Exploring Self Development: Leadership Theories and Applications

This essay explores the concept of self-development as a lifelong process of personal growth, focusing on enhancing skills, talents, and knowledge. It emphasizes the importance of self-awareness and the application of various leadership theories and strategies for effective team management. The essay discusses different leadership approaches, including trait approaches, and highlights essential strategies such as communication and vision setting. It also examines tools and techniques for assessing and developing skills, including motivation, development initiatives, and maintaining discipline. The reflection on core ethical values and the integration of learned skills from academic experiences are presented as crucial components for becoming a successful and ethical leader, emphasizing the continuous improvement of both personal and interpersonal skills to achieve professional success. Desklib provides this assignment as a resource for students.

Development of Self

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................1
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Self development is the process of improving oneself with the help of various methods. It
is the conscious pursuit of personal growth by increasing the personal skills, talents and
knowledge. The most essential component of personal growth is personal development by
individual in order to seek more talent and skills by self and also enhance their own growth
potential. Self development is the life long process in which student can assess abilities to set
their targeted goals. The goal of the self development is to satisfied by their own action and it is
the contentious process for all age group of people. Self development encompasses both personal
and interpersonal skills which includes problem solving, time management and stress
management. These all skills helps student to enhance their self capabilities which are beneficial
for their professional life style (Alvarenga and et. al., 2019). Self development begins with the
self awareness which includes analysing their own capabilities and tendency to start self
discovery. Additionally, this essay cover the theories strategies and approaches to leading the
team, different tools and techniques for assessing skills and capabilities. Lastly it also includes
the reflection of own core values, and application and theories for achieving more skills.
MAIN BODY
Leadership is the desired quality of every employee and student to become more talented
leader which can manage their team in a effective manner. Leadership theories are the
explanation which focuses on the individual behaviour and enhance their capabilities to manage
their team in a effective manner. Learning leadership theories helps to improves the skills which
are more essential for becoming an effective leader. For leading the team individual should have
to adopting the leadership style (Makadok, Burton and Barney, 2018). These theories helps in
evaluating the skills and tendency to become a better leader to manage their team.
This theory describes that environment is responsible for their leadership quality. This
theory analysed that leader should not born talented they learned and adopted new skills. This
theory indicates that people are self aware to development and enhance their skills and
knowledge. This leadership theory increases the team productivity and morale, This leadership
style recognised various style and skills which includes- task oriented and Opportunistic leaders
these style can evaluate individual to become talented leader to manage their team in appropriate
manner. This theory describes the environment culture of the individual which affect their
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leadership style. Students can adopted these leadership style which can helps in becoming the
most effective and talented leader in the future and achieve the success in performing their role.
Leadership Strategies which can helps in engaging and encouraging the performance and become
a good leader which includes:-
Communication is the more essential component which can affect the self development
and this is the most important strategy by which people can improve and increases their skills
and knowledge. The vision describes the future statement for achieving the targeted goals. The
communicating vision is to accomplish the future plan by which focuses on the planning and
implementing the strategies with the other employees so that they can focus on achieving the
targeted goals(Galagan, Hirt and Vital, 2019). This leadership strategy helps in motivating the
employee to stay focused on achieving the success. The continuation of developing, maintaining
and communicating the vision is helps in better understanding the objective and goals. Student
learn from this leadership style to manage and communicating the vision. Leader should have to
make the better relationship with the team members to communicate and hare all the relevant
information so that they can focus and achieve the targeted goals (Zwikael, Chih and Meredith,
2018).
There are various approaches which can helps in managing the team and also enhancing
the self capabilities and tendency of the individual which can helps in achieving the success. The
approaches helps in adopting and learning leadership style.
This approach indicates the personal characteristics of individual leader and improves
the personal efficiency of the people. This approach helps in identifying the capabilities by which
people and encourage self develops more skills. In this approach people can test their weakness
and strength so that they can better developed their own skills and talents. These approaches
strategies and theories are more effective and useful for enhancing the leadership style so that
students can manage their team in their professional time. The trait approach are helpful for the
leaders because they can analysis their skills and performance by their own and improves the
weakness point immediately (Bush, 2020). The trait approaches gives constructive information
about the leadership style and individual can evaluate their positive at workplace by analysing
their self capabilities and talents. Students can easily acquired the various strategies for
increasing the skills and knowledge.
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Students can learn from their academic session to learn the these skills because in their
professional stage they will face many difficulties in each stage at workplace. The skills and self
capabilities can overcome the difficulties so, it is most important for the students to enhance their
communication and leadership style so that they can lead their team in a effective manner and
also becomes a good leader. The skills and talents are measurable and a life long process in
which students, leaders and children's can improves their skills. There are various factors which
can affect the self development but students can adopting these theories and approaches which
can provide the support to become a good leader.
There are various tools and techniques that can helps in guiding and providing the right
pathway to move and increases the skills and knowledge. The tool and techniques within
organization develops the future team capabilities and also enhance the capabilities of individual
employee's. Some tools and techniques which are essential for leading and managing the team in
a effective manner (Winstone and Carless, 2019). These tool and techniques are used by the
leader to engage their team members in a manner. These tolls and technique helps students to
become a good leader.
Motivation is also the essential factor which are learned by individual to motivate their
team members. Motivate their team worker in such a way that they can trust easily by stay
focused in achieving their targeted goals. It is most important for meeting the organization goals.
Motivation is the best technique for encouraging and promoting because it can makes employee's
satisfied. Motivated leaders should manage their team members and motivated them in a
effective manner. Such employee's can drive the organization at good reputation. The students
must motivated and self updated so, that they can face every situation in their professional work.
The leaders should be multitalented because they should have to mange their team in such a
manner that they will give more profit to the organisation. Encouraging team members to work
in collaborative manner and completing their task on limiting time. Team leader should have to
stay positive so that they can appreciate their team members on achieving success, these qualities
and skills are must to become a good leader (Kouamé and Langley, 2018).
Development is also one of the most essential factors because the team leaders is
responsible for developing the skills with in their team employee's. Also provide them many
opportunities and skills. Team leader should have to help employee's to enhance the skills and
talents of the employee's. Leaders provides opportunities to employee's for their betterment and
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workers should learn more skills by participating ion different tasks. Each employees should
have ability to reach at their targeted goals. Students learned more skills and knowledge which
are beneficial for their professional. Development is the essential tool which are more beneficial
for the employee's. Leadership development boost employee's engagement, team development
can improve the work performance, yielding better strategy and also gives the better performance
outcomes. Employee's can motivated in a such a way so that they can start self discovery and
analysing by their own action about their strength and weakness (Bhaduri, 2019). Development
is the tool for enhancing the day to day skills and get better outcomes and also motivated their
team members to increases their tendency to achieve the success.
Communication is the one of the most essential skill which is most important for the team
leader because good communication skills can enhance the individual capabilities and growth
potential. The communication is the important tool it also includes various online tool to
communicate with virtual team. Communicate directly and transparently helps employee's for
better understanding and helps them to motivate and provide relevant information to the
employee's. Good communication skills helps team members to cope up their weakness, and
communication is at core of effective leadership skills. Clear communication creates a positive
environment at workplace and it can also build trust and boost morale which can helps
employees to engage at workplace. Leaders should have to learn more about the communication
and skills in a effective manner because they can manages the issues and misunderstanding
between the other team members (Norman and et. al., 2019).
Maintaining discipline is also one of the most important tool because managing discipline
with team members is also important because every day conflicts are arises at workplace. To
manage the discipline among the team members reduces the struggle at work place and increases
the gathering of information in the organization. Team leader is responsible for managing the
team and also motivate them to cooperate with the team members (Zhu and et. al., 2019).
These tools and techniques helps leaders to boost their productivity and capabilities so
that they can achieve the success in the future. Balance of skills and experience can helps in
enhancing the productivity of the individual. Students are more likely to adopted skills and new
knowledge which are beneficial for their further development. These tools and techniques are
more essential for the students to become a good leader in future. Self development increases the
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self capability and skills which are used in the future professional . Leaders are more responsible
and multitalented because thy can motivate, provides skills to their employee's.
I have learned various skills and knowledge to enhance my productivity, With help of
strategies, approaches and theories I leaned more skills which are beneficial for my future
professional. Communication vision is the more essential strategy which I have learnt from the
the various theories and strategies. Leadership style are more useful for managing the team
members in s effective manner. The ethic and values based leadership promoted by providing
best knowledge, skills and also monitoring the performance level (Cheong and et. al., 2019). I
have learn the ethic as a leader to respect all all employee's and give a equality opportunity to
participate in all activities which can increases the tendency and moral values of individual. My
core values as a leader in future is to communicate in a proper demeanor with all my team
members so that they can response in a effective manner. The ethical and core values makes a
good leadership style by which organization gets good reputation in the market due to the good
leadership style (Hiromoto, 2019). The core values of becoming good leader includes empower
and development of team members which helps in developing more skills and knowledges.
Becoming a good leader I have learn and adopting various approaches and strategies in which I
can analysing my strength and weakness. I have acquired the trait approaches which helps me in
analysing the personal characteristic and also motivate my to develop more new skills (Behl and
Dutta, 2019). From my academic skills I have learn about communication skills and leadership
skills which provides me relevant skills for increasing my capabilities and productivity so that I
can become a good leader.
There are various tools and techniques I have used to become a good leader which
includes motivation, development, communication and discipline. These techniques are more
essential for developing and improving my skills and knowledge. I have analysed that a good
leader is responsible for the maintaining the all activities of the employee's. These techniques
are helpful for me to learn a good leadership style. With the help of tools I have learn to stay
positive because positive environment can helps in encountering the team members and also
appreciate them for their success. The communication and motivation tool is more useful the
team leaders because self development process is a life long process by which I can learn and
developed my self on regular basis (Zuo and et. al., 2018). Self development is a process of
developing and acquiring the skills according to the trend and also learn to engage team members
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in a proper member. Motivation is an effective tools which I have learned from the tools and
techniques promoting the employees to work in collaborative way so that they can increases their
skills by sharing the information with each other. Tools and techniques are more effective tool
for balancing my skills and also prepared myself to become a good leader. I have also learnt
from the seminar and lectures to gain additional knowledge which can give me more benefit in
my future (Hadley and McGrath, 2021).
During my academic session I have adopted many new skills which encourages my confidence
and knowledges. I have learned about the ethical and core values which are more most important
for my professional. These skills can promoted the self capabilities because self development is
the continuous learning process in which individual people can learn about the different
leadership style. Leadership strategy helps in increasing the productivity of the individual person
because students in their academic session learn prepare themselves for their professional
session. Communication skills helps in updating the individual to make good relationship with
the team members. I have acquired the trait approaches which is more beneficial for my personal
and professional development. These are more supportive and essential for my future
development (Fong and et. al., 2018). I can balance my skills with experience to motivate my
team members so that can they can perform their task in a appropriate manner and achieve the
success. Communication tools encourages individual to learn more new skills and team members
are also stay motivated and has ability to learn different leadership style. I have and adopted
various theories, traits and approaches to become a effective leader, and these skills are more
helpful in my professional development.
CONCLUSION
From the above discussion, it is concluded that self development is most important for
achieving the success. The most essential component of self development is to enhance the skills
and knowledges by own. Students uses various theories and techniques to increases their self
capabilities. Good communication helps in becoming a good leader because a leader is more
responsible to manage their team by satisfying their team members. There are several tools and
techniques which are adopted by students to become a good leader. Motivation, development,
communication and discipline are the most effective which are used to enhance the skills and an
individual can become a good leader, the ethics and values of the leader is all about to respecting
all team members. Communication vision is best strategy to boost the tendency of individual to
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become a most talented leader. Student can adopted these approaches and theories to learn about
the leadership style and also become a good leader.
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