efforts in the organisational
objective path to obtain favourable objectives. Leaders has the skills and talent to control or
stimulate individual performance to achieve business objectives. Following report presents the
critical reflection and recommendations for being effective leader and future suggestion for own
personal leadership development. The article totally based on the self-experience about the
effectiveness as a leader in the leadership and change model practices. A relevant classical and
contemporary theory of leadership is being also implied along with change theories of paradigm
focus which are being undertaken for the personal leadership development mechanism.
MAINBODY
Critical reflection of current and recent leadership effectiveness
Leadership is essential trait for a person when they are leading a team, from this
assessment I am presenting the effectiveness of the leadership in an organisation. In the eye of
becoming successful leader, the first step step that I felt to be taken is to determine what type of
leader to be under particular situations and project, because there are various options of
leadership style (Oreg and Berson, 2019). As a leader I do not only want to push my team in
accordance to the organisational goals but try to synchronised their efforts so that organisation
can achieve relationship with subordinate goals with the my efforts. Moreover, I felt that to
bring team together and allow the tram to grow it would be necessary for me to grow as well as
effective leader. I study various article and journal about successful leader now I am going to
perform practical work of my theoretical assessment so that I can pull out my leadership style. In
my intermediary study, I have realised few characteristics of successful leader i.e. intelligent,
intellectual, empathy, influencer and integrity. I believe that these are great skills and attributes
are readily available within me. During the change in organisation, I realised that the role as a
leader is to render motivation to change and get people revolved. Effectiveness of leadership
often come when team member are inspired and motivated to perform their respective roles and
task (Aldulaimi and Abdeldayem, 2020). As per the new leadership approach, leadership is
regarded as a process of social influences towards a common goal which enlightened as the as a
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effective leader I must be rational, influential and directional to achieve the targeted goals. My
personal vision of leadership is to be a transformational leader as this type of leader has the all
skills in its gadget to manage change, creates vision for the change, motivate their team and earn
allegiance which will as a result stimulate performance. Other than this my leadership belief is to
be a leader who has inspirational qualities and to be believable with a trait of empathy (Miller,
2020). This should involve being comprehensible, hardworking, responsible, supportive and
qualified. If I am in position to fulfil any of these criteria then I cognisance I will have quality as
an effective leader because this is what followers expect of a leader who learn from his mistake
and rise as example for others. Additionally, I have noticing that I am lack in delegating task to
the team member and don’t take intervention in problem solving using latest theory of the
leadership, I prefer a leader by management by objective whose role is to complete task to
achieve set goals.
Recommendations for future leadership development
Based on the my own experience , leadership development strategies must be high on yht
top main concern this is because as a leader you need to assure that key skills and priceless
business intuitions are pooled and voted for down to prospective leader to avoid gaps in
knowledge in the future. As per my lack of leadership I suggested for my own
development as leader are regards to delegating duties to my team members, encouraging
decision making problem solving and inspiring the staff through a high degree of
sovereignty and job control. Through many seminar and with self-experience I have
learned this exercise that degating duty is not only to free or unburden the leader of many
workload but to provide opportunity for the future growth, Also, in order to get 100%
commitment from the task, I have learnt that involving whole team towards a problem
solving activity result in better employer employee relation and to provide better employee
job satisfaction which is foremost function of the future leader due to lack of availability of
talent people in competitive environment (Crosweller and Tschakert, 2020).
Apart from that I am looking to working on the contingency theory of the leadership as
the no specific leadership style is suitable because often there are situations which would
challenge leader so contingency theory of leadership is useful in from of giving reward and
punishment to employee when leader is fail to influence their efforts as per the task
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requirement. Following are the key areas where I should work on to develop as effective
leader in te future-
 Checking my attitude as a leader this is because I content that effective leadership
begins with correct mind-set and that minuet is founded upon an individual
willingness to lead and serve others (Groves, 2020).
 Love people and try to maintain healthy relation with the employee and value there
effrposts with the dignity that worker derive, this will influence worker to go to
extra miles for their efforts.
 Communication leads a vital role in the achievement of the interpersonal and
organisational goals but as an effective leader you must first learn to listen because
ineffective listening undermines people and their self-confidence.
 Conflict among the people working in organisation is a normal phenomenon so my
approach in this is to expect conflict and is able to manage it in productive manner.
 And the foremost trait as a leader is to not hesitate in taking risk because an
effective leader are risk taker not risk avoider.
 And the last of the recommendation is the reinforcement of the leadership training
and other learnt soft skills must be follow up on regular basis after the initial
training to refresh what I have learned so that I can perform pictorial form of the
theoretical knowledge in real life.
Critical review of relevant theories and paradigm
Classical leadership theory-
Classical theory of management present that a worker working in a organisation only has
physical and economic need only, it does not consider social need and job satisfaction. In
classical leadership theory it is almost consider as the autocratic leadership style in which leader
lead from the front and motivated by his personal egotism and shape a future plan of action for
himself (Hubbard, and Datnow, 2020).
Great man theory of leadership: The theory states that some people are born with traits that
exhibit the quality of leader in them and that also set them look apart from others which provide
them with certain authority and power over others.
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Contemporary leadership theory: there are several traditional leadership theories like autocratic,
democratic etc. but due to change in trend healthy organisations are demanded for which
contemporary leadership theory came in existence (Sriyakul and et. al., 2019). The contemporary
leadership theory include theories like transformational, transactional, servant leadership etc.
these theories are highlighted below:
Transformational leadership theory: Every organisation need to create the high performance in
an organisation and therefore to do so leaders must stimulate the members. In this leader tends to
improve the skills of employees by encouraging them through rewards.
Transactional leadership theory: in this theory the transactional leaders guide and motivate
their followers and suggest them the direction to achieve the goals. The leaders also clarify the
assignment and task to the employees.
Servant leadership theory: the calm and gentle leaders with an approach of serving and and
helping other subordinates in their work to achieve their goad and make the employee feel that
their personal needs are considered.
Paradigm theory of change: The organisations management change over a period and so their
theories. Therefore, there is a concept of the paradigm shift which states that the one theory is
replaced by another in an organisation (Dzwigol and et. al., 2019). The concept work and three
terms understand, develop and deploy. Thus paradigm influence the behaviour of the
organisation behaviour, its functioning, strategies etc.
CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above reflection on leadership and their effectiveness and traits is
necessary to evaluate the performance as a leader in an organisation to foster the productivity
and performance of the employees. The leader in an organisation plays a crucial role in guiding
and directing the activities and behaviour of an individual so as to encourage the team spirit.
Good leadership qualities help the managers in developing and maintaining good relation with
the employees which in turn help them to shape positive behaviour and contribute in mitigating
the chances of conflicts and fight in a business firm.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Aldulaimi, S.H. and Abdeldayem, M.M., 2020. A thematic analysis of leadership behaviours and
change management in higher education to boost sustainability. International Journal of
Higher Education and Sustainability. 3(1). pp.34-51.
Crosweller, M. and Tschakert, P., 2020. Climate change and disasters: The ethics of
leadership. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change. 11(2). p.e624.
Dzwigol, H. and et. al., 2019. Formation of Strategic Change Management System at an
Enterprise. Academy of Strategic Management Journal. 18. pp.1-8.
Groves, K.S., 2020. Testing a moderated mediation model of transformational leadership, values,
and organization change. Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. 27(1).
pp.35-48.
Hubbard, L. and Datnow, A., 2020. Design Thinking, Leadership, and the Grammar of
Schooling: Implications for Educational Change. American Journal of
Education. 126(4). pp.499-518.
Miller, M., 2020. Leadership During Change. Educational Considerations. 46(2). p.5.
Oreg, S. and Berson, Y., 2019. Leaders’ impact on organizational change: Bridging theoretical
and methodological chasms. Academy of Management Annals. 13(1). pp.272-307.
Sriyakul, T. and et. al., 2019. Effect of cultural traits, leadership styles and commitment to
change on supply chain operational excellence. Journal of Computational and
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