Leadership & Management: Reflective Essay on Skills Development

This essay is a reflective analysis of the author's leadership skills and a proposed development plan for improvement. The author identifies delegation, creativity, positivity, and responsibility as existing strengths, acquired through academic experiences and extracurricular activities like sports and art. Areas needing development include communication, motivation, and relationship building, which the author aims to improve through targeted learning, practice, and self-improvement strategies. The development plan involves reading books, attending courses, practicing communication, studying motivational techniques, and actively building relationships. The author also reflects on leading with sustainability and social responsibility, emphasizing the importance of meeting stakeholder expectations and promoting workforce development. The goal is to cultivate a leadership style that is both effective and socially conscious.

Running head: LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
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Table of content
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Identifying the three leadership qualities present and how the following were gained...................3
Skills of delegation.......................................................................................................................3
Skills of creativity........................................................................................................................3
Positivity and responsibility.........................................................................................................4
Identifying the three qualities which is to be developed.................................................................4
Communication............................................................................................................................4
Motivation....................................................................................................................................5
Relationship building...................................................................................................................5
Development plan............................................................................................................................5
Attain communicational skills.....................................................................................................6
Increase my behavioural skills.....................................................................................................6
Relationship building skill...........................................................................................................6
Explaining how will I lead in context of sustainability and social responsibility...........................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7
Appendix........................................................................................................................................11
Journal............................................................................................................................................11

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Introduction
Leadership is a very essential element which is required in order to be able to lead a
group of people with common objectives to their goals. I have clarified in past experience that
leading is a conventional process it requires skills and competencies in order to be conducted in a
prominent way. Acquiring skills related to the leadership helps a firm to become an efficient
leader. In this assessment I will be providing a reflective essay on how I developed by existing
leadership skills and what are my requirements of skills which will be needed by me in order to
become a good leader. The development plan will also be laid out to describe the ways in which
the skills will acquired to become a good leader.
Identifying the three leadership qualities present and how the following were
gained
The following are the 3 leadership qualities and skills which I have and the ways in which the
following skills have been acquired:
Skills of delegation
Delegation is an important skill to master of an individual wants to become a leader. I
have the skills of delegating my authorities to my teammates of follower which makes the
task easy to perform and involves every member which help me in gutter to the collective
goal of the team. I have learnt the following skills through my academics as well as my
involvement in sports. I have known the importance of delegation as well as the ways in
which authorities or work can be delegated to my teammates of colleagues (Krell, 2015).
I have played sports and this has helped me to experiment delegation of authorities by
defining the role of very teammate within the game and moving towards the goal
collectively. This has helped me attaining effective skills of delaying many authorities as
a leader to my follower and co workers in order to reach a collective objective through
team work (Ward, 2016).
Skills of creativity
Creativity is a very important element within leadership of leader. Leaders need to be
creative and innovative in order to become an efficient leader. Thinking something out of

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the box for the purpose reaching the goal in evident manner helps a team to efficiently
reach of common goal. I have creativity in me as I desire of knowing the different paths
and ways through which a goal can be reached in an evident manner. I have learnt the
following skills through the involvement in art and interest within technologies.
Innovation in modern days have helped me learnt that there are new machines and ways
which come every day and help a individual to reach their desires and gola in a different
(Cleeter, Arms, Peter, Bemis & Swint, 2017). This has helped me to understand the
importance of creativity in every aspect of life and leadership. Hence my approach to nay
work is creative as I think a creative path through which I can reach my goals in evident
manner (Sosik & Jung, 2018).
Positivity and responsibility
I have the skills of staying positive and taking responsibilities for my job role. Positivity
and responsibility is a very important behavioral skill which should be acquired by a
good leader (Clinton, 2018). This helps the leader to spread positive environment for
team and workforce in which they are operating in. I have acquired the skills of staying
positive and responsible through my academic life (Alter, 2017). The education provided
by my schools and high schools have helped me too learn that staying positive and taking
responsibilities for own action help a person to become a leader one day.
Identifying the three qualities which is to be developed
The three skills which I lack and desire of acquiring are discussed as follows:
Communication
Communication is one of biggest needs which good leaders need to have in order to
become an efficient one. Communication skills are required by a leader to communicate
and share information within a team. I have not been very good at communication and
my communication skills are not good which has played as major barrier in my
leadership goal. As I am not good at communication there can be communication gap
between me my and followers which can lead various problems between the workforce or
team in lieu of reaching a common goal (Day, Fleenor, Atwater, Sturm & McKee, 2014).
These have been major shortcoming which I have faced in order of becoming a good
leader. I desire that I gain proper communication skills so that I am able to properly

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communicate and share knowledge with my colleague in an evident manner as this will
help me in become a evident leader in the future.
Motivation
Although I have the skill of being positive and taking responsibility i lack in the
behavioral skills of motivating. It can be said that I am not good at motivating people all
though I stay motivated through positiveness (Smylie, 2015). This mean I am not good at
making sure that my team is motivated and that they are highly motivated on performing
the role while achieving a common objective. It can be observed that as I am weak at
communication it is not possible for me to motivate others in a evident manner. It can be
said that this is major element which I lack in order to become a good leader as I am not
able to proper motivate my colleagues. I desire to attain such skills through proper
learning so that there are no such problems in the near future and I become efficient
leader in the near future (Parkay, Anctil & Hass, 2014).
Relationship building
As seen in the above discussion I am not able to communicate properly this has played as
major barrier in my role a leader and developing good relationship with my colleagues. It
is not that I don't have good relationship with my colleagues but I develop relationship at
a lower place as I'm an introvert and lack efficient communication skills which will lead
me to have proper bond with my teammates (Ferris, Moore, Callaway & Foley, 2018).
This has also affected my way of becoming a efficient leadership. The operation of a
leader and the followers is majorly dependent on the relationship which they develop
between each other. Hence I would look to acquire skill of relationship building as this
will help me to effectively operate with my colleagues in order to reach a common goal.
Development plan
The following development plan will demonstrate the manners in which I plan to acquire
the skills stated above. The plan will demonstrate the approaches which will be take, the measure
which will be taken to monitors and the ways in which the errors detected in plan can be
mitigated acquire the kills in a significant manner. The main objectives of the plan is to be attain
skills of communication, motivation and relationship building in order to become better leader in
future (Larsson, Sandahl, Söderhjelm, Sjövold & Zander, 2017).

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Attain communicational skills
Firstly in order to attain communicational skills I will plan to buy books and will go to
institutions which provide lessons on how to build communication skills. In this way I will be
able to increase my communication skills. Through books I will be able to know the major steps
which are to be taken in order to increase communication and what are the elements which are to
be focused in descriptive manner. In the institution there can be practical knowledge in building
communication with others. I will also be doing personal development courses which will help
me in interacting with others which will increase my communication skills in an significant
manner (Whitlow, Patterson & Billings, 2017). I will be monitoring my progress through the use
of milestones and other KPI. I will be working on my language and will look to use appropriate
word in different situation this will enhance my communication skills in respect to others. Doing
this will help me to acquire communication skills in faster and efficient place. Monitoring the
process will help be in measuring my girth and mitigate any barriers which are there in line of
my growth in communication with others. I will train myself in both verbal and written
communication for better information sharing process. In this way I will be able to develop my
communication skills in an evident manner (Rice & O’Keefe, 2014).
Increase my behavioural skills
Secondly in order to increase my behavioural skills of Motivation I will try and take classes to
know about different aspect of motivation and how motivations acts. Proper study of motivation
and different ways of motivating other will studied in order to make sure that I train myself in
motivating my colleagues as a leader. Motivational aspect of leader will be studied through
academic books which will give an unbiased view on the importance of motivation within
leadership. I myself will try to be motivated under any circumstance so that I am able to motivate
others at workplace. Motivational aspect of workplace and teamwork will be studied to gain
knowledge over how to motivate others at workplace and the ways in which I stay motivated in
adverse situations. This will help me grow in motivating other. This will happen parked to the
development of communication development as these are interrelated. This will too be monitored
through milestones in which at the time of reaching milestone will be determined showing the
place at which the skills is acquired. In this way I will develop my motivational skills and will
be able to motivate others for purpose of reaching a common goal (Jolemore & Soroka, 2017).
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Lastly for the purpose of relationship building skill I will try to meet new people every day and
will try to communicate and build effective relationship. Books and training related to
relationship building in leadership will be taken in order to make sure that the following
behavioral skills are developed in an evident manner. It is to be noted that as this is a behavioral
skill it will need major practice and practical knowledge for which meeting new people and will
necessary. For this purpose I will meet new people at my institution as well as workplace as a
result of which I will be able to maintain my growth in developing proper relationship with
other. This will increase my skills as a leader and help me to develop and grow as leader in the
future. The progress in this development will also measured through milestones as this will help
in better monitoring and mitigation of error (Leung, 2015).
Explaining how will I lead in context of sustainability and social responsibility
Sustainability and social responsibility are words which are majorly derived from the
corporate world. I have considered and understood that can be said that leadership in the
corporate work requires sustainable development in the initiatives which will address the
demands of the stakeholder as well meet the expectation of the related society. It is important
that leader is responsible in delivering such results meeting stakeholders and society’s criteria. I
will have to lead under such conditions too. For this purpose will lead with responsibility I will
take the responsibility of my workforce motivate them and try to provide the results expected by
the stakeholder. Sustaining the development of the workforce is another common goal which I
will be looking too active in my corporate leadership activities. For this purpose I will use skills
of communication and delegation which will eventually help me to sustain the development and
take responsibility for the meeting the future demands of the stakeholders. In order to meet the
increasing demand through achievement in sustainable rate of development, creativity and
innovation will be used as tool. It will help me to increase the effect of the organization act and
will help the firm to deliver as per the expectation of the stakeholders (Ackley, 2017).
Conclusion
Concluding in the light of above context it can be said that leadership is conventional
process developing leadership skills need time and training but if the skills are mastered using
them at operation is very evident. It can be said that a leader needs to be good at communicating,

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motivation and relationship building on order to effect. This helps the leader to create a strong
bond with their follower and operate in a significant way to achieve a common goal.

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Appendix
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Plan to
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skills
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Creativity
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Identificati
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Communicat
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Motivation
Relationship
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Communicat
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development
Building of
relationship
skills
Follow up