Essay: Self-Development, Leadership, and Agile Company Challenges

This essay discusses personal development techniques, particularly self-regulation, for improving leadership in an agile company facing staff retention issues. It reflects on applying self-instruction and self-monitoring to address leadership problems and enhance organizational performance. The essay outlines a career development plan to overcome weaknesses like self-evaluation, time management, and social skills. Ultimately, this reflection aims to increase business knowledge and maintain self-regulatory perspectives for future leadership challenges. Desklib provides similar solved assignments and resources for students.

Running head: SELF-DEVELOPMENT
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Executive summary
The aim of this essay is to discuss the personal development techniques outlined in the
article Achieving Academic Excellence: A Self-Regulatory Perspective by Zimmerman. This
article mainly focused on the growth of self-regulation process within the individuals so that they
can align their process towards the perfect achievement of the goals. The key self-regulatory
techniques are the most effective tools for self-development which are obviously designed by the
experts so that the performance of the individuals have visible improvement. This essay has
pointed out some of the techniques used in mitigating problems in the agile company where the
problems of staff retention continued due to leadership problem. This is the reason why self-
reflection on the improvement process and readings to enhance or practice skills have been
detailed. This essay concludes with a career development plan which details the areas one need
to focus on weaknesses so that those do not affect the efficiency of a leader. There are some
actions which need to be executed to overcome issues like inability to self-evaluation, time
management and social skills. This reflection has increased knowledge about the business and
activities of the firm in one hand and maintained self-regulatory perspectives.

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Every origination in this world face some type of problems either directly or indirectly
but all the problems ultimately affect the health of the organization harming the profit scenario.
In order to mitigate all the problems in an agile organization, I had to play an important part so
that the solution of these problems could be easily identified and those can be transformed into
the strength of the organization, the moan problem of that particular organization was completely
related to leadership for which it was suffering from continues employee turnover and reduced
production (Dinh et al. 2014). In this regard, the skills to manage the human resource of the
company was not easy. For this reason, I followed some of the necessary paths that the leaders of
the organization need to follow.
As pointed out by Zimmerman (2002), the innate talent and performance of the people
gets doubled by the use of self-regulatory process for systemizing learning. The role of deliberate
practice in the training activities increases specific aspects of the performance of the individuals
as they practice those skills repetitively as well as successive refinement. Through these practices
I have found that the individuals gain more insight about the strengths and monitor their
performance based on which they can continue self-improvement (Ehrhart 2015). The feedback
method on the training process designed by the mentors has helped me to develop several classic
self-regulatory processes. This include goal directed attention so that I do not go further from the
objectives or the responsibilities I need to carry on to set the agile condition of the firm. The
systematic reliance on the feedback, identified by Zimmerman (2002) to be important, has
helped me to follow effective methods of strategizing task based on their importance. This has
helped me to refers to all the available information about the business and reasons of the
employee turnover in detail and implement skills of mine to lay strategies effectively.

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Zimmerman (2002) in his journal article has identified the key self-regulatory techniques
where he has pointed out some very important and effective tool for self-development. The
issues that resulted the company to become agile, needed to be solved entirely as well as from
roots. In this regard, I have involved in self-instruction which helped mem to remain focused on
all the way to my goal. The position I was in, I needed a motivational training or guidance so that
I do not break down due to psychological stress. In this regard, the techniques of self-instruction
helped me to keep myself motivated throughout the journey (Favaro 2013). It reduced anxiety in
me and guided me to keep focused on the minute problems of the organization and find the
solution without much wastage of time and effort.
The self-monitoring technique has helped me to track my own performance within a time
limit. I have learnt a lot from this problematic situation which gave a real-life experience how to
manage an emergency situation (Kennedy and Chen 2015). I have learnt a lot from this
experience and used all of these to find out the solutions of these problems. However, there are
some aspects in me which I still need to work on otherwise these can become my weaknesses
and affect my efficiency as a leader. In order to mitigate this, I need to develop a career
development plan so that I can increase my personal skills and insight based on the reflection and
the readings.
Objectives Strategies to create changes Newly developed skills
Enhancing time management  I shall be learning to
organization my tasks
in advance through
making of schedule so
I shall be effectively capable
to estimating as well as
budgeting time for
performing the key activities

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that nothing remains
unattended.
 I need to learn
practicing actions and
set the boundaries
along with limitation
so that the schedule
can be effective
without much flaws
(Coetsee and Flood
2017).
according to their importance.
Learning self-evaluation  I shall asses all the
readings for self-
direction.
 I will evaluate the
expectations of the
mentors and as their
feedback for my
improvement
I will be able to set and use
the realistic standard of my
improvement from time to
time and overcome most of
the issues or weaknesses in
me.
Social skills  I shall learn to check
my attitude in any
situation and types of
I can increase social sources
to help me in emergency.

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tasks.
 I shall ask for help
from tutors, books and
other reading
materials.
Therefore, it can be concluded that this essay has perfectly evaluated the seriousness of
the situation in the agile firm and outlined what I have implemented to change the situation. in
this regard the readings have helped me to focus on my personal insight and use skills to find
solutions of the problems. In future I need to increase my efficiency for which I need to follow
the career development plan more minutely.

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References:
Coetsee, J. and Flood, P.C., 2017. 8 Leadership models: the future research agenda for HRM. A
Research Agenda for Human Resource Management, p.130.
Dinh, J.E., Lord, R.G., Gardner, W.L., Meuser, J.D., Liden, R.C. and Hu, J., 2014. Leadership
theory and research in the new millennium: Current theoretical trends and changing
perspectives. The Leadership Quarterly, 25(1), pp.36-62.
Ehrhart, M.G., 2015. Self-concept, implicit leadership theories, and follower preferences for
leadership. Zeitschrift für Psychologie.
Favaro, K., 2013. How leaders mistake execution for strategy (and why that damages
both). Strategy+ Business.
Kennedy, G. and Chen, H., 2015. Practical Tips for Developing Leadership Skills Early in a
Career. In Leadership in Surgery (pp. 91-98). Springer International Publishing.
Zimmerman, B.J., 2002. Achieving academic excellence: A self-regulatory perspective. The
pursuit of excellence through education, pp.85-110.