Report: Personal Development in Leadership and Strategic Management

This report, focusing on Harris Hall, examines personal development in leadership and strategic management. It begins by identifying key leadership skills and factors influencing organizational vision and strategy, including business values, culture, and leadership theories such as grid and situational leadership. The report then presents a self-audit of leadership and management skills, identifying areas for improvement in time management, oral communication, and problem-solving. A detailed personal development plan is outlined, specifying objectives, resources, and success criteria to address these needs. The report further explores factors impacting vision development, such as effective training and collaboration, along with approaches like brainstorming and lateral thinking. The importance of communication with external stakeholders is also discussed. Finally, the report evaluates the benefits of reviews for organizational strategy and assesses various sources of information for achieving personal development goals, including peers, team members, training, and managers. The conclusion reflects on progress made and areas for continued development, emphasizing the importance of personal growth for both individual and organizational success.

PERSONAL
DEVELOPMENT FOR
LEADERSHIP AND
STRATEGIC
MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1. Knowledge and skills which are required in leadership are............................................1
1.2.Factors that influence other than the knowledge and leadership skills for achievement in
organisation vision and strategy.............................................................................................1
1.3 theories of leadership for management skills...................................................................2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................2
2.1 audit of personal leadership and management skills........................................................2
2.2 to meet personal development needs................................................................................4
2.3 personal development plan ,based on identified needs ...................................................4
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................5
3.1 Factors which impact to develop vision...........................................................................5
3.2 approaches which impact vision.......................................................................................5
3.3 impact of communication to external stakeholder............................................................5
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................6
4.1 benefits of reviews for an organisational strategy............................................................6
4.2 evaluate source of information to achieve personal development plans.........................6
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................7
5. a report in reviewing progress against the outcomes for personal development plans......7
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................7
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................8

INTRODUCTION
Personal leadership is defined as the ability to define a direction of leadership and life
and moves in the direction consistently and with clarity (Dong and et.al., 2017). When someone
practices personal leadership than leads from inside as well outside. Present report lay emphasis
on the Harris hall leadership about various objectives, create values as well as maintain a
particular form of culture. These culture as well values have unique features from various
organisation .which can bind the entire organisation in a particular circle. All these effects on the
leadership as well as the managerial activities within the organisation.
TASK 1
1.1. Knowledge and skills which are required in leadership are
Leader of Harris Hall should be highly educated. Seeks new knowledge and also a risk
taker. a leader is always at the fore front for new and innovative things, sees a knowledge
networking as a mode for organisation performer (Frich and et.al., 2015).
Time management and organising and action planing are both necessary for delivery of
vision and strategy, also people management skill such as creating motivational environment for
staff members. They also have change management and innovation skills and in addition to this
have possessed good communication skills like listen actively, communicate in difficult
situation.
1.2.Factors that influence other than the knowledge and leadership skills for achievement in
organisation vision and strategy.
Impact of business values- every organisation follow some business values as well as
norms and leaders have to follow to lead an organisation for a standard position. That is why
managerial tools have set according to the requirement
I mpact on culture- beliefs and values in an organisation culture conquer for long
time .leaders have to set some managerial activities.
impact of objectives- leadership process posses three forms such as
autocratic ,democratic and democratic

 Autocratic- where objectives of the organisation is unclear to the staff members, here
leaders being autocratic as follows and forced to follow what leaders say (Hezlett 2016). Bureaucratic- here leaders focussed moire on the achievements of the goals and
objectives than to the staff members' motivation (Holt, 2016).
 Democratic process-objectives of the organisation is to motivate the employees and as
other clear to them and also inspiring them. Here leaders give the opportunities to the
staff member to involve in the decision making process.
Harris hall can follow above factors
1.3 theories of leadership for management skills
grid theory of leadership-it is a management theory where mangers should evaluate the
situation to deal with before choosing the suitable leadership style for it .it is based on the two
dimension
Concern for people-here leaders of Harris Hall considers the requirements of the team
members ,as their interest, their personal development areas and also decide to how to complete
the task in the best way.
Concern for product-here leaders can ensure about the organisation efficiency and also
high productivity.
Situational leadership-it is an adaptive leadership style .here leaders are not based on
the specific skills but they have to respond according to the situation. t includes four phases such
as directing, coaching, supporting and delegating.
TASK 2
2.1 audit of personal leadership and management skills
need to work on this
good but required improvement
confident

basis need to work on
this(bad)
Good ,but need
improvement.(average)
confident.(excellent)
Time management
arrive on time for
meeting and
conferences
aware of things that
causes wastage of time
oral communication
active listener, gives
value what other says
in the group
confident in explaining
new concepts and
techniques to other
confident in giving
presentation to my
seniors
posses confident in
contribution of new
and innovative ideas;
problem solving
used various method
for exploring a
problem for example
considering different

point of view
Can break down
complex problem into
more easy parts.
2.2 to meet personal development needs
In order to develop my skills on time management,I will scrutinise my time wastages
areas and take helps from my seniors that they keep a eye on me and point out me wherever
necessary.
Oral communication-here i need improvement as i feel shyness ,so in order to improve
this i take my seniors helps where i can present myself on stage in front of employees .which can
remover my fear in front of people.
Problem solving-I am very bad at problem solving, need communication skills seeking
advice to my mentor for improvement.
2.3 personal development plan ,based on identified needs .
Development
objectives
priority resources activity target success
criteria
to improve
time
management
awareness
high tasks mentors
helps,
paper ,pen,
With the help
of seminars,
and took the
help from the
mangers.
two months feedback from
managers as
well as
mentors
problem
solving
very high Face to face
communicatio
n and also
through the
case study.
One month Meet the
manager on
the regular
basis and seek
help from

them about
problem
solving.
TASK 3
3.1 Factors which impact to develop vision.
Effective training -training provides the employees to enhance their skills and develops
it .through training session employees can remove their weakness and work effectively which
can increase productivity of the Hallis Hall.
Collaboration -employees must pursue a common goal, in terms of innovations well as
individual project .otherwise various demands creates confusion on and lack of cooperation.
Thus create as common vision (Mendenhall And et.al., 2017).
3.2 approaches which impact vision
Brainstorming-it is an approach which can generate new ideas around a particular area of
interest. Here a group of people meet and generate new ideas as well as they able to think freely
and create numerous of new ideas.
Lateral thinking techniques-it is process of generating ideas as well as solving problems by
focusing a situation from a unique way. it is the ability to think creativity. it can explain
alternative, focus ,challenges ,harvesting as well treatment of ideas.
3.3 impact of communication to external stakeholder
Various stakeholder have various interest such as attitudes as well as priorities .effective
communication ensures better understanding goal of an organisation, creates strong stakeholder
as well positive relationship .such as communication with investor as and shareholder helps to
attract the finding for the important investment .by using social media can also spread messages
as stakeholders that will share attitude with others. Communication must also focuses on the
stakeholders who have great sake of interest .stakeholders communication can give the easily
access to the funds .stakeholders must understand that what an organisation tries to achieve and
help the employees as well labour unions.

Hallis hall company also influences consumer opinion by quality for the costumers .
TASK 4
4.1 benefits of reviews for an organisational strategy.
Benefits of review performance provides an opportunity for the development and
performance, here to discuss future targets as well objectives .in addition to this also consider
personal and career development. Employees Of the company become more alert and responsive.
They can add values about what is happening in the past. Positive reviews can built the trust to
the staff member and also make them loyal towards the company. Both the positive and negative
reviews can help to improve the quality and quantity of the business (Redmond and Dolan, 2016)
.
This review tool helps in achieving the personality growth as employees of the company
get to know about their performance so that they can improve their efficiency and also helps for
the organisation as it can increase productivity of the organisation.
4.2 evaluate source of information to achieve personal development plans.
source of information are as follows
From peers- peers can advice about the performance level of me, as they can also
evaluate my skill as so through their helps i can achieve personal growth .
From team members-team members helps to recognise my mistake in various activities
such as my less involvement in team also about my behaviour.
Training and research- my company can provides regular training sessions for freshers
as well as existing employees .we have a dedicated team managers where i can discuss my needs
.i can also do my own research to learn about the topics so that i can know about them from
Internet.
Managers-the best source of getting support and learning is my manger, i examined
regularly with him to discuss any training which i need or he thinks it will benefit for me,i have
also regulated professional discussions as well annuals appraisal(Mendenhall And et.al., 2017).
Hallis hall company can follow all these source of information

TASK 5
5. a report in reviewing progress against the outcomes for personal development plans
as earlier i am weak in time management skills as well as problem solving skills. now
from the above activity i feel improvement in time management which helps to reduce my time
wastage as earlier did. Now i can work timely .but i feel more improvement in the problem
solving skills as i am not 100 % improvement through above activities .i have to take more helps
from my senior mangers and seek advice from my colleagues.
CONCLUSION
it is summarised from above study that personal development is necessary for the
personal growth as well as for the growth of the organisation .report mentioned certain theories
which helps in leadership and enhanced the management skills such as grid theory as well as
situational leadership theory and also develops the personal development plan for measures the
weakness through various activities such as problem solving.

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