HRM Leadership Report: Leadership Development and Capabilities

This report delves into the multifaceted aspects of HRM leadership, beginning with a self-assessment of leadership qualities, including decisiveness, embracing change, being inspirational, empathetic, and controlling emotions. It then explores the practical implications of these results on leadership development, emphasizing the importance of traits, competencies, and skills in influencing followers. The report outlines specific developmental goals, such as active listening, improving body language, increasing sensitivity, and fostering empathy and trustworthiness. For each goal, a detailed action plan is provided, offering practical steps to enhance leadership capabilities. The report concludes by emphasizing the importance of these attributes and providing a comprehensive reference list to support its findings. The report aims to give a clear framework for leaders to analyze their strengths and weaknesses and create a plan for self-improvement.

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Table of Contents
Learning about Yourself as Leader..................................................................................................3
Practical Implications of the Results on the Leadership Development...........................................3
Specific and Development Goals and Action Plan that would Improve Leadership Capabilities of
Future...............................................................................................................................................4
References:......................................................................................................................................6

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Learning about Yourself as Leader
The learning about me as leader is as follows:
 Being Decisive: This is the reality if any leader since various people remains dependent
on my decision (Antonakis and Day 2017). If the decisions are not made promptly then it
will make the organization suffer.
 Embracing Change: I believe that as a leader it is my sole responsibility in driving the
change. This is necessary otherwise any kind of innovation will turn down an industry
over night. The bigger part remains in being proactive about the change before the
problem actually takes place.
 Being Inspirational: As a leader it is my utmost duty for projecting positivity and hope
while keeping the concerned organization focused through combating the negativity,
weakness and positivity.
 Being Empathetic: It is crucial for the leaders since they have to constantly deal with
communication and people management. Seeing things from the perspective of the others
will help me in coming up with a solution.
 Controlling Emotions: As a leader it is vital for me to manage the emotions mindfully as
it will have a huge impact on the judgment
Practical Implications of the Results on the Leadership Development
Leadership development expands capacity of the individuals in performing the leadership
roles within the organization (McCleskey 2014). Leadership roles represent those that facilitate
the execution of the company’s strategy through building of alignment, growing capabilities and
winning mindshare of others.

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A leader represents an individual who possess different attributes, traits and skills that
help him /her in controlling and influencing the followers (Komives and Wagner 2016). The
traits of the leadership include competencies. The general traits of the leader include various
traits such as reasoning, honesty, discipline, moral and integrity. The cognitive traits include
intelligence, problem solving, resourcefulness, decisiveness and creativity and technical abilities.
The traits related to social competency includes cooperativeness, sociability and nurturance,
interpersonal skills and social insight while the emotional attributes of competency include self-
esteem, emotional stability, self-confidence, optimism, self-efficacy and hardiness.
However, the results of the questionnaire shows that the leader has achieved highest
rating in the range of 4.4 to 5 in possessing traits of being determined, self assured, self
confident, outgoing, perceptive ,articulate, friendly, conscientious and diligent.
Specific and Development Goals and Action Plan that would Improve Leadership
Capabilities of Future
Developmental Goals will include (MacKie 2014):
1. Active listening
Action Plan involves:
I. By focusing closely on the speakers
II. By opening and guiding conversation
III. By drilling down the details
2. Improvement of Body Language

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Action Plan involves:
I. By being aware of the bodily movements
II. By observing others
III. By making eye contact
3. By being more sensitive:
Action Plan involves:
I. Paying more attention to the emotions on a day to day basis
II. Improving the non verbal communication and there becoming more sensitive to
others
III. Through exercising self regulation
4. Being more Empathetic and Trustworthy:
Action Plan involves:
I. Putting aside the own view point and trying in seeing things from the point of view of
others
II. Ensuring validation of the perspective of the other person
III. By examining the attitude

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References:
Antonakis, J. and Day, D.V. eds., 2017. The nature of leadership. Sage publications.
Komives, S.R. and Wagner, W. eds., 2016. Leadership for a better world: Understanding the
social change model of leadership development. John Wiley & Sons.
MacKie, D., 2014. The effectiveness of strength-based executive coaching in enhancing full
range leadership development: A controlled study. Consulting Psychology Journal: Practice and
Research, 66(2), p.118.
McCleskey, J.A., 2014. Situational, transformational, and transactional leadership and leadership
development. Journal of Business Studies Quarterly, 5(4), p.117.