Leadership Reflection Report: Employability and Study Skills

This report is a reflection on a leadership assignment focusing on Mark Zuckerberg's leadership style and its impact on Facebook's success. The student, acting as a team leader, analyzes their experiences, including the challenges of research, time management, and conflict resolution within the team. The report details the student's feelings, evaluations of their skills, and the lessons learned regarding communication, coordination, and the importance of effective leadership. It highlights the use of ICT devices and the impact of conflicts and poor time management on the project's outcome, emphasizing the need for improved leadership and time management skills in future endeavors. The report concludes with an action plan to enhance research, conflict resolution, and time management skills.

Employability and Study Skills

Table of Contents
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Covered in PPT............................................................................................................................3
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

TASK 1
Covered in PPT
TASK 2
Reflection
Description: We were assigned a task about the leadership style of a successful leader in which
Mark Zuckerberg was chosen as a successful leader. This was task assigned to us in which we
have discussed about the leadership styles adopted by Mark Zuckerberg and how effectively he
has been able to implement these leadership styles in order to make Facebook a successful social
media platform. We were a group of 3 people working on this task. I was chosen as leader of the
group because of my leadership capabilities (Baldwin, 2016). I had to do the research work, I
gathered information from the credible sources, also I needed to maintain co-ordination &
communication among us. My teammates were preparing slides, applied relevant academic
models, reading/writing different forms of leadership styles Mark Zuckerberg used. By doing
this task we got to know about different leadership styles, how Mark used these concepts of
leadership styles, academic models. We also got to know about our own strengths & weaknesses.
Feelings: I was feeling very nervous because I was chosen as a leader for the first time while
leading this assignment. We all were very excited also since this was our first challenging project
to showcase our talent, and my team members were unstressed because I was chosen leader &
they were comfortable in it. While leading the project I became very nervous because many tasks
I was doing for the first time and also I faced challenges while doing them. Looking back at the
situation when we were assigned this task, I would have preferred not to become team leader
because at some point of time conflicts happened, which were difficult for me to resolve them.
So I think someone from my team would have been a better team leader. During the task
sometimes when things were not going as same as we thought, I became tensed, & when
everything was happening great we rejoiced. When the assignment was completed I felt that
there are many areas that I need to work upon. We were finally happy as we completed our
assignment successfully, while also facing challenges.
Evaluation: My communication skills were excellent during the assignment. There was no
problem in communication between us (Brett, 2019). We used to update each other after
completing every single task. I also self managed myself & work. I maintained a perfect work-
life balance during this task. My major contribution was to do research work in this assignment,

although I faced many challenges while doing research work. Before this assignment was given,
I have never done any kind of research work, since it was my first time so it was difficult for me
to research and find credible sources. Sometimes what I needed, I was not able to find that on
internet, which made me tensed, sad. While I was doing the research part my team members
were doing reading/writing about different leadership styles, they applied relevant academic
theories, they helped me in referencing my resources etc. These were the contributions from my
team members. We used ICT devices such as smart phone, computer, software, web-browsers.
Use of ICT's made our work so much easier, for ex smartphone helped in communication, co-
ordination between us and web-browsers and other software helped us to do the
writing/organizing/formatting part. ICT devices made. But things didn't worked quite well in
between us during the assignment. We made many mistakes during the assignment , for ex, I did
some mistakes in research part which led to further mistakes in writing part and reference part.
Conflicts occurred in between us (Fook, 2017). My team members started arguing, blaming each
other and due to all these, we couldn't complete our assignment in given time, this made us
highly demotivated. We were like about to quit this project, but somehow I managed to convince
them and then we started to work again. But due to all these, we were unable to complete our
task in given time.
This assignment also helped me in improving my problem-solving skills. Since we had to deal
with conflicts, so my problem-solving skills were very useful at that time.
Analysis: We learned so much while working on this assignment. I got to learn how Mark
Zuckerberg used to tackle situations which we face daily at our workplace. We also got to learn
how he applied leadership styles for his business idea. I learned that good leadership skills are so
important. Good communication and co-ordination between team members also matters. Time
management is extremely important too as we completed our assignment after the given time.
For the first time I was chosen as a leader, I had to do the research work, but then I became
nervous too at the same time because neither I have done research work nor lead any team earlier
in my life. Though we faced many challenges like conflicts, poor time management and
sometimes miscommunication too (Redmond, 2017). In future, I will make it clear that I will
never be chosen as leader again, because I think I need to work upon my leadership skills, and in
case if I get to become leader again, I will take care of proper time-management, smooth
relations between team members, equal work distribution between each member, I also took

relatively longer time to resolve conflicts between my team members that resulted in delay in
completion of our assignment.
Conclusion: While concluding, I can say that I had very negative experience when conflicts
occurred in between us. I shouldn't have taken it on a lighter note earlier. As a leader it was my
duty to resolve the conflict as soon as it occurred. Because of the conflicts and poor time-
management we faced many problems, we were tensed, sad and became demotivated and also
we were late in completing the assignment on time (Reynolds and Vince, 2017). My positive
experience overall was that my communication skills, problem-solving skills were improved. I
analysed that I need to work upon on my leadership skills and time-management skills.

REFERENCES
Books and journals
Baldwin, M., 2016. Social work, critical reflection and the learning organization. Routledge.
Brett, J., 2019. Reflection Methods. In Evolving Digital Leadership (pp. 287-303). Apress,
Berkeley, CA.
Fook, J., 2017. Critical reflection and transformative possibilities. In Social work in a corporate
era (pp. 16-30). Routledge.
Redmond, B., 2017. Reflection in action: Developing reflective practice in health and social
services. Routledge.
Reynolds, M. and Vince, R., 2017. Organizing reflection: An introduction. In Organizing
reflection (pp. 15-28). Routledge.
Action plan: My action plan for the future situations is to improve my skills and also to acquire
new skills. For ex, While I was doing research work, I analysed that my researching skills were
not excellent, to improve that I will be doing more research based projects. Due to conflicts and
poor time management we were unable to finish our work on time. So whenever I will get
opportunity to work with professionals, I will learn, how they deal with any situation and how
they tackle conflicts in between team members. And for time-management I will always set a
given time period for every particular task for myself and will try to finish that task under that.