MGT601 Dynamic Leadership: Developing a Comprehensive Leadership Plan

This assignment presents a student's personal leadership development plan for the MGT601 Dynamic Leadership course. The student reflects on their leadership journey, analyzes their current capabilities, and outlines a 5-year plan for enhancing their leadership skills. The plan incorporates insights from their work experience, feedback from superiors, and two leadership models: the Boyatzis International Model and the Whitman Grow Model. The report covers various aspects of leadership, including strategy design, execution, innovation, emotional intelligence, and global outlook. The student aims to improve self-awareness, influence others, and achieve organizational goals through strategic planning and personal development. The assignment also includes a detailed analysis of the student's journey, current capabilities, and future development goals, emphasizing the importance of self-improvement and adapting to dynamic leadership challenges. The assignment highlights the importance of continuous learning and self-reflection in leadership development.

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Executive summary
In this assignment we have described and presented plans regarding the leadership and
development of skills which enhances the leadership quality of an individual related to the
business. The assignment enables an individual to develop by themselves. It also increases the
self-awareness of an individual. As per the research, proper evaluation is done in a efficient
manner in order to obtain a proper development plans and styles to enhance and develop the
leadership. In this assignment we have considered two models which reflects the idea of the
personal development, such as Boyatzis International Model Leader’s business profile and
Whitman Grow Model. The strategies which has been used in these models reflects the
development of emotional skill and self-development skills for the leaders with the competitive
society along with the limited resources. Leader play an important role in the development of an
organization. Leaders contribute for the development through following and delivering the
leadership plans. This assignment reflects about the development and improving the self-
leadership through various steps, by identifying the actions, improving the plans, system and the
quality of leadership. The main purpose of this project is to reflect the idea of effectiveness of the
leadership and its plan. It has been formed to find the characteristics of a leader and its models.

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Table of Contents
Introduction.................................................................................................................................................4
Analysis of leadership journey and present capabilities..............................................................................4
Conclusion.................................................................................................................................................14
Reference..................................................................................................................................................15
Appendices................................................................................................................................................17

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Introduction
The whole project is based upon my thought process relating to my career by presenting a
plan regarding leadership through my work experience. Leadership is a very dynamic process. In
this assignment, we have prepared and discussed the leadership structure and the state of mind of
an individual. This project is prepared for my development to be a good leader. Thus, I have
prepared a plan for 5 years and analysed my own leadership qualities for effective leadership
development. By considering my career, I have developed an interest in leadership. Therefore, I
have made a 5-year plan in order to overcome and improve all my limitation. This whole project
is based on my plans and thinking.
In my career, I have dealt with various situations, which has influenced me to develop
leadership quality. This whole leadership plan based upon my own experience. A leader is the
one who guides their subordinates holding various responsibility and authorities. As being the
leader, I want to inspire others to join me in my project to develop and execute new leadership
plans. I have faced a lot of difficulties in the process of developing new plans and strategies for
leadership development. In the process of developing the plans for leadership, I have also
considered various principals for the formation of the leadership process. I have also considered
various informal grounded theories. For formulating any theory, first I have collected the
information regarded the particular area then modified the theory as per the requirement. I have
constructed my view and thoughts about leadership through many experiences in my career. I
have collected many feedbacks from my superiors and partners regarding the present leadership
styles while working within the Multinational company. Therefore, I have improved and
developed a lot trough this phrase and developed leadership plans though my point of view.
The project consists of two parts. Firstly, I have explained about my whole journey and
experience. Secondly, I have assessed my plans for the upcoming development as being the
leader (Baron & Parent, 2015).
Analysis of leadership journey and present capabilities
Leadership journey

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As being the employee of san multinational company from the last five years, I have
developed and faced many difficult situations as a leader. I also improved my thinking like a
leader and understood the role of dynamic leadership. Whatever the company’s current position
is my dream to achieve. I was designated as the information officer for a small company which
was acquired and merged with a multinational company. It is very difficult to take decisions in
an emotional situation, thus many times I have failed to take a sane decision. I also planned long
term strategies for the betterment of the organization. I also followed various business
technologies and process to develop as a good leader. I always kept the updated notes regarding
my operational problems and the recommendation of staffs relating to the development of a good
leader.
There are some elements which reflects my leadership journey capabilities emphasize.
Professional development:
Professional development depicts about the feedbacks which was received in the process of self-
development.
Self-awareness:
For self-awareness, I conducted a proper psychometric assessment and the exercises which
reflects my strength as a leader, I also develop and found my capabilities with regarding the
effective leadership.
Career strategy:
I have given more importance to the strategies which can give a boost to my career. Therefore, I
have always opted for the strategies which can enhance my carries.
My self-development journey has helped me to find the areas of strengths and
developments as my capabilities for effective leadership. The main purpose behind the personal
leadership journey is to improve the self-awareness, which is the foundation to the career of an
individual. “interview a leader” assignment can be followed for the proper personal leadership
journey.

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As per my leadership journey, I have understood that there are various challenges a
company has incurred such as, sustainability growth, large acquisition, etc. as an employee of the
company my duties were to make changes in the strategies which the company was following.
Later it was understandable that that was not the only task which I had to do. Thus, I changed my
approach regarding the demand of executives and clients. I was managing the team which was
working under me, and also giving them the authority regarding the execution of technology-
based projects in the business. Later on, I also report to higher authorities about the business unit.
I also explained and discussed the issuers with the Information technology department. As a
result, a new VP of IT was recognized. Further, the team which was working under me was
deliberated to another person. Thus, my only task was to report to the boss as an independent
leader (Joo & Jo, 2017).
The whole procedure was very difficult and challenging, but it has really helped me to
develop myself as a leader. It helped me to understand my critical areas where I should improve
furthermore and made me understood my strong points as well. This whole process made me
reflect myself and helped me to recognize my own identity, values and honesty as a leader. This
whole process helped in transforming into a self-organized system. This process allowed me to
get involved in different business units. A leader is nothing without the ones who follow.
Therefore, leadership is all about encouraging the ones who are working under him. Good
leadership can influence the subordinates to obtain their organizational goal. Various authors
have different meaning and definition of leadership till now. All together we can describe
leadership as an effective and dynamic process, strategy, and relationship that shares their point
of view with others to make them understand and follow the leader. But it is based upon the self-
interest and the followers desire to participate in the plan as suggested by the leader.
As per my study, I have analyzed and learned communication and how to influence an
individual. I prepared myself to develop my skills and flexibility, to run corporate networking.
This was very challenging since I started to face and experience the leadership process. I tried to
understand the organizational structure and aspects of leadership and focused to identify the
system. The main issues which remain unsolved are the challenge regarding the attention. As per
my view, it is not enough for a leader to take actions only. A good leader should take actions
which can influence which can serve as a good outcome in the future.

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My current capabilities
It is a common requirement of any organization to have a leader who is capable of
leading the employees for achieving the organizational goal. From my point of view, I can say
that a leader should be the one who can inspire, motivate and influence the employees to do the
work with full interest. If the employees work effectively and efficiently it helps the
organizational goal and the growth of the company. As per these factors, I can relate to some of
my capabilities on leadership such as-
Strategy designing
As per my experience, I can say that I can design a strategy. My strategy involves
competitive nature, the trends of competitors goods and services and economic trends. Their
elements are required for introducing the new products in the market.
Executing strategy
As per the execution of the strategy, with my five years of experience, I have developed a
various operational plan which can implement the strategies. It is one of the main functions
which a leader can perform. The proper execution of strategy is based upon the leaders and the
performance of the company.
Innovation
Through leadership, innovation is created. in these past years, I have developed the
quality to innovation through encouraging, influencing and appreciating the employees working
under me. Which enables them to get more interested in the participation in the operation of the
organization.
Intellectuality and control over emotions
There are two intellectual parts of a leader such as Emotion and intelligence. As a leader,
I have the capability to manipulate these factors of leadership, which is important for the
sustainability of the organization. A leader is selected by the employees who understand their
point of view and situations. Therefore, I can say that I have the ability to listen to the employees
and take immediate actions (Laschinger et al., 2015).

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Global outlook
It is very common for any organization to aim to expand and grow their business
globally. Therefore, I can say that I can transform and expand the business on an international
basis. I have the quality to build a workplace with different culture accepting the various
diversity with the organization.
Ability of formulation
As a leader, I have developed the quality to formulate various plans for short and long-
term goals. Fulfilling the goals is the main priority of the organization. In order to fulfil the
requirement, the organization need a capable leader who has a great level of imagination power
for achieving the organizational goal.
Future development plan
The purpose of this project is to present my plans for future development as being the
leader. In five years of my career and the experienced leader for the leadership plan, I have been
selected as the team leader for national and multinational companies. (referred to appendix 1)
5-year leadership plan
Long-term plan 5-year Goal Area Target Responsible
person
Stetting up an
profitable and
financially stable
firm
50% sales
growth and best
service
achievement
Sales on
monthly,
quarterly and
annual basis.
Increment of
10% every year.
Team members
and leaders.
Get order
through online
procedure and
achievement of
internal business
for development
Reduction in
time on ordering
and delivering
the products
with the 4-5
days
As per the
processing of the
order every day
4 days maximum Shipping
department and
the team leaders.

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Engaging the
customers with
new products
15% income
through sales
from the small
business market
Clients from
small business
Hundred clients Marketing
department and
team leader
Motivating
employees by
rewarding and
demanding work
Recruiting
professional
director with
regards to
human relation
Recruiting
director
Achievement Team leader and
CEO
This whole plan is based upon the two models, the Boyatzis Intentional model and the Whitman
Grow Model.
The Whitman Grow Model
As per sir Whitman, this model has designed GROW. It reflects the idea of “coaching for
performance” in the book written by him. This model enables an individual to frame a proper
structure for the conversation mentoring, the framework which allows the proper mentoring
procedure is-
 Proper tome allocation should be allocated on the goals of the mentee
 Proper exploration should be done with regards to the goal of the organization
 Proper actions, activities and solutions should be accepted
 Feedback should be taken form the employees for the development of the organization.
 Proper self-awareness should be there within the person who is been monitored

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Figure 1: The Whitman GROW model
GROW stands for-
G- setting goals for short and long- run
R- reality check regarding the current situation
O- options and alternative for the organizational actions and goals
W- What has to be done, when and by whom?
Setting a goal
This step reflects about setting up the proper goal for the organization. Under this, the leader
should understand the goal which the employees should fulfil in a certain period.

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Under this model, there are certain mentoring skills which are been discussed which I can use for
the current situation. Some of the mentoring leadership skills are, SMART, CLEAR and PURE.
Smart means, specific, measurable, Agreed, realistic and Time-phased. CLEAR means,
challenging, Legal, Environmentally sound, Appropriate and Recorded.
Reality check
After properly setting up the goal of the organization, proper exploration should be done for the
self-awareness and awareness of the person. There are some factors a person to consider such as,
how everyone feels, what are their weaknesses, what are the feeling of predominance, what is the
confidence level (Lawton & Paez, 2015).
Options When the employees are properly aware and well informed regarding the current
situation and the reality, proper steps and actions should be taken to achieve the organizational
goals. an employee is free to think about the various options for moving the issue forward. The
negativity occurs from the beliefs of others. As a leader, I have to overcome and think beyond
my beliefs.
The major negativity which arises within the organization are-
I don’t know, it should be done by me, it should not be done like that, no one will agree, it will
occur huge cost and time
To overcome these issues, I have taken some corrective measure to solve this-
If the employees are aware of what they are doing, if they will not face a hurdle, if they have
enough money and time
This major key has provided the proper solutions to all the beliefs and solution can be found with
ease.
What has to be done, when and by whom?
In this step, the leader is required to move forward take the action with full confidence.
Some question may arise such as,
What he is going to do, when he will do, whether the actions are going to meet the goal or not,
what are the expected obstacles, who need to be known, what should be the confidence level.
I have selected this model since it includes many actions, and the actions which are presented in
this model are required for the development of the leadership plan (Rubens et al., 2018).

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Intentional Change Theory (ICT) Boyatzis
I have evaluated one more model for the proper leadership plan that helps in the
development of the business. The model discussed here is Boyatzis Intentional Change Theory
(ICT). This model is based on the structure of evidence-based that makes the development in the
leadership plans and facilitates the leaders to make changes in the performance of the company.
The Intentional change theory is suitable in the leadership environment as this theory is
associated with coaching, positive thinking, and intellectual emotion. This theory provides the
practice of coaching that has grown significantly. This model initiates with the discovery by
identifying the classifying the ideal self of an individual. It identifies the personal change and the
learning results and rectifies the discrepancy between the ideal self and the real self.
The ICT Model has been explained in the picture below -
Figure 2: Intentional Change Theory (ICT) Boyatzis (taken from source)