Leadership Assignment In Leadership

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LEADERSHIP ASSIGNMENT BY SENEO N.B.K SETILO INSTRUCTION : Identify a recent leadership challenge that you experienced within your organization and 1. Describe the challenge in detail The challenge occurred in my newsroom when I was still an assistant producer for the breakfast show where I was poached from the news production department to the production department. I arrived in the studio at around 0500hrs everyday and left the office no earlier than 1800hrs because I was scripting the show prep and sealing the audience or panel for the three hour long show the next day. I found myself very frustrated because I dealt with a male presenter for the show who was very obnoxious, intolerant, sensitive and gender biased male who felt his years…show more content…
2. Which Management Skills : (management vs leadership, human resource, marketing, advertising, change management or finance were needed. In one way or the other, I needed management skills to let him know that he and I are a team and the goal of the morning show project can only be achieved when he and I work together. He needed to exercise leadership skills if at all he needed recognition in being an award winning presenter, an elderly colleague as well as experienced. The overall management skill that I needed throughout the three months I produced the morning show was Human Resource Management because at this point, I needed to make him realize we had to plan for the show, monitor our delivery of the show which would result in an appraisal and would bring a reward of a united effort. There is nothing that overpowers human resource management because it is first the satisfaction; confidence, joy and mental well being of an employee that can bring results and the enjoyment of any other skill that will ensure the prosperity of the organization. A united effort brings more achievable results that are long…show more content…
I do not think how I handled the issue then would have been too far to what I would do now following all that I have learned in the course. I would have of course stood out more, spoken out more and have been more coercive because the morning show is a primetime show and almost the heartbeat of the programming of the day of the entire station and therefore, I believe should the relations have been more hospitable, I would still be part of the morning show and would have gained more production skill to empower myself the more. 5. What lessons did you learn from this challenging experience in your newsroom? I grew immensely after this experience because when I was poached by the morning team, I was learning the ropes of working on private radio. I learned to be patient, enduring, coercive, diverse, outspoken, confident, tolerant, flexible, cooperative, inclusive, accepting, supporting and allowed myself to first look within and see what best worked for me that will result in me being in a position to work best with others for the betterment of the station. I allowed myself to identify my safe working space, believe in my capabilities and work harder to utilize opportunities presented to me and not doubt my abilities to prosper in any environment
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