Report on Developing Leadership and Management Skills: A Self-Analysis

This report examines the crucial role of leadership and management skills in personal and professional growth. It begins with an introduction highlighting the significance of both skills in organizational success, emphasizing how leadership guides and influences others, while management efficiently organizes resources. The main body of the report uses Boyatzis' theory of self-directed learning to analyze the author's strengths and weaknesses in these areas. It outlines the author's ideal self (aspiring manager) and real self (identifying skill gaps), followed by a learning agenda involving online courses, seminars, and reading to bridge these gaps. The report describes the author's experimentation with newly developed skills through conflict resolution and function organization, developing trusting relationships with peers and teachers. The conclusion reiterates the importance of leadership and management for individual and organizational success, reinforcing the value of these skills for effective guidance, planning, and goal achievement. The report includes several references to academic sources to support its content.

Developing
Leadership and
Management Skills
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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................3
TASK...............................................................................................................................................3
CONCUSION..................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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Introduction
Main objective of this report is to better understand the importance of leadership and
management skills. In an organisation both the skills play an essential role. Good leadership skill
will help a person in guiding and influencing the behaviour of others in an effective way so they
can work with their full efficiency towards the achievement of particular skill. Leadership will
provide the direction to employees while enhancing this skill is not an easy task it will require a
lot of experience. While on the other hand effective management skills help a person in
efficiently managing the operations of business in a better way. An effective management
include various activities of setting the strategy of an organisation and effectively manage the
available resource of company. Both the skill help an individual in its future growth and success.
MAIN BODY
TASK
I understand that both the leadership and management skills play an essential role in growth and
success in my workplace life. For effectively analysing my leadership and management strength
and weakness I use Boyatzis’s theory of self-directed learning. With the help of this theory I am
able to analysis my strength and weakness and various resources from where I can develop my
skill.
My ideal self: I realize that I want to be a good manager in a reputed company which
help me in my future growth and success. I realize that for my future growth both the leadership
and management skills will help me in properly managing the work in organisation and
effectively guide the team members of company. I understand that these skill will make a good
manager who have good leadership skills also. For being a good manager in a reputed
organisation I need to effectively develop these skills so that I am efficiently achieve my future
goal and also help an organisation in successfully achieving the goal. As both the skills play an
essential role in efficiently achieving the goal and task.
My real self: By analysing the importance of leadership and management skills I realise
that I have lack of these skills. I just learn some of leadership and management skills at my study
level. As I organised a curricular activity in my school and manage the work efficiently. But I
realise that these skills are not sufficient for me to build my carrier as a manager in a reputed
company. I need to develop these skills so that I am efficiently manage the whole work and
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achieve the objective of task. I realise that there is a huge difference between my actual
leadership and management skills and my ideal skills.
My learning agenda: After analysis the difference in my skills I try to develop my
management and leadership skills. For effectively enhancing these skills I join various online
leadership and management classes which help me in developing my skills. Other than this I join
seminar of motivational speakers who motivate people with their speech. These seminar will
assist me in how can I influence the behaviour of people and motivate them towards the
particular task and make them to achieve the particular goal. Other than this I read various books
of leadership and management which help me in enhancing my knowledge in leadership and
management theory. By reading these books I can use effective leadership and management
strategies for better reseals. My all these parties will assist me in efficiently developing these
skills in me and remove the gap between my real self-overlap and my ideal skill.
Experimenting: After efficiently developing my leadership and management skill I start
experimenting my skills. For this I resolve daily conflicts on time which I face in my daily life. I
participate in organising various function through which I am able to manage the whole work
efficiently and guide the other people and how they can perform their duty. Through this
experiment I realise that I am able to manage the whole work and also complete it on time. I
realise that there are various problem that I face in my daily life but effective management skill
will help me in timely resolving these problems and make me to take correct action. Through
these experiments I am able to develop new behaviour and feelings inside me that help me in
achieving my future goal & provide various growth opportunities.
Developing trusting relationship: For successfully enhancing my leadership and
management skill I develop a good relationship with my classmates and teacher and they will
support me and encourage me at each step in the process of developing my leadership and
management skills. My friends will motivate me and my teacher will provide various source
through which I am able to develop these skills. They suggest me various online course which
help me to understand the concept of leadership and management in an effective way. Through
these Couse I can become a good leader or a manager. Both my teachers and friends will
encourage me to join leadership and management workshop through where I gain piratical
knowledge and how I can apply these skills in my life. In last I realized that now I fully
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developed my leadership and management skills which h not only help me at my personal life
but also assist me to get my future desire job in a reputed company.
CONCUSION
From the above discussion on this report it is concluded that leadership and management
skills will play an essential role in the growth and success of an individual. As these are the most
important skill that every organisation need. Leadership skill will assist in guiding and
influencing the behaviour of people towards a particular task and make them to achieve it. While
on the other hand management skill will help in effective planning, organising and controlling
the various operations and successfully achieve the goal. Developing these skill will help a
person in efficiently managing any task.
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