Assessment 1: Leadership and Management in Business

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BUSINESS LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
Assessment 1: Guide to Leadership and Management....................................................................3
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
1. What is involved in being a successful leader?..........................................................................3
2. Can good leadership be developed, and if so, how?...................................................................6
3. What distinguishes leadership from management?..............................................................9
4. A self-reflective approach to developing your own personal leadership style..........................11
Conclusion.....................................................................................................................................14
Personal reflection.........................................................................................................................15
References......................................................................................................................................18

Assessment 1: Guide to Leadership and Management
Introduction
The present study deals with the role and responsibility of a leader, what are the key points in
order to be a successful leader, possible ways to build and develop a good leadership style, and
difference between management and leadership. Apart from that, the study also highlights the
difference between management and leadership based on the statement of Lord Alan Sugar. He
also defines all the mistakes that are associated with the management and leadership and many
more.
1. What is involved in being a successful leader?
The term leader can be defined as a person who leads a company or a group. Good leader
needs a good leadership styles. The term leadership in an organization can be defined as the
capability of a leader to build a proper and realistic plan, motivate and help others in order to
accomplish the goal of the organisation (McCaffery, 2018). The term leadership consists of
four basic elements are leader, follower, condition and the communication. Alternatively, the
term leader can define as; L (Lead others), E (Enthusiastic), A (Ambitious), D (Determined), E
(Encourage others), R (Ready to teach and learn). If all the above-mentioned qualities are
present inside a person then he/she can be a successful leader. Apart from that, there are many
more qualities of a successful leader that includes;
Proper vision
Without a proper and realistic vision nothing can be executed. Vision refers to the objective of
the organisation (Cheema et al., 2015). It is the responsibility of the leader to recognize and set
a proper vision. Moreover, it is the responsibility of a good and successful leader is to

understand the vision of the company and motivate others in order to achieve the common
business goals.
Knowledge
A good leader should have a proper and in-depth knowledge regarding the company’s policies
(Donate and de Pablo, 2015.). Moreover, a successful leader must have a good knowledge to
handle difficult situations. If a leader is highly knowledgeable then it will help the organisation
to take necessary decisions in critical conditions.
Confident
If the leader of an organisation is not confident enough then he/she will not able to present
something (Amanchukwu et al., 2015). It is very important for a successful leader to be
confident during presenting something or delivering a lecture. Moreover, the leader must be
confident in own capacities and abilities. Confidence is necessary in order to lead a group in an
efficient manner.
Persistent
A good as well as successful leader must be determined or persistent. If the leader encounters
any glitches during dealing with a difficult situation then he/she should not give up. A good
and successful leader must be determined regarding his/her goals. It is the duty of a successful
leader to work hard and motivate others, because without good performance goal cannot be
achieved. If the leader and his/her team members do not work well then a positive outcomes
cannot be achieved.
Maturity
The term maturity can be defined as the quality of operating a situation physically, emotionally
as well as mentally like an adult (Herman, 2016). Maturity comes under the characteristics of a
good leader. A good leader should be mentally, physically as well as emotionally mature
enough to handle the difficult situation.

Charismatic
An efficient as well as successful leader must be strong in character or charismatic (Shamir et
al., 2018). A successful leader should always bring energy and spread positive vibes in the
organisations. Moreover, a successful leader should always understand and set a goal. Then
motivate the workers in a good way in order to accomplish the objective of the company.
Wise
A successful leader must be wise. Moreover, a successful leader needs to handle crucial
situations and take right decisions. Additionally, a successful leader needs to understand the
situation and problems of the workers in order to achieve the organisation goals.
Communicators
To be a successful leader good communication skill is necessary. It is the responsibility of a
good leader to understand the needs and listen to the problems of the employees by heart
(Engelbrecht et al., 2017). Characteristics of a good communicator include good listening
ability, strong communication skills and many more.
Integrity
One of the most important characteristics of a good leader is integrity. The term integrity
includes keeping all the promises, making decisions according to situations; provide rewards
according to the job performance of the employees etc (Engelbrecht et al., 2017). In order to
build the integrity character a leader needs to be understanding, he/she must have situation
handling capacity and many more.
Some basic characteristics that are required in order to be a successful leader includes good
understanding, risk-taking and situation handling capacity, good communication skills, have

complete trust on the team members, take tough decisions, help employees to do their best and
many more.
2. Can good leadership be developed, and if so, how?
A leadership can be defined as the activity of leading a group or an organisation (Aithal, 2015).
There are various responsibilities of a leader include:
 A leader must have a clear vision.
 Managing and operating difficult situations.
 Motivate all the employees in order to achieve the business objectives
Apart from that, leadership also includes making proper vision and objective of the company,
directing others, motivating employees and many more.
Yes, a good leadership can be developed. Good leadership skills include the following:
Learn from other entrepreneurs and leaders
To be the best leader or in order to enhance the leadership skills he/she needs to see the
operations of the other entrepreneurs and leaders. Working style, speeches, decision making
quality and situation handling capacity of the great leaders helps to build the character. Apart
from that, speeches of the great leaders also motivate to work effectively and accomplish the
objectives of the organisations.
Talk less, listen to others more
If the leaders talks too much then he/she does not have time to listen to others. Some of the
great leaders analyses that they can gain vast knowledge by listening to other people.
Moreover, to improve the good leadership skills the qualities include;

 Listen to the answers of individuals and feel free to ask anything
 During conversation keep one thing in mind that, you are just distributing your
knowledge among all but not getting anything.
Stay positive and be enthusiastic
As all the followers are looking at the leader. So, it is the duty of a leader to be enthusiastic and
positive. Positive behaviour within the organisation helps to create a positive environment.
Employees will work hard in the positive situation which helps the organisation to develop the
business growth. For instance, instead of saying the bad performance of the employees in the
last month, if the leaders say that, it may not be the profitable month for the company but try to
make this month as the best and profitable month. These kinds of speeches help the workers to
work hard and accomplish the organisational objectives.
Handle difficult situations and make quick decisions
Making quick decisions and handle situations correctly does not enhance the leadership skills.
To improve the good leadership skills, a leader needs to make decisions in a critical situation
along with the employees. During critical situation handling the leaders needs to follow these
instructions in order to enhance the leadership skills,
 Do not get personal while making any decisions. Great leaders do not think about
individual during decision making. If the leaders think as a whole or for the whole
organisation, it helps to take correct decisions.
 Less options helps the leaders to take quick decisions. If the options are less then it
helps the leaders to take quick decisions.

 Be confident while executing any critical situations. Great leaders are confident while
handling any vital situation. It helps the employees to stay motivated.
Motivate others
One of the most important roles of a leader is to motivate others. According to the great
leaders, workers performance is completely based on their motivation. If the workers are
motivated all the time, it will enhance the productivity of the organisation. So, it is the
responsibility of a good leader to motivate their workers all the time and maintain a positive
work environment within the organisation. In order to motivate the workers a good leader
needs to provide the employees with rewards according to their performance.
Take suggestions from the employees
In order to enhance the leadership skills, a leader should take decisions from the employees.
Great leaders always want the decisions of the employees so that the employees think that they
are also important for the organisation. Apart from that, a leader is not always correct; he/she
also needs creative ideas in order to execute the difficult situations. So, in order to manage the
situation, a leader needs suggestions from the employees.
Handling the conflict situation
Another most important aspect in order to enhance the leadership skill is conflict management.
Sometimes, it happens that both the statements of the management team of the organisation
and the workers are different. In that situation, the leaders play a pivotal role in order to
execute the situation. At that time, great leaders take both the statements and try to draw a
common conclusion.

All the above-mentioned points help to enhance the leadership skills of a person. Apart from
these points, there are many more ways to enhance the leadership skills are discipline practice,
learn how to follow, understand and examine the situation, keep on learning from others and
many more.
3. What distinguishes leadership from management?
The term leadership can be defined as the techniques of motivating, influencing and supporting
all the co-workers or followers within the organisation (Brown, 2016). Alternatively, leadership
are of different types are democratic leadership, autocratic leadership, delegative leadership,
bureaucratic leadership and many more. Both the term leadership and management are different
from each other. Here is the difference between management and leadership includes:
Management Leadership
The term management can be defined as managing
the day-to-day work of the employees within the
organisation.
The term leadership can be defined as the
technique to lead a company or a group
Management team of an organisation make
planning, organizing, budgeting, and problem-
solving etc.
It is the duty of a leader to create a
realistic vision, motivate others, aligning
employees and many more
Management team of an organisation manages
difficult situations, make a budget plan, monitor
hourly activities of the employees and track the
performance of the employees.
Leadership includes leading people,
motivate and encourage people in order
to accomplish in order to accomplish the
business objectives.
Management of an organisation makes decisions Leadership skills facilitates decision

making.
Management team is usually reactive in nature. Leadership is usually proactive in nature.
Rules are created by the management team of an
organisation
Leadership skills includes rule breaking
Management mainly focuses on managing work Leadership includes leading people
Management team of a company try to minimize
the risk
Leadership includes risk taking
Table 1: Difference between Management and leadership
Source: (Created by author)
According to one of the most popular leader, entrepreneur and the founder of Amstrad, Lord
Alan Sugar, mostly people does three mistakes about leadership and management:
Mistake-1
Generally, everyone uses both the terms “leadership” and “management” alternately. This
statement alteration defines that they do not have in-depth knowledge regarding these two terms.
They do not even know the functionalities and roles of both of them.
Mistake-2
Mostly, everyone uses the term “leadership” in order to place the character at the top of the list.
After putting the leaders at the top of the hierarchy, people generally construct the management
structure and allocate the job according to the hierarchy. According to Lord Alan Sugar, it is
also a big mistake as well as deceptive.

Mistake-3
According to Lord Alan Sugar, mostly people think that “leadership” is a character development
program and called it as presence or charisma. As some people have good presence of mind and
appearance, they usually think that individual can offer leadership which gets the rest into
trouble.
4. A self-reflective approach to developing your own personal leadership style
This work has enabled me to understand the different roles of leadership to drive an organization
and the importance of such roles. It has given me an idea about the difference between leadership
and management. This has developed an in depth knowledge about the qualities and theories of
good leadership. To be a good leader a person should have a proper vision, knowledge,
confidence and persistent charismatic nature who can communicate with others maturely. It also
helped me to learn that how in crucial events such as sales drop; the famous business leaders
have directed the management and workforce to do good business and making a profit without
raising any event of conflict.
Based on the above discussion, it is clear that leadership is a basic quality that a manager needs
to have to drive an organization in a positive way. It is interrelated with the management skills of
the organizational manager to direct the employees in a right way. Therefore it is important to
understand the theory and practices done by other successful leaders and managers of the world
and develop own personal leadership style to progress and be a successful leader in future. This
study has developed a sense and understanding of the subject in me and therefore I have
identified some approaches that will be helpful for me to develop my unique personal leadership
style. The term reflection is not a personal process. Rather it is a collaborative approach as it
involves experience along with uncertainty. It demands specific inquiries about the special and
important components that are essential for a specific business. This also reflects the personal

values, beliefs and perspectives etc. through a reflective assessment, clarity is found about
different aspects. For this clarity of self and self capability some questions needs to be asked to
self to realize own potential of making a good leader and if the person has the ability to take
good and timely decisions through which the company can make good moves across various
cases. During my own self-reflective approach, I have penned down the following questions for
me to understand my capabilities as a leader and drawback so that I can improve over those
areas. These questions are:
1. What have I learned so far from the study
2. How I felt about it and what were my thoughts
3. How can I explain my experience
4. How can I reflect my own learning into my actions?
5. What is another person’s reaction about my feelings and actions?
6. How was my reaction and behaviour?
Asking these questions make a great self assessment and the answers can effectively influence
my personal experience. If the answers are positive, then it makes me a great leader, but if not,
then I need to improve myself over the topic. It is a common practice that the head-hunters of top
class companies search for personalities with good leadership skills. Therefore developing such
skills will help me to shape my own career. According to British management consultancy
Ashridge, though UK has many world famous companies and so thousands of managers, but it
lacks good leadership personalities (Ashridge Strategic Management Centre. 2019). Therefore
analyzing myself will help to be the person, the market would sought after.
To develop my own personal leadership skills, I have listed the following approaches to make
use of:
Ask for feedback: Asking for feedback can help me to understand what others think about my
leadership style and therefore lot guidance I can have about my pros and cons of leadership style.
Not only can the juniors in rank, but also seniors help me with their own experience and
suggestions about this.