Strategic Leadership: Personal Development Plan & Implementation

This report provides a comprehensive analysis of personal development within the context of leadership and strategic management, focusing on the case of Harris Hall, a recruitment agency. It covers essential skills and knowledge for leadership, including delegation, market environment awareness, and accountability. The report explores factors contributing to organizational vision and strategy, such as engagement and critical thinking, and reevaluates leadership theories like contingency and behavioral theories. It includes an auditing of management knowledge, skills, and personal leadership qualities, setting objectives to meet personal and organizational needs through a detailed personal development plan. The plan outlines actions to improve time management, problem-solving, coordination, and communication skills, with specific measures for success and estimated timelines. Additionally, the report discusses factors impacting the communication of organizational vision to external stakeholders.

Personal Development for
Leadership and Strategic
Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
Analysis of various skills and knowledge for leadership and management...........................1
Different factors that contribute in the leadership and strategic management to attain
organizational vision and strategy .........................................................................................2
Revaluation on theories that impact on the personal development plan of an employ..........2
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
Objective that help to meet with personal development need along with strategic
organisational need.................................................................................................................3
Personal development plan for developing leadership and management skills that support
creation of organisational vision and strategy........................................................................4
TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................7
Analyse the factors that impact on creation of organisational vision.....................................8
Approaches to develop vision................................................................................................8
Factors that impact on communication of vision towards external stakeholders..................9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................9
Covered in PPT ......................................................................................................................9
TASK 5..........................................................................................................................................10
Review the progress of personal development plan.............................................................10
CONCLUSION ..........................................................................................................................11
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................12

INTRODUCTION
Personal development can be defined as the process of those activities which enhances
the productivity of an individual. It undertakes several elements such as employment skill,
increasing consciousness, building wealth etc. It is essential for individuals to develop personal
attributes for helping them to achieve success of successful career development. The motive of
the present assignment is to understand the essential requirement of personal development of in
context of leadership and strategic management. For this assignment Harris Hall is the given
organization (Patel, Pettitt and Wilson, 2012). It works as a recruitment agency in which a senior
manager is hired to make effective strategic for the organization which is useful for leadership as
well as as personal development. In this task various types of topics are covered which includes
the knowledge skills, personal skills, objective for personal development need and plan.
Moreover factors impact on organizational vision, various benefits to tool that help to attain
organizational goal are discuss in this report.
TASK 1
Analysis of various skills and knowledge for leadership and management
In this task some guidelines are given by Harris Hall to new senior manager includes
some task which are mandatory to include. So skills and knowledge for this is mention below:
Delegation: It is an essential skill for every manager to delegate their work with a
effective approach such as to divide the task according to the skills and capabilities of the
employee's. It helps them to formulated effective strategies as they are beneficial to gain long
term goals and objectives of the organization.
Knowledge about market environment: This is one of the most crucial knowledge for
using to formulate appropriate strategies and vision for organization because strategies that are
managed by manager impacts on vision and functions of the organization(Noe and et. al., 2014).
Moreover it help them to evaluate the situations that impacts on business operations and profits.
Accountability: Accountable skill is required to analyses the organizational action that
are taken by them to achieve their goal. So it is easy for them to find out that it is successful in
future or not. Moreover it helps them to identify those report and measure all the activities that is
performed by organization to achieve their vision and strategies.
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Different factors that contribute in the leadership and strategic management to attain
organizational vision and strategy
Engagement- Strategic planning work as a whole process not just a simple event. This
aspect states that engagement of all levels and departments in an organization plays a vital role
that assist them to complete their goals. Example- To achieve a vision finance department make
budget, marketing department promote products and services etc. So staff or employee's provide
their inputs which helps to complete their activities within specified period.
Critical thinking- In order to complete their activities it is important for manager to
complete their goals with implement of creative techniques. Therefore it is important for them to
think critically about the functions that are performed by organization (Nilsson and Ellström,
2012). For achieving organization vision and strategy an leader develops pathways such as
training and development, organization skills etc. that impacts on employee's performance. So
critical thinking helps them to overcome different issue that reduces organization productivity.
Revaluation on theories that impact on the personal development plan of an employ
In this task various theories of leadership and management is discussed that need to be
focus by individuals for reaching their goals.
Contingency leadership theory: Contingency theory states that there is essential for
management to develop an exit plan or way from the complex situation which is faced by the
organization. Whenever company faces an challenging situation creates barrier in organization
then it is important for them to change the way that impacts on their performance. Moreover it is
important for them to make effective solution that enhances organization performance. It helps
them to analyse all top executive that creates decision for organisation. For strategic manner all
business entities that deal with contingencies in an appropriate manner that engages their
responsibilities and role which are mandatory to fulfil for organisational vision and strategy.
Behavioural theory of leadership- This theory is based on the belief that an individuals
are made through learning of different skills and gaining experience by performing different
culture. Behavioural theory undertakes those factor which show the intellectual qualities of the
organisation (Hoch and Dulebohn, 2013). Moreover manager learns that how they become
effective leaders by observing different activities and decisions that are taken by manager to
improve their performance. In context of personal development plan this skills are enlightened
by individual by learning into systematic and sequential manner.
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TASK 2
Auditing of management knowledge, skills and personal leadership
TESCO is my dream in which I wanted to work as a strategic manager. So to accomplish
this I need to analyse my own skill that show the potential and capability of myself in order to
complete the work (Frost, 2012). This function provides me the clear picture about the skills that
help me to match my skills with the required skill of strategic manager or not. Below some
analysis about the skills which are required by the organisation to complete their goals are
mention that helps to measure my skill which show importance of organisation.
Skills Good Average Bad
Management and
leadership skill
x ✓ x
Communication skill ✓ x x
Problem solving skills x ✓ x
Critical thinking
process
x ✓ x
Decision making ✓ x x
Team Management ✓ x x
Presentation x ✓ X
Coordination x x ✓
Decision making ✓ x x
The skills which are mention above are required for strategic manager that helps to
complete their roles along with attaining organisational goals and objectives. Therefore some
skill are required that improves my performance as to work on them I started to take training
(Dixon-Woods and et. al., 2014). Further in future this skills helps me to in future to attain
professional goals as well as personal goal in a parallel way.
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Objective that help to meet with personal development need along with strategic organisational
need
In a company or organisation proper training and development are required to complete a
project successfully. It is essential for manager to recognise the individual need in order to match
them with organization need. So employees helps an organisation to achieve their goals and
objectives by understanding organisational goal and objectives.
Personal Development Needs: In an organization training which are provided by
manager to employees are common but the needs and roles that are performed by employees are
not similar as they all have different needs (Broman and Robèrt, 2017). So in context of Harris
Hall they implement different approaches that boost performance of employees in effective and
efficient way. Harris consider it properly by providing right training to employees that match
with their needs. This process helps business to improve their employee performance that
minimize time, money and resources to complete a project. Objectives of Personal development
plan are as follow:
 To increase my skill that help me to get job that match with my passion.
 Increasing the strength of my skill to perform my work effectively.
 To reach my communication skill at good level as it is required in every activity.
 Critical thinking and creative thinking is at average level so I wanted to lead towards
good level.
Personal development plan for developing leadership and management skills that support
creation of organisational vision and strategy
Personal development Plan: PDP is the process that includes several action that are
based on value, awareness and plans of organisation that enhance the skill of an individual. This
results that it is easy for employee to adopt those skill which are required to perform this job
effectively (Abrahamsson and et. al., 2017). In this task table a table is developed that me to take
essential action in order to my improve my skill with more efficiency and effectiveness.
Skills required to be
improved
Objective Actions to be taken Measure to analyse
success
Time Management Time management
skill is measure by me
To learn the skill of
time management. I
In order to measure
this skill I started to
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which is at weak level.
So it is essential for
me to develop this
through which my task
are completed within
minimum time period.
To improve this skill
estimated time is 60
days.
start to observe time
period that is
consumed by me to
complete a task.
Moreover I also take
guidance form
experience and
experts.
take multiple work
from the organisation
which helps me to
identify that I am able
to manage the work or
not. Along with this it
helps to evaluate that
work is completed
within time period or
not.
Problem Solving I want to enhance the
strength of my skill
because it helps to
solve the problems
that are related with
operational and
functions of the
organisation.
Estimated time to
improve this skill is 90
days.
Professional training is
started by me to
improve this skill.
Whereas another step
is to take perform my
task within the
monitoring of expert
person. This methods
helps me to deal with
different challenges
that reduces my
performance.
In order to measure
this skill I evaluated
results of different
challenges that are
solved by me. It helps
me to identify new
ways that are
beneficial to respond
different problems.
Moreover it also helps
to find various solution
of a particular
problem.
Coordination In context of strategic
manager this skill is
very important for an
individual that helps to
manage and control
the task which are
present in team. It
In order to improve
this skill is started to
perform within teams.
For this I started to
build better relations
with with all members
of organisation. This
Coordination skill will
be measured by taking
the feedback from the
others members of the
organisation through
which I have
completed the project.
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results that is easy for
them to achieve
organisational goal
and objectives. Time
estimated for improve
this skill is 90 days.
helps me to arrange
the work within
appropriate manner.
Moreover their
suggestions are also
beneficial to enhance
the productivity of my
work.
Communication Communication skill
helps an individual to
improve their
performance as it
deliver the actual role
that is performed by
employee to complete
his duty. Whereas it
also helps to complete
their work without any
confusion. Time
required to enhance
this skill is 180 days.
The action that is
taken to improve is
this skill is reading and
learning the
pronunciation of
different words. that
strength my
communication skill.
The another step that
is taken by me is to
learn this process
continuously.
In order to measure
this skill the step
which is taken by me
is to give different test
that are related with
speaking course. The
other step is to take
feedback from those
persons whom I
interacted recently.
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TASK 3
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Factors that impact on communication of vision towards external stakeholders
It is important for all organisation to deliver and communicate their vision with all stakeholders
that are related with operations and function of them. Some factors that impact on vision of
stakeholders are mention as follow:
Clarity: This is one of the main factor that impact on vision because it is important for them to
complete their goals with stakeholders as they are plays crucial role in organisation. Like
investors provides funds to complete the project. Therefore before start discussion with them it
is essential for strategic manager to clear their vision so it is easy for them to generate the
interest of them in organisational goals.
Lack of knowledge: Individuals who are accountable and responsible for interacting with
stakeholders need to know about the whole vision that is achieved by organisation. It
undertakes different issue such as lack of communication, low quality of raw materials,
mismanagement of time etc. As it all creates negative impacts on the stakeholders which
impacts on operations of organisation.
Approaches to develop vision
Different approaches are formulated by organisation that is related with their decision making
prices and vision are mention as follow:
Visualization, Guided imagery approaches for developing vision: This is also known as
mental rehearsal and self-hypnosis. It is a gentle and powerful approach that states the ideas or
thoughts in positive and proactive way. Example- this process work as a break that is taken by
the sportsman while playing the game. Visualization technique helps to tackle different
problems by motivating the employees. At last this process helps to direct human efforts
towards main objective of the organisation.
Lateral thinking techniques: This work as a mental process that use to develop new ideas as
well as thoughts which are useful to solve different problems by implementing creative aspects.
The main intention of this function is to think out of the box to complete organisational goal.
Lateral thinking includes models that are based on present organisation techniques and
methods. Along with this it helps to identify innovative ways and creative solution to solve a
particular problem through which it is easy to make effective strategy that relates with
organisational vision. Analyse the factors that impact on creation of organisational vision
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Their are different factors are present in market that impacts positively and negatively on
strategy and vision of organisation. Some factors that interrelate with organisation vision are
mention as follow:
Leadership: This factor directly impacts on organisational vision because it is related with the
top level management such as leaders, managers and CEO etc. So is mandatory to ensure that
they provides appropriate guidance to the lower level departments in the organisation. Apart
from this if they are not to contribute in effective decision making then the organisational
productivity and profitability will be reduces. Therefore leaders need to be analyse market
conditions with in appropriate manner.
Communication: This aspect or factor is universal that impacts on overall organisation which
determines that it affects on all departments and functions that are performed by employees and
managers. Like in context of top management people it is important for them to communicate
their vision, strategy, goals etc. with lower staff members in order to motivate them. Further it
also helps to encourage employees to take active participation in organisational work.
TASK 4
Covered in PPT
There are different Source of information mandatory to review progress with achieving
personal development plan:
To review the progress of the organisation there are various sources of information which also
helps in attaining their personal development plan. These are discussed beneath :-
Observation: Through appropriate observation I can evaluate my progress which supports me
in determining the level of performance or action.
Colleagues: To collect the information regarding individual performance the communication
between peers and subordinates is established.
Meeting: Top management can identify their performance and behaviour with other through the
help of arrangement of meetings. And then the progress is been obstinate and new strategies are
developed.
Training: After the Arrangement of proper training one can measured when the performance of
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the employees regarding their task has been started.
Mentors: During the period of training, instructor can also analyse that how effective the
learning process about certain thing of trainee is.
Annual appraisal: During the end of the month appraisal meetings are help in which the
performance of individual is been analysed which describe their level of progress.
Preceding citation source will assist the organization to evaluate the performance of the
individual so that the growth of the person can also be determined.
TASK 5
Review the progress of personal development plan
By analysing or evaluating the personal development plan which is mention above is
mention in this report. It helps me to modify my skill that are required to complete the job in
effective manner. Their are various skills that is improved by me with the help of performance
development plan which is useful for accomplishing organisational goal and objectives. The
average skills which are performed by me is communication, time management, problem solving
& creative thinking process. So this skills which are at average level need to be improve by
taking necessary action such as guidance, training etc. which impact on the goals of the
organisation. On the other hand team work or coordination skill is at bad scale which governs
that is required a lot of efforts to improve the skills (Amran, Lee and Devi, 2014). So my main
focus is to evaluate most effective ideas such as team work in order to improve my coordination
skill. While on other perspective communication also plays a major role in formulating positive
relationship between stakeholders of the organisation. Therefore I started to make daily
conservation with different peoples that enhances my communication skill. Further to gain
strength in this skill I also started to reading different books, journals that boost my
communication skill. At last with the execution and follow up of personal development plan my
average and low skill will reach at good level as it is continuous process which help to build my
career at good level.
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