Category: Personality Development

Introduction

The Coca Cola Company starts the project to define the future leadership in a particular and critical situation and explains the CEO/ strategic managers develop the leaders within the future organization.   The Coca Cola Company heard the executives, clients and human resource professionals in their organizations are contains the excellent talent deficiencies with their performance of employee. The Coca Cola Company contains the recruiting wars for excellent talent employees, best systems are discuss for identifying, and developing the key talent in the future to build the capacity what they actually need. This company conducts the study in between from 2006 to 2008. This study explores that the leadership skills are in lacking position.

Mainly the leadership gap focus on the two reasons in the coca cola company. The first one is leaders focus on the best and right companies but the companies are not contains the satisfactory mastered them. The second one is leaders are not hearts on the best and right companies with skills. In that, first one is “a matter of degree” and the second one is “a matter of substance”. In these both contains the either short term or long-term problem.

The Coca Cola Company contains the important seven leadership skills in the future. The skills are strategic planning, leading employees, inspiring commitment, resourcefulness, managing change, responsibility what it take and creature a quick learner.

Identifying the leadership need

To build the leadership strength in the coca cola company first identifies the leadership elements and roles. This Company identifies the 20 skills through the research with organization and leaders. They are balance the personal work and life, restoration and building relationships, quick learner, compassion and sensitivity, confronting people, composure, culturally adaptable, responsibility what it take, decisiveness, development of employee, leading people, inspiring commitment, administrating one’s career, managing change, participative management, putting people at ease, high opinion on the individuals differences, resourcefulness, strategic planning and self-awareness. This company thinks these skills like how those are useful in developing and implement the organization and leaders in present and future.

The present leadership Deficit

The survey shows that the Coca Cola Company lacking with the above mentioned important skills. These skills are effect the roles of leadership so first determine the present and tomorrow challenges. Skill managers in this company demonstrate the leader’s abilities and skills to improve the leadership. Mainly the 10 skills are improves their percentages in the future to develop and implement the strong leadership. The skills percentage rates from present to future are leading people (73%-89%), strategic planning (64%-86%), managing change (63%-82%), resourcefulness (64%-82%), responsibility what it takes (64%- 77%), inspiring commitment (62%-86%), being a quick learner (60%-79%). Present skills rates are decisiveness (60%), mending and building relationships (57%) and composure (57%). The future skills rates are balancing personal work and life (76%), employee development (79%) and participative management (81%).

The resourcefulness is a main important skill in the coca cola company. This survey shows that the present leaders are not so skilled but they are managing the present challenges. In 2009, the leaders are feel that they are contains the even less capable skills in these areas. Therefore, at present requires the many leaders with the capable abilities and skills.

Leadership gap in future

The coca cola company research is determines the present leadership and how overcome this leadership effectively in the future. Especially compare the each skill important in the future to gain the success. Today’s capacity of leadership is insufficient to gather the requirements of future leadership. Leading people, inspiring commitment, strategic planning and managing change are the future four important skills are the weakest skills for the leaders in the coco cola company. The employee development, decisiveness and balancing personal work and life areas are standard in the key gaps. The below chart shows which type of skills are belonging to the over investment, on track, reserves and key gap. 

Over investment skills:

• Mending and building relationships
• Composure
• Compassion and sensitivity
• Cultural adaptable
• Respecting individual differences

On track skills:

• Resourcefulness
• Being a fast learner
• Doing whatever it takes
• Participative management

Reserve skills:

• Confronting people
• Managing one’s career
• Put people at ease

Key gap skills:

• Strategic planning
• Leading people
• Inspiring commitment
• Employee development
• Managing change
• Balancing personal work or life
• Decisiveness

The above skills are shows the future leadership gap in particular areas. 

Bridging the leadership gap

To fill the gap between present and future leadership, the coca cola company shows the some ideas for the some experiences of managers to development the efforts. The ideas are

• Leading people:
• Communicate with the particular skills and abilities related to manage. Manager Understand the roles of leaders.
• Create the development assignments and training programs
  • To share the experiences develops the internal groups
  • Strategic planning:
  • Share the strategy in top management
  • Teach the strategic skills to risk management and change management
  • Support the coaching and learning
    • Inspiring commitment:
    • Classifying the vision
    • Reinforce the success to develop the opportunities
    • To encourage the managers raising the standards
      • Managing change:
      • Offers the change management discussions, classes, courses
      • Encourage the managers according to decision-making
      • Employee development
      • Develops the successful process for planning
      • Encourage the employee goals
        • Balancing the personal work and life:
        • Creates the personal behavior and styles awareness
        • Teach the organization and delegation skills
        • Examines the policies and different strategies
          • Decisiveness:
          • To determine the priorities helps to the managers
          • Develops the decision making process in the organization

Using the above guidelines, the coca cola company maintains the higher leadership capacities and leadership.

There have so many leadership theories which make the organization simple to search leaders. There have a number of leadership theories Most of the organization uses these theories for successful management. These theories help the organization to determine better leader and maintain successful management. Some of them are referred in below. They are. 

Behavioral Theory

The companies adopt different theories to sustain a successful administration. So behavioral theory is the one of the most frequently sued theory. Leaders can be made, rather than are born. Successful leadership is based in definable, learnable behavior.

Behavior theories of leadership do not search for inborn abilities or traits. Success can be defined in terms of describable actions. This theory states that that success can be define in form of explainable actions, then it will be very easy for other to act in the same way. This is easier to learn or teach then to adopt more abilities or traits.

Behavior theory explains that leadership quality is not inherit, It should be in the behavior itself. Coca Cola Company follows these theories that give the chance to all employees to develop leadership skill by giving the chance to all employees CEO checks them by giving them chance. After that he sorts out the employees who were good in leadership skills.   It is very easy to develop a behavioral theory and it simply assesses both the actions of leaders and leadership success. Here CEO can recognize behavior use which raises to failure there it added a second layer of understanding.

Trait theory

This theory states that some traits should specifically suit to leadership. People who build goal leaders have a correct amalgamation of traits. Every company leadership was depending on physiological focus of the employee, that the person should have those unique qualities. The CEO will focus on those traits by studding their work structure and their behavior. Trait theory says that the good leaders should have below these qualities. SO coco cola company also focus on this qualities while searching for aright leader for the company.

• Assertive
• Willing to assume responsibility
• Energetic
• Tolerant of stress
• Assertive
• Cooperative
• Adaptable to situation
• Persistent
• Desire to influence others
• Alert to social environment
• Achievement oriented and ambitious
• Decisive

So CEO will check for these qualities in the employees. He searches the person by checking these qualities. So for any leader this qualities is really so important to manage a certain team. These qualities are really very helpful for those people to handle particular group of persons. So team success will base on that leader itself. So coca cola higher authorities use to pay more attention on this.

Beside this for a good leader there is a need of some skills. These are

That He or she should be

• Persuasive
• Organized
• Fluent in speaking
• Conceptually skilled
• Diplomatic and tactful
• Creative
• Clever
• Knowledgeable about group work

So Trait theory states that all above qualities and skills are requires becoming a good leader. These qualities play a vital role in achieving these goals of organization.

 Participative leadership theory

This theory mainly focuses on the decision making. This helps the understanding of the issues who makes the taking better decision. People should be understand the different issues and should take good decision. Here people should be more collaborative and they should less competitive when they are working for team goals. Here people take decision together, this commitment towards each helps taking good decision. People deciding together can, make better decisions rather than single person alone.

So Coca Cola Company follows this theory .According to this theory the decision making process insignificant factor than any other responsibilities. Here the higher authorities makes the team very effective so that that thy can work cooperatively and it also allow them to take decisions jointly. According to trait theory states that people together can take good decisions rather than single person alone.

The higher official makes the capable team so that that they can work effectively. Higher officials select the effective leaders for different teams. They will select according to their abilities. After that the leader should take care about the team members. Then leader inculcate various qualities in the team members such as cooperation, collaboration, friendly behavior, less competitive etc in the team members. He used to arrange different programmer to build up all these qualities in the group. Team leaders make all the team members to participate in the programs effectively. By doing this they can build very effective qualities in their Team members.  The coca cola company also follows this procedure to achieve great success for the organization.

So coca cola company follows different theories to achieve success, they use to follow different leadership theories for inculcating leadership qualities among the employees of the organization. Coca cola Company mainly sees these theories to build the leadership qualities among their employees. This company mainly uses behavioral theory, participative leadership theory and trait theory.

Transformational leadership style:

This type of style is will give the true leaders for an organization. The people who follow this type of style will give the inspiration for their team and will share future vision. The enthusiasm of this true leader is shared among the team. By the “detail people” these people are supported. So, generally an organization needs the transformational leadership style and as well as transactional leadership style.

The leaders of the transformational are taking care about the initiatives which will give the new value for that initiative. And the leaders of the transactional leadership are taking care about the reliable routine work which is done in time. 

Definition of Leadership: It is a procedure of giving direction and influencing individuals or groups to attain goals.

 

Servant leadership style

In 1970’s, the Robert Greenleaf is created this term. The definition of the “Servant Leader” is follow the needs of the team and justifies them or meets them by the person. Such a person is called as “Servant Leader”. In the organization this may done at any level.

In the way of the democratic leadership this leadership is formed. Why because in the process of decision making all the team members are involved. There are some suggestions for follow for the supporters of this style. This is mainly for increasing the values. In the world wide, in order to move a head to going before these values are most. By the ideals and values the servant leaders achieve the power. In the situation of competitive leadership styles, many other people will believe that the persons are left behind who follow this style of leadership when compare to the other styles of leadership.  

Participative leadership or Democratic leadership Style

During the decision making process, these leaders are making the final decision but they are taking the contribution of team members decision in that process. This will increase the person’s skills in their decision making and these are useful for the company. For the team members it also increases the job satisfaction. This is very useful for the member for doing the job not just to get the reward of financial but also motivated for doing the job.

The result of this style is good, but it takes the more time to complete because the participation of this will take the long time. This type of style of leadership is more suitable for the situations such as when requiring of quality in the product than the productivity and when doing the work as team and it is essential.

Charismatic leadership style

For transformational leadership this is also having the same style. In order to forward their team so many leaders are inspires from their team with lots of enthusiasm. These are very energetic in their work. But these leaders are having more confidence on them selves when compare to their team. Some times it leads to the risk in the project and some times it may to the organization.

If such a person leaves the organization in future at some time, it shows the great impact on the company some times collapse the company. But success is directly having the connection with the leader when view from the followers. Such leaders are having the responsibility more and having the commitment for the long term.

Leadership Styles

There are many leaders and every one has their own style in their leadership. Such as Mahatma, Martin Luther King and Winston Churchill all are having their unique style. But now a day the leadership styles are described by the many of the psychologists and business people. These are describing the simple ways for getting the leadership styles. These ways are helpful for the people who want to follow the styles of leadership and will becoming the leader in the future.    

In order to manage a major company or at work leading a team or sports team captain then search the best approach of leadership style for follow. Such types of styles are described in this. For becoming the effective leader, these described styles are useful. These suggested styles are useful for improving the personal leadership styles and their impact of this will leads to the development of their own. 

For understanding of this style of leadership, there are some frame works which are designed for this. These frameworks are useful in understanding of these styles at appropriate time. Now following are some styles, these are used for the persons who want to develop their leadership styles.

The following are some leadership styles which are mostly accepted by the people. These are usually fit in the frameworks that are theoretical. Even though the leadership styles are described by many people in many ways, in that some of the styles are fit in the frame work or particular system and some of them not. This description is useful for understanding of this.