Leadership Development Strategies for Transport Industry Leaders

This report examines leadership development within the transport industry, focusing on the application of coaching, mentoring, motivation, and participation as key strategies. The author identifies the transport sector's importance in a globalized world and highlights the need for leadership development to address challenges. The report proposes specific approaches including professional training programs (coaching), senior-junior mentorship programs, and motivational techniques such as rewards, training, and promotion. It also emphasizes the importance of participation in decision-making to boost leaders' confidence and contribution. Furthermore, the report outlines a project approach to address leadership issues, including identifying barriers, resolving issues through participatory approaches, recording issues in a log, and managing project issues through commitment to resolution and action creation. The report references relevant literature on leadership and organizational development.

LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT
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Topic Description
Leadership development is a project approach that is aimed at expanding the abilities and
competence of individuals within an organization to enhance their leadership role performance
within an organization (Lussier & Achua 2015). Leadership role, in this case, is the activities that
facilitate the implementation of a company strategy through employee collaboration, idea
exchange, and individual motivation. Leadership development activities are geared towards
improving the confidence, capabilities, and skills of leaders by applying the development forms.
The development forms used to guide and develop leaders are coaching and mentoring
(Landsberg 2015).
Information on Transport Industry
The transport industry is a broad field ranging from air, road, and railway to the water industry.
The transport sector is believed to be an essential industry in the globalized world as it is used by
almost everybody across the globe in fulfilling their day to day demand. Besides it's used as a
mode of transportation, transport industry has created numerous employment for a majority of
individuals across the globe. Nevertheless, transportation industry leading challenges are tightly
attached to lack of proper leadership developmental guidance. There is a need for capacity
building within the transport industry especially within the leadership departments using the
various leadership development approaches.
Leadership Development Approach in the Transport Industry
My intended leadership development approaches within the transport industry are
inclined into three main spheres which are mentoring, coaching, motivation and participation. I
plan to approach leadership development within the transportation industry through coaching
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whereby I will encourage leaders within the transport industry to engage in a professional
training program that will enable them to acquire appropriate competency skills that will
improve their performances within the industry. My second's approach to leadership
development within the transport industry is mentorship. Mentorship is a program whereby
employees are linked to professional individuals to guide them in performing their
responsibilities. I intend to tackle the mentorship approach within the industry by introducing a
senior employee to junior employee mentorship program which targets learning, motivation and
performance improvement among industry members. My third approach to leadership
development within the transport industry is motivation and participation. Motivation is
leadership development strategies that involve rewarding leaders' efforts in accomplishing their
roles through appreciation and introducing techniques such as training and promotion to boost
their performance at work. Participation gives leaders the right to decision-making on matters
about their welfare and promotes a sense of belonging as it boosts leaders confidence and
contribution to organization's welfare (Scott & Davis 2015).
Addressing leadership Development issue in the Transport Industry
Leadership development within the transport industry can be discussed in the following
ways; Identifying the leadership issues, issue resolution, recording project issues and managing
project issues. Leadership development can only take place through identification of barriers
that limit leadership success such as incompetency, unprofessionalism, technological barriers,
etc. These issues can then be solved by researching and developing appropriate employees
participatory resolutions approach to the restrictions. To ensure that every barrier is adequately
dealt with, the leaders should record every identified issues and resolution in an issue log.
Recording issues and resolutions in an issue log enable easy to follow up and stakeholders'
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access to issue log (Young 2013). Lastly, managing project issue as a strategy for leadership
development in the transport industry can be addressed by developing commitments to issue
resolution through action creation and direction recommendations on the verge of seeking project
continuity agreement.
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Work Cited
Landsberg, M., 2015. The Tao of coaching: Boost your effectiveness at work by inspiring and
developing those around you. Profile Books.
Lussier, R.N. and Achua, C.F., 2015. Leadership: Theory, application, & skill development.
Nelson Education.
Scott, W.R., and Davis, G.F., 2015. Organizations and organizing: Rational, natural and open
systems perspectives. Routledge.
Young, T.L., 2013. Successful project management (Vol. 52). Kogan Page Publishers.
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