Developing Leadership Style: Personal Development Plan Report

This report is a reflection on developing leadership style, presenting a personal leadership development plan. The student identifies a vision to create opportunities for others, focusing on financial struggles as a motivating factor. The development goal centers on enhancing communication skills and effectively delivering critical feedback. The plan outlines specific actions, strategies, and anticipated obstacles, including personality and self-doubt, with resolutions like practicing assertiveness. Strengths such as self-awareness and strong communication skills are leveraged. Resources include supervisors, educators, and business news, with feedback gathered through surveys and performance analysis. The plan includes accountability measures, with progress evaluated through behavior analysis and feedback, and success measured by team performance and superior feedback. The report concludes with a discussion on the importance of leadership for company development, emphasizing the need for adaptable leadership styles, effective communication, and valuing team members. References to relevant academic sources are provided.

Running head: MANAGEMENT
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Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Part B
Introduction
Leadership skills and behaviour need time and motivation to build and
grow. There are various attributes to good leadership that needs to be
administered to ensure that there is an opportunity to grow and learn. Every
leader has their strengths and weaknesses but a good leader understands
when to draw upon their strengths to support their weakness (Meyer et al,
2017). Leaders are visionary, What it entails is that leaders are able to
conceptualize ideas and goals through personal experiences that enables
them to stand for the things that matters most to them. There are so many
kinds of leadership styles such as transformational, dictatorial, however the
leadership is it deeply impacts the business culture and effects the
performance of the employees considerably. Developing a leadership
ideology is a gradual process that requires thorough understanding of the
theoretical concepts and then practically implementing them in the process
(Özbağ, 2016). It is important to understand the need of the situation or
crisis and be adept at handling the crisis that may come. Flexibility in the
leadership is important, very rigid system of management can be deterring
for the morale of the employees and effects the motivation. The leader is
meant to lead, their thought process is turned into action plan and that is
important for the growth and development of the company. Understanding
the market plans and the future market trends is very important to analyse

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and reflect upon. Personal attitudes, world view and opinions helps to form
an ideology that later translates to a leadership style, it is essential for a
leader to be well acquainted with the employees, stakeholders and other
members of the organisation and to understand the needs of the
organisation (Narayandas et al, 2019). To capture new opportunities,
understand the threats and make proactive plans to address them. The
following is a leadership development plan and discusses various section of
the development plan.
Why: My Vision
One of the things that has affected me growing up is having to struggle
financially. Growing up I realized that it not a solitary struggle that is limited
to a person but to so many people and it affects their lives incredibly in the
decision that they take and the way they look at lives. I want to create
opportunities for people so that they can have access to basic things in life
such as access to education, healthcare and an opportunity at better life. My
vision is create small self-help groups of women and men who can build a
small pool of finances and help support their immediate goals and needs and
also promote education and create a community that is proactive and
supportive of each other.
What: My Personal Leadership Development Goal
Personal development goals require self-awareness and developing in
critical thinking capacity to register my own actions and their repercussions

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that is one of the very first things a leader needs to develop. Simply acting
without building any self-awareness or refusing to analyze our own thought
process we do not end up learning from the experience (Özbağ, 2016).
Effective communication is very important in building a development
plan because it helps to build interpersonal relationship and it is very
essential in building organizational performance. Studies indicate effective
communication is very necessary in building relations within the organization
and it also promotes healthy inclusive workplace environment. Effective
communication is often ignored and can be very harmful for the growth of
the organization. When there is a lack of communication from the top
management to the employees from the lower hierarchy, they feel isolated
and often cannot understand the nature of their task and do not end up
performing well. Therefore I do want to enhance my communication style I
think it is essential for organizational performance.
Critical feedback is also an essential part of the leadership plan. While
studies show that positive encouragement promotes employee confidence
and helps to maximize the productivity. However, it is also important to be
able to give the difficult criticisms so that the individual can learn and grow
(Cutumisu et al, 2018). Personally I believe that critical feedback needs to be
given in a proper manner so that the employee’s sentiments is not hurt and
they are able to realize the problem. Upon reflection I have not been able to
deliver critical feedback successfully for the fear that I might hurt their
feelings.

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How: Actions I Will Take to Accomplish My Personal
Leadership Development Goal
Plan Actions
Desired/Required Behavior Strategy
 Able to be give critical
feedback (Cutumisu et al,
2018).
 Creating peer/ mentor
boundaries.
 Talking with transparency
and building better
communicative strategy
to ensure that the
employee understands
what is asked of him or
her.
 To maintain and establish
professional relationship
and boundaries.
Anticipate Obstacles/Barriers
Obstacle/Barrier Resolution
 Personality and self-
doubt.
 Ability to practice
restraint emotionally.
 To practice being more
assertive and confident.
I want to be less
emotional by critically
analyzing the problem

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without emotion.
Leverage Strengths
Strength How Will This Strength Help Me
Accomplish My Goal?
 Self-awareness
 Strong communication
skill
 Understanding that there
is a problem is a first step
to solve it.
 Communication skill is
important in building
rapport and ensuring the
development of the team.
Who: Resources and Support for Achieving My Personal
Leadership Development Goal
Gathering knowledge is essential in enhancing my traits and understanding
the core concepts of business administration (Narayandas et al,2019).
Developing my skills is important therefore I think I would prefer to get the
information from my supervisors on how I can manage more the team and
the organization more efficiently. My educators can help me gather

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information and help me to learn better. Updating myself with the latest
business news is very important.
How will I draw on peers and others to track progress, gather
feedback, and support my learning?
Survey is one of the ways that is beneficial in tracking progress and
gathering feedback about the current issues or progress. Also, gathering
performance analysis data can help to understand and track progress.
Participating in workshops and skill enhancing training programs are good for
learning new skills.
Who will I ask to support me? Who do I know who already
possesses the competencies I want to build?
I will ask my supervisors and seniors for support. I think my supervisors and
seniors have better knowledge and skill to guide me and help me build my
competencies.
With whom should I share my personal leadership
development plan?
With my immediate supervisor someone I know and trust and will give me
honest advice on my progress or failure.
4. Accountability
When will I take actions to meet my goal?

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I will take actions from this week to meet my goal.
When do I expect to see significant progress?
I hope to see significant progress in 3 months’ time.
How will I evaluate my progress?
Through critical analysis of my behaviour under similar situations. Also
through performance analysis and feedback from my superiors.
When and how will I update my personal leadership development
plan?
I think every day after work, I can reflect on my day to day activity and keep
a record of it by maintaining a journal where I can write my development
plan/
How will I leverage what I learn?
I will use it in my day to day challenge to meet a goal and the challenge I
face. I will be able to build better team leading skills and will be able to
enhance the quality of my leadership.
5. Acknowledgement
How will you measure your success?
I will measure my success through the performance of my team and the
feedback from my superiors.

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What might be the personal impact of meeting my goal?
I will be motivated and happy to meet my goal. I also feel I will be
encouraged to work harder at achieving my goal.
How might my organization benefit from the changes and
improvements that I identified?
I think they will notice a marked improvement in the team as they will be
more motivated and elated to work. Therefore the performance will be
better.
How will I celebrate when I accomplish my goal?
I will celebrate by congratulating my team by throwing them a party so that
they feel appreciate and included in the success that is also their win.
Conclusion
In conclusion, leadership is important for the development of the company.
While leadership has been found important, just any style of leadership is not
effective. In the effective management of leadership style and growth.
Therefore it is important to capture the nuances of the situation. When the
leadership management is confused and unorganised it affects the total
performance of the company. The most valid argument that one can make is
the use of valid acceptable method of leadership is important to develop and
possess for better communication and implementation of the same. I have
realized upon reflecting that there are consequences to our actions and a
leader needs to constantly work at being better. For a leader team is

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essential, when a leader ignores the team they lose their efficiency
immediately and hence they need to value their subordinates and help them
achieve their potential. The correct relationship building and interaction is
also important. From, my experience I have come to realise that a leader
should be diplomatic and also they should be fair in their method. Partiality
or favoritism can break a team structure and reduce the performance of the
team members. Therefore, it is important to examine and develop proper
leadership plans for the growth of the company.

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