Developing Skills for Business Leadership

Question A: From your experience, describe and evaluate real-life scenarios where you have demonstrated that you have acquired skill in each of the learning outcomes above.

It is important for employees to improve their leadership skills in order to enhance their performance in the near future through developing skills and abilities including their thinking and decision-making skills, management skills for maintaining financial information, managing budgets, a range of teamwork and interpersonal skills, and associated developing personal effectiveness and credibility at work so that it is possible for the employees to contribute their full potential to achieve organizational success (Padron, and Stone, 2019; Lee, and Ko, 2019). As an employee at the workplace, it is the responsibility of the worker to develop interpersonal skills, leadership, and managerial skills to lead the members towards achieving success (Watson, and Reissner, 2010; Sousa, and Rocha, 2019).

Throughout my working experience, I try to focus on developing my leadership skills in order to enhance my performance and contribution to achieving organizational success. While working with others, I try to manage professional working practices at the workplace and maintain corporate identity within the organization. Personality during work, a positive attitude towards other colleagues, open communication, as well as self-awareness are helpful for me to manage corporate identity at the workplace. I try to improve my time management skills and prioritize work for better performance which in turn helps me to enhance personal and professional development as well as ensure ethical approaches to self-management of work. Additionally, managing interpersonal relationships is necessary at the workplace. I try to maintain a positive attitude and respect others during work. I focus on team-building activities by managing cultural diversity programs, reducing discrimination at the workplace, and enhancing working in partnership practices for better performance. Leading people with communication and cooperation as well as developing interpersonal skills is an effective strategy to achieve success where I try to develop interpersonal communities for improving understanding, trust, and loyalty among the people at the workplace. Handling the emotions of colleagues, managing diversity, and maintaining transparency and accountability are also helpful for me to manage the people at the workplace and build strong corporate relationships to work in harmony.

Additionally, I focus on enhancing communication as it helps me to share each other’s experiences as well as interact for better understanding. In this regard, both verbal and non-verbal communication are effective for improving my leadership skills where I try to arrange general meetings and group discussions to improve verbal communication where people can interact with each other positively. On the other hand, interaction through the company’s personal portal for the employees and sending emails are also helpful for enhancing non-verbal communication at the workplace (Bridgstock, 2019). Apart from that, cooperation is another important factor that contributes to achieving organizational success and it further helps me to improve my leadership skills where I try to collaborate with others at the workplace with positive interaction and respect. Team-building activities, cooperation, and working in partnership are helpful for enhancing leadership skills where the leaders can work efficiently with the employees.

Making appropriate decisions is necessary for the leader and in this regard, I try to improve my problem-solving and critical analytical skills so that I can analyze the current organizational position and develop effective decisions for the company to enhance overall performance. In this regard, I also try to empower all the employees in the decision-making practice so that suggestions can be made from different perspectives of the workers where they contribute positively to create the best possible decision for their organization. Proper employment of the employees, sharing knowledge, and cooperative working practices are hereby effective where I try to improve collaboration and communication for enhancing my leadership skills so that I can contribute positively to organizational success. I try to improve my skills to manage team members by maintaining internal conflict and cultural diversity through developing communication and building strong relationships with the employees. Leading the team members and influencing them for better success are helpful to achieve the organizational objective where I try to convince the people at the workplace about the organizational decision and supervise them to fulfill their needs and enhance their performance at the workplace. I also try to improve my leadership skills by providing them the power to make decisions and contribute positively. In this regard, I try to share the financial information and budget with the people who are engaged with the organizational activities. This improves trust and loyalty where I try to build strong relationships with all the employees at the workplace for better contribution to achieve organizational success.

Sharing information about budgetary control, return on investment, cash flows, and planning as well as cooperative working practice further helps me to lead the people and encourage them for better performance. Interpersonal skills and managerial skills are helpful for me to manage the people in the organization by resolving internal conflict and resistance to change where all the members try to cooperate with each other and make the organization successful. Workplace harmony, managing transparency and accountability, providing better return on investment to the people engaged with the organization as well as flexibility to work and working safety are also beneficial where I try to manage the people at the workplace by creating values for them. From the experience during working in the organization, I aim at improving my managerial skills, decision-making, and problem-solving skills as well as leadership skills so that I can lead and influence the people towards achieving success as well as make effective decisions for future organizational success. It further helps me to achieve my personal and professional success through improving my skills and abilities to perform better and manage people at the workplace through managing interpersonal relationships and collaborative working practices. Hereby, leadership skills and managerial efficiency are beneficial for me to achieve success by resolving internal conflicts among the people and encouraging them for better performance.

Reference List

Bridgstock, R., 2019. Employability and career development learning through social media: Exploring the potential of LinkedIn. In Challenging future practice possibilities (pp. 143-152). Brill Sense.

Lee, M.H. and Ko, K.M., 2019. The Influence of Supervisors’ Leadership Skills and Team Cohesion on Team Performance in Environmental Service Industry. Ekoloji, 28(107), pp.1013-1017.

Padron, T.C. and Stone, M.J., 2019. Leadership skills in event management courses. Event Management.

Sousa, M.J. and Rocha, Á., 2019. Leadership styles and skills developed through game-based learning. Journal of Business Research, 94, pp.360-366.

Watson, G. and Reissner, S., 2010. Developing skills for business leadership. London: Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.