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Leadership in Social Enterprises

Leading in Uncertain Times

Richard O’Rawe

18 October 2012

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Position or Choice?

Three Questions

Nature or Nurture?

Once a leader, always a leader?


Leadership Definition

A definition of leadership:-

Leadership is an active,

influencing relationship among

leaders and followers that gets

results for both.

“ 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

Influencing

Leading in collaboration requires particular attention to the “soft skills” of:

Inspiring (vision, values and belief)

Communicating (strategy/roles/tasks/results)

Negotiating (creating win-win scenarios)

Persuading (asking, showing, selling, telling)

Motivating (engagement/challenge/recognition)

Fostering Collaboration (group cohesion & identity)

“The soft skills are the hard skills”


Relationships

Leader Follower Follower

Follower

Follower

Team and one-to-one engagement.


Leadership Equation

L = EI + IQ + MQ

Emotional Intelligence The ability to determine the requirement for leadership in

a particular situation and select an appropriate response


L

Consult

L

Empower

L

Tell

LSell

Leadership Styles (Teams and Decision-making)


Leader-Manager Continuum

CIPD distinguishes the difference in leadership

and management as between being more

emotional (leadership) than

rational (management)

Oversight Foresight Insight

Insight as well as Foresight

Leading in Different Ways

Wilderness Leadership

Five Principles Learned from Outdoor Exploration

1. Practice leadership

2. Lead from everywhere

3. Behave well

4. Keep calm

5. Disconnect to connect

Shared Leadership

If you were shipwrecked as a group,

who would you want to lead...

If you needed food?

If you needed shelter?

If you needed medical advice?

If you needed navigation?

Farmer

Carpenter

Nurse

Sailor

Poet

Salesman

Manager

Student

Leadership from Within INVICTUS

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.


Lessons for Leadership


New Leadership for Social Enterprises

1. More leadership

2. Freedom to lead

3. Take more risks

4. Get into new areas

5. More tough love

6. Take out more

7. Achieve more.


Five Fundamentals Personal Qualities

Demonstrating integrity,

competence, decisiveness and

behavioural flexibility

Positioning

Knowing the context of the internal

and external environment and a

winning strategy

Purpose

Articulating clear mission, vision,

values

People

Engaging, motivating, empowering

and supporting people

Performance

Planning, making things happen,

reviewing and getting results.


Leadership as a Dance

Henri Matisse. (1910). Dance (II). , Oil on canvas, Displayed in The Hermitage, St Petersburg

“an energetic dance that binds the leader and

followers, in which each side is fully present,

active and able to shape the other.”

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