Essay: The challenge of leadership today?“The life of a modern-day leader clearly is not easy. Inside their organizations, they need to lead and motivate a diversified group of people, work across...

Running Head: CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP        1
CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP        5
CHALLENGES OF LEADERSHIP
Table of Contents
Introduction    3
Challenges of Leadership    3
Changes to understand leadership better    5
Recommendations to upgrade leadership development programs and develop leadership    5
Conclusion    7
References    8
Introduction
    In the recent times, leadership assumes a significant job for the business organisations to endure the relentless fruition and increase a high ground in the horde of different rivals. Leadership helps in effectively managing the work force and leading them to achieve the organizational goals and objectives. But in order to successfully lead a company, the leaders come across varied challenges on a day to day basis. A discussion relating to these challenges would be incorporated in this essay. Varied recommendations would be suggested that would help in upgrading the quality of the leadership programs and that would help in perceiving leadership in a different way.
Challenges of Leadership
    Being a leader is not an easy task as it includes a wide array of roles and responsibilities. A good leader not only helps in maximizing the profits of the organisation but also ensures that positive and healthy work environment is created to accelerate the productivity and efficiency of the employees. (Folch, 2017) has opined that irrespective of being highly educated and extremely talented, leaders fail at times. It can be said that communication is one of the greatest challenges that is come in the path of leading a company. With the evolution of time, business processes have become complicated and the leaders of the recent times need to communicate on varied levels. Integration of all the managerial effectiveness is considered to be one of the challenges of the modern leaders. A clear and transparent vision regarding the organisation goals and objectives need to be communicated to the work force in order to achieve the desired results. The leaders need to persuade the workers to believe in that vision and carry out the business activities accordingly. So communication does not happen on an individual level as the whole of the work force is involved. Many leaders are not able to use the appropriate communication channels in order to convey information to the employees. In that case, the tasks assigned to the workers are not comprehended by them in a proper way and the desired output is not achieved. If verbal communication skills are absent in a leader then strong relations cannot be established with the labour force. Workers would not be able to put forward their problems in front of the leaders and it would accelerate employee dissatisfaction. Communication also acts as a barrier for some leaders to interact with the stakeholders. If the details of the projects are not properly conveyed to the external stakeholders, they would not be willing to invest in it. Improper communication restricts the leaders to build good relations with the internal stakeholders.
In accordance to the Great Man Theory of Leadership, men are primarily considered as leaders (Spector, 2016), which poses as one of the greatest challenges of leadership in the recent times. So there are not enough role moles for women whom they can look up to and take inspiration to become successful leaders. Women leaders are considered to display caring and compassionate attitudes in order to be liked by the people. But when the women leaders display attitudes like that of a male leader, people tend to respect but not like them.
It is also seen that modern leaders face the challenge of influencing the work force. Leaders tend to make the use...