Unlocking Leadership Potential for Change: A Creative Journey
Added on 2019-12-17
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Leadership ManagementProfessional DevelopmentHigher Education
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STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP PRACTICE
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 & 1.2 Concept of managers as effective leaders and leaders as effective managers............11.3 Balance needed between the demands of strategic management and strategic leadership ..3TASK 2............................................................................................................................................42.1 Role of strategic leader in creation of company's vision and mission..................................42.2 Leader’s role in communicating company’s vision, mission and values to othersIn thepresent situation, democratic style of management and leadership is followed in McDonaldwhich gives freedom of flexibility and change as and when required thereby rescuing the gapbetween manager and employees (Zhu, Chew and Spangler, 2005). But before doing thesame, it is necessary to manage the changing mind and avoid resistance which is donethrough:.......................................................................................................................................52.3 Way in which personal energy, self-belief and commitment affects the leadership style....62.4 Impact of ethical leadership on management practice..........................................................7TASK 3............................................................................................................................................83.1 Evaluating transformational leadership and identifying its impact on company’s strategy.83.2 Transactional leadership and its impact on company’s strategy...........................................93.3 Situational leadership and its impact on company’s strategy...............................................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES ............................................................................................................................1
INTRODUCTION In order to operate the organization in an effective and efficient manner, leading theorganization with efficient leadership qualities is very important as a leader sets out the outlineof doing work in line with organization’s objectives and goals as well as make sure that it iscommunicated to the subordinates in the same manner without any ambiguity. In order to run anorganization successfully, it is necessary to run it with effective management and leadershipskills. This can help to manage changes and run the organization effectually. Following reportwill be explaining the necessary points related with leadership and strategies enabling leadership(Jansen, Vera and Crossan, 2009). Main aim of the project is to carry out a better understandingand knowledge about different aspects of leaderships and their strategies. Moreover, the role ofthe strategic leader in determining mission, vision and setting objectives of business will beanalysed. The study will also evaluate the way in which these aspects are communicated to themarket and consumers. Further the impacts of ethical leadership on managerial activities will beanalysed in the study. TASK 11.1 & 1.2 Concept of managers as effective leaders and leaders as effective managersLeaders and managers are the terms which are often used interchangeably and go hand inhand while managing an organization. In some organizations, leaders and managers are the samepeople because of inherent qualities of leadership in some managers while some leaders can be aperson who belongs to the group and does not have any assigned management duties (Jacksonand Parry, 2011). For the same, it is important to understand the definition of leadership andmanagement and the difference between two is shown as below: Leadership is defined as the quality followed by the leaders in the form of giving themnew vision and direction to do a particular task. While managers makes it ensure through hismanagement that the task is within the boundaries of well established principles of theorganization . A manager administrates the work done by people under him while a leader motivates notonly the people under him but all over the organization (Montabon, Sroufe and Narasimhan,2007).
A manager generally does routine task with well-defined guidelines in the form oftransactional style while a leader innovates or originates the pattern of doing work and theyfollowed leadership in the form of transformational leadership style. Therefore, it can be said thatmanagers generally perform activities which are task oriented while leaders perform those whichare people orientedManagers believe in avoiding and minimising risk while leaders believe that in order toachieve a task with creativity and with new standards, risk is necessary to be undertaken.Altogether, if managers have leadership skills, it is easy for them to have followers in theform of their subordinates. Moreover, they can achieve the desired objectives by motivating andbuilding morale of employees which resultantly build team work and cooperation among them.Keeping in mind all these factors, answer is to be given to a question that whether leadershipqualities are inherent, learned or both (Jooste and Fourie, 2009). To answer this question, it canbe framed that some people have natural inborn quality of self-confidence, intuition and a powerto influence people. So, they are born leaders while some learn leadership out of the requirementfrom their nature of profile by attending various programmes of developing leadership qualitiesor even from the peer pressure. Then they analyse their own strengths and weaknesses and makeinitiatives to overcome them for becoming an effective leader.One of the greatest examples of a manager who have come out to be a successful leaderis Donald Trump of Trump organization. He has set new standards of excellence in businessthrough following his autocratic style of leadership. He believes in taking calculative riskinvolving very few trusted individuals in the decision making process. He does not believe inbalancing work and pleasure but instead to accomplish goals, he believes in making work morepleasurable. Although, he is arrogant but as per his decision making and leadership practice, hehas proved that there is no success without taking a task onto the ego. He was a strict evaluatorof talent and takes no pain to hire under-performers. These qualities state that he is not onlyminutely involved in the decision making function as the founder of Trump organization but alsofollowed strict leadership styles so that the working of organization is not only monitored butalso people can be leaded in the right direction with correct frame of mind (Beck and Cowan,2014).2
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