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Unlocking Leadership
Two Questions
Nature or Nurture
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Position or Choice
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“Leadership is like fruit...”
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Leadership Definition
A definition of leadership:Leadership is an active, influencing
relationship among leaders and
followers that get results.
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Active
“ The old ways won’t work.
Take care to get what you like,
or you will be forced to like what you get.”
Adapted from Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Active and Influencing
Leading talented people in today’s world
requires particular attention to the “soft
skills” of:
Communicating (vision/roles/tasks)
Persuading (influence/authority)
Motivating (purpose/autonomy/challenge/recognition)
Fostering Collaboration (group cohesion/identity)
“The soft skills are the hard skills”
Leader-Manager Continuum
CIPD distinguishes the difference in leadership
and management as between being more
emotional (leadership) than
rational (management)
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Insight as well as Foresight
Strategic Leadership
“Operational effectiveness
means you’re running the same
race faster. But strategy is
choosing to run a different race
because it’s the one you’ve set
yourself up to win”.
Michael Porter
Transformational
Authoritative
Inspire and Get Results
Tough and Determined
Purpose and Positioning
A great leader remains true to their purpose and is prepared
to adjust and adapt their position en route?
Leaders build social capital – the networks, connections
and relationships that are needed to know what is going on.
Leadership Equation
L = EQ + IQ + MQ
Social Intelligence
The ability to determine the requirement for leadership in
a particular situation and select an appropriate response
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INVICTUS
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Leadership from Within
Out of the night that covers me,
Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstance
I have not winced nor cried aloud.
Under the bludgeonings of chance
My head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tears
Looms but the Horror of the shade,
And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
Relationships
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Leader Member Exchange (LMX )Theory
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Harness All Leadership Talent
If you were shipwrecked as a group,
who would you want to lead...
If you needed food?
Manager
Poet
Carpenter
If you needed shelter?
Nurse
If you needed medical advice?
If you needed navigation?
Farmer
Sailor
Salesman
Student
Five Fundamentals
Personal Qualities
demonstrating integrity,
competence, decisiveness and
behavioural flexibility
Positioning
knowing and understanding the
context of the internal and external
environment
Purpose
articulating clear mission, vision,
values and strategy
People
engaging, motivating, empowering
and supporting people
Performance
planning, making things happen,
reviewing and getting results.
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Leadership for Uncertainty
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Have vision, and be visible
Stay close to stakeholders/customers
Stick to core capabilities and purpose
Encourage, liberate and support all those who can
lead
Obsess with innovation and new value propositions
Align people around purpose
Value skills and knowledge (more than structure and
rules)
Manage your own learning as a leader
Be active and adaptive – use all the styles
Communicate incessantly
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Leadership as a Dance
“an energetic dance that binds the leader and
followers, in which each side is fully present,
active and able to shape the other.”
Henri Matisse. (1910). Dance (II). , Oil on canvas, Displayed in The Hermitage, St Petersburg
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