Leadership Reflective Practice Paper 1
Key opportunities for development
I have identified self-belief in my competency as a critical portion of my future development. If I reflect back on what I have achieved to date and the time to achievement and overlay that with the credit I grant to myself, there is a mismatch.
This stood out for me during time to think and reflect sessions over the course of the programme where you physically have to make a concerted effort to focus on the “me”. There was an anecdote used similar to an airplane oxygen emergency, you need to apply your oxygen mask first before you can assist others.
I was recently promoted as an Executive Manager: Business Development within Strategy and Business Development department in Edcon which served …show more content…
Finance seems to say no more often than saying yes to new projects o Being a support function and not in the trenches/customer appears to be the major root cause o What I have implemented in projects that I run is to incorporate finance upfront at the launch of new projects. I involve them upfront for input they may have and also have regular updates/feedback to them on benefit realisation, thus when project is now ready for business implementation finance knows how to account for it
• Store Design o Responsible for store look and feel where they would physically draw various store formats and rely on other departments to execute the layout o Key department as stores need to be consistent across various formats to keep a consistent customer
Key opportunities for development
I have identified self-belief in my competency as a critical portion of my future development. If I reflect back on what I have achieved to date and the time to achievement and overlay that with the credit I grant to myself, there is a mismatch.
This stood out for me during time to think and reflect sessions over the course of the programme where you physically have to make a concerted effort to focus on the “me”. There was an anecdote used similar to an airplane oxygen emergency, you need to apply your oxygen mask first before you can assist others.
I was recently promoted as an Executive Manager: Business Development within Strategy and Business Development department in Edcon which served …show more content…
Finance seems to say no more often than saying yes to new projects o Being a support function and not in the trenches/customer appears to be the major root cause o What I have implemented in projects that I run is to incorporate finance upfront at the launch of new projects. I involve them upfront for input they may have and also have regular updates/feedback to them on benefit realisation, thus when project is now ready for business implementation finance knows how to account for it
• Store Design o Responsible for store look and feel where they would physically draw various store formats and rely on other departments to execute the layout o Key department as stores need to be consistent across various formats to keep a consistent customer