Report on Leadership Styles, Skills, and Professional Development

This report delves into the leadership styles and skills of Jeff Bezos, the CEO of Amazon, examining how he has contributed to the company's success. The report highlights various leadership approaches employed by Bezos, including transformational, autocratic, democratic, situational, strategic, and cross-cultural styles. It analyzes how these styles have been applied within Amazon, particularly in areas like e-commerce, artificial intelligence, and cloud computing. The report also incorporates a personal reflection using Gibb's reflective cycle, discussing the development of academic and employability skills such as communication, research, and ICT skills. The reflection explores challenges faced during the assignment and identifies areas for personal growth, emphasizing the importance of skills like time management and team collaboration. The analysis concludes with insights into how different leadership styles can be adapted to various business situations and the importance of continuous self-improvement.

Personal and Professional
Development

TABLE OF CONTENTS
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
TASK 2..........................................................................................................................................12
Reflection...................................................................................................................................12
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18

INTRODUCTION
Academic and employability skills comprise skills i.e. interpersonal skills, research,
analytical skills, communication and others that must have in individuals so that they can give
high contribution in organization’s success (Rowe and Zegwaard, 2017). This report is like
reflection in which discuss about employability skills that have developed while evaluating
leadership style and skills of successful leader.
TASK 1
 The main goal of the presentation is to provide better understanding about different
leadership styles that have applied by Mr. Jeff Bezos.
 There has an example of Jeff Bezos who is famous as successful business man and a
great leader in modern era (Warrick, 2017).
 He has practiced different leadership skills and style to make Amazon company
successful in the technology sector.

 In other word, leadership is the ability of leaders to manage and influence individuals or
group of people to coordinate together towards achieving common goal.
 A effective leadership style always supports business to develop and set a vision and
works with company’s staff in gaining projected goals and objectives (Pietraszewski,
2020).
 A ideal leader always supports and directs individuals to work on right track and leads
productivity in their working. Thus, leaders maintain wellbeing of individuals in the
workplace (Solanki, 2019).

• Amazon company pays high attention on different type services such as artificial
intelligence, digital streaming, cloud computing and e-commerce.
 Mr. Jeff Bezos is the CEO of the Amazon Inc. who has given high contribution in making
company successful in the technology market.

 However, Amazon Inc. has established strong global presence in the E-commerce market.
 He posses’ positive attitude so he has become great motivator and influencer in the
modern world.
 Jeff Bezos is not only led success in company but also stay innovative and enthusiasm
it’s staff by involving them in decision-making process and conducting different training
sessions (Mroz, Yoerger and Allen, 2018).
 He still puts more efforts to make Amazon world’s best online retailer company in it’s
sector.
 Jeff Bezos is also famous as idea leader in the 21st century because he posses’ effective
leadership qualities, skills and styles due to this Amazon Inc. has become one of the
largest online retailers in it’s market (Solanki, 2019).
 Transformation leadership style is quite different from others because it assists leaders to
communicate with the team in respect of determining required changes, develops a vision
so that individuals become responsible and perform different tasks productively.

 Autocratic leadership style also posses by Jeff Bezos to keep control on all business
activities that are performed by employees in the workplace. He clarifies all roles and
responsibility of individuals in the workplace so that they perform different tasks in
effective manner (Sischka, Schmidt and Steffgen, 2020).
 Democratic leadership style also follows by Amazon’s CEO through which he retains
highly skilled and talented staff in the workplace and improves productivity of
workforce.
 Thus, CEO of Amazon acts as transformer leaders and encourages individuals to manage
their stress level during peak period as resulted company has enabled to achieve it’s
short-term and long-term goals (Rhodes and Bhawuk, 2018).
 With this leadership, leaders enable to deal with different business situation by applying
different leadership styles.
 Mr. Jeff Bezos is famous as situation leaders as well because he posses’ all characteristics
of situational leaders. So, he does not need more direction from others to deal with hostile
business situation.

 He has followed autocratic leadership style in order to manage entire business functions
and achieves short-term goals in peak period. With this leadership style, CEO often
manage workload of business in peak period and leads competitive advantage for the
company from it’s existing competitors (Koretsky, 2019).
 To retain highly skilled and talented employees Jeff Bezos always practices Adam’s
Equity Model to stay motivated individuals in the company such as he put high efforts to
maintain ideal situation between input and output so that maximize profit can be received
by company (Debnath and Mishra, 2017).
 Strategic leadership style also has adopted by CEO of Amazon to create unique strategy
for the business. This leadership approach plays significant role in Amazon’s success
such as Jeff Bezos acts as strategic leaders and creates unique marketing strategy like
video tutorial, online marketing content, celebrity endorsement, standard quality product
at affordable price, wide brand portfolio etc. through which Amazon Inc. has shortlisted
in top four world’s best online retailer company in the e-commerce sector (Van Vugt and
Smith, 2019).

 Cross-cultural leadership style also posses’ by Jeff Bezos that supports company to
maintain wellbeing of diversified workforce in workplace effectively.
 This leadership quality is not only supported Jeff Bezos to lead satisfaction in customers
but also helps to offer gain creator and pain alleviator product services for the customer.

• For example, He established online retailing company by the name of Amazon. Com at
small scale to hope that one day Amazon will become famous online retailer company in
the world.
• It is denoted by current situation of the Amazon Inc. such as it has successfully succeeded
in the e-commerce market.
• From the above discussion has been analyzed that Jeff Bezos is the ideal business man as
well as leader. He actually puts more efforts to leads immense success in Amazon Inc
through his different leadership styles and qualities (SATPATHY, 2020).
 This is effective leadership quality of the Amazon’s CEO that he often applies in the
workplace.
 There is a reason such as he thought that small group working is quite productive and
innovation type as compared wider group because it creates conflicts among staff.

TASK 2
Reflection
Gibb’s reflective cycle is a self-reflection framework that practices by individuals to
express their experience and feeling which, they have experienced by event or learning. It is
designed by Grahams Gibb’s in 1986. I used this reflective model to share my experience and
feelings which I have achieved while evaluating and analyzing different leadership style and
skills of CEO of Amazon Inc. Mr. Jeff Bezos is the CEO of Amazon Inc who have practiced
different leadership styles and skills in order to lead success in the business (Gibbs' Reflective
Cycle, 2020). I have learnt numerous academic and employability skills which are required to
posses’ for becoming highly competent and career-oriented in future. I have learnt
communication skills that is one of the most essential skill because it helps to evaluate own
views in front of others. By conducing research on leadership style and skills of Jeff Bezos, I
understood that for effective verbal communication I need to coordinate my body gesture,
posture and language with my communication then I can communicate with other people more
effectively. In addition, I learnt that written communication skills is also one of the most crucial
skill that plays significant role to express individual’s thought. However, this skill can be
improved by learning new vocabulary, words that are used by people through emails. So, I
decided to improve this weakness by learning new words which posses’ similar meaning to make
my conversation effective. Research skills is one of the other skills that have developed by me
while evaluating leadership styles and skills of Amazon’s CEO which have practiced to make it’s
business successful in the e-commerce market. I have instructed to gather quality information
about Jeff Bezos’s leadership qualities and styles with authenticity, so I have conducted different
research to make my project highly authentic and effective. I also have learnt information
communication technology (ICT) skills while preparing this assignment. Generally, I have
practised different professional methods and technology to send mails to share my content and
thoughts to other. To conduct effective research over Amazon’s CEO, I require to manage time
then I can perform all tasks and activities within time period in respect of making my project
more successful (Oviawe, 2019). I also have faced numerous challenges while working on my
assignment such as I was not able to understand from where to start. This project was instructed
to complete in team that was one of the major issues for me because I never done it before. So, I