Final Reflection: Leadership and Team Management - Course Reflection

This final reflection examines the student's learning journey in managing and leading project teams. The essay defines leadership, referencing Northouse (2015) and highlighting its role in influencing goal achievement. It explores leadership theories, including transformational and autocratic styles, and emphasizes the importance of organizational culture, communication, and established rules and routines. The student learned about the significance of leadership skills and managerial skills in organizations and the need for project managers to adopt relevant leadership styles. The reflection also discusses the application of the leadership profile tool. The student recommends that project managers analyze their virtual environment, address potential problems, and adapt their leadership approach. The essay concludes with a call for more practical application in the course, such as real-life scenarios. References include Frost (2018), Keegan and Den Hartog (2004), Kissi, Dainty, and Tuuli (2013), Northouse (2015), and Tuan (2010).

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Student’s Name
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The managing and leading project teams have been a significant learning expertise and
proficiency for me. The team has equipped me with an opportunity or chance of increasing my
awareness in the leadership arena. I have precisely become conversant with the meaning of
leadership through the team. For example, Northouse (2015), defines leadership as a unique
approach to influencing other persons to realize or achieve a given goal. As such, I have known
that leadership does not necessarily encompass specific characteristics or innate traits or inborn
characteristic found in individuals. Additionally, I learned that an organization must be bolstered
or strengthened my leadership skills and better managerial skills for the accomplishment of its
outlined goals. I learned that the management levels in any organization must include project
managers. Organizational project managers are compelled in opting for appropriate and relevant
leadership skills and designs in regards to the business setting, goals, and culture.
In the same token, I learned numerous leadership theories and styles, such autocracy and
transformational, which outline the characteristics of leadership as well as leadership
development skills. I noticed that the leadership theories and styles have helped in developing
leadership skills and have been the reason for leadership for many centuries. Apart from
organizational culture, I also learned that the system which encompasses essential norms, beliefs,
and values is also established within an organizational leadership (Tuan, 2010). It is important to
note that the behavior of the staff or employees aids in providing a psychological feature map
which would help in highlighting organizational context and setting as well as the choice of
mechanisms for the employees to execute or perform work or actions. Additionally, I learned
that there are rules and routines in leadership or an organization. The rules and routines play a
critical role in establishing organizational norms and behaviors especially at work (Frost, 2018).

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In this regards, organizational customs, rituals, norms, as well as the underlying assumptions, are
significant. Subsequently, I learned that communication also plays a significant role in
organizational leadership. A leader should be someone who is able to communicate effectively to
help the organization accomplish its intended goals. A leader must also be able to mutually
convince the employees and be good decision-maker.
I recommend that the project managers ought to be prestigiously productive in leading as
well management. The leading and managing teams should first analyze their virtual
environment and groups who would support their leadership approaches. They should also
characterize some of the essential issues and problems which might occur in their leadership.
And finally, they should adjust appropriately in order to associate or relate to the acceptable
leadership fashion or vogue.
On the other hand, according to Keegan and Den Hartog (2004), the leadership design
within the transformational and overall behavior is principally an important singular component
which inspires novelty as well as better job performance in the organizations in the same vein,
Kissi, Dainty, and Tuuli (2013), advocate that project portfolio leaders should follow
transformational style; for boosted performance. As a result, I knew that transformational and
transactional leadership style to facilitate cooperation and collaboration within the leadership
vogue. Collaboration and co0peration would right away contribute to the project team's success
resulting in the leaders’ success.
Taking part in this course has enabled me to gain how the leadership profile tool to works
out the strength and weakness experienced in any institution. I have also learned how the
leadership profile tool produces the actions arranged for leadership developments as well as
incessant improvement.

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However, it is vital to note that the course failed to supply or provide specific sensible
and critical data. It also failed to offer better exposure in regards to the topic. As such, I would
like to add few things in the module, such as the importance of leadership, to help the students to
propose and analyze real-life scenarios and apply their skills to tackle the scenarios.

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References:
Frost, S. (2018) ‘Routines and culture in organisations’. Chron. [online] Available at:
<http://smallbusiness.chron.com/routines-culture-organizations-33878.html> [Accessed
on 14 April 2018].
Keegan, A.E., Den Hartog, D.H. (2004) 'Transformational leadership in a project-based
environment: a comparative study of the leadership styles of project managers and line
managers'. International Journal of Project Management 22, 609–617.
Kissi, J., Dainty, A. and Tuuli, M. (2013) 'Examining the role of transformational leadership of
portfolio managers in project performance'. International Journal of Project Management,
31(4), pp.485-497.
Northouse, P.G. (2015) Leadership: theory and practice. 7th ed. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.
Tuan, L.T. (2010) ‘Organisational culture, leadership and performance measurement
integratedness’. International Journal of Management and Enterprise Development, 9(3),
pp.251-275.

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