Leadership and Communication Development Plan

Question: Discuss about theLeadership and Communicationfor Development Plan. Answer: Focused Drive Capability to focus on a goal that will help in the achievement of that goal. Component: Focus and Drive Experience Can be developed with prior training. It can be enhanced through more assigned tasks that will help in achieving the goal. Skills/Knowledge Time management Multitasking Setting the goals Task prioritization How/When Prioritizing the assigned tasks Developing the SMART goal Directing the time and energy Achieving the goal within a target period. Development Plan Focused Drive Capability to focus on a goal that will help in the achievement of that goal. Component: Focus and Drive Experience Can be developed with prior training. It can be enhanced through more assigned tasks that will help in achieving the goal. Skills/Knowledge Time management Multitasking Setting the goals Task prioritization How/When Prioritizing the assigned tasks Developing the SMART goal Directing the time and energy Achieving the goal within a target period. Conceptual Thinking It has the capability of conceiving and selecting the new ideas. Components: Innovation and big picture thinking Experience Capability of identifying the underlying issues Gained by going through the framework of an assigned task. It can be increased by facing the issues of more and more tasks. Skills/ Knowledge Experiment the ways of ideas Asking provocative questions Pushing the envelope Long-term thought Trust development How/When Dealing with the issues and experimenting the ideas Taking the situation into account asking the possible related question regarding creativity Focusing on the forces and the events acting upon the organization. Development Plan The quality of leadership is the essential element to have the control upon the organisation. The assessment of the leadership includes the five major areas of competencies. These competencies collectively make the leadership effective in an organisation. Also, an effective leadership has the inclusion of strategic thinking that refers to a cognitive activity that helps in producing a thought in the organisation (Hackman Johnson, 2013). The strategic management of the organisation involves the leadership along with the strategic thinking that acts positively for the future of the organisation. The development of the leadership quality in an organisation can get proved as highly competitive that can change the business landscapes. The competencies required for the development of the leadership qualities are the focused drive, emotional intelligence, conceptual thinking, building trust and system thinking. Each of the competencies of the leadership associated with particular type of b ehaviour or skills within the organisation (Johansson, Miller Hamrin, 2014). These competencies make the findings for an effective leadership along with that helps in developing strategic foresight for the capacity of the organisation. For that reason, an assessment of the leadership qualities prepared that includes the questionnaires. Those questionnaires do have a direct relation with the competencies of leadership. The thorough study of the questionnaire will provide an insight upon the areas of the strengths of the leadership along with those areas that need to develop. The study of the questionnaire will help in assessing the effectiveness of leadership in the organisation (Kahai, Huang Jestice, 2012). These questions in one way or other must be related to one of the competencies mentioned above. Therefore the questionnaire provided the questions with their respective scores as per the competency of the individual. That is the reason each of the competencies possessing their respective scores. These score a calculated from the given fifty questionnaires. Out of which the building trust or enabling others scored the highest point, i.e. 28 out of 50. The emotional intelligence and systems thinking scored the same amount of marks, i.e. 25 out of 50. The least scored by the focused drive and the conceptual thinking is 24 and 23 out of 50 respectively (Moore, 2016). In that situation, the observation from the scores of the questionnaires that the organisation needs much development in focused drive and conceptual thinking. With the development of which, there will be the enhancement of the effectiveness of leadership. As the two competencies, focused drive and the conceptual thinking scored less in the questionnaire. Therefore it needs to be developed. The focused drive is such a competency that focuses on the certain goals of the organisation and considers the steps required to achieve the goals (Kahai, Huang Jestice, 2012). There are some key components of the competency, namely, drive, focus and motivation. In this competency, the collaborative results of the three components help in enhancing the focused drive with enhancing the leadership. The term focus is the key component that has the ability regarding the determination of a particular target. On the contrary, the drive is the component that contains the ability to try hard to achieve the target. In both the processes motivation is the factor that plays a major role (Johansson, Miller Hamrin, 2014). The motivational activities along with the key components result in a high rate of enhancement in the focused drive. As the questionnaire sa ys there is the low score in the competency of the focused drive, therefore, it needs to be developed to achieve the enhancement in leadership. The focused drive competency majorly can be developed through development in the time management, goal-setting and the multi-tasking. In the initial phases, this competency is developed through the setting of SMART goals which will help in prioritising the tasks. This will enable the organisation to have the direction of its time and energy towards the specific target or goal of the organisation. Like for example, if any individual has aimed towards the increase in his or her reputation in the organisation then he or she must need to give some extraordinary efforts in the completion of the task before given period (Hackman Johnson, 2013). Due to which he or she needs to direct his or her time along with the energy that will help in prioritising the assigned task. The prioritisation will help the individual in meeting the given deadlines tha t will help in the increase in reputation in the organisation. The management of time is also an essential part which will help in achieving the tasks and meeting the deadlines. Apart from experience also counts its effects on the competency, as the experiences mostly gained from the skills and knowledge (Kahai, Huang Jestice, 2012). Similarly, the second competency that needs to develop is the conceptual thinking. It includes two of its competencies. The concept of conceptual thinking is the competency that acts through conceiving and selecting the ideas and thoughts of innovative strategies for the organization. The presence of conceptual thinking in the organisation brings up the new working procedures in the organisation. It comprises of its two key components namely the innovation and big-picture thinking. These two components make the conceptual thinking very active in the organisation (Moore, 2016). The innovation is the part that has the ability that would help in enhancing the ideas in the organisation. The enhancement of the ideas regarding the products and the services of the organization leads towards the bottom line success of the organisation. Similarly the second component, big-picture thinking can look at all the factors that are affected by the current situation of the organization. The conceptua l thinking in an organization enables the calculation of the people or events or the forces that are being affected by the scenario of the organisation. The increase in the conceptual thinking in any individual of the organisation will help the individual in detecting the issues that are hampering the growth of the organisation (Hackman Johnson, 2013). This will lead to the adoption of innovative ideas that will lead to the bottom line success of the organisation. The unwanted forces or the events that are hampering the growth will get eradicated with the broadening of the ideas on the situation. In an organisation, the conceptual thinking can be developed with the experimenting the new ways of ideating, by asking the provocative questions. Along with that, there will have the pushing of the envelope. In that process the individual in the organisation need to think long- term through which there will be the development of trust and the stand back in the organisation. These two comp etencies are to be developed to enable a strong and superior leadership in the organisation. It will also complete the strength that required for the future development of the organization. References: Hackman, M. Z., Johnson, C. E. (2013).Leadership: A communication perspective. Waveland Press. Johansson, C., D. Miller, V., Hamrin, S. (2014). 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