Strategic Leadership: Personal Development Plan for Kia Supplies

This report analyzes strategic leadership development within Kia Supplies, focusing on the needs, goals, and aspirations of stakeholders involved in inter-organizational strategies. It evaluates the strategic skills required for leaders, including emotional intelligence, communication, and problem-solving, while assessing the relationship between existing, required, and future skills. The report discusses opportunities for achieving strategic leadership development, constructs a personal development plan, and outlines an implementation process. Furthermore, it assesses the plan's results, evaluates the impact of achieving objectives, and reviews the leadership development plan. The analysis extends to evaluating how well strategic organizational needs are met by existing resources, formulating proposals for developing strategic leadership resources, and assessing the effectiveness of strategic leadership development in advancing professional leadership practices. The report concludes by summarizing findings and providing recommendations for enhancing strategic leadership within the company.

Personal
Development as a
Strategic Leader

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1. Analyse of needs, goals addition to aspiration of people that are involved in inter
organisational strategies...............................................................................................................1
1.2. Evaluation of strategic skills required among leader for attaining identified strategic
leadership ambitions....................................................................................................................3
1.3. Assessing relationship among existing, required along with future skills for achieving
identified strategic leadership ambitions.....................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1. Discussion on opportunities for achieving strategic leadership development......................5
2.2. Constructing personal development plan for attaining strategic leadership development...6
2.3. Devising implementation process for development plan......................................................8
TASK 3............................................................................................................................................9
3.1. Assessing achievement of results of plan against strategic needs........................................9
3.3 Evaluating impacts of achievement of objectives on strategic leadership ambitions..........10
3.3. Reviewing and updating leadership development plan......................................................11
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................12
4.1. Evaluating extent at which strategic organisational needs involved in inter organisational
strategy are met from existing resources...................................................................................12
4.2. Formulating proposals for developing strategic leadership resource.................................13
4.3. Evaluating effectiveness of strategic leadership developments in attaining advancement of
professional leadership practices across the company...............................................................14
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................15
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................16

INTRODUCTION
Personal development can be said to strategic process together with step for acquiring
expertise, knowledge, technical competencies and set of skills for the purpose of improving
individual performance addition to attain entrepreneurial goals, visions, missions in effective
ways (Rose, 2018). In this assessment, Kia Supplies and Company is considered which is leading
organisation that provide wide types of supplies at domestic and international levels cross the
world. The business has national along with international operations with diverse number of
stakeholders. It also has range of legal together with regulatory requirements to meet in order to
attain sustainability and competitive advantages.
The assessment highlights about needs, goals and aspirations of stakeholders within inter
organisational strategies, strategic skills of leader, relationship among current, required and
future skills for acquiring recognised strategic leadership ambitions. Further, it discusses about
opportunities for achieving leadership development, personal development plan and
implementation process. Moreover, it also assesses achievement of results of the plan, evaluation
of impacts related with objective achievement, review and updating of devised leadership plan.
At last, it evaluates the extent at which strategic needs of business involved in inter
organisational strategy meeting current resources, proposals for developing strategic leadership
resource and effectiveness of development of strategic leadership to achieve advancement in
professional leadership practice.
TASK 1
1.1. Analyse of needs, goals addition to aspiration of people that are involved in inter
organisational strategies.
Inter organisational strategies are the action plan wherein people from different business
units are involved for achieving specific objective (Argenti, 2017). The fast changing universal
competitive environment has resulted in new paradigm shifts within operations of organisations.
In this context, STEEP factors plays crucial role through which leaders of company are able to
analyse what are the elements that impacts the strategies of inter organisational system. For
instance, leaders of Kia Supplies and Company have identified that political environment of the
nations are different that from one another. Some countries have stable and fair political system
while there are some nations at which political environment are not stable. This has resulted in
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regionalism which gave birth to new tariff regulations. Moreover, organisations have also
experienced unprecedented changes within political-economic, legal, environmental, social-
cultural and technological sectors. Furthermore, technological aspects have redefined the ways
businesses are conducted as well as same is applied to other organisational department. Advent
of innovative media has created huge opportunities for inter organisations and brought
phenomenal changes within behaviours of consumers together with new marketing environment
dimension. All the dynamics ignites a passion addition to quest in order to developed strategic
framework which is robust for sustaining and positioning the company for thriving and
succeeding.
Some of the people that are involved in inter organisational strategies of Kia Supplies and
Company includes technicians, leaders, managers and many more. The needs, goals and
aspiration of certain people are as follows:
Leaders: Organisational leaders are the people that influence subordinates for working
with full passion for inter organisational strategies (Bush, Bell and Middlewood, 2019). The
major goal of leader of Kia Supplies and Company is to bring out best in human resources for
working towards strategies. The needs of leaders in the company are for support from superiors
and effective team. The aspirations of leaders in the strategies are for powers, maintaining
relationships and job security in the dynamic business environment.
Technology team: People that have role and responsibility for handling technological
factors and elements within inter organisational strategies are said to technology team. These
people provides technological infrastructure for planning and implementation of inter
organisational strategies. In Kia Supplies and Company, the main goal of technology team is to
ensure that the entity have effective and efficient information technology system which supports
operations and puts data security at accurate place. The aspiration of technology team is to
develop together with program codes as well as firewalls which protect information technology
infrastructure and data security of company against malwares, cyber criminals and hackers.
Experience in networking, computer repairing and technological competences is major needs of
technology team.
Managers: Human resource managers are the key people that have huge involvement in
inter organisational strategies for the business (Cartwright, 2017). In context to Kia Supplies and
Company, goal of human resource manager is to provide proper recognition level for employee
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commensurate, providing balance among work and life, fulfilling social obligations and assisting
entity in achieving determined objectives. The needs of managers in the company are for sense
of security, oneness to employees, positive ambience and support from top administrators.
Managers in inter organisational strategy have aspiration for higher positions and managing
human resources with full respect.
1.2. Evaluation of strategic skills required among leader for attaining identified strategic
leadership ambitions.
Strategic skills are defined to abilities which are prerequisite among top administrators of
any business type (Chen and Nadkarni, 2017). In case with Kia Supplies and Company, some of
strategic skills that are required among leaders for the purpose of attaining recognised strategic
ambitions are as evaluated:
Emotional intelligence skill: It is the strategic skill that is required in leaders for
recognising and understanding reactions as well as emotions of subordinates, building
relationships, negotiate conflicts and grouping the people. With this skill, leaders of Kia Supplies
and Company have huge possibilities for acquiring recognised ambitions related to strategic
leadership as it benefits in improving self awareness of leaders for the uncertain situations,
building better team work, providing better office environment and managing time in better
manner. However, the disadvantage of the skill is that it manipulates people, prevents to think
critically and is only used for individual gains that can become roadblocks in attaining strategic
leadership ambitions.
Effective communication skill: It is one of strategic skill that is necessary in leaders so
that they can attain identified ambitions effectively (Dyer and Dyer, 2017). With this skill,
leaders of Kia Supplies and Company will be benefitted in improving morale, loyalty and
sharing new ideas with administrators for accomplishing set determinations. In contrary,
limitations of the skill that may hamper working of leaders towards achieving strategic ambitions
are negative acknowledge, leaves vulnerable impacts and barriers in sharing ideas.
Problem solving skill: The strategic skill is required among leaders so that they can keep
organisation afloat. It is required in leaders of company for determining source of particular
problem and searching effective solution in order to make contributions in attaining ambitions.
The benefits of the strategic skill include resolving conflicts, identifying issues and overcoming
them, building self composure and making administrators satisfied. At same time, drawbacks of
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the skill include time consuming skill, involvement of risks and developing unfavoured
creativity.
As per the evaluation of various strategic skills, it is said that these will help leaders of
Kia Supplies and Company in attaining all identified strategic ambitions as early as possible.
1.3. Assessing relationship among existing, required along with future skills for achieving
identified strategic leadership ambitions.
Skills are prerequisite in attaining identified ambitions within company (Goleman, 2017).
For the purpose of assessing relationship that exists among current, required and future skills for
accomplishing recognised strategic leadership ambitions, it is significant for Kia Supplies and
Company leaders to have a look towards key factors which initiates changes in strategy. The
current skills that are within leaders of the company include critical thinking skill, effective
planning skill and so forth. The current global business environment is dominated by fast
changes in geopolitics, technology, socio-cultural integration and competitive strategy. It is
necessary for organisational leaders to focus on impacts of the factors so to develop strategies
which help in positioning the business in competitive mix.
The required strategic skills among leaders in attaining leadership ambitions are problem
solving skill, emotional intelligence skill and effective communication skill (Hooper and Potter,
2019). These strategies can be acquired through educations and with passage of time as per
pertaining situation. Leaders of Kia Supplies and Company can recognise the situation through
these skills so that they can work in effective path for attaining strategic ambitions that are
identified previously.
The future skills such as Inter cultural communication, strategy formulation and financial
knowledge can help leaders in achieving all the identified strategic ambitions. With commitment
of constant learning, self improvement and professional excellence, future skills can be
developed by leaders of the entity as these will aids in entire journey for achieving goals, needs
and ambitions.
There is functional relationship among different skills that are current, required and future
for attaining identified strategic leadership ambitions as this assist in building a connection
among skills at distinct levels on the basis of specialised nature of ambition for which
responsibility of different skill are shared to achieve ambitions at Kia Supplies and Company.
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TASK 2
2.1. Discussion on opportunities for achieving strategic leadership development
Strategic leadership is all about an ability which influences others in making decisions in
voluntarily manner which enhances prospects for long term success as well as maintaining short
term stability (Klenke, 2017). Strategic leadership development provides various opportunities to
leaders in context of developing their career, expertise and so forth. At same time, development
of strategic leadership depends on completion of inter organisational strategies. By developing
strategic leaderships, leaders of Kia Supplies and Company gains huge number of opportunities
in the dynamic and complex business environment. Some of opportunities for achieving strategic
leadership development are as discussed:
Emphasis on application as well as sustainable behaviours: It is one of opportunity
with leaders of the company to develop strategic leadership through focusing towards executing
and sustaining behaviours. In case with Kia Supplies and Company, leadership development
professionals through the opportunity can work towards making contributions and efforts to help
leaders in sustaining new knowledge together with behaviours that are necessary in achieving
strategies and ambitions.
Mobile learning: It is another opportunity for organisational leaders to achieve strategic
leadership development by using mobile learning mechanism (Koohang, Paliszkiewicz and
Goluchowski, 2017). In mobile learning, various lectures and other important information are
available for people who have aim of attaining development in their strategic leadership.
Moreover, at Kia Supplies and Company, top level authority system can make emphasis on
providing mobile learning to new leaders through training and development that is delivered in
innovative manner. With this, learners gains opportunity of developing strategic leadership at
anytime and anywhere for attainment purposes.
Group coaching as well as democratisation of strategic leadership development: in
traditional era, leaders of entities are provided executive coaches together with learning through
executive education programs at universities and seminars. However, modern era has changed
the learning techniques and this is one of opportunity for leaders to attain strategic leadership
development at organisational premises only (Lopez-Cabrales, Bornay-Barrachina and Diaz-
Fernandez, 2017). The new decade engrosses leaders who actively engage all their people. In
relevance to Kia Supplies and Company, top managers have opened a policy or learning method
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in which large number of groups are provided coaching and learning development are
democratise. This is an effective opportunity for the leaders to attend the programs and also
influence its subordinates to take part in as this can help them in attaining development of
strategic leadership for pertaining requirement purposes.
With the mentioned opportunities, leaders of Kia Supplies and Company have huge
chances or possibilities for achieving strategic leadership opportunities.
2.2. Constructing personal development plan for attaining strategic leadership development
Personal development plan is an action plan that includes statement of an individual
strengths, aspirations as well as competences or ways to achieve them (Maria Stock, Zacharias
and Schnellbaecher, 2017). It also includes evaluation and timings within which a person can
develop its skills or competences. In order to attain strategic leadership development, strategic
leader of Kia Supplies and Company have devised a personal development plan which is as
follows:
Goals Skills and
competencies
Resources Activities Time bound
Short term
goal
Strategy
formulation
skill
Development of
strategic skill will
be done with the
help of resources
such as proper
learning tools,
supportive
organisational
culture and an
effective tutor.
Activities that are
necessary for
developing the strategic
leadership skill are
anticipating situations,
analysing business
environment, making
duration for progress,
listening what others
wants to say and
understanding
consequences
(McCauley and Fick-
Cooper, 2020).
It will be
accomplished
by August 2,
2020.
Medium term
goal
Time and stress
management
To develop the
skill, resources
The activities that the
strategic leaders will
It will be
attained by
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required includes
computer, internet
connection, a
room and
assigned
workings (Neck,
Manz and
Houghton, 2019).
perform to develop
strategic skill are
delegating tasks,
scheduling activities,
setting deadlines,
prioritising operations,
keeping positive
attitude, managing time
on large number of
activities and setting
limits appropriately.
February 8,
2021.
Long term
goal
Inter-cultural
communication
skill
Resources that are
prerequisite for
development of
intercultural
strategic skill
among leaders are
technology, open
locations and
computers.
Activities for
developing the strategic
leadership skill includes
performing research,
asking questions,
observing along with
listening actively,
practicing self
awareness, avoiding
superior complexities,
diversity training and
emphasising more on
non verbal
communication among
businesses at global
level (Rose, 2018).
The skill will
be developed
till July 15,
2021.
2.3. Devising implementation process for development plan
In development, plan, implementation process plays important role as it acts as blueprint
through which working are executed to achieve the end results (Rosenbach, 2018).
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Implementation process is defined as sequence of steps that starts with priority area and ends at
monitoring and controlling. All development plans needs effective implementation process as it
assist in all stages to turn the plan into action for accomplishing set strategic developments
properly. In context to development plan of strategic leader of Kia Supplies and Company, the
implementation process is as devised:
Implementation process for personal development plan of strategic leader of Kia Supplies
ad Company
Particulars Description
Priority area The priority area for the implementation process is development of
strategic leadership. The priority areas will help in properly
executing the development plan within determined aspects.
Goal The goal of the implementation process is to effectively execute the
development plan that is executed by strategic leader for enhancing
skills and competences within the time limitations (Shapira, Ketchie
and Nehe, 2017).
Performance measure Performance measures which will be used in the implementation
process by strategic leader of the entity are graphical rating scale
and management by objective.
Objective The objective of the implementation process is to attain the goals
for developing strategic leadership within the leader of Kia Supplies
and Company.
Activity In this, all the activities that are set in the development will be put
in action so that all the skills and competencies will be achieved as
per the determined criteria (Sharma, 2017).
Timeline For different skills, different tile lines are set. For example, short
term goals will be achieved till August 2, 2020, medium term goals
will be attained by February 8, 2021 and long term goals will be
accomplished by July 15, 2021.
Requirement of resources The essential resources required for developing skills within
strategic leader includes computer, proper learning tools, open
locations, internet connection and so forth.
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Lead person The lead person in the implementation plan will be Human resource
manager as it is responsibility of HR manager to make all resources
available and develop skills and competences of strategic leader.
Organisational result At this stage, strategic leader will make emphasis in achieving all
the determined organisational results in terms of productivity and
efficiency (Smylie and Eckert, 2018).
Anticipated alignment The anticipated alignment in implementation process are of
alignment of gaps among set procedure and real results related to
activities and tasks performed by strategic leader for attaining
leadership development.
Monitoring and
controlling
At last, all the practices, results and outcomes will be monitored
and deviations will be controlled in order to gain maximum positive
outcomes from the procedure.
TASK 3
3.1. Assessing achievement of results of plan against strategic needs
Strategic needs are something which is set by an individual or organisation for attainment
purposes (Van Wart, 2017). A strategic leader set out its needs so to attain them in future. It is
done in the form of personal development plan. It is important for an individual to appraise
effectiveness of development of leadership in order to attain defined ambitions and needs within
dynamic business environment. In context to strategic leader of Kia Supplies and Company,
strategic needs for developing various skills and competences are set along with resources,
activities and timings constraints. In this context, it has been assessed that the strategic leader has
achieved short term and medium term goals at some extent. But attainment of long term goals
needs some improvement in activities and requirements of resources. It is also assessed that the
outcomes of plan were satisfactory. However, do not meet the criteria of identified strategic
needs. At same time, when strategic leaders are able to achieve their defined needs then it this
shows success for the company as it faces huge competition and through the developed skills and
competences, effectiveness of strategies and steps taken are check effectively by the leaders.
The strategic leader has attained short term goals in accordance with needs. Moreover,
leaders have analysed that the achievement results are more helpful for the entity as these can
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assist in taking lead in the competition and making successful steps to gain sustainability and
position in the business environment (Sharma, 2017). It is also assessed that leaders have
strategic needs to build effective team as well as have support from top management. The leaders
have not been able to achieve the skills as per the needs and its various skills for different goals
needs some major modification so to achieve them according to the identified criteria of needs.
Further, leaders have assessed that uncertain risk are the main causes for the results.
3.3 Evaluating impacts of achievement of objectives on strategic leadership ambitions
Strategic leadership ambitions are the aspiration of leaders to attain something in business
environment (Huber, 2017). Organisational strategic leaders are reluctant to analyse evaluation
of the impacts of objective achievement in context to strategic leadership ambitions. In this
context, leaders of Kia Supplies and Company uses Gap Analysis Model to evaluate impacts.
Gap analysis model is one of formal method that explains about what the leaders are doing
currently, what they wants to attain and the ways adopted by them for closing gap among the
two. With this model, desired and actual results are compared and opportunities for further
development are pinpointed for improvement aspects. The need for using the model generally
arises from shortcomings or unattainment of objectives as per the defined plan. The gap analysis
model to evaluate impacts on strategic leaders for achievement of goals on strategic ambitions
includes following stages:
Identification of improvement area: It has been evaluated that at this stage, strategic
leaders identifies the improvement areas so that all the objectives to attain strategies leadership
ambitions are met with defined criteria (Argenti, 2017). In this, major priority area that is
mandatory to improve is identified by strategic leader of Kia Supplies and Company. it is seen
that the major improvement areas includes strategy formulation skill along with time and
management skill for achieving ambition of managing effective team and devising strategies to
attain support from top administrators.
Analysing current state: Herein, current state of the strategic leader are analysed through
collecting information from peer groups and documenting entire contributing elements which has
resulted the current state. It is also evaluated that strategic leaders analyses current state of Kia
Supplies and Company so that they can define future stages.
Defining end goals: Once current state is identified and evaluated, then the next is
defining goals for striving (Popli and Rizvi, 2017). It has been evaluated that leaders optimises
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