Leadership and Change Management Report: Key Aspects and Theories

This report delves into various aspects of leadership and change management, emphasizing the importance of honesty, transparency, and effective communication. It explores how these qualities contribute to building trust and motivating team members. The report also examines different leadership styles, including the situational leadership theory, which suggests adapting leadership approaches based on the specific context and the readiness of followers. It highlights the significance of delegation, empowerment, and fostering creativity within a team. Furthermore, the report discusses the role of transparency in building strong relationships between leaders and employees, and the importance of continuous improvement in leadership skills. The situational leadership theory is presented with its four primary styles: Telling, Selling, Participating, and Delegating, emphasizing the need for leaders to adjust their approach to best suit the situation and the skills of their team members. The report concludes by suggesting practical ways to improve leadership capabilities, such as addressing employee issues and supporting team members in challenging tasks.

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Table of Contents
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1st entry
One of the leadership aspect which is selected is honesty. A great leader lead to create
organizational culture which is build on these two core values and hold all employees
accountable to them (Lussier and Achua, 2015.). Without honesty it is stated as fundamental
cornerstones for the firm as they were really success long term. An effective leader is always
trustworthy and it is recognized to be honest with each and every team member they are
working. If leader will be honest then team member will trust on them and work with each other
in an effective manner. Leadership is considered as broad menu of behavior. Leadership and
management is known as unique set of activities and functions. Along with this it can be stated
that leader and manager share some of the similarities and their role is to influence others
through the use of their specific power. Leader within the firm always focus on motivation and
inspiration and they aim to create passion in order to follow their vision and for reaching the
long-term goals. There are some critical set of quality which leader posses such as vision,
toughness, integrity etc. From the research it is analyzed that to being an effective leader it is
important to be depended on the common set of behaviors and characteristics such as service
mentality, confidence, good visionary etc (Harris-Keith, 2015). Leader should understand
requirements of its employees so that they can be motivated and work hard for company.
Through involving employees in decision making process help in getting innovative idea and
make team member feel satisfied as because their views are listened by team leader. One of the
supreme quality of leadership which is identified is unquestionable integrity. Without doing this,
it is not possible to carry out team work. A leader cannot expect from its team member to be
honest if he lacks such types of qualities. One of the most difficult job for a leader is to persuade
others. It can be only possible if leader inspire its follower through setting a effective example.
For a leader it is important to think positive and use its positive approach can be visible through
their actions. One of the other aspect of leadership is delegation and empowerment. A leader
cannot do everything. It is essential for leader to focus on key responsibilities at the time of
leaving work rest to their team member. One of the aspect which lead to distinguish leader from
its followers us creativity and innovation. To think creative and continuous innovation can make
an individual to stand out from the crowd (Garavan, Watson and O’Brien, 2016). For example,
one of the leadership aspect which is required to improve is miscommunication. For a leader it is
important to be good communicator for team and provide them strategy to accomplish the goals.
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It can be stated that good communicator can be a good leader and help team in accomplishing
success. With good communication a leader can easily influence its employees to work
according to the set goals. A good leader can easily motivate its team members through its
effective communication skills.
2nd entry
For a leader it is important to be transparent as it help in wining the trust of employees.
An effective leader always use transparency to assist those who are around them, embrace
change, which can be accomplished with a combination of communication (Northouse, 2018). It
is important for people to know the way leader has taken a decision and the ways it can affect
others. Most of the time transparent leader focus on micromanagers as they give credit to others
at the time of occurring success and taken the blame if they got fail. To experience a failure is
known as the power for shaping a leader. It is considered as powerful resources to learn and
teach renewal, survival and innovation. Along with this it can be stated that acceptance failure
can be change and inspire other team members. Most of the time leader take great risk and got
fail. Therefore, it can be stated that leader gain great perspective related to people to whom they
can easily trust (Gould, 2018).
From the feedback views are changed related to the effectiveness of leadership skill. There are
different types of leadership style which consist of different elements. For a leader it is important
to be keep clear communication with its employees and provide them all information which is
required to be communicated. It is considered as one of the effective method to make employees
trust on him. There are many benefits of transparency such as it leads to form better relationship
between leader and employees. Along with this it also helps in come up with better solutions
(Gould, 2018).
It is important to develop leadership skills ad seek to improve relationship with manager.
There are various leadership elements which is important to understand and follow them so that
all process can be carried out in an effective manner. There are many leaders who are competent
but only few of them can be qualify as remarkable. There is significant different between
management and employee and bosses. For a leader, it is important to understand the nature of
this differences and accept them. For a leader it is important to present themselves in front of
team members in an effective manner (Keating, Rosch and Burgoon, 2014). It is analyzed that
extraordinary leader lead to plan ahead and mostly they are supremely well organized. They
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mainly think on the basis of goals and objectives. For a leader it is important to understand the
way of delegating work to employees. Leader should require to delegate work to employees on
the basis of their skills and knowledge so that all the task can be accomplished on time. Along
with this, team member should help each other in their work which assist in carrying out research
in an effective manner. Apart from this it can be said that a good leader can easily reduce the
chances of conflict and focus on keeping unity among team members (Certo, 2018).
Leadership elements can be used to implement a single improvement in leadership at the
workplace level is transparency. If leader is transparent with others then it can easily make a
good relationship with others. Along with this, it helps in avoiding any type of misunderstanding
at the workplace and carry out work in an effective manner. To establish relationship with
employees is important so that they can work with each other in a group without raising the
chances of conflicts. Hence, it can be stated that transparency help in making improvement in
effective leadership style.
Entry 3
The specific leadership theory which can be used at the workplace is situational
leadership theory recommended that there is no individual leadership style can be considered as
best. It all lead to depend on situation and the type of strategy which is best for the task. As per
the theory, an effective leader is that who changes in leadership style on the basis of situation It
is also referred to the Hersey Blanchard situational leadership theory (Dong, Zhang, and Li,
2017). There are four primary leadership styles which are considered in this theory that are
Telling (S1): It is leadership style in which leader tell his people to what to do and the way to be
done. This type of style is adopted in such situation when task is complex and employees are not
effective enough to handle by their own. In this style leader use to make decision by own and
motivate team to accomplish the given target on time. For instance, views and opinions are taken
from employees related to the work but final decision is made by only leader.
Selling (S2): It is a style which lead to involve more back to forth between leader and followers.
In this leader sell their ideas and message to their group member for buying into the process. For
instance, leader can supervise them toward the task and provide them some suggestion with the
use of them they can easily carry out their work. It is important to encourage team member. This
leadership style lead to provide opportunities for the team to discuss and exchange their opinion
and views with each other.
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Participating (S3): It is considered as a approach in which leader offer less direction and make
sure that all its group members take active role while coming up with the innovative ideas and
decision. Mostly leader use to less guide its employees in such circumstance when employees are
highly skilled to carry out task in their own way (Jaques, 2017).
Delegating (S4): It is characterized a less involved hands of approach to leadership, as per the
style group member lead to make most of the decision and take responsibility of their work.
Leader used this style at the time when employees are highly skilled and capable to complete
their work by their own way.
Hence it can be said that situational leadership style provides leaders a good understanding
related to the level of readiness which followers exhibit for a specific task.
More specifically it can be said that situational leaders help in maintain an acute awareness of
their innate leadership which is related to the strengths and area for developments. Leader who
adopt this theory are creative and they have more productive team. A good leader always knows
when its team member required help or not (Sekaran and Bougie, 2016).
From the academic article it is summarized that there are different types of leadership style
which can be adopted in different situation and they assist in completing the goal on time. Along
with this it is important to understand different situation and change leadership style accordingly
so that employees can work in an effective manner in different situations.
One specific example to improve this leadership expect for improving the individual
capabilities in leadership at the workplace. To improve this leadership, expect a leader can focus
on solving the issues of employees which the face while carrying out their task. Along with this
leader can also support its team member to initiate its team member in complex task which can
provide them motivation to complete it on time.
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