Self-Evaluation Report: Enhancing Leadership and Group Dynamics

This report presents a self-evaluation of a student's progress in developing leadership and group dynamics skills. It explores various leadership styles such as autocratic, democratic, coaching, and strategic leadership, analyzing their advantages and disadvantages in organizational contexts. The report also examines the impact of the student's personality and leadership style on group members and the group as a whole. It identifies strategies for self-motivation and methods for resolving team problems and conflicts. Furthermore, the report demonstrates a working knowledge of group dynamics by evaluating and analyzing a current group experience, assessing the student's role within the group, and reflecting on the stages of group formation. The student also discusses the implementation of SMART goals and the development of relevant qualities and attributes to achieve these goals, specifically focusing on expertise in the finance department. The report emphasizes the importance of motivation and leadership in building and enhancing groups, as well as the ability to adapt to changes and motivate others.

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Contents
Introduction...........................................................................................................................................2
Identify and use appropriate intervention to enhance group process......................................................2
Advantages and disadvantages of leadership in regard to use in organisation.......................................3
Impact of their own personality and leadership style on other group members and on the group as
whole.....................................................................................................................................................5
Identify way to motivate themselves.....................................................................................................5
Resolving the team problems and conflicts...........................................................................................6
Examples of working knowledge of group dynamic by evaluating and analysing the current group
experience and by assessing their part in that group..............................................................................6
Conclusion.............................................................................................................................................7
References.............................................................................................................................................8

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Introduction
The report brings out the discussion on self-evaluation and self-reflection of the progress to
improve the group processes. To influence one`s personality, a person should be efficient in
analysing the current scenario and solve problems and manage the conflicts. The self-learning
developing plan is a process that includes gaining the knowledge of group dynamics, analyse
the current group and affect the own personality through different leadership styles (Samhsa,
2018). The report will discuss the personal strengthens that elaborates and relates to
accomplish and implement SMART goals. The report is based on specific areas to focus on
and develop the relevant qualities and attributes to achieve the goal. It gives a sense of
satisfaction when the primary goal is achieved. My personal goal is to get an expertise level
in finance department in the organisation. Therefore, I undertook personal training and
development sessions that is used to develop the group processes. Motivation is an another
important factor that affects one`s behaviour towards working hard to become a leader
(Samhsa, 2018). The report focuses on different leadership styles and specifies that how
different leadership styles works in specific business environment. Motivation and leadership
plays an important role in building and enhancing groups. Motivation is a goal-oriented
activity, which helps a person to achieve the organisational goals. As a leader, one should
keep his or her perspective open for knowing what the needs of the subordinates are. This
will certainty make the decision process easier.
Identify and use appropriate intervention to enhance group process.
Group process is defined as when members of organisation work together to work efficiently.
Organisation spend a considerable time and energy that leads to a procedure. When I look
myself as a trainee, I am a part of the team who is a learnant. The team formation procedure
leads to formation, storming, norming, performance, and postponing. While learning the

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techniques and concepts that are necessary to process the groups. At an initial stage, I
consistently manage to learn from the cost manager of the organisation (Iqbal, Anwar, and
Haider, 2015).
During training, it was not easy for me especially when it was related to work load because it
was the time to garnish myself. I learnt to interact with the people who keep managing the
cost department and cost allocation system at the same time. Slowly and gradually, I strived
to turn crisis into several opportunities and gained a good sum of practical knowledge. By the
time, I managed my mindset regarding conflicts and turned them into positive energy. I learnt
to interact with other department and group members who at time were disruptive. I try to
inculcate the attributes of interpersonal process that can give a chance of group leader. It will
give a chance to explore the life-affirming attitude that provide an opportunity to
communicate to other group leaders. After achieving the power of leader, he chooses a
leadership style to decide how would I exercise the particular style of leadership and structure
the group. An organisation recognises its efficient leader that enable and conduct regular
motivation sessions for its employees (Bens, 2017).
While looking at my strengthens such as passionate of working hard to learn new things
through the experts of cost department just live me to remain lively complied with monitoring
the process and avoid the wastage of resources. Effective group leader has the ability go
through both certainty and uncertainty. A leader build a model to consistent the processing
rather than dropping them down that can come from knowledge and clarity of vision. The
different styles of leadership, which the culture of the organisation offers can be autocratic
leadership, democratic leadership, coaching leadership style, or a strategic leadership style
(Abeysekera, L., & Dawson, 2015).

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Advantages and disadvantages of leadership in regard to use in organisation.
While implementing a particular leadership style in the organisation, I should undertake or
remember that the leadership style should benefit the organisation and should lead to
achievements of objectives. Surpassing autocratic leadership in the operation will empower
me. I will have all the power and autonomy to make decisions without consulting with the
subordinates. Applying autocratic leadership will undoubtedly benefit the organisation to
firstly execute and follow the leader`s decision (Biosca, Criscuolo, & Menon, 2016). The
speed of executing the action will be more when as compared to other leadership styles
(Fairhurst, & Connaughton, 2014). The disadvantage of using autocratic style can be
dominating the decision and stopping the inflow of innovation from subordinates. Democratic
leadership is more based on participation of subordinates especially when the members are
extremely highly skilled. The communication style in this leadership is both upward and
downward. If I follow democratic leadership in organisation’s operations, the advantages of
participating enables the leader to get creative, competent, and intelligent advices from
subordinates. On the same side, democratic leadership delays the execution of action because
it takes huge time to discuss and ponder over different advices from each subordinates
(Igbaekemen, and Odivwri, 2015).
More other leadership style follows and considers where leaders are more like teachers or
coaches that involve coaching and supervising team members. The advantage of this
leadership is where leader guides its subordinates properly that can reduce the wastage of
resources. On the other side, this will only focus on improving and teaching each subordinate
ignoring the achieving perspective of organisation. Although, it will groom, motivate, and
boost employees to increase the performance skills of the team members (Mindtools, 2018).
Strategic leadership shows an ability to influence the team members who make voluntarily
decisions, which can enhance the prospects to achieve long-term sustainability of the

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business. The advantage of this leadership is that it uses well-trained and well-educated
subordinates to deal with the unforeseen uncertainty. Another advantage of using strategic
leaders is that it creates and come up with more ne and efficient leaders who help the
organisations to deal with uncertainty. The con is such leadership is that it will create huge
and unnecessary competition among new and emerging leaders. This can lead to unnecessary
politics, which can spoil the plan of achieving objectives. It would also encourage blame
game among the emerged clever leaders (Igbaekemen, and Odivwri, 2015).
Impact of their own personality and leadership style on other group members and on the
group as whole.
The effect of leadership style can influence the behaviour of the subordinates and the whole
group. This impact reflects on how employees successfully execute organisation actions. A
followed leadership style from the organisational behaviour and it affects the productivity of
the organisation by influencing employee performance. When analysed, autocratic leadership
can benefit in short term especially when there is an emergency and organisation need fast
decision to deal with threat. Democratic leadership is more useful in long term and will have
positive impact on the development and growth of the employee (Schwantes, 2018).
Identify way to motivate themselves
Start with scheduling the more task in one time. Motivate the employees to remain on right
track by making consistent and clear goals where expectation from workers is achieved
through operational reality. One on one conversation is a good motivational tool that strive to
strengthen the relationship with people by spending more time with them to have suggestions,
problems, issues, ideas that talk about the performance issues and its work (Dontigney,
2018). Focus on activities, which can motivate employees. Divert their energies by promoting
either monetary or non-monetary incentive system in the organisation and inspire them to

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achieve interests, aspiration, and goals. A great leader always keep considering the
organisational goal while considering career aspiration in order to motivate them in an
efficient manner. A leader looks for several benefits from the organisation to create learning
and development opportunities for employees. Praising and complimenting the people due to
their god work and their attributes. The high engagement level use praise and recognition as
an efficient motivator to get commitment (Nanton, & dicks, 2018).
Resolving the team problems and conflicts
Maintaining the work balances between the well-excelled team skills and ability to resolve
the conflicts among the employees so that it would not hamper the operations of the business.
To understand the common strategies to manage the conflict can be how small business
entrepreneurs had better deal with the management conflicts. Accommodating strategy entails
to give opposing side what the workplace environment wants. A leader can follow a
procedure to resolve the conflict and problem. The avoiding strategy can put off the conflicts
either delaying or ignoring with patience (Nanton, and Dicks, 2018).
Avoiding the hope which problem sometimes resolves it without a confrontation. Many
people who avoid conflicts very frequently to have low esteem and hold position.
Collaborating the work by integrating the ideas set out by various people by committing
significant time not to all the conflicts but time to all those conflicts that seems important. A
leader may use prototype and create a plan that every business need to change to survive
(Nandedkar, & Anand, 2018). A leader has to understand the final goal and it is important to
critically understand the final objectives before taking any initiative. After understanding the
goals and objectives, a leader needs to communicate clearly, delegate tasks, set realistic
goals, manage the organisational expectation, and identify the key players. For example-
when the leader follows informal group system of leading the group, the conflicts become

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frequent but a leader discusses and develop a sense of understanding among the subordinates
and is able to resolve the problem (Mindtools, 2018).
Examples of working knowledge of group dynamic by evaluating and analysing the current
group experience and by assessing their part in that group
Group dynamics depends on how group develop and form. There are many theories as there
is always a reason of why the group was formed and it is based on interactions, sentiments,
and activities. When individual share common objective, they accompany each other to
achieve the common goal. This group formation has several stages such as forming, storing,
norming, performing, and adjourning (Bolman, & Deal, 2017). At the stage of forming when
applied to my group activities, I was passionate of form a team who tries to reduce the cost of
operating the activities. During the forming, I need team members who have strong
knowledge base of costing. For example- a high level of expertise in costing is likely to have
an encouragement towards new ideas and options. Everyone in the team can have positive
experience for team members both on the same side level of disagreement and conflicts.
During the phase of storming, members might challenge goals and fight for power
(Dontigney, 2018).
Conclusion
From the above discussion of choosing the appropriate leadership style, it is important to
consider that every style has its own advantages, benefits, and disadvantages. While
considering the conflicts and business changes strategy, a leader has to prepare its employees
and subordinates to adopt changes according to the surrounding. A leader has to handle and
tackle the changes as it get to inculcate motivation in them to adopt the changes and lead to
success in business. Undoubtedly, an authorised position and recognition of leader help a
person to develop integrity, enhance decision-making abilities, accountability, and inspires

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others. A leader is able to develop several attributes in oneself such as practical experiences
and develop an analytical mind by regularly learning about the operational process. It
develops a discerning listener to take on more projects, learn how to make effective decisions
and motivate the leaders. It is important to know how the existing performance of employees
is influenced such as participative leadership has positive reaction on the part of employees
because it provided them a way to develop an analytical and practical thinking towards
innovation. Group dynamics play an important role in forming and identifying the needs of
the team. The team is generally formed as per the common traits. Appreciation and rewards
are the main actions that person have a vision to achieve. The procedure includes storming
and finding people that have a common goal.

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