Enhancing Leadership and Management Skills: A Reflective Analysis

This essay critically assesses the author's existing leadership and management capabilities through various academic and theoretical models to identify strengths and weaknesses. It explores leadership capabilities such as communication, motivation, creativity, and responsibility, alongside management capabilities like organizing, planning, problem-solving, and delegation. The essay proposes developmental activities, including objective setting, understanding feedback, teamwork, and setting values, to address weaknesses and enhance strengths. An e-portfolio outlines personal development activities with resources, timelines, and expected impacts on skills like delegation, organizing, responsibility, and motivation, ultimately aiming for personal and professional growth.

Developing
Leadership and
Management Skills

INTRODUCTION
Leadership refers to the ability of an individual or a group that provide them assistance to
influence as well as guide followers or members of an organization. The leader has specific
characteristics such as self-confidence, strong communication along with management skills.
These skills allow them to be effective in managing an organization in an effective manner. The
following reflection will consist of me critically assessing my existing leadership and
management capabilities through a range of academic and theoretical models in order to identify
my leadership strengths and weaknesses. In addition to this, it will consist of developing
activities address my specific weaknesses and extend along with enhance my existing strengths.
MAINBODY
Addressing existing leadership and management capabilities through a range of theoretical
models.
There are various leadership capabilities that are essential for a leader to possess. These
capabilities allow the leaders to effectively guide individuals and have optimal management
capabilities as well (Yu., 2017)
. Given below are my leadership strengths as well as weakness along with management
capabilities:
Leadership capabilities:
Communication:
I have great communication skills that allow me to be effective in sharing my opinions as
well as the ability to understand the perspective of other people. This allows me to be better in
directing as well as guiding individuals.
Motivation:
I lack in my motivation leadership skills as I am not able to understand what motivates
individuals to performance specific task. This skill is necessary for me to attain as it will allow
me to improve the performance and productivity of others.

Creativity:
I have optimal creativity skills that allow me to be effective in developing solutions to
issues that individuals may encounter. In addition to the leadership skill of creativity allow me to
be effective in developing strategies that are effective in improving the performance of others.
Responsibility:
The leadership skills of responsibility are weak relative to me as I can encounter issues in
taking on important responsibilities. This negatively impacts my overall performance and
management abilities which are detrimental for my leadership role (Anthony., 2017).
Management capabilities:
Organizing:
I lack effective organizing skills that have a negative impact on how I can organize
various aspects. This has a negative impact on my overall productivity as well as performance
along with reducing my ability to manage.
Planning:
I have optimal planning skills that allow me to develop system structures relative to
management. The planning management skills allow me to be proactive and plan for situations
that can have negative impact.
Problem solving:
I have effective problem solving skills which are combined with my leadership skill of
creativity. This enables me to overcome complex issues in an effective manner. In addition to
this it helps me to develop optimal strategies within the management (Farrell., 2018).
Delegation:
I am not able to effectively delegation duties and role in an optimal manner. This result in
dysfunctional and results in reducing performance as I am not aware of what duties are suitable
for specific individuals.

Developing and planning range of leadership and management developmental activities.
There are various leadership and management activities that I can utilize in order to
develop specific skills and enhance my strengths and eliminate weakness. Given below are
various plans of leadership and management that will help in my development:
Objective setting:
This plan of setting specific objectives will allow me to effective enhance my leadership
as I can enhance my organizing skills effective through development of short term objectives.
Setting of objectives will allow me to effectively organize things in an optimal manner
improving my productivity.
Understand importance of feedback:
I need to focuses on understanding and taking effective feedback form individuals which
will allow me to delegate duties in an optimal way. In addition to this feedback will enable me to
effectively determine what duties are suitable for specific individuals (Chatziantoniou,
Politopoulos and Stylianidis., 2017).
Team work:
The activity of team work will allow me to understand the leadership skills of
responsibility in an effective manner. Through teamwork I can develop and strengthen my skills
of responsibility which will result in improving my overall perforce and provide aid to my other
skills.
Setting values:
The activity of setting value will allow me to enhance my motivation skills. Through
setting of effective values I can understand what motivates individuals in an optimal manner.
This will enable me to provide individuals with high level of motivation as well as satisfaction to
improve their productivity (Peck., 2018).

Constructing an E-portfolio of personal development activities.
The development of e-portfolio is effective in overcoming my weakness and provide
assistance in setting objectives along with a specific time frame to improve my abilities. Given
below is my e-portfolio for personal development:
Development
objective
Resource to develop
skills
Impact of
development of skill
Time frame to
acquire skill
Delegation skill Attaining valuable
feedback from
individuals in order to
better understand their
perspective.
This will allow me to
effective delegate
duties to individuals
and improve their
performance.
It will require 3
months to acquire this
skill by effectively
taking feedback from
various individuals.
Organizing skill In order to develop
my organizing skills I
will have to focus on
setting short term
objective.
The short term
objective will allow
me to gradually
enhance the skill of
organizing resulting in
improved
performance.
In order to acquire
this skills it will
require me 1 month of
setting short term
objectives.
Responsibility skill I need to focus on
team building
activities in order to
develop my
responsibility skills.
The improvement in
this skill will allow
me to effectively take
upon responsibility
and guide them
efficiently.
This skill will require
5 months to develop
effectively in order to
learn how to handle
responsibility in an
optimal manner.

Motivation skill In order to develop
my motivation skills I
need to attend
seminars that will
provide me vital
information on how to
motivate others.
The enhancement of
this skill will assist
me on how I can
motivate individuals
and direct them
towards high
productivity.
This skill will require
me 2 month in order
to attend seminars and
learn how to motivate
individuals.
CONCLUSION
From the above reflection it can be concluded that, leadership is an ability that is crucial
for me in order to be effective in managing. There are various skills that I have and provide me
assistance in being effective leaders. Although there are skills that I need to develop through
optimal strategies as well as personal development activities. Through development activities I
can enhance my strengths as well as eliminate my weaknesses which will help me enhancing my
overall performance as well as prod relative to my management skills. In addition to this,
development of these skills provide high level of personal and profession development which is
necessary to attain growth
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