Personal Effectiveness Report: Sundar Pichai's Leadership Analysis

This report delves into the personal effectiveness of Sundar Pichai, CEO of Google and Alphabet, examining the skills and behaviors that contributed to his global leadership success. It outlines his transformational leadership style, emphasizing idealized influence, individualized consideration, inspirational motivation, and intellectual stimulation. The report discusses the positive aspects of Pichai's leadership, such as hard work, dedication, and a never-give-up attitude, while also acknowledging potential negative impacts, including challenges related to employee relations and communication. Finally, the report reflects on how personal effectiveness principles can be applied to enhance career development in a competitive job market, highlighting the importance of self-assessment and skill development for achieving professional goals. This report is a valuable resource for students seeking to understand leadership and personal effectiveness.

Personal Effectiveness

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Outline skills and behaviours that made Sundar Pichai an personally effective global leader...1
Discuss the positive elements of Sundar Pichai’s skills and behaviours as well as their impacts
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Discuss the negative elements of Sundar Pichai’s skills and behaviours as well as their
impacts........................................................................................................................................4
Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles to your own development
in order to be
successful in the competitive job market...................................................................................5
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................10

INTRODUCTION
Personal effectiveness refers to the utilization of skills, capabilities and ability to achieve
set of goals and objectives of individuals life. It helps individuals to understand about their
personal skills and ability so that they can achieve all the goals in their life. It also help in
analysing such skills that they lack and need to develop in order to achieve set targets of life.
Sunder Pcihai is one of the best example of the individual who used his personal effectiveness to
achieve all the gaols and aim of his life. He is the CEO and chief executive officer Alphabet and
its subsidiary Google. The full name of Sunder Pcihai is Pcihai Sunderarajan, he was born in
July 12, 1972. and he is also an Indian and American business person. This report includes
theories and framework relating to personal effectiveness, also critical evaluation of skills and
behaviour that Sunder Pcihai used to make him effective global leader(Bhardwaj, and Agrawal,
2020). It also include all the positive elements of Sunder Pcihai's skills and behaviours an its
impact. Further, it also include personal reflection on how an individual can gain competitive
advantages from the skills and abilities that help in the future growth and development personal
growth.
MAIN BODY
Outline skills and behaviours that made Sundar Pichai an personally effective global leader
Sundar Pichai is a leading CEO of Goggle and Alphabet who customer base are larger
than any country population. He was born on 1972, July. Sundar Pichai can gain success in their
life because of never giving up attitude (Sundar Pichai Life Story: A Man Bringing
Revolutionary Changes, 2020). He get the success because of their several skills and behaviours
that helps in becoming a global leader that can be presented below:
To outline the skills and behaviour of Sundar Pichai this includes the transformational
leadership theory where he plays a role of Affiliation leader.
Transformational leadership theory defines as that in which leaders are working with
their team members as per the changes occur within business environment. In this leaders can
encourage their team mates so that positive and productive work is to be reflected. As he is a
very modest and poise man that never included in the political controversy. He has the power of
influencing their employees towards accept the changes as per needs of business environment
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requirements that helps in gaining higher success in the company. In this Sundar Pichai can
developed the collaborative relationship in their working area between the team members.
This reflects that ' A leader cannot focus only on the success of the company but also focus on
success of other members'. This theory includes four factors on the basis of skills and behaviour
of a Goggle and Alphabet CEO can be elaborated which helps in gaining higher success in
professional career.
 Idealized influence- In this factor Sundar Pichai can influence their team mates and
developed trust that helps in taking decision effectively for organisation. In this Pichai,
collaboration skill is to be reflected that helps in removing conflicts and emphasise on
corporation. In this Mr. Pichai can highly focus on collaboration rather than political fight
and to prove this Pichai willingly give up on some territory for maintaining harmony with
other managers and leaders that helps in developing their respect within global market. In
this he inspired and share vision with their team mates so that they feel satisfied and
effective to work effectively (Chughtai, Seale, and Macintyre, 2020).
 Individualised consideration- In this factor Mr. Pichai can play the role of coach and
advisor to the his subordinates. It reflect the behaviour of Pichai that helps his
subordinate by being supportive leader in the company. He become effective team leader
by having this personality trait, that improve his professional relationship with team
members. Mr. Pichai has become inspiration for all the business person who are
struggling in their business. In this he provide better insight about his behaviour that
helped his team members to become loyal employee of Google.
 Inspirational Motivation: Sunder Pcihai become an inspiration for other individuals
who want successful business and grow in their life. He has skill of being an effective
leader in his company, that helped him in making his team member more motivate and
encourage. This skill improve the over all performance of business in the market. The
main motive of his life to make other believe in themselves so that they can increase
growth of organisation.
 Intellectual Stimulation: Sunder Pcihai is an visionary personality and believes that
innovation and creativity is important part of business so that it can grow higher than
other competitor. This personality trait of Sunder Pcihai (Clair, and Girard, 2020)
helped him to think about innovative ideas and creativity. He is known for become
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master mind behind the lunching of Chrome browser in 2008, he play important role in
convening his seniors at google to lunch browser which become one of the most
successful Chrome operating system.
Discuss the positive elements of Sundar Pichai’s skills and behaviours as well as their impacts
Sunder Pcihai is included in one of the best leaders in the world, he succeeded in his life
by using personal skills and abilities that helped him to rule the world. It become pride comment
for India to see an Indian born make it to the list of one of the largest technology industry's CEO.
He was born in an middle class family in Madurai, Tamil Nadu. Sunder Pcihai has leadership
trait in his personality that helped him to become more successful in the world. Below are
various positive element of Sunder Pcihai's skills and behaviour that helped him to become
successful leaders of the world(Dowlati, 2019).
 Hard work: From the humble begging as an middle class student in India to become of
the lead developer of google chrome, Sunder Pcihai work hard for all his goals and aim
of his life. It is most positive element of his behaviour that he always think about
perfection in his work and also it helped him to work hard. This ability of hard Work
makes him an great leader in the world also he develop better understanding about his
career he made an huge impact on his growth in the technology industry. He was focused
on learning and gain more knowledge so that he can develop understanding about the
future growth in the competitive market. The attitude of Sunder Pcihai shows his ability
to stand against the difficulties and challenges of life.
 Dedication and decision making skills: It is the reason way Sunder Pcihai get
successful in his career, he think dedication is the key to achieve whatever an person
want in life. Sunder Pcihai become successful leader and CEO of largest technology
industry with the dedication towards the work he do and task he have to perform to get
successful in his career. His decision making skills helped him in taking an right decision
for his company so that company can grow and achieve high level of profitability in his
business. Decision making skills always helped him in making his company grow and
successful in technology industry(Hanss, and Doran, 2020).
 Never give-up attitude: Sunder Pcihai always think about how he can get successful in
his career, he never think that he can not do anything that helped him in making right
decision and develop better understanding about the management of his career. He
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always think positive and never gave up on his dreams that helped in better achievement
of goals and objective of his life.
 Modest life style: Sunder Pcihai is very grounded and down to earth personality, he
always behave with his employees and subordinates with respect. He believe in simple
living, that make him an inspiration in the eye of other people. He always forced on
working hard rather than making his life luxurious. He is also very supportive and
empathetic to his employees that helped them in better growth with the company.
Thus, Sunder Pcihai has skills and behaviour impact on his growth and become successful in his
life. He has positive attitude towards the goals and aims of his life that make him successful
business personality.
Discuss the negative elements of Sundar Pichai’s skills and behaviours as well as their impacts.
With all the growth in the market Sunder Pcihai also face many challenges, that cause
negative impact on his growth and success in the market. Becoming one of the greatest leader of
the world he faced a lot of barrier and obstacles that make his journey hard for him. From every
hardship and the risk he take in order to get successful career there are negative impact of his
skills and behaviour that could become threat for its growth and success. There are various
decision that Pcihai ate in order to get more successful that his subordinate and employees does
not like. This decision making process make his employees more insecure about their jobs at
Google. Employee's confidence at google is very low and become threat for its growth.
Leadership and controlling behaviour of Pcihai could make it difficult for employees to work
independently at organisation(Halder, and Mohanty, ., Kim, and Yoo, 2019).
Sunder Pcihai face criticism on the various polices he made for the company, that make
employees against Google. More than 20,000 employees protest against the google for
inappropriate rule and policies. That affect its market image and brand loyalty also get affected,
employees of google felt that they are having issues in the company that are ignored by the
management. Sunder Pcihai, does not have open line communication with his subordinate that
affect clarity of vision to the other people of company(Say, Zammel, and Najar,2019).
Dedication nature of Sunder Pcihai sometimes make it difficult for other because every person in
the company has their own perception that could get affected. Sunder Pcihai has personality
where in his life he dose not feel fear to take risk but sometime overconfidence could impact the
growth and profitability of the company. Thus, there are some negative elements that could have
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negative impact on the business of Sunder Pcihai, but the continues growth he develop an brand
image of its personality. In this negative elements in skills and behaviour could affect the
business and growth of business. Mr. Pcihai always focused on more improvement and he can
also improve this negative personality (Kim, and Chang, 2020).
Discuss how you intend to apply personal effectiveness principles to your own development in
order to be
successful in the competitive job market.
Self-assessed development needs with regard to personal effectiveness:
I leaned about various positive impact of skills and behaviour on the successful growth of
Mr. Pcihai that helped me to understand how my skills and personal effectiveness can help me in
development of successful career in the competitive job market. Personal effectiveness is very
important for my career growth and to find right path of career. According to the skills of Mr.
Pcihai, hard working personality can help me in analysing and improving my skills and abilities
so that I can achieve gaols and objectives of my life. Collaboration skills can help me in
understanding various conflicts in my teams and how can I solve them in order to make my team
effective. It helped me to understand the importance of hard work and how can I achieve all the
gaols and targets of my life with this behaviours. Self assessed development is important for the
growth of my current and future career. From this I learned that personal effectiveness is the key
to get successful career and attain the gaols and objectives of my life (Neck, Manz, and
Houghton, 2019). This also helped me to know which skills I required to have in order to gain
effective growth and successful career. Below are some personal effectiveness factors that I have
that help me to be successful in the competitive job environment.
 Hard working and dedication: This skills and personality trait could help me to get
successful career in the competitive job market. Hard working nature helped me in
academic career and now it could also help me to get successful in my job career. This
helps me to improve all the personality gaps and fulfil the skills and capabilities needs of
my career. I also have dedication towards my future that helps me to achieve all the goals
and objectives of my life. This also helped me to understand about importance of
dedication in life and how I can become more dedicated towards my goals and objectives.
 Communication skills: My effective communication skills can help me to achieve better
growth in the competitive job market. Communication skills are use full for the person
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how want to achieve better job in the competitive market, and this skill could help me in
the achievement of good job for my self and effective management of my career growth.
This skills help me to improvement in public speaking ans interaction with new people
and know about them.
 Collaboration skills: This skills could improve my ability to work with team members in
the company, also it could help me to understand about how to cooperate with other
peoples in team. I also have ability to solve conflicts so it could help me better working in
the teams and understanding of how team conflicts are occurs and how I can solve them.
Thus, with this personality effectiveness I can achieve all the set of goals and aims of my
life, and also get successful in the competitive world. This skills and behaviour can help me in
better future growth and gain objectives of my life in most effective manner. It also improve my
self amassment that could help me understanding of better growth in the market.
Strategy for personal development with the regards to personal effectiveness.
In this I learned about the importance of personal effectiveness for the better future
growth and achievement I adopt some persona development strategy that can help me in better
understanding of professional vision. To achieve successful career in competitive market I have
to understand the importance of Clarity what I want to achieve in my life and what can help me
to achieve those objective. Firstly I will make future plan of all the goals and objective that I
have to achieve in order to get successful career. Clarity of vision is very important for me
because it helps me to understand about all the objectives and goals of my life, and
understanding of which skills could help me to get better performance in future and gain
competitive advantages. Its essential for to identify all the strengths and weakness in my
personality. Strengths could help me to boost self confidence, and understanding of all the
weaknesses can provide me insight about how I can overcome form the gap between my goal.
Learn something new and innovative can also help me to build personality that could help
me in achievement of goals and objectives in the competition. Learning new skills or topic can
enhance my abilities so that I can achieve all the goals and targets of my life. I could take help of
webinar and seminars that provide me better information and knowledge about new topics and
skills. I can also learn from family and friends about various skills that they have and how those
skills helped them in their career growth. Improvement in my soft and hard skills help could also
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increase the level of my performance in my future organisation. For the better learning of soft
skills I can will read more knowledgeable books and journals, I will interact with new people so
that it can improve my social skills, I will attain seminars and webinar that could help me in
improvement of my knowledge and information. I will also read about the success and failure
stories of successful business persons that could help me and motivate me for better performance
and hard work for all goals and objectives of my life.
I will take initiate of over coming my fears that could prevent me from growing in my
career for public speaking fear I will join classes that could help me in overcoming form that
fear, also I can learn various hard skills that could be beneficial for the future growth in the
market. Thus, from these strategy I can have effective career growth that could help me in
understanding of better future and growth in the market. All this strategy can provide me insight
about the future growth in my career.
Impact of personal development gaps:
I have several skills and capabilities that could help me in my future growth and
achievement of goals and objectives in my future. But they are many personality gaps that could
impact my performance at work place, these skills gap could impact the future possibility get
successful. One of my skill gap that can impact my performance at work place is Public speaking
fear that could impact my performance and decrease effectiveness at the work place, to over
come from this gap I can learn about various factors that can help me to fill this gap. I can attain
seminar that help me to understand how can I convey my thoughts and ideas to the team
members, it also improve the possibility of enhancing my career by improvement in soft skills.
Public speaking is important part for the achievement various future objectives and aims in this
competitive market.
To get job that I want in my career, personal development is important for the
achievement. But there are some areas where I lack and that could impact my performance in
personal development. For the better development of personal effectiveness I have to learned
about hard skills that can improve my skills and capabilities and also help in effective utilization
of the skills I have. Hard skills could be become reason of my poor performance in the company,
so to fill this development gap, I will take some classes that help me better development of my
hard skills and capabilities. So that I can reduce the impact of skills gap in my personal
development plan. Lack of knowledge also affect the my future goals and aims it could help me
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in improvement of all the factors that have an positive impact in my career growth. Time
management skills could also impact my performance at work place, in order to get successful in
competitive job market I have to learn about effective time management at work place so that I
can compete all given task and work at right time. This improvement in my personality helps me
to understand better learning and get successful in the future. Improvement in time management
skills will improve my ability to work hard and compete all the task and work given by the
company.
Thinking skills could also my career growth in the market, there are various possibility of
that my thinking process could be slow in the company. So that I have to work on this skill in
order to make effective growth and achievement of gaols and objective at company. Thinking
skills helps in development of all innovative ideas and information that can help in effective
management and development of organisation. So this gap in by personality development could
cause ineffective performance at work place, and improvement in this skill could help me in
better understanding of goals and objectives so that it helps me get better future and gain
competitive advantages.
Thus, all the gap in my personality can impact my future growth and achievement of goals and
objectives. In order to get secure job and reputed company I will work on this lack in my
personality and could develop better future growth.
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CONCLUSION
From the above information it can be conclude that persona effectiveness is an important
part of person's life that help in better achievement of all the set goals and objectives. Personal
effectiveness also provide various opportunity to the individual in the development of better
growth and successful career. Sunder Pcihai is the great leader whose skills and abilities become
an reason of successful career growth in the technology industry. With the hard work and
passion he become one of the most successful business person in the world. He is an inspiration
for the young generation who want to become business persons. From the middle class student to
become brand image in the world is not easy task for Mr .Pcihai, he face many challenges and
obstacles in path of success. With the various challenges he still manges to become an effective
leader in the world. With this is also include the personal reflection that helps in better
understanding of various importance of personal development and how an individual can
develop various skills and capabilities that helps in better achievement of goals and aims in life.
This also helps to analyse personal assessment of personality that individual need in order to get
successful in job and professional career. There are various personality development gap that
could impact future growth and achievement of gaols in individual's life.
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