Habeck Trucking Inc Strategic Leadership

Habeck Trucking Inc. has developed various kinds of services in its program which enable it to meet the needs of their clients. The company has designed a well-established route of customers with several loads of goods that need to be delivered from one place to the other. This organization ensures that it a client with a partial load will be served to make sure it gets the first rate service. The services of the company are expanding because it has added the pneumatic and flatbed trailers. The Habeck Trucking Inc. was developed with the aim of providing transportation services to different clients. Since Habeck Trucking Services was founded, it has been successful due to the way it conducts its activities. The main issues that contributed mainly to the success of this company is leadership.

Strategic Leadership is an essential element for every company or an organization as it provides directions that should be followed while paying attention to different factors (Strand, 2014, p. This position is coupled up with several roles and responsibility which should be done effectively to ensure that the company succeeds. Some of these roles is to look at the key success factors that are necessary for an organization. Some of the key elements of success in an organization is to have a strategic focus by making sure that there is a sound leadership, management as well as planning in place (Smith, Binns, & Tushman , 2010 p. The other key factor of success is the people who work within the organization. There should be continuous learning as well as the development of personnel staff so that they will know to help the organization move in the right direction.

After the employees became aware of the change and shown a positive attitude towards it the next step of this model that followed was changing. This element involved the transition from the old system to the new systems. Moreover, it entailed the implementation of the intended change. The final step that was used in this model is unfreezing. This step involved stabilizing the new changing by reinforcing the areas of weaknesses. Therefore, when this company incorporates communication, productivity will be increased because it will be easy to receive the clients’ requests and respond to them (Benn, Edwards, & Williams 2014, p. The technological features that are used by this company for communication include emails, the company’s website which provides dialog boxes for private chats and messages, and internal blogs (Wang et al.

, 2016, p. The other change that gas been experienced in the Habeck Trucking Company the change in roles of different personnel working within the organization. Shifting of personnel between various departments is essential in the sense that it can help in reinforcing some of the weak points in the organization. Therefore, the leaders were able to know that the change had a positive impact on the company. In case the change had a negative impact, reinforcement actions would be taken to ensure that the negative impact of change was eradicated. According to WorkCover (2010 p. 45), Collaborating with other departments within the Habeck Trucking Company helped in managing change properly. Several departments have been established within the company to oversee various activities that will lead to success.

The choice of a leadership style usually depends on the followers being led, the situation and the function of the leader. In the Habeck Trucking Company, various sectors should work together to achieve some of the goals and objectives that have been set. Therefore, it is essential that multiple leadership styles should be used to ensure that the changes are embraced effectively. Some of the key sectors changes that can be experienced by the company include internationalization, globalization, technological innovation and organization development strategy. Internationalization According to Casson (2013, p. Cross-cultural leadership is one of the leadership styles that can be used in this situation. This leadership style refers to a type of leadership that exists between various cultures in the society (Zhao, Hwang, & Lee 2016, p.

Internationalization means that a business is expanding to other countries which might be associated with different types of culture. Therefore, using this style, the leader will be able to adjust and work with people from different cultures. This leadership style is relevant when embracing the issue of internationalization as it will enable the leader to manage the company effectively (Cano-Kollmann, Cantwell, & Hannigan (2016, p. Through this ideas, some of the weakness that face the company will be discovered. Thereafter, the methods to deal with these changes will have to be designed (Yahaya, Ebrahim 2016, p. Technological Innovation Increase in the use of technology is the third key change that can happen within the Habeck Trucking Company. The world is currently defined by technology because various activities have been digitized (Camisón, Villar-López, 2014 p.

There are multiple features of technology that have been developed which are used in different places to carry out a variety of tasks. Organization Development and Strategies Organization development and strategies refer to developing various measures that can be used to improve the organization by implementing different types of changes in different departments. The Habeck Trucking Inc. can employ the strategic leadership style to guide it in this change. A strategic leadership style is an effective leadership style that is relevant to this matter. This leadership style focuses on the strategies that a leader develops in various situations such as the need to increase its development by improving the services of an organization (Gattorna, 2017, p. The strengths of Habeck Trucking Company is that it has a large number of trucks that are used to transport goods to various destinations.

This element ensures that a lot of products can be transported to different places globally within a short time. As a result, the company earns a competitive advantage over other firms in this business such as the eighteen wheeler trucking company. The weakness that the company has is that at times it may fail to reach specific areas that are interior due to the lack of good roads. The primary opportunity that is experienced by this company is the expansion of the transportation business. The other aspect that leaders using the strategic model should use is to look at the micro and microenvironment of the Habeck Trucking Company (Dunning 2013, p. In the microenvironment, the look at the nearby environment that the Habeck Company Operates.

Some of the micro environmental factors that can be identified by the company is the customer, suppliers, distribution channels as well as the general public. The company has a higher number of customers who have enabled to succeed by increasing the sales (Dunning 2013, p. Also, the distribution channels that are used by the company is the use of trucks to transfer different goods. For instance, in the telecommunications industries, Steve Job is an example of a business leader who led to the success of the Apple Inc. The significant leadership capabilities of Steve Jobs was that he was creative and innovation (Isaacson, 2012, p. This element enabled him to come up with new ideas that led to the creation of different products that earned the company a lot of profits in sales.

The main leadership strategy that was used by Steve Jobs is that he was hard on his workers. He made his workers realize that they could work hard than they believed. This measure ensured that the employees were influenced positively in their roles so that they could work hard and help the firm to achieve its aims. The other aspect was that as a leader, Steve Schwarzman was to communicate. This element enabled the leader to develop a good relationship with the workers which motivated them to accomplish their duties Measuring the Delivery of an Organizational Change As a leader, it is essential to come up with measures that will be used to identify whether the changes that were implemented were successful (Parmenter 2015, p.

This activity can be done by measuring the performance. When the performance of various individuals in the company has increased, it will be a clear indication that the change was successful. One of the key performance indicators that can be used is the increment of the revenue earned. When the income of the company goes up, it means that its performance has gone up. The other key performance indicator is cost reduction. When change is implemented, and the performance is improved, the cost of production will go down. Increased customer satisfaction is the other aspect of the key performance indicators that can be used to measure the performance. Recommendation It is recommended that every company should embrace the aspect of strategic leadership in place and the components associated with it.

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