Personal Effectiveness: Analyzing Leadership Skills of Sundar Pichai

This report provides a detailed analysis of Sundar Pichai's personal effectiveness and leadership skills. It begins with an introduction to personal effectiveness, defining its core concepts and relevance. The case study review critically evaluates Pichai's skills and behaviors, focusing on his communication, team player abilities, decision-making, and innovative approach. The report highlights both positive and negative elements of his leadership, assessing their impact on his success. The reflective statement discusses how personal effectiveness principles can be applied to personal development in a competitive job market, including self-assessed development needs. The report concludes with a summary of key findings and recommendations, emphasizing the importance of these skills for aspiring leaders.

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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
CASE STUDY REVIEW................................................................................................................1
Apply thories and framework related to personal effectiveness by providing critical evaluation
of skills and behaviour that Sundar Pichai used to become a global leader...............................1
REFLECTIVE STATEMENT.........................................................................................................5
Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles to your own development
for getting success in competitive job market.............................................................................5
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal effectiveness refers to a branch of self-help movement which deals with the
goals, related concept and success. It is a combination of some ideas that reflects a power of
positive thinking and positive psychology. In simple terms personal effectiveness is separate
from the new thought movement. Personal effectiveness people are highly focused and
determined towards their specific goals and it could be achieved by developing the self-
discipline. Personal effectiveness reflects something that is entirely unique for everyone and it is
basically based on an individual person career. In this person will utilise all their skills, talent and
energy to fulfil the goals or setting the goals in the life. This report is based on a Sundar Pichai
who a known as a business executive officer of Alphabet Inc. that is a subsidiary firm of Google.
He was born on 12 july, 1972 and in 2015 he was appointed as a new CEO of Google. It is a
pride moment for India to see that Indian born become a CEO of largest multinational
technology company. This report includes the skill and behaviours that helps Sundar pichai to
become an global leader. It also involves the positive and negative elements within Sundar
Pichai skills and behaviour with their impacts. Further it explains the reflection for own
development to maintain the competition within job related market. It helps in analysing the
opportunities and threats that are including in developing the personal effectiveness in order to
remove the weaknesses so that high profitable results are to be enjoyed in the job market by an
individual person (Sundar Pichai Life Story: A Man Bringing Revolutionary Changes, 2021).
CASE STUDY REVIEW
Apply thories and framework related to personal effectiveness by providing critical evaluation of
skills and behaviour that Sundar Pichai used to become a global leader
Sundar Pichai was born on July 1972. He get the C grade in one of paper at IIT
Kharagpur. Form that he got the inspiration to work hard and improve their academic and
management skills. Due to this their scholar degrees are to be improved which helps in becoming
a leader of Google in 2015. To become a global leader, several skills and behaviours of Sundar
Pichai helps them that impact on enhancing overall personal effectiveness (Cowen, 2020).
Sundar Pichai follow the Affiliative leadership style. It is a type of leadership style which
promotes harmony among the followers by solving the conflicts so that fewer conflicts are to be
faced by the team members. This leadership style establishes the collaborative environment
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within the company and shows the better way to succeed and bring the best out of others. To
effectively reflects Pichai's leadership style that helps in becoming a global leaders several skills
and behaviour are to be explained below:
Skills and behaviour that made Sundar Pichai an personally effective global leader
 Communication- It is one of the best skills of Sundar Pichai that helps in becoming a
global leader. He has a good tone of communication that helps in easily connecting with
the huge audience. Sundar Pichai is a strong communicator and ensures that every
member understand the mission and task effectively and properly so that
misunderstanding are not creating while performing the task (Murugan, 2017). To
maintain the effectiveness in the communication, SMCR communication theory is to be
referred to Sunder Pichai because it helps in systematically transfer the information to
team members so that effectiveness would be maintained.
 Team player- When an individual person is talking about Sundar Pichai then they
discuss about their team player skills. Having the team leading skills helps in removing
the roadblocks or any barriers that has to be stand in completing the task. Due to team
building skills Sundar Pichai encourage the collaboration and personal development
within working environment. It also set the collaborative culture that helps in attaining
the targets effectively.
 Decision making skills- Sundar Pichai has achieved the targets in their life by working
hard, never giving up attitude and their dedication towards attaining the hand work. This
helps in taking an effective decisions related to presented task. In this it is evaluated that
Sunder Pichai focus on adopting the behavioural theory that helps in taking decisions
effectively.
 Encouraging innovation- Innovative organisations are to be developed with innovative
ideas that are provided by the members of people. Sundar Pichai has an innovative
behaviour due to this Goggle and Alphabet becomes a largest technology company in
world. This also encourages the working employees to suggest innovative ideas and
thoughts so that their overall professional career is to be enhanced. Due to innovative
ideas and thoughts organisation get the productive results in their long term survival
(Vidergor, 2018).
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 Inclusive leader- Sundar Pichai is a leader who mainly believes in encouraging and
empowering their team members. Due to this skill his leadership style that is Affiliative
leadership is to be reflected a best style. Sundar highly focus on other success and always
seems calm and patience while performing their leadership role.
 Consistent and predictable leaders- An effective leader is very challenging in nature.
Leader has the skills of predicting things and influences other person on the basis of
predictable things. AS per the nature of Sundar Pichai predictable nature defines a
maturity of a businessman who can be consistent to do the operations effectively in a
specified period of time. In an organisation leader have a patience to go through the
several phases so that high profitable results are to be enjoyed by an organisation by
reducing losses.
Positive elements of Sundar Pichai skills and behaviour with their impact
There are several positive elements of Sundar Pichai that are helpful in their career and
become a global leader that are to be shown below:
 The first positive element of Pichai's is their ambitious nature that helps in enhancing
their decision making skills. This impact on organisation positively because in this he
work on the vision i.e. '' want to organise the world data and it viable universally''. This
vision is to be completed because of their ambitious nature and hardworking skills.
 Another positive element is to wearing failure like a badge of honour that helps in
improve their communication skills. In childhood days due to poor communication skills
he see the failure and from that he practice a lot become a best communicator. It impact
positively on the Google to connect with larger audience and recognise certain things that
helps in enhancing the brand image of Google and Alphabet.
 By following the passion Sundar Pichai innovation skills and behaviour is to be reflected
in positive manner. His love for technology becomes a passion when he goes for further
studies at IIT Kharagpur. It is highly beneficial for their overall professional career and
set the way to apex at Google (Collie and et. al., 2016).
 Another positive element is time management factor of Sundar Pichai as it is highly
effective to become a billionaire. Due to effective time management he takes appropriate
decisions which are beneficial for company success. For instance- In 2017, Sundar Pichai
drew publicity because of terminating the employees of Google who wrote the issues
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related to diversity policies of company. In this situation Pichai take a stand against every
wrong that helps in developing members as a team. In this if he cannot manages the time
properly then decisions are to be taken effectively.
 Within an organisation customers and employees are the key factors of success, growth
and profitability. Google is the company who offers the service to their customers
inclusive of several assistive software and technologies to understand the knowledge.
Google helps in enhancing the knowledge of an individual person and it is all because of
a Sundar Pichai who have a great vision to offer the knowledgeable services to the people
of Universe. His Collaboration skills help in developing the strong relations of employees
and customers. Due to this Humanity is to be reflected that helps an organisation to gain
profitable results. In these taking honest follow-ups of employees is the major duty of a
leader that is highly fulfilled by a Sundar Pichai (Pacitto and et. al., 2019). Leaders who have a technical skill like engineers have a fair advantage over other types
of leaders because they have the capability of solving the issues by using scientific issues.
In this engineers logically solve the problems. For instance- Google CEO Sundar Pichai
focus on solving the customers wants and needs to make the world better place. For this
they introduce an innovation and digitisation devices in near future.
 Having mastery skills is also the positive element of Sundar Pichai that impacted
positively. In this a person is known as a leader due to some special talent in which they
mastered and worked hard. In case of Sundar Pichai, who highly focused on learning new
skills every time that helps in solving and remembering the lots of knowledge related to
their technical skills. It helps the Sundar Pichai to remember the details of vision of
Goggle effectively. To develop professional career effectively it is very essential to have
a master in specific interested subject.
These positive elements helps the Sundar Pichai to become a global leader and successful
in their personal and professional career. His ambitious, passionate nature helps in attaining the
vision to become an inspiration personality to most of the people.
Negative elements of Sundar Pichai's skills and behaviours and their impacts
There are several negative elements in skills and behaviour of Sundar Pichai that impact
majorly on the organisation growth and success in marketplace.
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 To become one of a best leader in the world Sundar faced several major challenges that
creates obstacles and barrier that makes the tough journey of him. In recent past years
several challenges are to be observed which are less effective for company like Google in
relation to security and team management abilities. It is linked with the employees who
are working at Google (Baumgartner and et. al., 2019).
 Due to lack of trust issues among the members at the Google, Sundar Pichai leadership
style has been face negative impact from their follower’s side. Lack of trust will impact
the organisation culture and their functions. Sundar Pichai quick decision making
sometime presents as a negative element of their skills and behaviour because due to this
company faces major losses.
 It also impacted on the brand image of the organisation. Within an organisation there is
high transparency in handling and managing work is to be maintained because of
effective strategies that are followed by Google CEO. Although skills and behaviour for
personal effectiveness in a leader is to be utilised by the Google CEO that is very
essential to understand.
 It includes several factors like accountability, loyalty and adaptability and many more
which impacted the working culture and environment to become a global successful
leader in future (Neck, Manz and Houghton, 2019).
REFLECTIVE STATEMENT
Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles to your own development for
getting success in competitive job market
Describe self assessed development needs related to personal effectiveness
There is implies about GIBBS model to examine personal effectiveness:
Description: Personal effectiveness defines as an utilisation of skills, energy and talent to reach
the objectives of one's life. This report studies the self-assessed development needs that are to be
needed for attaining the personal goal within specified period of time. It includes several
development needs that are related with personal effectiveness. As a middle class student I am
highly inspired from Sundar Pichai due to this I focused on becoming a successful leader. For
this it is very essential to examine the self-assessed development needs which helps in enhancing
the personal effectiveness
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Feelings: Determination- Those person who are determined towards their thoughts and ideas
have highly personally effective. It helps in attaining the goals without any distraction. Related to
this term I have analysed that it is the major strength of mine that helps in attaining the goals and
improving several skills and knowledge.
Self-confident- It is one of the essential things that I am getting with my studies and by
gaining several types of knowledge related to specific subject. This helps in generating the
confidence in me to done the work effectively and productive manner due to which I can get the
high success in competitive job market.
Evaluation: Clarity in thoughts- It is very essential to analyse the strength and weaknesses
within myself. It helps in formation of whole personality that helps in providing the clarity in
thoughts related to personal and professional matter. To develop the personal effectiveness it is
very essential for me to have very clear related to subject and matter that I am facing in the
competitive job marketplace. Self-motivation- It needed the most for everyone to get the high
opportunity in competitive job market. Self-motivation helps me getting the ability to deal with
the situation effectively and managing the things effectively. It also helps me managing and
organising the future work.
Analysis: It contain special value and also useful to create a high level trust of people specially
in business industry. Commitment is the term that helps in developing the impression on other
people with high trust. It is highly useful at the time when I get the target and done as per the
commitment because it will create a high value in between all the members of the organisation.
Conclusion: Problem-solving- It is the another skill that helps in gaining the opportunity within
competitive job market. This skill helps in saving the time and effort which is highly beneficial
for completing the task. It is strength of mine due to which I get a chance of attaining the goal by
solving it without taking more time in solving the issues (PARK and PARK, 2019). Time-
management- It is very necessary for every business organisation to manage the time effectively
for getting the profitable results. By observing the skills and behaviour of Sundar Pichai, it is to
be assessed that this could be highly essential to get the positive chance in competitive job
market. It helps in managing the times within my busy schedule so that better response are to be
getting. Communication skills- It is a best factor which is useful to communicate the ideas and
thoughts through which I talk to someone and transfer my viewpoint to other. Communication
also have the power to influence other. As I want to become a leader and it is very essential to
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have a good communication skill for this I have to participate in several activities like
presentation, debate etc. so that it provides the high opportunity in competitive job market.
Taking responsibility- By analysing my personal strength and weaknesses it is to be
notified that taking responsibility is the needs that I need to developed. It helps in solving the
issues and completing the assignment effectively and efficiently. Responsibility helps in solving
the complexities related to stability so that personal and professional life is to get successful
results. For getting the positive outcome in competitive job market improving this skill is highly
beneficial. These are the development needs that is highly useful in enhancing my professional
career and need to improve these factors for getting better opportunities within competitive job
market. Above these development needs also develops the overall personality which is highly
beneficial to become a successful leader in the market where there is tough competitions are to
be present.
Discuss strategies that you intend to adopts in order to address personal development
To address the personal development effectively there are several strategies that helps
effectively. It is very tough to getting the high profile job in competitive market and for this it is
essential to improve the overall needs because it maintains the team handling effectively in
future terms. In relation to enhancing and improving several needs there are several stratgies
which is needed to be implementing by me for personal development within the professional
career so that effective results are to be enjoyed in the long term survival.
Goal setting- First strategy that is developed by me is setting the goal related to become
a successful leader. The goal should be measurable, realistic and achievable so that targets are to
be attained on time. For instance- In this I have to set the time schedule for involving in several
types of activities related to developing my communication, time management, motivation etc.
skill. It should be done on priority basis so that I enjoyed the successful result in competitive
marketplace by getting effective job (Neese, Foxx and Eppler, 2019).
Smart with small- It is an another strategy in which I have to examine my overall
development and improvements as per the needs so that professional results are to be enjoyed
within rival marketplace. For instance- In this After setting the goal related to improving the
skills I have to get indulged in reviewing my overall performance so that mistakes are to be
removed.
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Learning from failure- It is the another strategy that is developed by me by analysing
the Sundar Pichai skills and behaviour. Including this strategy is useful in capturing more new
opportunities. Learning from failure doesn't mean to learn only from my own failure it means
learn from others too. This helps in perform the task effectively and get the proficient results.
Learning from failure helps in providing the ability to deal with the complex issues effectively
and efficiently. It also enhances the overall personal development and getting the deserving job
profile in competitive job market.
Adaptability- It is very essential for getting an effective results. It is another strategy that
are to be developed by me for addressing the personal development appropriately. It is useful
within professional career to being comfortable or adjust within new situation because business
work within dynamic environment. Due to high focus on this aspect I can able to perform the
task effectively in every situation such as market ups and down. This could also helps in
managing the work and getting the proficient results in the professional career as it is highly
beneficial for personal development.
Prioritising personal development- It is an another strategy that is prioritising personal
development needs which helps in developing the future career. It also generate the high value
related to personal development so that getting the advantage within competitive market is to be
enjoyed. So due to this I have to focused on improving the performance related to personal and
professional career. Prioritising the personal development needs assist in improving the skills
and knowledge as per the market demands so that competitive results are to be enjoyed.
Measuring achievement- This strategy helps in developing the success and getting high
achievements in the future perspective. It is very effective to measure the achievements so that
developing future plan related to professionalism is to be done efficiently. In this I focused on
my weak points so that I will take the time to improve it so that objectives are to be achieved
effectively. This is the best strategy which is useful to evaluating myself and performs the task
effectively by getting the appropriate position within competitive marketplace (Neese, Foxx and
Eppler, 2019).
CONCLUSION
From the above report it is concluded that personal effectiveness is a significant term for
an individual life that helps in attaining the targets as per the set goals and objectives. It helps in
reflecting the several opportunities in developing the individual person growth and professional
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career. This overall report is study on the Sundar Pichai's that is one of the best global leader in
world and CEO of Google and Alphabet company that are largest technologies company in the
universe. From above project it inculcates that Sundar Pichai's several skills and behaviours help
in enhanceing their professional career, because of this he become a young people inspiration.
Acknowledging these skills and behaviour helps an individual person to developed their overall
growth and passion within some particular area. Further it inculcates the reflection of a middle
class student to become a successful in their career and for this he inspires from Sundar Pichai
life and with their skills and behaviour. These skills and behaviour of Sundar Pichai helps the
student to face the challenges effectively and remove hindrances that are present to capture and
grab the opportunities. From above reflection it is to be reflected that how a student can manage
their studies and work hard to achieve their goals related to professional career. It is to be
understood that Personal reflection of an individual person helps an individual to analyse their
strength and weaknesses that are useful in achieving the goals and fulfil the aim of the life. This
helps in improving the overall skills and behaviour related to developing the professional career
and removing the negativity that is to be present in attaining the objectives.
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