1. Executive summary In the modern business environment, leadership plays an important role in our lives. The aim of this leadership development report is to explore how I identify my personal leadership competencies and analyse the strengths and weaknesses at the present time, so that I can intend to develop them in my future time. I would follow the steps to help myself to be an effective transactional leader within five to six years in the service industry such as hotel or shopping center. In order to offer a realistic appraisal report, I would like to choose the detailed model of leadership called Central Michigan University (CMU) Leadership competencies model to aid in the development of mine. Because I think this model is easy to understand …show more content…
It is a vague concept; it can be defined in many different ways. Drath and Palus (1994) suggested leadership is the social sense-making process that creates interpersonal influence and it is the procedure of making sense of what people are doing together so that people will understand and be committed. Northouse (2002) concluded that the components of the leadership: (1) Leadership is a process, (b) leadership involves influence, (c) leadership occurs within a group context, and (d) leadership involves goal attainment. Therefore, Northouse (2002, p.3) defines leadership is a process that an individual influences a group of individuals to attain a common …show more content…
Leader behaviours that implicated higher levels of emotional management were strongly related to improved levels of task performance (Oluremi & Victor 2010). Task management consists (1) Executing tasks (2) solving problem (3) managing information and material resources (4) managing human resources (5) enhancing performance. 3.4 Innovation Innovation is significant for a leader because he or she needs to think how to be a creative person so as to explore and integrate various perspectives and recognize unforeseen changes together. Innovation leadership is talking about inspiring a mind-set that opens your organization to discovery and also saying about developing the framework that supports and innovation strategy and empowering people to make the right choices on their jobs (Stevenson 2012). Innovation term consists of five parts: (1) creativity (2) enterprising (3) integrating perspectives (4) forecasting (5) managing change. 3.5 Social