Personal Development for Leadership and Strategic Management: A Report

This report examines personal development within the context of leadership and strategic management. It begins by analyzing the essential knowledge and skills required, including strategic thinking, planning, people management, and change management. The report then presents a personal skills audit, identifies objectives for improvement, and outlines a performance development plan with activities to enhance skills such as team building, IT knowledge, and change management. Furthermore, the report discusses factors influencing the creation and communication of organizational vision, different approaches to vision development, and the key elements for stakeholder commitment. Finally, it explores the benefits of skill audit tools and sources of information for reviewing success, concluding with the importance of continuous development for achieving both personal and organizational strategies. The report incorporates various leadership theories, such as trait theory, behavioral theory, and Fayol's management theory, providing a comprehensive overview of the topic.

Personal Development for Leadership and
Strategic Management

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3
TASK 1..............................................................................................................................................3
Analysing the knowledge and skills in leadership and strategic management..........................3
Assessing the contribution of other factors which contribute in to achievements of
organisational vision and strategy..............................................................................................4
Theories of leadership and management to access the personal development.......................4
Justifying the ranking of leadership and management knowledge and skills required to
successfully create and achieve organisational strategy............................................................5
Leadership and management knowledge required for the successful achievements...............5
TASK 2..............................................................................................................................................5
Personal Skills Audit....................................................................................................................5
Objectives:...................................................................................................................................6
Performance Development Plan.................................................................................................6
Justification.................................................................................................................................7
Activities for personal development...........................................................................................8
TASK 3..............................................................................................................................................8
Discussing the factors impacting creation of organisation vision...............................................8
Different approaches to developing vision.................................................................................8
Evaluates the key factors which impact on the communication of vision to stakeholder.........9
Evaluates the key factors needed to gain the commitments of internal stakeholder...............9
TASK 4............................................................................................................................................10
Benefits of Skill Audit Tool used in achieving the personal and organisational strategy.........10
Source of Information required to review success ..................................................................10
TASK 5............................................................................................................................................11

CONCLUSION..................................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES...................................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
In order to achieve the strategic goals of an organization it depends mainly on the
personal and professional skill of strategic managers. Further in this research personal and
professional skills have been discussed in this assignment. Organizations depend upon capable
leadership to guide through different aspects. Therefore the study will further set the objectives
to meet the personal development which needs in the context of strategic. Analyse the factors
which impact on the creation of organisational vision. At the further section it will also define
the benefits of review.
TASK 1
Analysing the knowledge and skills in leadership and strategic management.
Leadership Management
Skills & Knowledge
Strategic Thinking : Strategic Thinking skills is the most essential skill which should have in
strategic leaders or managers. It helps to build an idea for the company vision where company
wants to achieve goals (Asah, Fatoki and Rungani, 2015).
Planning and Delivery : Planning and delivery skills is necessary important to be personally
organised and motivated as a leader. For presenting the planning and controlling it is very
necessary to form a differentiating result oriented task to be more energetic and forming the
company vision and mission.
People Management : the basic role of leaders is to motivate their leaders and followers into
more realizing form (Boylan, 2016). This is a very challenging skill for every leader to make how
to manage the group of a team.
Change Management : Change management knowledge and theories should have known by
the strategic managers to form and develop the strong action plan for the organisation
development. This knowledge of theories and concepts are very useful to determine the best
advantageous growth and more energetic goals and objectives.
Strategic Management
Skills & Knowledge

Ability to align : Strategic leaders should needs to align frequently which need to achieve long
term goals. This leadership skill enable to accomplish the organisation vision and mission
strategies.
Building and Expanding Skill set : Strategic leaders don't rest on their past achievements and
training. They are also able to see new challenges coming down the road that require new set
of learning capacities (Chuang, Jackson and Jiang, 2016).
Ability to Interpret and communicate : Strategic leaders also should require to gathered
different information, filtering and essential to innovate the new set of working information
and thoughts.
Assessing the contribution of other factors which contribute in to achievements of
organisational vision and strategy.
Human resource factor : Human resource factors can be the other factor which helps to
achieving the company aims and objectives. HR sources also helps to engage in the training of
staff and volunteers to build the organisations capabilities.
Organisational culture : Business culture within the organisation is a very important factor
which are very effective and powerful to manage the significant outcomes for the business.
Innovation : Innovation can be the other factor which helps to accomplish the business
objectives and also which enable to compensate the business development (Dong and et.al.,
2017). Leaders and managers has always think creative and trying to make the new business
plan for the organisation development.
Theories of leadership and management to access the personal development.
Trait Theory : Trait theory of leadership defines the different traits which should have in
a leader within the organisation. Like As per the theory leader should have following traits such
as good personality, intellectual ability, Maturity, Fairness, Decision, Dominance, Diplomacy,
conceptual skills, etc. all such skills are very necessary for a personal development. Such skills in
a n individual can be profitable for the organisation as well. But on the same side, critics argues
that this theory is more relies on inborn traits and measures traits only after a person have
already consists a leader.

Behavioural Theory : As opposed to traits theory of behavioural resulted that it based
on the patter that affected employee satisfaction and performance. According to this leadership
concept it gives the greater satisfaction to followers and also recognize the better outcomes. It
also define that individual belongs to different behaviours and having different perceptions.
Behavioural theory is manageable which inspiring the long term goals and also motivating the
business opportunity and goals.
Management theory by Henri Fayol : Fayol developed six function of management that work in
conjunction with 14 management principles (Gopee and Galloway, 2017). Fayol described the
six functions of management which is forecasting, planning, organizing, commanding,
coordinating and controlling. Such functions helps to leaders and managers to achieve the
personal development.
Justifying the ranking of leadership and management knowledge and skills required to
successfully create and achieve organisational strategy.
Strategic decision making skill is the competitive leadership knowledge and skill. In this
skill system manager and leader play a different role in each particular situation. Like leaders
have to manage conflict in the workplace management.
Developing leaders are the another strategy that helps to achieve the company strategic
goals. Also it helps to certainly makes the study also makes the things more effectively applied.
Leadership and management knowledge required for the successful achievements.
In order to achieve final destination and objectives leadership and management
knowledge is very much required. To become a strategic manager in reputed organisation. It is
necessary to form a different objectives and goals (Hawkins and Edwards, 2015). Like in order
to achieve the final destination manager required to pay attention towards the company aims &
objectives. Also leaders are need to understand the meaning of the vision to be more energetic.
Trust is the another required skill of a leader which exhibit clear focus and consistent behaviour
between the managers. All such behaviour is useful for the organisation. Knowledge relate with
the concept of high learning which makes the new system and forming the new basic line
concept. However, new managing developing result

TASK 2
Personal Skills Audit
Skills Good Average In need of Training
Communication Skills ✔
Decision Making Skills ✔
Time Management
Skills
✔
Change management
Knowledge
✔
Business Knowledge ✔
Problem solving Skills ✔
IT Knowledge ✔
Leadership Skills ✔
Team Building Skills ✔
Objectives:
 To make Ayam Brand best performing food company in Singapore which requires a
team building skills.
 Also, in order to achieve a Company's vision of offering high quality products it requires
a change in organisational structure (Hillson and Murray-Webster, 2017).
 To manage the online order and online customer service I need to develop a knowledge
of Information Technology.
Performance Development Plan
learning from successes and mistakes: In this step I need to learn from mistakes of other, so
that in future I am not engaged in making those mistakes again. This will support me in growing
and achieving objectives.

using diagnostic tools e.g. Myers Briggs; I can also make use of Myers Briggs psychology test so
that I can know about my confidence level and I can have made improvement in them.
development of emotional intelligence: In this I need to have control over my emotions
whenever I am facing tough situation so that overcome the hurdles which I am facing because
of showing emotions.
ability to learn: I need to develop my ability to retain things so that It can help me in growing
overall.
systems thinking: In developing this type of thinking, it will help in bringing out solutions to
many problems.
Areas of
Improvement
Action Plan Measure Time Period
Team building Skills In order to improve
team building skills, I
need to work in a
team, set proper
collaboration and
understanding and
need to establish
team rule and need to
lead a team (Hoch and
et.al., 2018).
This skills can be
measured if am able
to build effective
team and set proper
collaboration among
and achieve the set
goals easily.
6 Months
IT Knowledge In order to improve
knowledge about IT I
will read technical
books every day, take
IT classes and learn
about various business
software.
This skill can be
measured if I am able
make use of different
business IT tools.
3 Months

Change Management
Knowledge
To gain the change
management
knowledge I should
learn about various
change management
theories and learn
about managing
resistance.
This skill can be
measured I am able to
plan the change with
less or no resistance
from employees.
5 Months.
Please add following theories of leadership and management and their application:
Transformational Leadership:
Transformational leadership is a leadership style in which leaders encourage, inspire and
motivate employees to innovate and create change that will help grow and shape the future
success of the company.
Transactional Leadership: In this leadership style leaders are involved in rewarding employees
if they perform best and also punish them if they do not perform well.
tri-dimensional leadership theory: In this theory leaders are engaged in performing three
different task. Leaders are also involved in identifying deviations in this theory.
charismatic leadership: In this leaders are engaged in involved in open communication with
workers that supports company in building better relationship with workers
situational leadership: In this leaders perform differently in different situation. They behave
according to situation.
Justification
The major activities included in the development plan are Team Building skills, IT skills
and Change Management Knowledge. These objectives and skills that I have selected to work
upon will help me in developing necessary attributes that a manager should possess in order to

succeed (Komives, 2016). However, these activities will not only help in my personal
development but also act as a backup for achievement of organizational goals:-
 Ayam Brand aims at encouraging consumption of naturally produced goods so that
consumers concentrated in Asia develop a healthier lifestyle and I also intend to develop
those skills that will help me in identifying and studying the constantly changing market
and therefore formulate best strategies for implementing and accommodating these
changes in the organizational practices.
 Ayam Brand is also venturing into development of online market and by developing my
IT skills, I will be able to develop the site in a better manner thus attracting more
customers and increasing the revenue.
Activities for personal development
As identified in the personal skill audit conducted above, there are certain skills like
team building skills, change management skills, IT knowledge etc. which I need to work upon
and for that purpose I intend to follow a set of activities that will help me in accomplishing
those activities (Mittal and Dhar, 2015).
 I am planning to join coaching classes for developing my IT skills where I will learn about
different tools and techniques related to latest technological developments. These skills
will help me in developing my core competency.
 Reading various books on time management and team building skills will further assist
me in developing the ability of influencing others and thus become a successful
manager so that I can succeed at Ayam brand.
TASK 3
Discussing the factors impacting creation of organisation vision.
There are several factors which impact company vision and goals of the organisation.
Like lack of resources this factor limit the growth of the development due to which company
cannot achieve their set goals and objectives. Like resources are financial resources, human
resources, machinery, land etc (Mumford and et.al., 2017).

Lack of knowledge and skill in personal can be the another factor which impact company
mission and objectives. Reason behind, low productive and lack of creativeness can limits the
growth and strategies for the better accomplishment of aims and objectives.
Please add following factors impacting on organisational vision:
history of the organisation, Tesco is being taken in report. It is British multinational
organization which is been headquartered in Britain.
external and internal business environment: In this Tesco is being impacted by both external
and internal environments. Like for example Political factor which includes laws, rules and
regulations are included can affect the working of organization.
capacity of the organisation: Organization like Tesco has full capacity to achieve their goals and
objectives. They are also involve in giving training to workers.
anticipating potential barriers: Potential barriers which is being faced by organization is that
employee turnover does exist in organization.
skills and ambition of leadership team: Leaders are engaged in motivating employees so that
there skills and efficiency increased.
Different approaches to developing vision.
There are some techniques and approaches in order to develop a company vision such as given
below:
 Brainstorming is one of the most leading technique which come up with new thoughts
and ideas by different mindset of people.
 Creativity or intuition exercises creates the workaholic environment around the
employees which automatically support to develop company vision.
 Encourage a bottom up/grass roots to generated vision and growth.
 Visualisation is the effective approach to build up the new thoughts and innovative ideas
for the company development.
Evaluates the key factors which impact on the communication of vision to stakeholder.
Internal factors and external factors impact the communication of vision to
stakeholders. Stakeholders are the individuals who interested in the operations of a business.
Like customers, employees, investors, suppliers. But in such situations stakeholders are not

happy and satisfied with the commitments of the organisation (Plant, Barac and Sarens, 2019).
For example due to improper vision or message of the organisation can affect the stakeholder
perception in the context of the organisation. Low commitment outcomes is the another
affecting fact which ineffective for the organisation development.
external stakeholders : There are various stakeholders like Sainsbury by which Tesco has a
strong Competition. This has an impact on working of company.
size of organisation: Organization have around 15000 employees which has been currently
employed.
Evaluates the key factors needed to gain the commitments of internal stakeholder
In order to satisfy customers, employees suppliers. Company should always fulfill the
needs and wants of their potential stakeholder. This practices can helpful to gain the
commitments of internal stakeholder like employees, investors, suppliers etc. Get hundred
percent involvement of all stakeholders in planning and meetings so they always be happy and
satisfied with the decisions taking by the company (Raelin, 2017). Also, organisation needs to
share true information with their stakeholders in order to gain his trust and honesty. All such
activities or practices can helpful to measure the strength and objectives. Another strategy or
way can adopted by the company is sharing the positive feedbacks to the stakeholders at the
end of the every projects.