Learning Objectives and Progress

The report brings out the discussion on self-evaluation and self-reflection of the progress to improve the group processes. To influence one`s personality, a person should be efficient in analysing the current scenario and solve problems and manage the conflicts. The self-learning developing plan is a process that includes gaining the knowledge of group dynamics, analyse the current group and affect the own personality through different leadership styles (Samhsa, 2018). The report will discuss the personal strengthens that elaborates and relates to accomplish and implement SMART goals. The report is based on specific areas to focus on and develop the relevant qualities and attributes to achieve the goal. It gives a sense of satisfaction when the primary goal is achieved. My personal goal is to get an expertise level in finance department in the organisation. Therefore, I undertook personal training and development sessions that is used to develop the group processes. Motivation is an another important factor that affects one`s behaviour towards working hard to become a leader (Samhsa, 2018). The report focuses on different leadership styles and specifies that how different leadership styles works in specific business environment. Motivation and leadership plays an important role in building and enhancing groups. Motivation is a goal-oriented activity, which helps a person to achieve the organisational goals. As a leader, one should keep his or her perspective open for knowing what the needs of the subordinates are. This will certainty make the decision process easier.  

Group process is defined as when members of organisation work together to work efficiently. Organisation spend a considerable time and energy that leads to a procedure. When I look myself as a trainee, I am a part of the team who is a learnant. The team formation procedure leads to formation, storming, norming, performance, and postponing. While learning the techniques and concepts that are necessary to process the groups. At an initial stage, I consistently manage to learn from the cost manager of the organisation (Iqbal, Anwar, and Haider, 2015).  

During training, it was not easy for me especially when it was related to work load because it was the time to garnish myself. I learnt to interact with the people who keep managing the cost department and cost allocation system at the same time. Slowly and gradually, I strived to turn crisis into several opportunities and gained a good sum of practical knowledge. By the time, I managed my mindset regarding conflicts and turned them into positive energy. I learnt to interact with other department and group members who at time were disruptive. I try to inculcate the attributes of interpersonal process that can give a chance of group leader. It will give a chance to explore the life-affirming attitude that provide an opportunity to communicate to other group leaders. After achieving the power of leader, he chooses a leadership style to decide how would I exercise the particular style of leadership and structure the group. An organisation recognises its efficient leader that enable and conduct regular motivation sessions for its employees (Bens, 2017).       

Personal Strengths and Goals

While looking at my strengthens such as passionate of working hard to learn new things through the experts of cost department just live me to remain lively complied with monitoring the process and avoid the wastage of resources. Effective group leader has the ability go through both certainty and uncertainty. A leader build a model to consistent the processing rather than dropping them down that can come from knowledge and clarity of vision. The different styles of leadership, which the culture of the organisation offers can be autocratic leadership, democratic leadership, coaching leadership style, or a strategic leadership style (Abeysekera, L., & Dawson, 2015).

While implementing a particular leadership style in the organisation, I should undertake or remember that the leadership style should benefit the organisation and should lead to achievements of objectives. Surpassing autocratic leadership in the operation will empower me. I will have all the power and autonomy to make decisions without consulting with the subordinates. Applying autocratic leadership will undoubtedly benefit the organisation to firstly execute and follow the leader`s decision (Biosca, Criscuolo, & Menon, 2016). The speed of executing the action will be more when as compared to other leadership styles (Fairhurst, & Connaughton, 2014). The disadvantage of using autocratic style can be dominating the decision and stopping the inflow of innovation from subordinates. Democratic leadership is more based on participation of subordinates especially when the members are extremely highly skilled. The communication style in this leadership is both upward and downward. If I follow democratic leadership in organisation’s operations, the advantages of participating enables the leader to get creative, competent, and intelligent advices from subordinates. On the same side, democratic leadership delays the execution of action because it takes huge time to discuss and ponder over different advices from each subordinates (Igbaekemen, and Odivwri, 2015).  

More other leadership style follows and considers where leaders are more like teachers or coaches that involve coaching and supervising team members. The advantage of this leadership is where leader guides its subordinates properly that can reduce the wastage of resources. On the other side, this will only focus on improving and teaching each subordinate ignoring the achieving perspective of organisation. Although, it will groom, motivate, and boost employees to increase the performance skills of the team members (Mindtools, 2018). Strategic leadership shows an ability to influence the team members who make voluntarily decisions, which can enhance the prospects to achieve long-term sustainability of the business. The advantage of this leadership is that it uses well-trained and well-educated subordinates to deal with the unforeseen uncertainty. Another advantage of using strategic leaders is that it creates and come up with more ne and efficient leaders who help the organisations to deal with uncertainty. The con is such leadership is that it will create huge and unnecessary competition among new and emerging leaders. This can lead to unnecessary politics, which can spoil the plan of achieving objectives. It would also encourage blame game among the emerged clever leaders (Igbaekemen, and Odivwri, 2015).  

Feedback and Learning in Small Groups

The effect of leadership style can influence the behaviour of the subordinates and the whole group. This impact reflects on how employees successfully execute organisation actions. A followed leadership style from the organisational behaviour and it affects the productivity of the organisation by influencing employee performance. When analysed, autocratic leadership can benefit in short term especially when there is an emergency and organisation need fast decision to deal with threat. Democratic leadership is more useful in long term and will have positive impact on the development and growth of the employee (Schwantes, 2018).

Start with scheduling the more task in one time. Motivate the employees to remain on right track by making consistent and clear goals where expectation from workers is achieved through operational reality. One on one conversation is a good motivational tool that strive to strengthen the relationship with people by spending more time with them to have suggestions, problems, issues, ideas that talk about the performance issues and its work (Dontigney, 2018). Focus on activities, which can motivate employees. Divert their energies by promoting either monetary or non-monetary incentive system in the organisation and inspire them to achieve interests, aspiration, and goals. A great leader always keep considering the organisational goal while considering career aspiration in order to motivate them in an efficient manner. A leader looks for several benefits from the organisation to create learning and development opportunities for employees. Praising and complimenting the people due to their god work and their attributes. The high engagement level use praise and recognition as an efficient motivator to get commitment (Nanton, & dicks, 2018).

Maintaining the work balances between the well-excelled team skills and ability to resolve the conflicts among the employees so that it would not hamper the operations of the business. To understand the common strategies to manage the conflict can be how small business entrepreneurs had better deal with the management conflicts. Accommodating strategy entails to give opposing side what the workplace environment wants. A leader can follow a procedure to resolve the conflict and problem. The avoiding strategy can put off the conflicts either delaying or ignoring with patience (Nanton, and Dicks, 2018).

Avoiding the hope which problem sometimes resolves it without a confrontation. Many people who avoid conflicts very frequently to have low esteem and hold position. Collaborating the work by integrating the ideas set out by various people by committing significant time not to all the conflicts but time to all those conflicts that seems important. A leader may use prototype and create a plan that every business need to change to survive (Nandedkar, & Anand, 2018). A leader has to understand the final goal and it is important to critically understand the final objectives before taking any initiative. After understanding the goals and objectives, a leader needs to communicate clearly, delegate tasks, set realistic goals, manage the organisational expectation, and identify the key players. For example- when the leader follows informal group system of leading the group, the conflicts become frequent but a leader discusses and develop a sense of understanding among the subordinates and is able to resolve the problem (Mindtools, 2018).

Different Leadership Styles

Group dynamics depends on how group develop and form. There are many theories as there is always a reason of why the group was formed and it is based on interactions, sentiments, and activities. When individual share common objective, they accompany each other to achieve the common goal. This group formation has several stages such as forming, storing, norming, performing, and adjourning (Bolman, & Deal, 2017). At the stage of forming when applied to my group activities, I was passionate of form a team who tries to reduce the cost of operating the activities. During the forming, I need team members who have strong knowledge base of costing. For example- a high level of expertise in costing is likely to have an encouragement towards new ideas and options. Everyone in the team can have positive experience for team members both on the same side level of disagreement and conflicts. During the phase of storming, members might challenge goals and fight for power (Dontigney, 2018).

Conclusion:

From the above discussion of choosing the appropriate leadership style, it is important to consider that every style has its own advantages, benefits, and disadvantages. While considering the conflicts and business changes strategy, a leader has to prepare its employees and subordinates to adopt changes according to the surrounding. A leader has to handle and tackle the changes as it get to inculcate motivation in them to adopt the changes and lead to success in business. Undoubtedly, an authorised position and recognition of leader help a person to develop integrity, enhance decision-making abilities, accountability, and inspires others. A leader is able to develop several attributes in oneself such as practical experiences and develop an analytical mind by regularly learning about the operational process. It develops a discerning listener to take on more projects, learn how to make effective decisions and motivate the leaders. It is important to know how the existing performance of employees is influenced such as participative leadership has positive reaction on the part of employees because it provided them a way to develop an analytical and practical thinking towards innovation. Group dynamics play an important role in forming and identifying the needs of the team. The team is generally formed as per the common traits. Appreciation and rewards are the main actions that person have a vision to achieve. The procedure includes storming and finding people that have a common goal. 

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