Personal Leadership Development Plan: Self-Assessment and Strategies

This report presents a personal leadership development plan based on a self-assessment and benchmarking against respected leaders. It identifies six characteristics of effective leaders, providing real-life examples and analyzing the impact on followers and organizations. The plan includes self-insight exercises, highlighting strengths and weaknesses, and comparing them with those of a famous leader like Abraham Lincoln. The report concludes with development objectives, strategies, and necessary support/resources to achieve these objectives, focusing on active listening, decision-making ability, and creative/innovative skills. Desklib offers a platform to explore similar leadership development plans and solved assignments.

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Management

Question 1
Leadership characteristics
Participative nature: It is the most significant characteristic of a leader to always persuade
others by their action. The major advantage of following participative style is that employees
satisfaction tends to increase. Robbins had also believed in following participative style is
highly appreciated by the employees. This also enabled the employees to give emphasis on
meeting performance standards.
Interactive, Approachable and humble mature: an effective leaders always have positive
nature toward its work and employees. Warren Buffett is also considered as the most humble,
approachable and warmest person. it has always given the emphasis on following democratic
leadership style by giving emphasising on mutual trust, communication by giving value on
collaborating and interacting with employees (Mayfield & Mayfield, 2016).
Supportive: It is the most significant characteristic of an effective leader who always shows
its concern for the wellbeing of subordinate. Supportive leadership style also states that
leadership behaviour should be friendly, open and approachable. Jay Goltz is also one
example of this leadership who always used the supportive leadership. He always guaranteed
the car loan, loaned money to the employees as well as helped employees in buying houses
(Grint et al, 2016).
Communicative: an effective leaders ensures communication with their employees in proper
manner. An effective communication always motivates the employees to get their work done
without any difficulty. An example of effective communicative leader is the president Ronald
Reagan who found to be great communicator.
Passion and commitment- a good leader always complete its work with and full commitment.
If a leader wants the members to look upon him, he is required to show the passion to work
with them. It will also help the leader tom achieve the respect from its members and pervades
the energy in the person to work better (Fiaz, Su and Saqib, 2017).

Confidence: for any leader to lead its team in effective manner, it is firstly required to have
confidence in own. Without confidence, it is not possible to keep spirit among employees to
work hard. For example: Abhram Lincoln always had confidence in his work.
Question 2
2.1
Mostly false Mostly true
I nearly always expect a lot
from life

I try to anticipate when
things will go wrong

I try to anticipate when
things will go wrong

I often start out expecting the
worst, although things
usually work out okay

I expect more good things to
happen to me than bad

I often feel concern about
how things will turn out for
me

I am cheerful and positive
most of the time.

Even in difficult times, I
usually expect the best

2.2
I put into operation
suggestions agreed to by the
group

I treat everyone in the group
with respect as my equal


I back up what other people
in the group do

I help others with their
personal problems

I bring up how much work
should be accomplished

I help assign people to
specific tasks

I frequently suggest ways to
fix problems

I emphasize deadlines and
how to meet them.

3.1
I would hold members
personally accountable for
their performance

I would assign members to
specific roles and tasks.

I would ask the members to
work harder

I would check on people to
know how they are doing

I would focus more on
execution than on being
pleasant with members

I would let members do their
work the way they think best

I would go out of my way to
be helpful to members


4.1
Extroversion:
I love large parties 3
I feel comfortable around people 3
I talk to a lot of different people at social
gatherings 3
I like being the centre of attention 3
I often feel critical of myself 3
I often envy others 3
I am temperamental 2
I am easily bothered by things 1
I am kind and sympathetic 4
I have a good word for everyone 3
I never insult people 2
I put others first. 4
I am imaginative 3
I see beauty in many things 3
I really like art 3
I love to learn new things 2
I am systematic and efficient 4
I pay attention to details 4
I am always prepared for class 2
I put things back where they belong 2
4.2
When I get what I want, it’s
usually because I worked
hard for it
Strongly agree
When I make plans, I am Strongly disagree

almost certain to make them
work
I prefer games involving
some luck over games
requiring pure skill
Strongly agree
I can learn almost anything if
I set my mind to it
Strongly agree
My major accomplishments
are entirely due to my hard
work and ability
Strongly agree
I usually don’t set goals,
because I have a hard time
following through on them
Strongly agree
On any sort of exam or
competition, I like to know
how well I do relative to
everyone else
Strongly agree
Strengths
From the above completed self insight, I come to know my strengths. Firstly, I found
to be highly organised and always have plan what to do in whole day. This quality will
definitely help in leading my subordinates to follow the instructions that they are required to
follow. I incline to lean more on the tasks and less on the relationship due to which I may find
difficulty in procuring the trust of subordinates. I also have the issue of relating them beyond
the work relationship. It was difficult in the past to preserve the position of authority and
keep the lines clear without any sacrifice in getting know them as individual. This is the main
areas I would like to improve. In this way, it highlights “personal style of relationship-
oriented.” It means to make connection with the people rather than only doing task. Lack of
confidence can sometimes prove to be non-knowledgeable. Good leader should always be
able to outline those areas where there is a need of improvement. This will help me to work
better just to better myself. I am able to get the areas where improvement is required. The
improvement areas are interpersonal skills, communication skills; focus on relationships not

only on task, confidence, and improvement of technical skills. Communicative skills are
important to come across the necessary information from the subordinates (Folse, 2018).
Weaknesses
Knowing the weaknesses and working on it in a best possible manner will take me to
a better position. There are several areas where improvement is needed. The areas of
improvement are working on the interpersonal skills, administrative skills, and self-
confidence. I incline to lean more on the tasks and less on the relationship due to which I may
find difficulty in procuring the trust of subordinates. I also have the issue of relating them
beyond the work relationship. Miscommunication is the main reason of conflict in the
organization. Irrespective of the communication method, it should be clear to keep down the
confusing by ensuring all the team members on the same page. Interpersonal skills are the
people skills. It means the way by which I will interact with people. In order to maintain good
relations with others, I must get out of the comfort zone which will further strength my
skills(Storey, 2016).
In addition to this, sometimes I am not able to control my emotions that can prove to be
hindrance in my leadership skills for working at higher post. I always have the dream of
working in a good company at higher post. Therefore, the uncontrollable emotions will prove
to be drawback in my career. In order to reach to the desired post, I have to improve my
weaknesses (Daft, 2014).
Question 3
Comparing my strength and weakness with on famous leader
Confidence and clear vision is the major strength found in Abaharam Lincoln. At the
same time, he also has the capability to acknowledge errors. Lincoln was effective aware of
its weakness that a biggest strength of any leader. Due to this, it always adopted some
effective strategies to overcome from such weakness. The weakness on his leadership part is
that it was not able to influence much. As compare to him, I am always able to get the
attention of subordinate by ensuring daily working. I also effectively know my weakness so
that development of plan can be done to overcome from it.

Part 3
What are my
development
objectives?
What strategies
do I need to
undertake to
achieve my
objectives?
What
support/resources
do I need to achieve
my objectives
Target date for achieving
my objectives
Active
listening
 Group
discussion
with
different
people
 An
effective
team
meeting
with
different
group
members.
 One on
one
discussion
with the
entire
members
so that
they can
come up
with their
ideas.
 Effective
people who
can support
for meeting
 A proper room
for the active
listening.
 List of
questions that
will be
discussed
meeting
The target date for achieving
the objectives is one or two
months.
decision
making ability
 By
exercising
different
 Support of
team members
for discussing
 The estimated target
for achieving the

parts of
the brain.
 Hanging
out with
different
people
from
different
culture.
ideas.
 Peoples from
different
cultural and
diversified
background.
target is one month
Creative and
innovative
skills
 Becoming
innovative
by asking
some of
the tough
questions
 Communi
cating
properly
with the
staff
members
so that
they will
share their
ideas.
 Laptop
requirement
 copy pen for
writing
complex
questions for
the team
members.
 team member
Support.
 The estimated target
date for such task is
around 2 months

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