Individual Reflection Report: Leadership and Management (OM6005)

This report presents an individual reflection on a group presentation concerning leadership and management. The presentation highlighted the significance of leaders and managers in organizations, emphasizing their roles in diverse situations and addressing cultural differences. The report delves into leadership traits such as intelligence, self-confidence, determination, integrity, and sociability, along with the Big Five personality traits. It details the challenges faced during the presentation's preparation, including data collection, PowerPoint creation, and knowledge acquisition. The reflection also identifies areas for skill improvement, such as learning, problem-solving, and decision-making, to enhance future presentations. Furthermore, it underscores the importance of situational leadership and various leadership theories, concluding with a positive assessment of the learning experience and a commitment to refining presentation skills.

INDIVIDUAL REFLECTION-LEADERSHIP
AND MANAGEMENT

Table of Contents
PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................1
Part A..........................................................................................................................................1
Part B...........................................................................................................................................2
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................4

PART 2
Part A.
The power point is been made to highlight the importance of leaders and managers in an
organisation. The role played by leaders and managers in different situations. The points in which
main focus is made in presentations are the cultural differences faced by them in organisations.
As it is very obvious that there are different types of people in organisation all have different
cultures, so how that impact the role of leaders and mangers is highlighted in the power point.
The study concludes that the role of leader is a process through which they influence the
employees in business and motivates them to work ha5rd so that the goals of the organisation can
be achieved. The role of manager is to control and administer business environment, irrespective
of their nature, type, size and structure (Amanchukwu, Stanley and Ololube, 2015).
The presentation highlighted the difference between leaders and managers. The roles and
characteristics of them and how they make effort in making organisation successful. Further the
study show the leadership traits which defines that the leader is effective or not. This traits shows
few things such as, It shows that the leader is intelligent or not. It shows that leader is enough
capable to take best decisions for the organisation. But this trait it is shown that the leaders has
self confidence or not as if there is lack of self confidence effective decisions can not taken by
the leader. The leader mus be determinant towards work so that all the work are performed in an
desired time leading an organisation to success. As organisation can not be succeed when the
leader himself is not dedicated towards the work (Renz and Herman, 2016).
It is the duty of the leader to motivate the employees to achieve the goals as when leaders
himself is not determinant they can not motivate the employees. Further it concludes that the
leader must be honest towards the job role. As when they are honest all employees will trust them
and it becomes easier for an organisation to achieve its goals. Leaders must be social so that they
can get better ideas or making business successful. They must have good nature so that all people
likes to work with them and thus, it assist the organisation in achieving its productivity.
The report highlight about big five personality traits which reflects the personality of
leaders. AS in this trait first step is that leaders must have open nature as they should have an
open mind and listen to the sayings of people (Willis, Clarke and O'Connor, 2017) . Through this
skills they can have better and innovative ideas for making business successful. The second step
says that the administrator must be organised, systematic and punctual, as when leader is
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punctual all the activities carried out by them will be completed on time. Being organised assist
the organisation in performing day to day role in an effective manner. This step says that leaders
must be outgoing and talkative, social. As through this they can very well communicate with
other persons, assist them in gathering new ideas for improving their leadership style. Fourth step
says that leaders must be tolerable, sensitive and trusting, as through this they can very well
perform their job roles (Renz and Herman, 2016). As some times situation arises and becomes
very difficult to tolerate so through this skill they can very well control themselves. Last
personality trait according to this approach is Neuroticism, this shows that leaders are irritable or
moody. This traits must not be present in leaders as through this employee w ill not feel happy,
thus impact the performance of organisation in negative way.
Part B.
In Making the presentation there are lot of activities which are done by us. As for
gathering data about making presentation we face lot of difficulties as we take help from
different types of books, we take help of internet and then collect the data from different sources.
First step done by the group is data collection and then after the members of group analyse the
data collected, as data collected is relevant to the subject or not. A lot of time is spend on this
activity. We choose single topic and match the data with that ie, the data collected is matching or
not. The members of group then learn about how to make power point presentation, as we were
not having enough knowledge of power point, so for this we take help from our friends and after
that we learns the skill of making power point.
The challenges faced by us is that is were not having enough knowledge about the topic
so it becomes difficult to acquire knowledge and made the presentation in our words. We learn
many things as we were unaware about the topics so we gain lot of knowledge as we get to know
about what the role and duties of leaders and managers. Importance of leaders and managers and
how they are very helpful in achieving the objectives of the business. We learned that leaders
have different types of skills through which they manages the activities in organisation. There are
different types of leadership style which are followed by leaders, as situational leadership is the
best style which assist organisation in achieving its objectives, in this style leaders change their
leadership style according to the situation.
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There are also other challenges which are faced by us while making the presentation as
we were not having good internet connection, so we take an good internet connections so that the
searching process can be done in smooth way. We spend lot of time on making this presentation.
As there are various roles which are preformed by leaders. There are different types of leadership
theories, we tries to learns that include in the report. Thus by making this presentation we gain lot
of knowledge about the topic. There are various types of skills which are required to be improve
so that in future we can make an better presentation. The skills we need to improve is the
learning skills, As we have take a lot of time on learning the information. We should make
emphasis on improving our learning skills so that we can learn more better and faster, thus
assisting in time saving.
We need to improve our problem solving skills so as it making presentation we face lot of
problems so when this skills is present we can solve any types of problem on our own, without
taking help from others. The another skills which are required to be improve is that the decision
making skill, as when this skill is present in ourself we might have made the presentation in more
desired manner. It was an good experience in making the presentation, It gives me opportunity to
learn new things and also assist me in increasing my knowledge. All the things are done very
smoothly but there are some promovent which we will improve so that more effective
presentation can be made by ourself. As by learning innovative skills presentation can be made in
an more creative way.
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REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Amanchukwu, R.N., Stanley, G.J. and Ololube, N.P., 2015. A review of leadership theories,
principles and styles and their relevance to educational management. Management. 5(1).
pp.6-14.
Renz, D.O. and Herman, R.D. eds., 2016. The Jossey-Bass handbook of nonprofit leadership and
management. John Wiley & Sons.
Willis, S., Clarke, S. and O'Connor, E., 2017. Contextualizing leadership: Transformational
leadership and Management‐By‐Exception‐Active in safety‐critical contexts. Journal of
Occupational and Organizational Psychology. 90(3). pp.281-305.
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