Unit M3.10
Introduction to Leadership
Candidate number..... PHI12808517
Centre number..... 068860
Candidate.... Andrew Phillips
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PHI12808517 ILM Award in first Line Management Unit M3.10 Centre Number 068860
Introduction
I have worked for the past twenty five years as an employee of a small Engineering company, firstly as a machinist before being promoted after two years to workshop foreman.
We provide many large and small companies in the South Wales area with a manufacturing and service facility and we do so to exacting technical, quality and time constraints.
My job has evolved over many years to what is now classed as works manager, this entails all things from customer liaison to work quotation and workshop and workforce management.
I am rapidly approaching my 50th birthday and have decided to enlighten myself with some Leadership / management training.
Leadership Styles
There are many types of leadership styles, but based on Tannebaum and schmidt models, I will discuss the four major types, all provide a different way of implementing plans and motivating people, there are many different factors involved in making a decision on a leadership style, what I will describe in the following will form part of my decision making as to which leadership style I would undertake in different circumstances.
Autocratic leadership being the least popular when it comes to building trust and creating a team bond. Within an autocratic leadership, a single person has control over the whole team and has complete control over all decisions made with no one from the team allowed to contribute any ideas or make any decisions.
Autocratic leadership has benefits in some circumstances where a leader needs to take sole control of a situation with no one causing any distractions from the task in hand to enable the quick and efficient completion of