Leadership & Management Development: Strategies and Challenges

This report provides an executive summary of leadership and management development, focusing on the essential skills for directors, selection criteria for candidates (particularly for a CEO role), and the challenges faced by company leaders. It outlines key attributes such as willingness to work, adaptability, diligence, learning skills, creativity, competitiveness, leadership qualities, observation, communication, and strong ethics. The report also identifies elements that should not influence selection, such as ethnicity, race, nationality, and gender bias. Furthermore, it details the challenges a CEO faces, including building a talented team, motivation, ensuring the right strategy, differentiation, breaking traditions, and aligning priorities. The report concludes with a proposed mission, vision, and value statement for a company, along with key developmental strategies for the next three years, emphasizing recruitment, opportunity seeking, focus on working, meeting client requirements, and service excellence. The document includes references to support its analysis and recommendations. Desklib provides access to this and many other solved assignments for students.

LEADERSHIP
MANAGEMENT AND
DEVELOPMENT

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
 Planning The key attributes , knowledge and abilities that the new marketing, strategic
director of a company and the public relations officer possess into the organization.
 Choosing the list of elements which should not be taken into account at the time of selection .
 Choice of the best leadership criteria that plays a vital role in becoming the CEO of the
company(Fallows and Steven 2013).
 The main challenges faced by the company’s CEO in terms of leadership.
 Planning the mission , vision and value statement of the company .
 Planning the key developmental strategies by the company management within the next three
years .

KEY SKILLS OF
DIRECTORS
1. Willingness to work: since the company director is has to answer to the
company owner, shareholders or clients at the end of the day , therefore the
director must motivate his underperforming team and be always ready for hard
work.
2. Adaptability and adjustability : Since everything does not go as per
planned , therefore it is important that the director adapts the current situation and
plans accordingly
3. Diligence and persistence: Diligence means to work hard to on the focused
area. Whereas persistence means continuity to work hard. Therefore both of these
are important for the director .
4. Learning and research skills : Since nobody knows everything right from the
beginning , therefore kit is expected it is important for the director to be always
ready to learn and explore new ideas.

5. Creativity and innovation : The solutions to the business
problems are not always obvious , therefore it is important
that the company’s director is always ready to generate some
new idea in order to impress the clients.
6. Competitiveness : competition happens in every industry.
without competition the director can not set his goals and
capitalize unnecessary. With a string competitive drive
company will be more productive and take works seriously.
7. Leadership qualities :In order to run a business
effectively, the director of the company must know on how to
deal with the current situation with the effective leadership
quality imposed .

8. Observation to the productivity: Being the director of the business it
is the duty of the company director to always put an observation over the
team’s performance. The overall performance of the team will increase
productivity of the company. Therefore the director always observe the
team productivity.
9. Communication skill: The communication skill, always puts emphasis
on keeping the employees happy. Therefore it is the duty of the company
director to always deal with the staffs in a friendly manner. Hence it will fill
the communication gap between the employees and the director.
10.Strong ethics: The company management had to deal with a lot of
clients per day . Each clients are of different motives. So it is important for
the director to always keep cool and stick to the ethics .

ELEMENT NOT BE ELECTED FOR
SELECTION PROCESS
1. Ethnicity: If the candidate is skilful but belonging to ethnicity ,
hence this parameter should not be considered in selection process.
2. Race of the candidate: The cast and the race of the candidate
should not be taken as a parameter for selection. However the
candidate skillset and dedication will be important.
3. Nationality: Nationality of the candidate should not be considered
as an important factor for selection process. If the candidate is
ready to deliver the requirements of the company, then the
selection is to be justified.
4. Gender biasness: The company should not be considering the
gender biasness at the time of selection. The only focus will be on
the dedication of the candidate towards the job.

SELECTION CRITERIA FOR
CANDIDATES
The company should select the candidate for job on the
basis of the following criteria's-
1. Qualifications
2. Skills
3. Experience
4. Communication

CANDIDATE MARKS PREFFERED
Qualities of the
candidate
1. Qualification
2. Skill
3. Experience
4. communication
Preferred Marks( out of 100
points)
1. 20 out of 100
2. 30 out of 100
3. 20 out of 100
4. 30 out of 100

RATINGS PROVIDED TO THE
CANDIDATE The company have shortlisted 3 candidates out of several candidates
for the final interview and have rated them according the previous
mentioned parameters.
Particulars marks
allotted
Candidate
1
Candidate
2
Candidate
3
Qualificatio
n
20 10 20 20
Skill 30 20 30 25
Experience 20 20 20 10
Communicati
on
30 30 25 30
Total 100 80 95 85

EXPLANATION OF THE MARKS
ALLOTED
From the previous table it is seen that according to the parameters set by the
company , among all the three candidates , candidate 2 will be selected by the
company in the post of CEO. The reasons behind choosing the candidate 2 are
as follows-
1. The student has meet the qualification criteria among the rest of the
candidates.
2. The candidate has scored full Marks on the skill set the company asked for.
3. Both the candidate have meet the experience skill except candidate2.
4. Candidate 1 and candidate 3 have scored full marks , except candidate 2.
Hence the candidate 2 is going to be selected for securing the highest marks.

CHOOSING THE SUITABLE
CANDIDATE For selecting the best candidate in the post of CEO of the company the
candidate must posses the following characteristics in order to get selected.
 The candidate has passed the qualification requirement which the company
have in the selection process.
 Candidate 2 have also passed all the skill sets required to be selected for
the post.
 The candidate have enough exposure to be considered in the post of CEO of
this new company.
 Though the candidate have scored less marks in the communication but still
have able to qualify in the rest of the requirements. Therefore candidate 2 is
ideal for the post of CEO of this company.