Dynamic Leadership Report: Self-Assessment and Development Plan

This report presents a comprehensive analysis of a student's leadership journey, encompassing self-reflection, personality and leadership style assessments, and feedback from peers. The report explores the impact of national and organizational cultures on leadership perceptions, and it details the development and application of communication skills for relationship building and mentoring across diverse groups. The student identifies key events and experiences that have shaped their leadership development, analyzes strengths and weaknesses, and outlines strategies for improvement. The report also includes providing mentoring and feedback to a fellow student. The student reflects on the influence of their organizational culture and the importance of effective communication to overcome barriers. The student discusses how to enhance their communication skills to improve mentoring and relationship-building capabilities. The report concludes with a summary of how the student plans to apply leadership theories and models to interpret their reflections and feedback to enhance their professional development.

Running head: DYNAMIC LEADERSHIP
Dynamic Leadership
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author’s Note

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Table of Contents
1. Reflect on your own leadership journey to date and identify key events, people and
experiences that have contributed to your leadership development and self-perceptions...............2
2. Increase self-awareness by completing a personality or leadership styles assessment...............3
3. Obtain feedback from a fellow student on your leadership journey and current challenges.......4
4. Provide mentoring and feedback on leadership to a fellow student on his/her leadership
journey and challenges....................................................................................................................4
5. Identify the influences of national and organizational cultures on your perceptions of effective
leadership.........................................................................................................................................5
6. Develop and apply communication skills for relationship building and mentoring across
cultures, functions and disciplines...................................................................................................6
Reference List and bibliography:.....................................................................................................9

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1. Reflect on your own leadership journey to date and identify key events, people and
experiences that have contributed to your leadership development and self-perceptions
I am associated with a business organization in the post of assistant team leader in
logistic sector of The Iconic. After completing my masters in business administration in
marketing, I got the direct opportunity for becoming assistant team lead of The Iconic. At the
initial stage, I had to face innumerable difficulties in making an effective rapport with my team
members due to communication barrier, cultural barrier, psychological barrier and religious
barrier. While maintaining any kind of group discussion with my team members I failed to make
individual interaction due to the lack of language flexibility. However, after facing innumerable
difficulties for becoming an efficient business leader I have decided to raise the issue with my
assistant team lead regarding the workplace hazards I have faced at that time. My assistant
manager along my operation head left immense contribution for developing my skill and
competency level of leadership.
People belonging to different geographical markets and psychological backgrounds are
intimately associated within the service process. The role of an efficient business leader is to
show equal priority and response to the people of different geographical backgrounds and
attitudes (Dumdum, Lowe and Avolio 2013). I was not efficient enough to treat every single
members of my team with equal respect and dignity. However, both my assistant manager and
operation head decided to provide me a training and development session with the help of which
I was successful to improve my communication skill as well as professional skill. My assistant
managers helped me to understand on how to overcome sudden crisis happened at the workplace
due to the lack of team performance.

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2. Increase self-awareness by completing a personality or leadership styles assessment
As per the feedback collected from my assistant manager, I got to know that I have the
lack of effective communication skill, body language and personality. In this kind of situation, I
have faced innumerable difficulties in leading a team properly and motivating the team members
towards the providing good services. However, as per the instruction of my senior managers I
gave numerous assessments on my leadership style as well as on my personality evaluation for
analyzing my drawbacks. After giving an online assessment on leadership style, I have identified
my mistakes and weak points. I need to make a change for career progression and performance
development. After evaluating the marks of personality and leadership styles assessment I got to
know that I as a leader cannot take appropriate decision within stipulated time. This particular
nature of mine affects the performance level of employees immensely.
In addition, being a person of introvert I do not have the capability to make an effective
interpersonal communication with the employees who face challenges in performing well at the
workplace. Employees are from various cultural backgrounds and attitudes. Therefore, their
culture and religious aspects became a major hindrance in making an effective interaction (Bhatti
et al. 2012). However, the leadership assessment has indicated that I am not very much flexible
to overcome the sudden crisis happened at the workplace due to the lack of confidence. As a
result, I used to show a rude approach to my team members at the time of crisis. Consequently, I
was facing challenges in maintaining an effective rapport with my team members. This is one of
the most effective reasons of providing poor performance on behalf of the employees. However,
after identifying my mistakes I have decided to rectify those drawbacks by receiving trainings
and suggestion from my senior managers.

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3. Obtain feedback from a fellow student on your leadership journey and current
challenges
I have obtained effective feedback from my fellow student about the style of my
leadership. The response collected from the fellow indicates that I as a leader is amalgamated
with both good qualities as well as bad qualities. The good qualities within me include patience
level, nice mode of temperament, willingness to overcome my drawback, quick learning
capability, active listening skill and so many (Ramchunder and Martins 2014). As per the
opinion of this specific fellow, I do not feel hesitated in rectifying my mistake even from the
junior member. At the same time, I have the willingness to learn new strategies and policies from
my senior in order to enhance my professional skill and competency. At the same time, the
student has provided innumerable negative feedback on me as well. Due to these negative
competencies, I have to face innumerable challenges for leading a particular team properly.
According to that specific individual, I do not have flexible body language in maintaining an
effective interaction with my team members. As a result, team members do not feel comfortable
to share their problems with me at the workplace. This kind of barrier has left major negative
impact in providing effective services for reaching the business goal. On the other hand, the
fellow has mentioned that I should give my team members motivational speech so that
employees like to show their courageous attitude for performing well towards the services.
4. Provide mentoring and feedback on leadership to a fellow student on his/her leadership
journey and challenges
After getting an in-depth learning process about the quality of an efficient leader, I would
like to provide effective feedback on the leadership quality of my fellow student. I have observed
that this particular individual is possessed with good communication skill with the help of which

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this individual can make an effective interaction with every individual team members in order to
know their challenges facing at the workplace. However, this very specific study has focused to
make an in-depth overview about the importance of becoming an efficient leader in order to run
a team towards reaching the peak of success. I have also observed that this particular student
fellow by utilizing the extrovert nature can provide constant motivation to the employees. As a
result, people belonging to different geographical backgrounds can show their courageous
attitudes for performing well towards the service process. It is undeniable at the same time that
this specific person as a team leader is possessed with some of the major drawbacks as well
(Onorato 2013).
The student fellow due to the impatient nature tends to lose the temperament frequently.
As a result, the individual intends to scold up the team members due to the lack of effective
performance (Shafie, Baghersalimi and Barghi 2013). In this kind of situation, the employees
feel extreme level of de-motivation for performing well at the workplace. The business
organization has to face innumerable difficulties in increasing their revenue growth due to the
lack of effective employee performance. I have also observed that this student fellow faces
challenges in providing equal response and dignity to the students of different geographical
markets as well as religious backgrounds. Therefore, a biasness approach is created among the
team members as well. This particular factor becomes a matter of challenges for becoming an
efficient leader for a particular business organization.

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5. Identify the influences of national and organizational cultures on your perceptions of
effective leadership
Organizational culture is possessed with the values, beliefs and ethics that a particular
company tends to maintain for running their entire process of business successfully. It is
undeniable that organizational culture is possessed with major negative impact on the overall
progress and effectiveness of leadership style (Ruggieri and Abbate 2013). I have observed that
maintaining diversity at the workplace of The Iconic is one of the most effective cultures that the
business experts focus to follow at their workplace. While maintaining the e-commerce business
process organizational managers intend to provide equal priority and response to the people of
different geographical boundaries and attitudes. The human resource managers are concerned
about the skill and competency of an individual rather than focusing on the cultural and religious
backgrounds (Sahaya 2012). However, after being appointed in the post of business leader I have
intended to follow the same trend of my organizational culture. I as a business leader have
decided to be unbiased towards the team members. An individual team member cannot become
my major priority. Therefore, I should maintain a flexible rapport with the every team member of
my team equally. In addition, as per the cultural ethics of my organization an individual
employee facing challenges at the workplace should be interacted effectively so that this specific
individual do not get de-motivated in performing well towards the services (Lutz Allen, Smith
and Da Silva 2013). Following the same trend, I as an assistant team lead of my organization
intend to make interpersonal communication with my team members at the end of every week.
This particular face-to-face interaction helps me immensely in improving my leadership quality.
Therefore, based on the organizational culture and ethics I have reformed my leadership style
and strategies as well.

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6. Develop and apply communication skills for relationship building and mentoring across
cultures, functions and disciplines
As already stated I have linguistic barrier due to which employees of different
geographical backgrounds and culture cannot make an effective communication with me. As a
business leader, I should enhance my skill and competency in communication skill so that my
team members do not face any kind of difficulties in interacting with me. However, the ways I
can develop my communication skill for relationship building and mentoring across cultures,
functions and disciplines include as follows:
 Receiving a training and development session:
The senior manager can arrange an effective training and development session for me in
order to render multilingual flexibility. As a result, people belonging to various cultural and
religious backgrounds would be able to make an effective interaction with me. I would be able to
understand their personal issues faced at the workplace. However, an effective communication
skill would help me in maintaining an effective rapport with my team members.
 Conducting group communication and sharing views and thoughts regarding the
business goal:
Conducting group communication and sharing views and thoughts regarding the business
goal can help me immensely in enhancing my communication skill for becoming an efficient
leader (Ojokuku, Odetayo and Sajuyigbe 2012). In a particular group communication, all the
team members of my team would like to attend undoubtedly. Therefore, I would be able to get a
scope in making an effective interaction with every individual team member. Therefore, I would

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not get the scope to keep silent. Whenever I will start in exchanging views and ideas
automatically, the communication skill would be increased.
 Enhancing the listening skill of different news channels
In order to become a good communicator I as a business leader would have to be a good
listener first. Therefore, I need to enhance my listening skill as well so that I can listen the
difficulties of employees faced at the workplace. After identifying the problems faced by the
employees, I as an efficient leader would be able to provide effective solution for resolving the
problems.
7. Apply knowledge from the theories and models of effective leadership to interpret and
understand your reflections and feedback
In order to become an efficient leader I have followed effective theories and conceptual
framework at the workplace so that employees get motivation in providing effective services
towards reaching the business goal. According to me, situational theory and trait theory both
are very much significant in giving a constant motivation to the existing employees. Trait
theory believes that every team members while service for the organization is possessed with
different cultural and behavioral traits (Herrmann and Felfe 2014). Therefore, as a team leader I
should not judge the competency level of an individual based on their specific traits and features.
However, I have observed that employees can be motivated in achieving the business goal based
on their individual traits and features. At the same time, situational theory implies that leader as
per different situation coming at the workplace should have the capability of changing business
strategies and policies. Based on the organizational performance or crisis the business leaders
have to change their leadership style. As a result, the leaders can handle different situation in

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their own way (Antonakis and House 2013). By maintaining an effective rapport with the
employees, the leaders can use transformational leadership style for going with the rhythmic
flow of business.

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