Executive Development

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Analysis of the impact of learning the executive development unit for personal development

Introductory

"Leaders are made and not born". These were the introductory statement from the executive development textbook during a lesson conducted at DWU from the 19 to the 23rd of March 2018. What was the purpose and objective of this training? What have I acquired from this study unit?
Executive development is a training program conducted to develop potential personnel in an organisation; preparing them to take on future management roles as such superintendents, managers and executive management.
Lesson learned from this program is, managers or executive managers must possess the right set of skills and knowledge in order to manage a department or organisation …show more content…

He or she must possess the know how to run a department or organisation, including its employees, that possesses soft skills to run the business as well as know the roles, responsibilities, and functions of being a manager.
The function of a manager includes planning, organising, activating and controlling. And a manager's role and responsibility includes certain tasks which are unique and can only be attended to by a manager alone whilst other roles are as follows; employing of staff, performance management for both staff and company, staff and team development, planning activities and setting duration, managing resources such as labour, material, resources and budget, improving of processes and quality of communication, systems and workflows.
Lastly, soft skills a manager should possess are as listed, dependable, condor, good work ethics, mental agility set development of self, team and business goals, must be flexible to adapt to changes, able to take directions from others, be a good communicator, able to work well with the community and his or her own team including time

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