Leadership Management: Partner Strengths, Planning, and Conflict

This report delves into key leadership and management concepts, focusing on the strengths a partner should possess for a successful workshop. The analysis highlights the importance of organizational skills, public relations, event management, and project management. It explains how these strengths complement each other, ensuring well-organized and effectively delivered workshop sessions. Furthermore, the report emphasizes the significance of planning and leading within an organization, detailing how these functions contribute to achieving goals, motivating employees, and facilitating effective decision-making. Conflict management and communication enhancement are addressed, underscoring the importance of emotional intelligence and creativity in resolving conflicts. The report concludes by referencing essential functions of management according to ManagementStudyGuide (2018) and provides a list of relevant references.

Management Concepts
By

Key Strengths That my Partner
Should Possess
• Organizational Skills: they will be useful in coordinating the series of
activities that will take place in the workshop.
• Public relations strengths: they will be useful in attracting people to
the workshop (Rai, 2012).
• Event management strengths: they will be useful in determining
where to hold the workshop, internal designing of the room, among
others.
• Project management strategies: useful in managing cost, scope, and
schedule of the entire workshop (Burke, 2013).

How my partner’s Strengths
compliments my Strengths.
• The organizational strengths of my partner will combine with my
effective audience management strengths to ensure the workshop
sessions are well organized and delivered.
• The public relations skills of my partner will bring the audience to the
workshop and my communication skills will deliver the content or
presentations in the workshop.
• The project management strengths of my partner will be reinforced
by my team building/ collaboration strengths to ensure the success of
the workshop (Burke, 2013)

Key Leadership Points to be
Addressed
1) Planning: it will be useful because of the following
• It Involves setting goals and objectives and devising a plan of action to
achieve them (Wheelen & Hunger,2011).
• Planning gives unity of purpose and direction in an organization by
defining the path to be followed (Goetsch & Davis, 2014).
• Planning involves the analysis of both external and internal
environments of the organization thus it captures major factors that
influence the organization’s performance (Schraeder, Self, Jordan, &
Portis, 2014).

Key Leadership Points to be
Addressed
2) Leading: It will be useful because of the following;
• Involves motivating/ influencing followers to act in a particular way.
• Leadership in an organization makes everyone to be enthusiastic to
exert sufficient effort to achieve organizational goals (Schein, 2010).
• Effective leadership facilitates qualitative decision making among the
subordinates (Nohria & Khurana, 2010).
• Effective leadership minimizes the use of authoritarian power by
managers since leadership wins the loyalty of subordinates.

Conflict management and
Communication Enhancement
Leadership Traits.
1. Emotional Intelligence: the ability to understand once feeling and
those of others and handle them appropriately (Boroş, Meslec,
Curşeu, & Emons, 2010).
2. Creativity: It is an essential skill that helps in deriving non-offensive
and suitable solutions to conflicts (Ramsbotham, Miall, &
Woodhouse, 2011).

Key Functions of Management
• According to ManagementStudyGuide (2018).

References
Boroş, S., Meslec, N., Curşeu, P. L., & Emons, W. (2010). Struggles for
cooperation: Conflict resolution strategies in multicultural
groups. Journal of managerial psychology, 25(5), 539-554.
Burke, R. (2013). Project management: planning and control
techniques. New Jersey, USA.
Goetsch, D. L., & Davis, S. B. (2014). Quality management for
organizational excellence. Upper Saddle River, NJ: pearson.
ManagementStudyGuide. (2018). Functions of Management - Planning,
Organizing, Staffing, Directing and Controlling. Retrieved from
https://www.managementstudyguide.com/management_functions.ht
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References
Nohria, N., & Khurana, R. (Eds.). (2010). Handbook of leadership theory
and practice. Harvard Business Press.
Rai, A. K. (2012). Customer relationship management: Concepts and
cases. PHI Learning Pvt. Ltd.
Ramsbotham, O., Miall, H., & Woodhouse, T. (2011). Contemporary
conflict resolution. Polity.
Schein, E. H. (2010). Organizational culture and leadership(Vol. 2). John
Wiley & Sons.

References
Schraeder, M., Self, D. R., Jordan, M. H., & Portis, R. (2014). The
functions of management as mechanisms for fostering interpersonal
trust. Advances in business research, 5(1), 50-62.
Wheelen, T. L., & Hunger, J. D. (2011). Concepts in strategic
management and business policy. Pearson Education India.