Leadership and Management Skills Development: A Personal Report

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of leadership and management skills, emphasizing their importance for personal and professional growth. The report details the author's development of these skills, including improved communication, teamwork, and conflict resolution abilities. It highlights the application of these skills in a project setting, addressing challenges like team conflicts and using the Gibbs reflective model for structured self-assessment. The report covers various aspects, such as discipline, decision-making, and the effective use of individual strengths within a team. It concludes by summarizing the lifelong benefits of leadership and management skills, which are applicable in diverse organizational settings. The report references several academic sources, including journal articles and books, to support its findings and provide a scholarly context for the discussion. The insights gained from this report are invaluable for students seeking to improve their leadership and management capabilities.

Developing Leadership and Management
Skills

INTRODUCTION
Leadership and management skills are the important assets for an individual . As it helps
the each and every person in solving and leading team whenever the opportunity comes . The
organisation looks for those person who posses the communication , leadership , strategic
thinking as these skills assists the individual to grow as well as the organisation is also profited
by it (Della Corte., 2019) . The word leadership development can be explained as the ability where
it encompasses the qualities and capacity that the individual holds . Whereas the are the
numerous leadership qualities which are considered to be an effective leader and it develops the
critical thinking .
Main Body
I gained a lot of insight from the leadership skills and enhanced and improved my other
skills which helped me in a numerous way . The communication skills which is needed every
where in today world I brushed up skills and used in delivery my thoughts and ideas in a clear
way in my team . As I lacked in few qualities which is needed and should be posses in a leader .
One of this was discipline as I was not efficient with this while this quality is need to execute the
objective and meeting the deadline this quality will not only help in organisation but it assisted
me in my personal life and made me quite effective . While I have always liked working in team
and believed in team building but it comes with its cons too as sometimes the arise of conflict
make things difficult and working so I brushed and upgrade my way and methods of handling
any obstacle or the problems arise during the team work w heather it is resolving the conflicts.
Moreover I faced the problem of conflicts when I was working in a project with other people
there was rise of ambivalence between two people which was hampering the team work and
productivity further the working environment became toxic. To resolve things I took the the
charge and I used the resolving skills in this fight which I gained (Lambert., 2019) . So it takes a
lot of gumption and faith , patience to solve the conflicts and reaching the solution without being
bias. I heard the bot side of story and try to amend the things and tried to make the work together
and achieving the goals collectively . Further the model which can assist in reaching and
improving the skills and moreover it can help in systematically arranging the ideas and thoughts
likewise also enhancing and fulfilling the lacked areas . The model Gibbs can be quite effective
and efficient it encompasses the six stages which are description , feeling , evaluation, analysis ,

conclusion and the last is action plan (Ariefl., 2019) . The stages are explained briefly and deeply
analysing it .
Description : In this the particular project is given in detailed and the lucidity is came by
asking the questions what happened, when and what was the outcome so while doing the project
with my team we examined the topic and briefed after asking all these questions and completing
the goal by taking the different section of area in a assignment .
Feelings : In this the feelings are explained about when working together as the work
didn't got according there was the sense of dissatisfaction , frustration as the assignment need to
be done efficiently the other has to plan drop there other plans this also gave me the sense of
guilt .
Evaluation : In this there is proper and systematic evaluation of information or the work
situation which worked in the favour and which were opposite it is done by asking the several
questions such as the what went well how I and my team contributed in the situation and many
more . this helped in enhancing the analytical skills moreover the observation skills were boosted
Analysis : The deeper analysation and focusing on smaller details and concluding and
extracting the information from it by targetting the distinctive areas . in this the opinions and
thoughts of others also assist in concluding .
Conclusion : In this second last stage the proper conclusion is done by gaining the
insights and learning while doing the project I learned sometimes the individual thought can be
different and used while only agreeing to the majority in a group .
Action plan : In the last stage it is about whatever I have learned and gained how it will
implemented next time what work will be done differently and the insufficiency which is faced
how it can be fulfilled and used other time so that I don't ended doing similar mistakes .
I learned numerous other skills such as the power of decision making , power of opinions
and I also had the impact experience of working in a team in which I acknowledged the art of
team building . Besides I also got the insight about using the people strength efficaciously and

expeditiously (King., 2018). the skills which i gained are very generic and will help me in any
path which I will choose .
CONCLUSION
From the report it can be summarised that leadership and management skills are the
lifelong asset as it can used any time anywhere . It increase the growth personally and
professionally . Moro ever it helped me in a numerous ways in a project . I undertook many skills
which was used in effective manner at distinctive area. The communication skill was enhanced
and brushed up through learning these skills helped me in portraying my thoughts clearly . These
skills will also help me whenever I will work in any organisation through this I will be able to do
my work in a structural and systematic way. As the gained skills are never wasted moreover it
will bring the best in me(Wells., 2021) . Now I had a deeper insight about leadership qualities
which will level up my productivity towards work .

REFERENCES
Books and Journals
Arief and et. al., 2019, November. DEVELOP LEADERSHIP, MANAGEMENT AND
PERFORMANCE ORGANIZATION ON INTRA-SCHOOL STUDENT ORGANIZATION
(OSIS). In ICCD (Vol. 2, No. 1, pp. 341-344).
Della Corte and et. al., 2019. Leadership in the Digital Realm: What Are the Main Challenges?. Digital
Leadership—A New Leadership Style for the 21st Century.
King, M., 2018. The impact of LTA volunteerism on leadership and management development: An
autoethnographic reflection. In The role of language teacher associations in professional
development (pp. 283-294). Springer, Cham.
Lambert and et. al., 2019. Leadership requirements for school principals: similarities and differences
between four competency standards. Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and
Policy, (188).
Wells, S.J., 2021. Women entrepreneurs: Developing leadership for success. Routledge.