What is leadership ?
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"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." -John Quincy Adams Lions, if you want to lead your people to usher in positive change, remember these key points.
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What is leadership ?
- 1. Leadership
- 2. What is leadership? Leading people Influencing people Commanding people Guiding people
- 3. Types of Leaders • Leader by the position achieved • Leader by personality, charisma • Leader by moral example • Leader by power held • Intellectual leader • Leader because of ability to accomplish things
- 4. Managers vs. Leaders Managers • Focus on things • Do things right • Plan • Organize • Direct • Control • Follows the rules Leaders • Focus on people • Do the right things • Inspire • Influence • Motivate • Build • Shape entities
- 5. Common Activities • Planning • Organizing • Directing • Controlling
- 6. Planning Manager • Planning • Budgeting • Sets targets • Establishes detailed steps • Allocates resources Leader •Devises strategy •Sets direction •Creates vision
- 7. Organizing Manager • Creates structure • Job descriptions • Staffing • Hierarchy • Delegates • Training Leader • Gets people on board for strategy • Communication • Networks
- 8. Directing Work Manager • Solves problems • Negotiates • Brings to consensus Leader • Empowers people • Cheerleader
- 9. Controlling Manager • Implements control systems • Performance measures • Identifies variances • Fixes variances Leader • Motivate • Inspire • Gives sense of accomplishment
- 10. Leadership Traits • Intelligence • More intelligent than non-leaders • Scholarship • Knowledge • Being able to get things done • Physical • Doesn’t see to be correlated
- 11. Leadership Traits • Personality • Verbal facility • Honesty • Initiative • Aggressive • Self-confident • Ambitious • Originality • Sociability • Adaptability
- 12. Leadership Styles • Delegating • Low relationship/ low task • Responsibility • Willing employees
- 13. Leadership Styles • Participating • High relationship/ low task • Facilitate decisions • Able but unwilling
- 14. Leadership Styles • Selling • High task/high relationship • Explain decisions • Willing but unable
- 15. Leadership Styles • Telling • High Task/Low relationship • Provide instruction • Closely supervise
- 16. New Leaders Take Note • General Advice • Take advantage of the transition period • Get advice and counsel • Show empathy to predecessor • Learn leadership
- 17. New Leaders Take Note • Challenges • Need knowledge quickly • Establish new relationships • Expectations • Personal equilibrium
- 18. New Leader Traps • Not learning quickly • Isolation • Know-it-all • Keeping existing team • Taking on too much • Captured by wrong people • Successor syndrome
- 19. Seven Basic Principles Have two to three years to make measurable financial and cultural progress 1
- 20. Seven Basic Principles Come in knowing current strategy, goals, and challenges. Form hypothesis on operating priorities 2
- 21. Seven Basic Principles Balance intense focus on priorities with flexibility on implementation…. 3
- 22. Seven Basic Principles Decide about new organization architecture 4
- 23. Seven Basic Principles Build personal credibility and momentum 5
- 24. Seven Basic Principles Earn right to transform entity 6
- 25. Seven Basic Principles Remember there is no “one” way to manage a transition 7
- 26. Core Tasks • Create Momentum • Master technologies of learning, visioning, and coalition building • Manage oneself
- 27. Create Momentum • Learn and know about company • Securing early wins • First set short term goals • When achieved make a big deal • Should fit long term strategy
- 28. Create Momentum • Foundation for change • Vision of how the organization will look • Build political base to support change • Modify culture to fit vision
- 29. Create Momentum • Build credibility • Demanding but can be satisfied • Accessible but not too familiar • Focused but flexible • Active • Can make tough calls but humane
- 30. Master Technologies • Learn from internal and external sources
- 31. Master Technologies • Visioning - develop strategy • Push vs. pull tools • What values does the strategy embrace? • What behaviors are needed?
- 32. Master Technologies • Communicate the vision • Simple text - Best channels • Clear meaning - Do it yourself!
- 33. Enabling Technologies, con’t • Coalition building • Don’t ignore politics • Technical change not enough • Political management isn’t same as being political • Prevent blocking coalitions • Build political capital
- 34. Manage Oneself • Be self-aware • Define your leadership style • Get advice and counsel • Advice is from expert to leader • Counsel is insight
- 35. Manage Oneself • Types of help • Technical • Political • Personal • Advisor traits • Competent • Trustworthy • Enhance your status
- 36. How Far Can You Go?