Report: Personal Development for Strategic Leadership at Sainsbury's

This report delves into the realm of personal development as a strategic leader, specifically within the context of Sainsbury's, a major UK supermarket chain. The report begins by outlining the needs, goals, and aspirations of individuals involved in inter-organisational strategies, emphasizing the importance of strategic skills such as vision, relationship-building, teamwork, and communication. It then explores the relationship between existing, required, and future skills necessary to achieve strategic leadership ambitions. The core of the report focuses on the development of a personal development plan to enhance strategic leadership capabilities, including opportunities for development and a detailed execution process. Furthermore, the report assesses the achievement of outcomes against strategic needs, the impact on strategic leadership ambitions, and the continuous review and update of the leadership development plan. Finally, it examines how the strategic needs of organizations involved in inter-organizational strategy are met from current resources and proposes methods to enhance strategic leadership resources and practices. The report concludes by evaluating the effectiveness of strategic leadership development in advancing professional leadership practices within Sainsbury's and similar organizations. The report provides a comprehensive overview of the factors involved in developing leaders.

Personal Development as a
Strategic Leader

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................1
1.1 Needs, goals and aspirations of people involved in inter-organisational strategies..............1
1.2 Strategic skills required of the leader to achieve identified strategic leadership ambitions. 3
1.3 Relationship between existing, required and future skills to achieve identified strategic
leadership ambitions....................................................................................................................4
TASK 2............................................................................................................................................5
2.1 Opportunities to achieve strategic leadership development..................................................5
2.2 Personal development plan to achieve strategic leadership development.............................6
2.3 Execution process for the development plan........................................................................9
TASK 3..........................................................................................................................................10
3.1 Achievement of outcomes of the plan against strategic needs............................................10
3.2 Impact of the achievement of objectives on strategic leadership ambitions.......................11
3.3 Review and update the leadership development plan.........................................................12
TASK 4..........................................................................................................................................14
4.1 Strategic needs of organisations involved in inter organisational strategy are met from
current resources.......................................................................................................................14
4.2 Formulate proposals to develop the strategic leadership resource......................................15
4.3 Effectiveness of strategic leadership development in achieving advancement of
professional leadership practices...............................................................................................16
CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................17
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................18
.......................................................................................................................................................20

INTRODUCTION
Personal leadership refers to leadership of self. It is an ability to explain direction for
leadership and move in a proper direction with clarity and consistency. Personal development is
all about acquiring skills, experience and knowledge for purpose of improve the self perception
as well as individual performance. It is systematic process which has motive to create, determine
skills to be improved, action plans and utilise better opportunities and many others. Personal
development involves all those activities or tasks which can increase potential and also
determine an individual (Allee, 2012). It is a procedure of improving oneself by some activities
for an instance increasing employment skills, buiding wealth and maximising the consciousness.
In this present time period, personal development is more imperative as it is planning process by
which employer acquire the knowledge as well as leadership skills in order to attain the long
term objectives of company. This present report is based on the Sainsbury organisation. It is
largest supermarkets chain in United Kingdom with 16.9% share in supermarket sector. This
organisation was founded in year 1869 and in 1922 it became largest retailer of groceries. This
comp-any is divided in to three different parts such as Sainsbury bank, Sainsbury's Argos and
Sainsbury's Supermarkets Ltd. It provides the better quality of products and services to people.
Personal development is necessary in every organisation and helpful in improving the
skills, knowledge and capabilities of an individual. Under this, report will be discuss about goals,
aspirations and needs of people which are included in an inter- organisational strategies
(Blumenthal and et. al., 2012). Relationship among the current, necessary and also future skills
to attain determined strategic leadership outcomes will be mentioned. Personal development plan
is helpful in accomplishing the strategic leadership development. There will be discussion about
strategic requirements of companies included in an inter- organisational strategy in order to meet
from existing resources.
TASK 1
1.1 Needs, goals and aspirations of people involved in inter-organisational strategies
An inter organisational system refers to system among the firms or share information and
data between group of organisations. In the competitive market, I have faced face more
competition. Numerous issues are faced through enhancing technological requirements and focus
on expand business at the large scale. Strategies are helpful in conducting the activities and tasks
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in a systematic manner. The inter-organisational strategies are helpful to develop the more
flexibility as well as agility. The needs, aspirations and goals of different people are varied from
each other. Under this, if two organisations work together then in this case their goals and
requirements will be same (Bolden, 2016). Under this, there are two business firms Sainsbury
and Morrisons both deal in the retail sector and also a chain of supermarkets. The main focus of
both organisations is to achieve the common goals with in given time period. They focus on
fulfil the requirement and goals of different group of people in develop the inter- organisational
strategies. Under this, the personal skills are need communication, decision making, time
management etc. There are various factors given below which help in analyse goals, aspirations
and needs of various group of people:
Political Factor- For conduct business operations, political stability is necessary. If
government will make changes in policies then in this case company will need to make changes
in its exiting policies and same as group of people will also require to make some modifications.
Technological factor- It affect on business operations in many different ways. For an
example- Marketing department communicate with its consumers face to face because it does not
have any technology. It is more time taking and expensive. So, company need new technology
from which they can interact with the customers in an easy manner by using Facebook, Twitter,
E- mails and many others. The goal of both group of people is to increase its revenue by 5% to
8%.
Social Factor: It affects on operations and activities of business. Under this, need of
group of individuals are not similar. Thus, it impacts on working environment of both firms so it
affect my working attributes and techniques as well. This affects productivity of organisation and
they are not able to achieve their set business goals and targets. The goal of group of people is to
produce the eco- friendly products to consumers so that they can attract more.
Environmental Factors: These factors consist of all those elements that are influence by
the surrounding environmental that consists of scarcity of raw materials, carbon footprints and
targets which are set by government bodies. If there are demands of products in the economy,
then it will result in growth of the economy as people will be buying the products and there will
be high money flow (Broman and Robèrt, 2017). If there are changes in the climate conditions,
then they are directly affecting the production of firms thus they will not be able to achieve their
set targets.
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Economic Factor: These factors determinates performance of business. The elements
consist of exchange rates in the economy, rate of inflation, disposable income of customers, the
rate of employment. These factors are having long term impact on the business operations as
they are affecting purchasing power of the buyers. This in turn will result in changing the
demand and supply models in the economy. It also affects those strategies which are formulated
by firms for selling their goods and services (Brown and May, 2012).
1.2 Strategic skills required of the leader to achieve identified strategic leadership ambitions
A strategic leader is one person who make plan and procedures to ensure the long term
mission and objectives. Mainly, strategic leadership is the ability to influence other person to
take voluntarily and make better decision. This will help in enhancing prospects for business
organization to maintain long term stability (Bryson, 2018). In addition of this, for achieving
strategic ambitions leaders required good leadership qualities and ideas to implement entire
activities of the business. Leadership play vital role in every business organization to bring
success ion market because leaders are responsible for motivating their team workers and also
encourage the to improve their capabilities for attaining strategic objectives. As leaders are
important for company to develop corporate strategies, procedures to predicting future plan. This
will contribute in measuring time to time performance by meeting strategic ambition. In context
of Sainsbury, leader also required some strategic skills for achieving the determined strategic
leadership ambitions are as follows: Vision: It is an ability to focus on the future plan of the company in order to improve
their performance level. In addition of this, strategic planning is important process for
looking ahead. As the strategic leader needs to define clear future plan and at the same
timer also motivate their workers to follow the same (Cheng, 2013). With the help of this,
achieving predetermined goals and objectives. Relationship: In this, leader should maintain better relation with their team members. For
this, they tries to understand workers issues that occur at workplace. With the help of this,
employees of Sainsbury can easily improve their performance and attain positive results. Teamwork: It is important leader to motivate and encourage their team members so that
workers can easily perform their allotted task. By this skill, strategic leader can improve
performance of the workers in which they can easily attain set target of the company.
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 Intuition and development: Developing others is important for leader in which they give
opportunities to explore their ideas (Cottrell, 2015). In this strategic leader has ability to
make their clear plan and direct to employees so that they put their efforts to attain goals
in appropriate time frame. Strong communication skills: Effective communication is important for leader to interact
with their team members and provide them direction so that they can easily execute their
activities. With the help of this, leader understand workers issues that arise at workplace.
It also contribute in identified strategic ambitions. Decision making: By this skill, strategic leader evaluate the ways and aspects to take
right decision. As leader also include workers in every activities to make their aware
about changes and effectively implement. This will help leader to take right and adequate
decision for attaining strategic leadership ambitions.
 Time management: It is important for leader to hold and manage the time at workplace
to attain certain goals (Day and et. al., 2014). If workers are effectively perform work as
per allotted time. It also help in creating superior work and at the same time also provide
right path to leader to attain strategic-leadership ambitions.
1.3 Relationship between existing, required and future skills to achieve identified strategic
leadership ambitions
Ambition are refer to the opinion and ideas which relate with the risk. In this strategic
leader is responsible for making effective plan and strategies for reducing the negative impact on
business organization. If strategies are not appropriate than it affect the overall growth of the
company at market place. Thus, it is important for strategic leader to identify the strategic
ambitions to evaluate the overall performance of the company. In context of Sainsbury, they
focus on their time management skills, decision making skills and ability to take initiatives and
so on. All these are important for leader to implement to increase the chances of attaining
success. It also help in in attaining competitive advantage from other business organizations.
There is relation between the existing a future skills as person who want to see
themselves at the top positions have to show their talent among the workforce so it can be
discovered (Day, Harrison and Halpin, 2012). The most effective key is Management insight
which helps in knowing the effective skills. The wider gaols and strategies are supported by the
plans and policies formulated by business in order to achieve strategic leadership positions. If the
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negative factors on the current skills are identified then it will result in establishing top position
in the future time. There should be management plans developed on day to day basis in order to
know the performance level of worker so they can achieve strategic leadership position (Doody
and Doody, 2012). There should be training and development programmes organised in order to
address the gap by which person is not able to achieve top position in the company. Training also
helps in enhancing skills of individual as they will analyse those areas where actually they are
facing problems and ways by which this can be resolved this results in achieving strong positions
at work place. Training should not only be limited to cooperate goal but they should be linked
towards analysing performance of individuals, succession planning is necessary in order to
develop intelligence map as they help individuals in achieving strategic positions.
As per current skills of the leader needs to improve their communication skills for
establishing better relationship with their team members. With the help of this, they can easily
enhance their productivity level and at the same time also identify the strategic-leadership
ambition. This will support company to increase overall productivity level at market place.
Along with this, leader of Sainsbury analysis the gap between existing and requires skills with
the purpose of attaining strategic ambitions of the firm. For this leaders bring the time
management skills in their personal development for attaining future goals in appropriate time
frame. By doing this, positive image of the firm get increased and also bring more profitability at
market place. In addition of this, leader skills may contribute in attaining strategic leadership
ambitions through which firm established reputation.
TASK 2
2.1 Opportunities to achieve strategic leadership development
Leadership refers to ability of a person or group of people to guide the members of
company. Under this, leader guides the team members so that they can focus towards attaining
the goals in systematic manner. Strategic leadership refers to potential of manager to express
strategic vision for company and also motivate others in order to acquire vision. Strategic
leadership development equips the more experienced executives which are moving in main
leadership roles in context to tackle the particular business related challenges with an assurance
(Gibb, 2012). The programmes of strategic leadership development is helpful in enhance the
performance level that will result in provide the positive outcomes over long term. It can used as
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launch pad for the organisational change or particular project. Under this, strategic leadership
can explained as utilizing the strategy in employees management. The main focus of Strategic
leadership development program is to develop leadership skills which are necessary to being the
efficient manager, team members, executives and supervisors. On the basis of research it is
identified that managers are good at evaluating opportunities and forecasting outcomes of actions
which are close to operations perform by Sainsbury. For an example- Sainsbury organisation
develop strategies to expand its business or supermarket in to rural areas. (Gibb, Haskins and
Robertson, 2012).
Goals and objectives of Sainsbury are more exaggerated through an application of
different strategies in the various sector and some of the other factors. The strategic leadership
development provides the better opportunities to leaders in order to increase their skills as well
as core competencies. In addition to this, it is necessary for planned manager to create control for
support ambitions. In Sainsbury business firm, there are several individuals develop effective
strategies so one need to prepare from start to have better strategies in context to work with other
staff members. Under this organisation, manager should have the power of controlling on its
resolution of developing skills as well as specific plan.
Leadership quality for attaining ambitions as itself top strategy because it includes the
human resource management (Herrmann and Herrmann-Nehdi, 2015). In order to develop
professional skills it is necessary that a person gets full support from other staff members. The
company have been known to offer participative environment which provides the manager and
budding leaders to avail numerous opportunity to grow and develop themselves. The crucial
decision which are formulated in the organisation are carried out with the help employees and
workforce working with the business. The ways through which opportunities related to strategic
development can be exercised in the present environment are as follows:
Taking initiatives: The delegatory environment assures that manages and leaders are
provided with more authority and responsibility. The undertaking of more responsibilities will
definitely be helpful to an individual in improvement of leadership skills.
Interaction with others: Good communication skills are necessary at every stage. To be
good strategic leader perfect as well as effective communication is necessary. It helps in personal
leadership. The opportunity to enhance level of communication can be carried out through right
participation in team affairs and engaging self in discussion and conferences.
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Critical thinking: It is one of the important skill for leader to carry. In this leaders have
to able to evaluate the chances of issues before happening. A good leader should also know
about opportunities that provide benefits to workers and company as well. This undertaking of
critical skills thinking will be helpful in formulation of right decision and understand tactics to
manage risks in business.
Following the role model: It is one of the crucial opportunity which can be availed by a
leader or manager in the organisation. This undertaking will be helpful in developing traits and
characteristics similar to that of role model such as passion, confidence, discipline and
motivation others.
2.2 Personal development plan to achieve strategic leadership development
Personal development plan refers to process of developing an action plan that depends on
values, goal settings, planning, awareness and reflection for the purpose of personal development
in context to career. It is continuous lifelong nurturing process, improving knowledge and skills
and also shaping to assure the enhance effectiveness as well as ongoing employability. If the plan
will be clear then in this case employees will perform in a systematic manner. It is helpful in
attaining the strategic leadership development.
Under this, it is enable to examine effectiveness and efficiency of personal development
plan with the help of using various methods or techniques. It is difficult to develop the personal
development plan to guide the leadership development and some of the other points for bearing
in mind to conduct audit of skills, determine skills and also make improvement in them for
perform activities in better manner oat given time period. It is necessary that plan should be
proper so that employees will be perform in significant manner (Hitt and et. al., 2012). In
addition to this, there is a requirement to personal development plan to do self evaluation of an
individual to search weak points and needs. After this, a person is able to create objectives in
better manner.
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organisational
environment within
Sainsbury. Under
this, on the job
training is necessary
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members and other
individual and can
provide strategic
vision.
Training
programmes,
Online
courses,
senior
managers
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Septembe
r, 2018
After
executing
the PDP
plan for
improving
my
leadership
skills, I have
observed
betterment
in my
potential to
manage
strategic
vision
within
Sainsbury. I
am more
able to
persuade
and
motivate
other team
member to
acquire the
standard and
set vision
using
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appropriate
strategies
according
distinct
consequence
.
2 Comm
unicat
ion
skills
3 5 My communication
skills is weak and I
feel hesitate to
interact with many
people.
Communication
skills helps in
interact with
different persons
and employees.
Seminars,
Technology,
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Septembe
r, 2018
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mention
time period,
I improved
my
communicat
ion skills in
better
manner. Co,
I am able to
interact with
people and
share my
opinions in
front of
people
without any
hesitation.
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on
makin
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an act of selecting
among two or more.
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provided
opportunity to work
in an environment
Learning from
seniors,
strategic
thinking, 360
leadership
assessment
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Septembe
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Developmen
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see some
changes in
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and also learn to
make the better
business decisions.
Gain more
experience of
process of business
analysis and by
using this in
working
environment I will
make improvement
in difficult decision
making.
my skills
and I can
able to take
better
decisions
and develop
positive
working
environment
in
Sainsbury.
4 Behav
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(Inspi
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others
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4 5 As a strategic
leader, positive
behaviour is
necessary for solve
issues. But I require
to improve my
behaviour such as
developing trust,
inspiring others so
that goals of
business are fulfilled
and compelling
vision for the future
could be formed.
Interact with
seniors
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Septembe
r, 2018
After
implementin
g PDP plan
for improve
my
behaviour, I
have noticed
betterment
in my
potential in
order to
inspire the
other
people,
encourage
and develop
trust.
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