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LEADERSHIP
The key to Success
Spring workshops, 2012
What is leadership?
• Leadership is influence
–Starts with leading self
–Then leading others
–Finally leading leaders
Leadership
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Listens first, then speaks
Asks questions
Inspires by example
Promotes ownership
Facilitates intangibles
Use conditional statements
Encourages choices
Facilitates mindfulness
Reflections on Leaders’
Competencies
Principles of Leadership
• Know yourself and seek selfimprovement
• Be technically proficient
• Seek responsibility and take
responsibility for your actions
• Make sound and timely decisions
• Set the example = good role model
Principles (cont’d)
• Know your team and look out for their
well being
• Keep your team informed
• Develop a sense of responsibility in
your team
• Ensure that tasks are understood and
accomplished
• Use the full capabilities of your
organization
Basic Belief of Leaders
 Leadership is a partnership between team
leaders and team members
 Performance is a journey
 People can and want to develop
 Development should be personalized and linked
to specific goals/tasks
 Competence is a goal, task specific knowledge
or skill
 Commitment is a combination of motivation and
confidence
Reflections on Leadership
• Leadership cannot really be taught,
it can only be learned.
H. Geneen
• Leadership appears to be the art of
getting others to want to do something
that you are convinced should be done.
V. Packard
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5 practices of exemplary
leadership
Model the way
Inspire a shared vision
Challenge the process
Enable others to act
Encourage the heart
Principles of Communication
• Make communication a top priority.
• Be open to other people.
• Create a receptive environment for
communication.
• Communication is built on trusting
relationships
Effective Communications
• Do you ask for questions and wait
for the answers?
• Do you respond quickly and
directly to the questions that are
asked?
• Does the other person feel you
are listening actively to them?
Reflections on Personal
Leadership
LEADERSHIP CHECKLIST
• Are you:
 self aware,
 persistent,
 pragmatic,
 knowledgeable,
 intuitive,
 flexible,
 open to change,
 committed to life-long
learning.
• Do you have:
 have a sense of
humour,
 good selfesteem,
 holistic approach
to health and
well-being
Reflections on Personal
Leadership
M.L. King – tell me what you think
about, and that will tell me who you
are.
Leadership Theories
• Trait theory
• Great events theory
• Transformational leadership
theory
Developing leadership
• Reflecting on and learning
from (evaluating) experience
• Surround yourself with leaders
(mentors)
Emotionally intelligent
leadership
 Daniel Goleman:
A leader’s primary task is emotional
leadership, requiring them to
consistently:
Be optimistic, authentic, have highenergy moods
Be aware of how their moods drive
the organizational moods and actions
Adjusts their behaviours accordingly
Reflections on Team Building
Can you answer these team
questions?
 What may I expect from you?
 Can I achieve my own goals by following you?
 Will I reach my potential by working with you?
 Can I entrust my future to you?
 Have you bothered to prepare yourself for
leadership?
 Are you ready to be ruthlessly honest?
 Do you have the self-confidence and trust to let
me do my job?
 What do you believe?
Reflections on Leadership
• Leadership is lifting a person’s vision
to higher sights, the raising of a
person’s performance to a higher
standard, the building of a personality
beyond its normal limitations.
P. Drucker
Conclusions
• Anatomy of a Leader
–Monkey
–Big chin
–Strong legs
–Big mouth
–Deaf ear
–Rubber neck