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Developing Strategic Management and Leadership Skills

Unit 1
Edexcel BTEC level 2 Extended Diploma in strategic Management and Leadership (QCF)

Assignment Topics

AC(1.1) Explain the link between strategic management and leadership.
AC(1.2) Analyze the impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decision.
AC(1.3) Evaluate how leadership styles can be adapted to different situations.

AC(2.1) Review the impact that selected theories of management and leadership have on organizational strategic.
AC(2.2) Create a leadership strategic that supports organizational direction

AC(3.1) Use appropriate methods to review current leadership requirements.
AC(3.2) Plan for the development of future situations requiring …show more content…

So we can say that Leadership is the art of getting things done by inspiration or influence of the leader on its followers while Management mainly depends on the analysis and ground realities.

After all the discussion we came to the conclusion that Leadership and Strategic management are interlinked with some minor differences. In the case of strategic management we are trying our best to achieve some long term goals and the same is the case with leadership. In both cases we should have someone with a broad vision; either it’s a leader or a manager. The bottom line of all this discussion is beautifully captured by the golden words of Field Marshal Slim that (quoted in Business Management Study Manual), “Leadership is of the spirit, compounded of personality and vision: its practice is an art. Management is more a matter of accurate calculation, of statistics, methods, timetable and routine: its practice is a science.”

AC(1.2): Analyze the impact of management and leadership styles on strategic decisions.

Leadership and Management Styles: There is famous saying that, “Change is the only unchangeable thing in nature” (Heller &