Leadership Goals: Overcoming Barriers in a Global Context

This report delves into the challenges of achieving leadership goals in a global business environment. It identifies key barriers such as communication issues, cultural conflicts, and the need for adaptable leadership styles. The report emphasizes the importance of understanding and managing diverse workforces, fostering trust, and building relationships. It highlights the need for leaders to be aware of their own biases and to create shared goals that respect differences. The report also stresses the importance of understanding external environmental forces and adapting leadership strategies accordingly, referencing the work of Anderson (2010) and Wong (2007) to support its arguments and provide insights into practical solutions.

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Response to Question: Barriers in accomplishing leadership goals in global business
environment
Leadership styles based on diversity: In today’s global business environment, leaders
can face a major challenge of designing the leadership style based on the diverse
culture of global business scenario.
Ineffective flow of communication: Global business environment depicts the
existence of wider reach and diverse culture, which leads to the gap in communication
flow for executing specific leadership style (Wong, 2007).
Behavioral barriers: The barriers in regards with the accomplishment of leadership
goals can be experienced in establishing uniform organizational engagement and
behavior throughout the global presence. The barriers can be identified in the sense of
urgency, lower level of interpretation capability and lower rate of accountability and
trust for a common leadership style through the global business environment.
Cultural conflicts: Accepting the standardized norms from a leader in global business
environment.
Response to Question: Counteract for eliminating barriers for accomplishing leadership
goals
Handling the cultural conflicts: Continual activities of collaborating people from
different background and cultural beliefs and establishing flexibility in leadership
style for incorporating the sense of inclusion and acceptability for the purpose of
building trust and accountability.
Awareness of own behavior, strengths and weaknesses: Global leaders should be
involved in developing a self-assessment record for understanding the personal beliefs
and for the identification of weakness like stereotyping nature, ineffective
communication style for diverse workforce and an authoritarian.

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Constructing shared work and shared goals: Global leaders can be successful in
accomplishing individual leadership goals by identifying a common base for
establishing standards and norms. The establishment of goals should be focused on
the process of honoring differences (Wong, 2007).
Relationship management: Developing the skill of designing relationship management
in the diverse workforce (Anderson, 2010).
Recognizing and managing external environmental forces: The understanding
regarding external environmental forces for each country of existence is very crucial
for a global leader for understanding the ways of engaging workforce.

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References:
Anderson, B. (2010). Project leadership and the art of managing relationships. American
Society for Training and Development, 64(3), 58-63.
Wong, Z. (2007). Human Factors and Team Dynamics in Project Management, in Human
Factors in Project Management: Concepts, Tools, and Techniques for Inspiring Teamwork
and Motivation (pp. 17-26).