MGMT6000 Dynamic Leadership: A Reflective Report on Leadership Skills

This report is a reflective analysis of a student's leadership journey, focusing on their experiences, strengths, and weaknesses. It includes an executive summary outlining the core concepts of leadership and the challenges faced in a communication section leadership role. The report delves into the student's leadership style, emphasizing the importance of communication and ethical behavior within diverse cultural contexts. The student utilized feedback forms and self-assessment tools like Gallup's Strength Finder and the Whittman GROW model to evaluate their leadership competencies and create a development plan. This plan includes setting both short-term and long-term goals, addressing obstacles, and identifying strategies for improvement, such as open communication and team building. The report concludes with a discussion of the student's progress and future aspirations, highlighting the importance of continuous learning and adaptation in the dynamic field of leadership.

Running head: DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP
Dynamic Leadership

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Executive Summary
A leader is responsible to attain the company’s task with their followers. Leadership is defined as
the skills and traits that could be practiced to lead a specific group of people in order to the
attainment of expected aim with objectives. Along with this, leadership is beneficial for life
notion therefore, I faced some challenges related to leadership. In current times, I am directing
the 5 number of people in the communication section. This reflective report demonstrates my
traits and skills regarding leadership.
In order to create my deep knowledge about the leadership competencies, I sent a feedback form
to other individuals as well as, realize my limitations that could be effective in terms of
developing trustworthy decisions. This report evaluates my strengths and weaknesses. It also
demonstrates the action plan that could be implemented for enhancing my leadership
capabilities. Through this, I would be competent for addressing my leadership style as well as,
imply it within an organization.

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Part B: Reflective Report
Leadership is a capability through which, a person is competent for leading the group in the
attainment of a particular goal. I have grabbed several opportunities by using leadership in my
career together with I observed that leadership competencies are beneficial for me to reshape my
career. Through the utilization of leadership competency, I feel the honor to act ethical behavior
between the diverse cultures of people. As a team leader, it is found that a leader can face some
time management challenge and it can create complexities to deliver the task at a specified time.
In addition to this, a leader of a company could be able to communicate with a group of people at
one time (Acton, et. al., 2019).
A leader can be responsible to develop faith between employees and arrives at a valid
conclusion. Presently, I performed as a leader in E-commerce retailer division where
communication skill is a must for business dealing purpose. In this division, 20 members were
working together and aiding to create a feasible decision (Farh, & Chen, 2018).
I am highly engaged in leading the team for the last 15 months. During my leadership journey, I
have developed my depth understanding of different aspects that can have a direct impact on my
career. It was difficult for me in terms of leading the diverse culture of individual and satisfied
each people accordingly. I have also improved my competency that may lead to obtaining the
higher competitive advantageous. I also confronted some challenges that be related to conflict
and it may have an impact on the overall result. In the current scenario, I dealt as a close person
of the team (Pfajfar, et. al., 2016).
For avoiding this issue, I have conducted the meeting as well as, consider the opinion of each
member in the process of decision-making. The key aim of implementing the views of the
meeting is that it permits the employees to be part of a team. It can be supportive for enhancing

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my leadership competencies. In such a manner, I was competent for demonstrating my
leadership characteristics that can be supportive in terms of accomplishing specific aim with
objectives of investigation (Lopez-Cabrales, Bornay-Barrachina, & Diaz-Fernandez, 2017).
I applied a particular style of leadership that would lead to creating reliability in the result of the
investigation. The use of goal setting technique would enable me to perform the task in setting
boundaries. In order to enhance the organizational performance, I set monthly with a weekly
target for my team members in order to act on specific concerns. Initially, I emphasized on
creating the weekly target for my team members but after sometimes, I felt that this kind of
techniques may pressurize to team members and can unfavorably influence the whole
conclusion. Hence, I failed for continuing my tasks (Carnabuci, Emery, & Brinberg, 2018).
In order to avoid the target pressure from team members, I have implemented a monthly target
technique where performance would be analyzed on a monthly basis. I have also applied the 360-
degree feedback structure technique for avoiding team concerns by focusing on overcoming my
weaknesses. This technique will enable me to achieve the particular aim of the investigation. As
a leader, I applied an open communication technique where a person would be competent for
reducing the chances of conflict in the workplace. Through practicing open meeting, I address
the conflict for improving the productivity of the company (Lloyd, Clegg, & Crouch, 2015).
Gallup’s strength finder
Gallup’s strength finder technique is implemented for assessing my weaknesses and strengths
because it may lead to creating an appropriate solution. The result is supported by me in terms of
focusing on my some strengths and this could be favored for influencing my leadership
development plan. It is also addressed that this kind of technique could be applied in order to
interact with others with no difficulty (Nonaka, Hirose, & Takeda, 2016).

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Moreover, the primary objective of the Gallup test is significant to interact with another person. I
have the ability to evaluate the productivity of others, therefore, I can beat the competition and
this ability aids me to get success. My other strength is that I always focus on areas of agreement
that aids me to make harmony with others (Epitropaki, Martin, & Thomas, 2017).
Along with this, I am generous with praise, demonstrate prompt smile together with always
focuses on positive beliefs in a different situation. In addition to this, I feel that in case, I obtain
zero productivity then I would strive to achieve something tangible with my rationale. Moreover,
my responsibility skill is my strength as it forces me to use my psychological possessions for
anything, which I deed (Wolfgramm, Flynn-Coleman, & Conroy, 2015).
Leadership development plan
This leadership development plan is beneficial to me to identify my strengths, weaknesses, and
competencies with respect to leadership skills. This could be supporting me in terms of attaining
my short-term and long-term goals. It can also lead to decline my weakness as well as, makes
responsible for becoming a good leader within an organization. I have also implemented
Whittman GROW model in terms of avoiding my weakness within minimum time (Breevaart, et.
al., 2016).
Goal setting (G):
Initially, I have developed both short-term and long-term goal, which is supportive for
performing in one direction as well as, arriving at a feasible outcome. In the upcoming 6 months,
our team would perform in one goal that I have developed as per the circumstances. I also strived
for enlarging my team in the next 6 months by enlarging my members in the team (Korek, &
Mohr, 2016). This could be prominent to attain my tasks at minimum cost with time. In this
phase, I will be accountable to improve the strength of team members. Due to this, my team

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members would be responsible for developing the customer relationship management, maintains
public relations as well as, endorsement of particular products and services (Chugh, 2016).
Reality (R):
In my group, there were 20 persons and I was responsible for leading them to accomplish their
aim and objectives. It can be also supportive in terms of creating a valid decision. I also felt that
the communication department of the company is new hence there is the responsibility of each
member is different and that creates chances of conflict within an organization. This may also
hamper the whole productivity (McKibben, Umstead, & Borders, 2017).
In this situation, I was responsible to inform each member with respect to their goal and gain the
chances for obtaining the higher results. It is also addressed that my team member was
competent for achieving their objectives that were set earlier preceding the tasks. This was only
done by making proper planning regarding improvement in competency of employees. My
mentors and group members always taught to me that whether I was immoral as it was
supportive for me in terms of enhancing my leadership competencies (Arena, & Uhl-Bien, 2016).
Obstacles (O):
My main objective is to compare my leadership rivalry with others as it aids in endorsing my
leadership position within an organization. A person that is recruited at the working place could
have different kinds of skills. Therefore, I always take into consideration my performance to
enhance the company’s productivity (Normore, 2016).
This could also lead to enhancing my performance. Moreover, communication department can be
influenced through small error among an individual hence I always focus on each member of the
firm as it helps to diminish the unfavorable and misunderstanding concern from the group
(Mueller, Renzl, & Will, 2018). I also directly interact with all members with respect to the

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allocated task as well as, declining the clarity concerns within an organization. This could be
beneficial for attaining reliable results. I have also pointed out that my leadership style could be
beneficial to make a feasible decision regarding organizational concerns (Mueller, Renzl, &
Will, 2018).
The way forward (W)
This is a significant phase in GROW strategy that could be implemented for enhancing my
leadership competencies. This phase is supportive in terms of considering a technique to resolve
the concerns. It is addressed that the company may make sure that the members will work in a
team. According to existing performance, I believed that my team member would attain 120% of
target. It is also identified that a successful leader can emphasize on development of any team
(Korek, & Mohr, 2016).
The company can provide the opportunity to a distinct department hence they can be competent
to improve the skills. I recognized my responsibility towards improving the performance of the
group as well as, I will strive to become the best performer at the workplace (Normore, 2016).
I applied several sources such as offline and online sources to develop my own competencies. It
is also pointed that a leader can organize different workshops associated with leadership as it
aids to influence the high amount of employees as well as, attaining aim and objectives of
company without any disagreement (Lloyd, Clegg, & Crouch, 2015). These workshops could be
beneficial to enhance my leadership competencies.
It is also addressed that when a company is facing high competition, only I have the ability to
beat the competition and improves the performance of my team members. I was also the ability
to eliminate the obstacles of the company (Epitropaki, Martin, & Thomas, 2017).

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In order to enhance my team performance, I have enhanced my competency as well as, obtaining
reliable outcomes. I considered the feedback of my colleagues and mentors to enhance my
weakness and it was only possible by gathering feedback through seniors. This would provide
assistance to me to gain the competition level as well as grabbing the opportunities regarding
obtaining leadership in future (Normore, 2016). I directly meet to the marketing as well as
promotional department and understand its works to meet the aim as well as objectives of study
matter. Therefore, I determined many objectives that are associated with the group member
(Lloyd, Clegg, & Crouch, 2015).
For the accomplishment of such objectives, I made the leadership development plan. It would
lead to consequently improving my performance. In addition to this, it is stated that I improved
my understanding of many research acts that lead to improving the productivity of the firm. I
completed many acts as it was related to communication, conflict management, negotiation, and
team management. It could lead to directly impact on the organizational performance (Korek, &
Mohr, 2016).
I read many books, articles, online and offline sources to get the data in favor of the
organizational goal. It is stated that I decided 2 years for improving my leadership skills that
would be affected the organizational goal. I used many theories and model to improved my
weakness and make a decision effectively. It would be effective to be a successful leader in the
organization (Normore, 2016).
Conclusion
As per the above discussion, it can be concluded that a leader of the organization is an individual
who leads to a team or a huge amount of people to conduct any acts and complete any research
task. It can also be summarized that leadership is the abilities to inspire, control, direct, and guide

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to an individual for the attainment of the organizational task. It can be concluded that leadership
skills could be identified as a follower’s performance and personality of a person. The successful
leader could be accountable for the performance of their team hence a leader should be used
different methods to evaluates their performance and improve their personality to get the positive
responses. It could also be effective in obtaining the research outcome.

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