Management For Leadership Analysis

Leadership Skills

Discuss about the Management for Leadership Analysis.

Leadership is the ability of an individual or organization to “lead” or guide other individuals, teams or entire organization or in other words it is the ability of making others to work with willingness (March & weil,2005). Leadership involves: – establishing a clear vision which means sharing our opinion thoughts with others so that the team should realize that they should work willingly, proper coordination should be maintained among the employees of the company, collecting information or knowledge and providing the knowledge into effective manner to the team members. Leadership skills cannot be taught, although through coaching or mentoring it may be learned, each and every skill comes with the failures (Radcliffe, 2012). Leaders need to be innovative no matter if they are failing to achieve their task, one day success will be there. Leader inspires or motivates their employees to work hard for achieving the goals. Communication should be done by leader in a way that other makes realize to work in an effective manner. Further this essay includes the leadership skills, abilities and potentials and also includes the theories of leadership.

My Leadership skills are: – motivation, delegation, positivity, creativity, trustworthiness, responsibility, communication. These skills will help to get the work done in an effective manner.  Motivation: – Motivation refers to as encouraging one’s work or in other words pushing an individual to work hard achieving his or her goals. Leader always motivates their team members or employees so that they can give their best (May, 2011). Being a leader, I think motivation is the best way to get the outcome from employees. Delegation: – Delegation refers to as assigning of responsibility or authority to any subordinate to achieve goals or to carry out activities. Leaders have to delegate the responsibilities and authority just to make the colleagues to realize the work requirement (Enock & Hunt, 2006). Personally, I faced a situation where I have to delegate the authority with responsibility to the employees. Later on, I found that the employee worked so well with full efficiency. Positivity: – Positivity brings positive environment, healthy conversation among the employees and healthy work environment. Leader needs to make sure that their employees are working with the positive approach then only they will be able to achieve the goals. I have created positive environment many times by adding fun to work or by allowing them to go out for refreshments. Trustworthiness: – Employees should feel free to go and to talk to their superiors such as manager or leader, if they are facing any kind of problem. Just want to share an experience where one employee came to me to ask solution to the problem. I gave the solution and talked with employee and asked about his life. This develops trustworthiness in an employee. Responsibility: – The success and failure of team is just because of leader, because leader is the only person who gives orders or lead a team. So, no employee should be blamed or pointed out for any kind of success or failure (Pless, 2007). Being a leader, if any failure or success occurs i will be responsible for that because I’m accountable for my team. Communication: – Leader should know how to communicate? To whom should he communicate? Leader should know all forms of communication, one-on-one communication, departmental, full-staff conversations and communication by phone, e-mail and social media. It not involves what you say but also involves how you say. In communication it is also important to listen to the other person, what the team wants to say (Hashem, 2017). I have communication skills and will make sure that as a leader I communicate with others in proper manner that will develop my skill and it will help me to communicate correct information.

Leadership Potentials

My leadership Potentials are: – Engagement, Ability and Aspiration. Let’s see the explanation of these potentials. Aspiration: – The word aspiration refers to as a hope or ambition of achieving something. So leadership should have ambition towards the work, which helps in achieving the desire goals. Ability: – The word refers to as the skills to do a certain kind of work at the certain level. For achieving any goal or target, person should have ability to do work; leaders should have ability to achieve the goals of a company.  Engagement: – The word refers to as the devotion of an employee towards the work or how passionate the person is towards the work or the job he is doing. Leader should have the devotion towards the work (Chuang, 2013).  Personally, these potential helped me to become a good leader, my ambition to achieve goals, my ability to do task, my engagement towards my work. Company growth shows the potential of leader, it shows how leader skills are working for the company benefits.

Each and every leader follows some theories and methods of leadership in their day to day activities, personally, being a leader theories that I follow are: – Traits leadership theory; This theory says that the effective leaders have some abilities to mobilize towards a shared vision. This includes sets of skills and capabilities, personality and motives, behavior in social relationships in a leader (Gehring, 2007). Being a leader, I have influenced employees when there was situation in which employees were not able to work they found themselves in trouble. Team was not able to manage the situation. So over leadership traits such as assertive, dominant, energetic, self-confidence can easily be shown.  Behavioral leadership theory; this theory says behavior of the leader towards the employees. They evaluated the way how successful leaders developed a pattern, an action, or how they identified the way for the situation (Rahman, 2016). As a leader considering this theory, I motivate or appreciate to the employees who come early and scold to the employees who come late. Not only this for good work being a leader I appreciate to the employees. The contingency leadership theory; this theory says that the leader, who is leader in one situation it is not necessary he will be leader in other situation. The situation keeps on changing but the leader should be effective so that he can manage the situation and be the leader in each and every situation. The leader can work according to the needs of the situation; it shows the interaction of leadership style with situation. Fiedler’s identified 3 aspects to the situation those aspects are: – the quality of leader’s relationship, the structured which show how well they performed the task, the leaders amount of formal authority (Nohria & Khurana, 2010). Personally- one day I got task from top management on which I have to work and achieve the company goals, first of all I learnt the work and taught to the employees as well; being a leader I have to be dynamic in each case. The Full-Range leadership theory; this theory says the transformational leadership includes leadership that enhances motivation by connecting or linking the employees to the project and to collective became the identity of the organization. This theory includes 4 major components which includes the essential qualities of a good leader: – Individualized consideration, intellectual stimulation, inspirational motivation, idealized influence (Sosik & Jung, 2011). Personally, being a leader I have followed this theory to link the employees towards the project so that they can achieve company target and goals.

Theories of Leadership

Larders are appointed by the company; Company did not build leadership qualities in the person. Sometimes leader guide their employees how to achieve goals and target but they don’t know how to do the work, let’s take an example: – an employee who deals with customer every day is well known how to deal with customers and his superior can only guide him to apply this skills or ability do like this. An employee can understand what problems he has to face or what reply he is going to get from the customers, in this case the person can easily deal with situation but on the other hand leader cannot deal with such kind of situations. So leaders should be aware about what they are saying to employees and what will be outcome out of this. Leadership is not only based on theories of leadership, theories are necessary to understand the concept of leadership but talking about the methods of leadership there are different qualities such as example, encouragement, expertise, motivation, position (Black, 2015). Personally being a leader the leadership qualities that I think is necessary for the leader are: –

• Example: – People generally respond better when they experience something rather than what they hear. Sometimes employees do outstanding work and lead by the example to the team members. And many a times leaders tell employees to do work and go beyond or above the situation but they never did it themselves. Personally, I want to be the leader who leads by the example.
• Encouragement: – Every good work leads to encouragement. Every team and employees expect encouragement for their work from leaders. For good work they can get awards and recognitions but if they get encouragement from the leaders they feel it personally (Reiland, 2016). Being a leader I found that encouragement is the best essence to the employees which helps in day to day activities.
• Expertise: – Human tendency says that each and every people wants to become successful and wants to achieve life goals. The word Expertise refers to as to be perfect and specialized in any kind of work. Leaders are well aware that their experience will not lead to success for the employees because until and unless the employees try or experiment on their own they will not be able to understand or implement the same. Experience will lead to expertise (Fox, 2008). So I believe that employees should try and eventually this definitely makes them experts.
• Motivation: – The word motivation refers to as pushing someone or appreciating someone for their work. Each and every leader has to motivate their employees or team. Being a leader I think motivation is the best way to get the outcome from employees. Leaders can analyses the potential of their employees, so they allot work according to the employee’s potential and they find the best outcome out of it, which makes leaders to motivate the employee for the same.
• Position: – Leader’s position matters a lot for a team. Team can take a benefit of their leader position. For explaining any point to the top management. Team can ask their leader to talk to the top management about the same. As the position of the leader is higher than the team, leader can give their and their team opinion to the superiors. Not only this a leader can fights for his team, when he found the team is right at the point. Being a leader, if my team is right I will always support my team for that if I have to fight I will do that as well. That is the biggest decision a leader can take and it is the responsibility to make your team feel that you listen to them.

The analysis of leadership shows that being a leader I have skills, abilities and qualities. Now I have to be more focused towards my work. I have to sharpen my abilities and skills. So that I can be equal to each and every employee and can easily achieve company target. Leader in any company have to implement some of the skills and abilities. Leaders have to take decision based on the theories of leadership (Post, 2017). In each and every organization leaders play a vital role in organization, no matter what kind of company it is. Leaders have to lead by examples; they have to set examples which make others to think upon it. I have to develop more skills such as sometimes I have to be supportive and participative, which helps me became part of the team. Company hires a leader for team to whom they can lead. Team also have to listen to the leaders, over here this shows that there should be proper co-ordination which results in output (Tait, 1996). 

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