Comprehensive Report: Managing Self and Others for Leadership

This report provides a detailed analysis of managing self and others, focusing on the importance of self-development and skill enhancement for career growth. It includes a SWOT analysis to identify strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to professional development. The report explores the significance of skill development, particularly in communication and leadership, and emphasizes strategies such as daily inspiration, building on strengths, conquering fears, and stepping out of one's comfort zone. A professional development plan is outlined, addressing post-graduation, IT courses, physical exercise, and travel. The report also covers performance management, high-performance strategies, and concludes with a summary of key findings and recommendations for effective self and other management. The report emphasizes the need for continuous learning and adaptation to achieve professional success.

MANAGING SELF AND
OTHERS

TABLE OF CONTENT
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
MAIN BODY..................................................................................................................................3
Professional development plan and Personal SWOT..................................................................3
Skill requirement.........................................................................................................................6
Blog on effective performance management...............................................................................8
High performance strategies........................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................12
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................13

INTRODUCTION
Managing self is one of the important criteria that will have to be taken care about by every
individual that is aiming for self development and skill development. There are certain aspects
that will fall in regard to maintaining a personal development plan and also the ideologies at that
to be the ones that will enhance a well being of an individual. It is not a small thing to focus upon
the negotiations but that will make an entire difference in managing self. Managing self is an
essential and probable criteria that will have to be enhanced by every individual because
opportunities will lie according to the purpose and develops. The entire report will portray the
aspect of managing self and also other. The leadership qualities as well as the probability of
leadership are explained in this report. Entire components that are a part of professional as well
as personal development are put forth with prior explanations.
MAIN BODY
Professional development plan and Personal SWOT
SWOT analysis is a framework which helps with understanding the strengths and
weakness of individual or a group. It also helps in the recognition of the opportunities and threats
that are present for the same individual. For understanding the professional development of an
individual it is very important to understand the SWOT analysis which will determine the key
essentials needed for the professional development.
Strengths :
It can be said that I am had some features in me which can be considered as my strengths
that can be helpful for my professional development in the future. I have evaluated myself and
understood leading others I one of my biggest strength which given me a certain edge over my
competition. My communicational skills is very good which allows me to connect to people
around me so that I can influence them. During my time at high school I was the part of many
group project which I leaded for achieving success. This can be said as one of my achievement

that I am really proud of. I have this great quality of motivating others specially my team-mates
for working as a unit (Chapman, Miles and Maurer, 2017).
Weaknesses :
I have understood that I have some weaknesses which I need to address. Whenever, I am
faced with a work in which I have to use digital technology, I don't feel confident. This is
because I am poor in utilization of computers and other devices. People around me believe that
my biggest weakness is that I have am only a graduate and I need to gain more knowledge with a
post-graduate degree. In my learning skills the weakest link can be said to be the researching
skills. My personality is very hard-working and always motivated to work, due to which I get
stressed out because of taking too much pressure.
Opportunities :
For me pursuing a post graduation can be very helpful as it will help me increase my
knowledge and also my CV for the future. I should also join some classes which will help me to
gain training related to the utilization of the technology. Learning the digital technology will
help me to research new learnings. I should look forward to finding myself a job in which I can
be part of leading some individual for the achievement of a certain project. This can provide me
enough information which I can use in the future for the establishment of new start-up. I can be
very successful as an entrepreneur because I have skills of communication which can influence
my performance in business (Baumann, Dale and Bellout, 2020).
Threats :
Some obstacles which I face during my progress are issues related to the understanding of
the digital technology which I do not have experiences for that holds me back and gives the other
individual an upper hand which are good with technology. I do face challenges from my team
members as everyone wants to be the person who can lead. Therefore, all my decision are needed
to be accurate. Not being able to pursue post-graduation can become a threat to me as it will limit
my knowledge and affect my performance in the future. It is also very important for me to make
sure that I do not take much pressure related to work as it can affect my health.
Professional Development Plan
Activities Type of
development
Necessary
Resources
Personal Goals Timeline

Post-
graduation
This will help
me with
improving my
knowledge and
qualification.
For pursuing Post-
graduation I will
require, money,
time and also
excessive hard-
work.
Goals in this scenario
would be complete post-
graduation for gaining
more opportunities in
the professional life.
It will take at
least 2 to 3
years.
IT course It will help me in
the development
of technological
skills.
It will also
improve my
research skills.
For doing such a
course necessary
funds and time is
required (Ni and
et.al., 2019).
The goal is to gain
complete knowledge of
using the technology for
my study and career
development.
It will take me 2
to 3 months to
gain sufficient
knowledge about
the subject.
Physical
exercising
This will
improve my
health and also
make me more
active in my day
to day activities.
It is also
important for me
to develop
positivity and
manage my
stress.
This will require
time and
commitment from
my side.
The goal is to develop
positivity and
management of the
stress taken by me.
It has no time
limit can be done
daily. It can
consume 1 to 2
hours of my
daily time.
Travelling It will provide
me experiences
which I am not
familiar of and
also relief the
This will require
me to have
sufficient time,
money and also
group of friend
The goal would be
enjoyed quality time
and learn about the
places I visit and also
make sure that It release
It will only take
2 – 3 weeks but
will provide the
memories of a
lifetime (Eliuz

stress built by
me in my career.
with which I can
travel.
the tension and stress
taken by me.
and et.al., 2017).
Skill requirement
Skill development is necessary in every organisation such that all the amendments that are to be
made and a strategic approach that will have to be carried forward and can therefore be
integrated in a better motivated manner. Skill development is necessary in order to stay
motivated towards all the necessary skills that are to be implemented in the organisation. All the
weaknesses that are in due of professional development will therefore be amended based on the
kind of skills that are inherited. Skill development plays a major role in understanding the
professional development aspect. An individual in the time of working in an organisation will
have to attain certain qualities that are required for individual development as well as
organisational upliftment. Career development can be enhanced by inhibiting the kind of skills
that are important for a person or an individual while working in the organisation. With the skills
can be those of communication skills which are a major criteria because wherever the workforce
is constituted there it is a requirement that proper communication skills will have to be tackled.
The communication skill will enlighten the base of every individual. The ideas are the strategies
that are in regard to the organisation will have to be communicated in the better possible manner
such that all the required development will therefore we carry forwarded (Changwong, 2018).
Communication will also help to engage with the team activities and to implement the certain
entities that are required for professional development as well as the idea that are required for the
organisation. For this to be incorporated in an individual they will have to take stand over the
circumstances that are to be addressed. Leadership is one of the skill that is oriented with rise in
the graph of career development. Leadership is oriented where the responsibility that is required
for an individual to motivate their own self as well as to guide the employees that are in charge
of them. Leadership principal is said to be one of the major criteria that is required to cope up
with the policies of work and also some to make amendments. Leadership is one of the probable
Hike that can be given to personal development. This also includes planning and the support that
is oriented with the employee motivation. Employees every now and then will stay demotivated
upon the facts that are derived by improper work policies. In this regard employee retention will

be carry forwarded. In progress will have to be initiated while developing and individual as well
as personal development. There are the strategies that will fall in this regard of personal
development for skill development are as follows:
Getting inspired each day: for an individual who is aiming for personal development it is
necessary that the environment around will have to be motivating. This will bring about a glory
that is required to get inspire. In an organisation that is portrayed by the onset of circumstances
that will usually fall in regard to the workspace. Creating room for our own self in order to learn
things that are required for the organisational importance as one of the major importance and that
can also be a fact that will inspire.
Building on strength: this will be based on all the drawbacks at our oriented with an individual. It
is not until when a person is strength and from inside and that inside will reflect upon the
circumstances that are prevailing in the working environment. When an individual is lacking in
an area of development than that particular area will have to be focused and the fear in regard to
that particular area will have to be taken care about.
Conquer fear: to conquer fear is the first step of professional development and this will also
reflect upon skill development. Fear will stop everybody in reaching their goals and objectives. It
is necessary that the individual will have to win over this fear in order to acquire more amount of
opportunities. A fearless person is the one who will go to any extent of development and also the
growth that is oriented with this prospect is regarded to be one of the major aspect which is
necessary (Newman, 2020).
Moving out of comfort zone: comfort zone will never fetch the required results. it is not until
when a research is oriented with the kind of knowledge that will have to be process that the
individual can then acquire a good amount of professional as well as personal development.
Skills are a major necessity with regard to an organisation or any kind of university level
education. Without skills or sharpening of skills a person cannot be able to achieve the objective
that are in view of them. living back all the problems that will bind an individual towards the fact
that he or she cannot achieve the goal or the objective is one of the major step for success. The
professional development starts with identifying the major areas of concern and that with regard
to leadership is also one of the factor that will have to be sharpened.
Strategies are necessary in order to ensure that the change policies. It is not until when a person
is professionally developed according to the personal development plan it is not obvious fact that

he or she would get the required opportunities that are required to be incorporated. In an
organisation it is a mandatory aspect that a person will have to contain certain principles as well
as the skills that are required to uplift the company's policies. Whereas in the education or the
university level these skills will determine the kind of treatment that will have to be given to the
people. When a person is professionally developed as well as personally developed than the kind
of respect that is oriented is entirely different (Newman, 2020). The leadership capabilities can
also be determined by the amount of strategies that are to be incorporated and the willingness of
a person to learn few things will also reflect on the choices of his or her behaviour.
Blog on effective performance management
The management of the performance of the individual is not at all an easy task. It requires
continuous evolution to the individual's performance. For this generally an effective performance
management system is utilized. The individuals high performance can be developed with the
help of analysation of the individuals work This analysation of the individuals work should be
done based on a specific time. There can be daily, weekly or even monthly analysation of the
performance of the individual. The analysation of the individual should also contain the speed in
which they are working or developing their performance. This is the way in which the
performance of the total team can be analysed. It will help the individuals to make sure that the
work done is so effective that it can satisfy the expectation of the team leaders and be helpful for
the achievement of the desired goals. This analysation will provide the sufficient information
about the individuals regarding their room for improvement (Eliuz and et.al., 2017). The
performance of the team can improved by finding out the ways in which the effective
performance management can be implemented. The individual can be influenced by suggestions
and solutions which can improve the management of the team (Green, Kim and Sharma, 2019).
The effective performance management practices will help in the development and
motivation of the individuals and as the result of that performance management can use the
following ways. Collection of feedback, this is a very useful way for understanding the
performance development. Individuals by sharing their real time feedbacks with the leaders or
even the colleagues can provide objectives and competencies. This is a nice way of improving
their performance and identifying the issues in their performance (Suleiman, Hamad and
Sulaiman, 2017). This should be done monthly so that individuals can be examined properly.
Such a technique proves to be effective even for retaining the individuals interest in the

organization and making sure that training regarding the issues has been provided to the team
members. It is very important for the team leaders to teach the team members how to share a
constructive feedback which consists of action based on forward-looking features that can help
with enabling of feedback in the workplace. The team leaders should also follow a certain
mechanism for dealing with the feedback received (Fallatah, Urann and Knight, 2019).
Reviews are known as the ways in which the team members are able to make sure that
their feedback or even the data related to them can be frequently analysed and examined. This
data is very important as it provides knowledge about the individuals provides them almost a
summary of the topics which they need to know and understand for understanding the situation.
Reviews are generally received by the individuals during the time when the effective
performance management practices are on the verge of their beginning this will provide the
individual information regarding the areas of improvement they need to address. These review
are very important as they involved in the competencies according to which the learned strength
of the individuals are and what are the areas in which they need to work on (Azar and Adnan,
2020).
For ensuring that the performance management of the group is effective the alignments of
the goals are needed to be done in such a manner that they directly influence the individuals
performance and also their management. Providing continuous feedback is also very effective
way of making sure that there is recognition of objective and construction of other departments
in the organization. There are different reviews which help the individuals for focusing over the
skill development and also the progress of the individual (Rezaei-Moghaddam and Izadi, 2019).
For providing conclusion to the performance management for building high performing
individuals there must be clear expectations and monitoring of the goals for keeping track of the
performance based on the ongoing work which can give continuous feedback and offer ultimate
training to the top performers of the company. This is the reason why there should be meaningful
performance management for building effective high performance individuals.
High performance strategies
Those team who are observed to have high performance in them and can help in
operating the characteristics. In such team all the individuals know about each other's role in the
organization. They rely on heaving over each others performance and their dedication. The
performance of the team can be easily improved and also dedicated towards having

professionalism in their actions. There are strategies with the help of which the team achieve
such high performance.
Trust :
Building of trust in a team is very influential strategy for creating a strong and cohesive
group. Trust between the team members helps in improving the team by sharing information and
ideas which can be utilized for improved communication and can provide encouragement to
innovation and also increase the confidence of the organization. Those individuals which do not
trust each other become very difficult to be managed by their leaders. Therefore, the leaders can
use the following ways for fostering trust in their groups,
 It is important to deal with different individuals in different model of trust.
 Trying to gain trust by developing personal relationship between leader and team.
 Building of trust requires slow and steady process (Adebisi, Adeku and Oyedele, 2018).
Communication :
The pattern or the manner in which the communication goes in an organization is very
important and effective as it provides the team's productivity. Communication strategy requires
to have social contact within the team so that they can develop good relationship which improves
communication and thus, improves the performance of the individuals. Although this strategy is
a little risky as excessive communication or social contact can also result in decrease of the
performance. For the leader it is important to have high levels in their communication which
requires active listening and development of a mutual respect between each other. For improving
the communication the leaders can teach their team member how to listen actively without being
distracted. It is also important not to interrupt two individuals while they are communicating this
is also very essential. There is a formula applied to this strategy in which 70-20-10 is used for
conversation. It goes in this way, that the listening is 70%, enquiring should be 20% and
summarizing the received information should be 10%.
Collaboration :
For the creation of creativity and innovation in a team the engagement of the team
members in the organization is very important as it provides them with maximum opportunities
for the collaboration of the team members and their ideas. For increasing collaboration sessions
of learning and development including the team members can be organized which will make
them work with each other can increase their experiences with each other resulting in the

collaboration. Collaboration is known to be that effective way which helps the individuals to
gain new knowledge and idea. Both of which is important for the high performance development
of the individual. Collaboration proves to be even more effective when individuals from different
group or department are brought together. Not only do they improve each other but generate new
and effective ideas which can improve the functionality of the organization.
Shared Leadership :
The performance of some individuals improve in the organization when they are
delegated with some part of the responsibility as the leaders. However, the main leaders still
remains the accountable for the project. These individuals feel more committed towards their
work and are known to adapt extra commitment towards the commitment and the delivering of
the results. This provides them experiences which they are not usually accustomed to and some
times also can result in the leaders finding future potential leaders in them. This is very
important for having higher performance management in the organization, These individuals
who get this sort of experiences usually find it very easy to step into the role of the leaders when
required.
Encouraging Diversity :
The differences in the age, race, gender and sexuality is what makes a team diversity.
This is not what makes a significant difference in the performance of the individuals. What
makes the differences in performance are the skills, working styles and also the opinions which
create significance in the organization. Thus, the organization should focus on building a
diversity in the organization as it does not affect the performance of the employees. Rather, it
provides the team will different ideas and innovation which can be available from people of
different background. It is not ethical for the organization to have members with same
background and thus it becomes important for the team to have diversity otherwise their will be
conflicts and mistreatment of the individuals. In some scenarios it has been seen that having
diversity can improve the thought process of the individuals and start treating each other with
more and more equality (Huguet, 2017).
Purpose :
For ensuring the performance of the individuals it is important to make sure that the
purpose of the team has been stated. This allows the individual to improve themselves as they
can plan a strategy according to the purpose. An organization which does not have a purpose

cannot control their team members and specially their performances. This is helpful in
understanding that the work of the individuals have a certain significance on the motivation and
empowerment of the team. The purpose helps the individuals to understand their role in the team
and it can be very effective strategy to contribute towards a common goal which can have
effective impact on the roles of the organization.
Therefore, summarizing all the strategies discussed it can be said that no strategy in itself
is complete to ensure the high performance of the individuals. Only with the collective efforts of
all the mention strategies can a leader be able to influence high performance in the organization.
CONCLUSION
The report concludes upon highlighting the aspects of managing self as well as the importance of
personal and professional development. Through this report one can easily understand the
professional development plan and personal SWOT analysis. The strengths weaknesses
opportunities and threats that are in regard of a personal development plan are being portrayed in
this report. The importance of skill development is put forth in this report along with certain
components that are highlighted. An effective blog over the performance management is
supported in this report. high performance strategies are also included along with trust
communication and major aspects of collaboration and shared leadership.