Leadership Challenges in Group Presentations: A Detailed Report

This report presents a critical analysis of a student's experience as a group leader in a university presentation on women empowerment. The student, acting as a leader, discusses the application of planning, organizing, leadership, and controlling functions within the group. The report highlights challenges faced, such as managing differing opinions and data interpretation issues. The analysis explores the use of participative leadership and identifies areas where authoritative leadership might have been more effective. It also examines the division of tasks, time management, and coordination within the team. The report concludes with reflections on the leadership style, challenges encountered, and potential improvements for future teamwork scenarios, including the suggestion of using authoritative leadership in specific situations for better organization and conflict resolution. The report references relevant academic sources to support the analysis.

Running head: MANAGING PEOPLE AND ORGANIZATION
Managing People and Organization
Name of the Student
Name of the Organization
Author note

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Table of Contents
Incident............................................................................................................................................1
Critical Analysis..............................................................................................................................1
Problems in Management and Required Actions............................................................................2
References........................................................................................................................................3

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Incident
I took part in a group presentation in my university in women empowerment. There were
five members in the group where I behaved as a group leader. Being the group leader I was
deemed with various responsibilities of planning, organizing, leadership and controlling the
presentation in the group. The presentation was on the topic of empowering women in today’s
world. It was a half an hour presentation in which every member has to present itself in front of
the panel. Thus it was difficult to keep every member and the part of their work in every place.
Every member in the group was enthusiastic about the presentation and actively took part to
complete the presentation in time. Being a leader I also guided them in all possible way to make
the presentation a success and was able to create as much as coordination as possible. However, I
did face challenges in some places which were crucial for a team presentation.
Critical Analysis
While carrying out the group presentation in the team my leadership came under various
steps such as planning, organizing, leadership and controlling (Beverborg, Sleegers and van
Veen 2015). It was y duty to carry out each of these steps successfully in order to get the
maximum result out the team effort.
The first group management function was planning. This was the initial stage of carrying
out the group presentation by putting together all the members. Planning is the most crucial step
in any group assignment as a good planning will always be crucial to the success of a team work.
While planning I took regular meetings with the members in which we discussed about the
structure and main points to be researched for the project. In the planning function I carried out

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participative leadership. This is because Participative Leadership allows each member of the
group to keep their ideas and come up with a unique solution.
After the planning the second step was organizing in which I allotted each member of the
groups. The data that was collected either from secondary research or primary research was kept
in one place to accumulate in one place. However, there were some areas which created some
issues such as interpreting the data correctly, late submission by some of the members and
others.
Third step was leadership in which I also used participative leadership and included all
members in the decision making process of who will get which part depending on their ability
and comfort (Ghaffari et al. 2017). Even though I tried to participate and include all members in
the decisions still some issues came up such as lack of compatibility between suggestions.
Lastly, while controlling in control every confusion the members had and in allotting
works to the participants. Every member was given their own part in which they will speak in the
presentation. I made the members practice their part in order to control the time limit.
Problems in Management and Required Actions
I realized from my past team work and leadership initiatives that I faced challenged in
leadership. According to me I would have better dealt with the confusions and differences of
opinion that was created if I would have followed Authoritative Leadership (Barth-Farkas and
Vera 2014). in some areas like organizing it would have been better if I organized everything by
myself without distributing organizing works to different members.

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References
Barth-Farkas, F. and Vera, A., 2014. Power and transformational leadership in public
organizations. International Journal of Leadership in Public Services, 10(4), pp.217-232.
Beverborg, A.O.G., Sleegers, P.J. and van Veen, K., 2015. Fostering teacher learning in VET
colleges: Do leadership and teamwork matter?. Teaching and teacher education, 48, pp.22-33.
Ghaffari, S., Shah, I.M., Burgoyne, J., Nazri, M. and Aziz, J.S.S., 2017. The Influence of
Respect for Employees on the Relationship between Participative Leadership and Job
Satisfaction: A Case Study at Universiti Teknologi Malays. Australian Journal of Basic and
Applied Sciences, 11(4), pp.17-28.