Leadership Competencies Analysis: Self-Assessment and Development Plan

This assignment is a self-assessment of leadership competencies, identifying the student's strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats within a leadership context. The student highlights innovation and adaptability as key strengths, citing examples such as innovative project development. The analysis reveals challenges in team leadership, visioning, and strategic thinking, attributing these to time management issues and emotional decision-making. The opportunity for growth lies in relationships and collaboration with experienced individuals, while the threat is identified as a potential lack of service and quality orientation due to rushed decision-making. The assignment utilizes the competency theory to provide a framework for understanding and developing future leadership skills. References to relevant academic sources support the analysis.

Running head: LEADERSHIP
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Leadership competency means the leadership behaviour or skills that help in superior
performance. By using the Competency theory, an organisation can identify and train their future
generation leaders (Lacasse, 2013).
The Leadership competencies that are currently strength for me are:
 Innovation Adaptability and change
In today’s competitive world, innovation is very important. Innovation means a new work
method or new innovative strategies to make life simple (Nielsen, 2015). Innovation is one of
my key strength. I have made many innovative projects that gained a lot of appreciation. One of
my projects include wheelchair that can be convertible into crutches. Adaptability & change is
necessary and it is one of my strengths. I can adapt to the change very quickly. I can respond
quickly to a situation and I can make quick decisions that will help the organisation in meetings
where quick decision-making ability is highly required.
The leadership competencies, which are currently challenges for me, are:
 Team leadership Visioning and Strategic thinking
Leadership is an important aspect of an organisation and everything is dependent on the
leader of an organization. Decision-making, planning and directing is the important role-played
by the leaders and only an experienced person can perform this tasks with accuracy. Most of the
time I cannot meet deadlines as my time management is not good and it will affect heavily in the
organisation, as meeting deadline is one of the top priority of any organisation(Wiek, 2015). I

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take quick decisions but most of the time I get carried away by emotions and make wrong
decision that is a big factor which will affect the organisation. Visioning and strategic thinking is
another weakness for me, as I cannot execute a plan properly. I am poor at prioritizing. I cannot
prioritize a work, which is necessary for a leader. A leader needs to prioritize his work properly
so the company can meet the deadline. With a proper guidance or work experience this
weaknesses can also become my strength.
The leadership competency that can be my current opportunity is:
 Relationships and collaboration
As I have no work experience a relationship or collaboration with experienced employees
will help in gaining experience. A project or assignment with some experienced person will help
me to grow my ability. It will help in developing the leadership quality and learn how an
organisation works. It will help in understanding the framework of an organisation and will
improve my time management.
The leadership competency that is currently a threat for me is:
 Service and quality orientation
People now a day are looking for quality services. Organisations are looking for someone
who can provide quality orientation (Boehm & Thomas, 2013). I have a problem in providing
quality orientation as I make rash decisions, which severely affects the all-round quality and
service provided by me. As discussed earlier my time management is very poor so to meet the
deadline I have to work quickly in the end, which also affects the quality.

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References:
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Nielsen, J. A. (2015). Assessment of innovation competency: A thematic analysis of upper
secondary school teachers’ talk. The Journal of Educational Research, 108(4), 318-330.
Wiek, A., Bernstein, M., Foley, R., Cohen, M., Forrest, N., Kuzdas, C., ... & Withycombe
Keeler, L. (2015). Operationalising competencies in higher education for sustainable
development. Handbook of higher education for sustainable development. Routledge,
241-260.