Strategic Leadership and Practice

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Strategic Leadership and Practice

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Contents
Introduction............................................................................................................... 3
Traits of a strategic leader............................................................................................. 3
Advantages and disadvantages of strategic leaders...............................................................4
Adoption of leadership style.................................................................................. 6
Essential principles associated with the strategic leadership................................8
Actions taken as strategic leader..........................................................................8
Conclusion............................................................................................................. 9
References........................................................................................................... 10

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Introduction
Strategic leadership is the calibre of a person to express the strategic vision in an
organisation. Strategic leader in an organisation motivates the person to work on that vision.
It is also said to be the person who utilises the strategy in managing the employees.
Therefore, strategic leaders are required to work in an indefinite environment on difficult
issues. They are therefore required to bring the strategic productivity in the organisation.
They also develop such environment where employees forecast the needs of the employees in
their own job. Strategic leaders also make the greater use of incentives as well as rewards in
order to bring the productivity by showing better performance. They are concerned about
connecting the present, past and future if the organisation (Norzailan,Yusof & Othman,
2016). At the time of crisis, strategic leaders are required to act so that they can influence the
members through transformational and charismatic leadership. the most significant role of the
strategic role is the development of organisation through sharing the information and
knowledge. However, it is not completely true as most of the firms learn by facing several
problems. Whenever organisation comes across any of the problem, they try to investigate it
properly and adopt the solution for solving such problem.
In the recent time, leading has become quite complicated that presents several
challenges to the organisation. At the time of disorder, it is the strategic leader who knows
how to resolve the conflict or manage the situation. It is true that strategic leaders are able to
minimise the level of conflict by ensuring the effective listening and communication skills.
Strategic leaders require the strategic communication. Therefore, leaders should make the
communication as their personal priority and get the value from the organisation. In order to
stay or survive in the challenging business environment, strategic leader is needed to equip
itself with the regular training and learning. Continuous learning helps the subordinates to get
the necessary skills and bring changes. Similarly, training is also significant as it works in
order to achieve organisation goal by ensuring the development skills as well as improving
the performance.
Traits of a strategic leader
The first and foremost trait of any strategic leader is the effective communicator. It is
essential for the leader to bring everyone for a common purpose. Therefore, strategic leaders

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are required to be purposeful and clear communicator. The main objective of any strategic
leader is to bring everyone on the team for similar goal by taking strategic actions. Strategic
leader also share the passion of charismatic and visionary leadership. They are also required
to commit in the job with passion. They are also required to roll their sleeves with the
employees and support them in order to help them. strategic leaders always keep the details
with them and keep them updated in advance. They also anticipate the entire problems and
make some plan for them. The weak areas are identified and work with team in order to find
out the solution for problem area. Besides keep themselves the forward thinkers, they also
keep the ideas challenging. However, they always look for the creative ways in order to
create the better and effective process. Same as the democratic leaders, strategic leaders
understand the significance of keeping everyone on the similar page (Yahaya & Ebrahim,
2016).
Strategic leadership also shares the various characteristic with the other leadership
styles. I believe that the two top most quality of strategic leader is the charismatic leaders as
well as visionary leaders. The people who follow these two leadership styles tend to acre
regarding the efficiency as well as create the processes in order to provide clarity as well as
ease. Strategic leader also enrol others in the journey (van Prooijen & de Vries, 2016).
Strategic leaders help the members to sell ideas and influence them in the team direction.
These kinds of leaders also celebrate the progress and inject the fun into the progress. It is
also the trait of strategic leader to hold them accountable for commitment. Strategic leader
also scan the environment that helps in revealing the threats and opportunities presents to the
success of team. In this way, they are not the one who sees the developments and trends but
they work at it by knowing the early signs of the storm (Shu, 2013).
Advantages and disadvantages of strategic leaders
The biggest advantage is that strategic leaders help the management to understand the
connection between the day-to-day work as well as future. It is true that not every member do
aware of the single goal. Therefore, strategic leader helps in installing such strategic model
where each of the decision can be considered. It can also help in staying each person on the
similar page and ensure the company moving on same and right direction. Strategic leaders
also help in diminishing the conflict and increasing the participation of employees. There are
times when several employees do not clarify themselves what they are doing and how they