Leadership

"GIVE a man a fish and you will feed him for a day, but teach him how to fish and you will feed him for life."

Learning outcomes

By the end of the lesson we will have a greater understanding of:The course structureLeadership and what isThe skills and attributes of good

leaders and how they impact on work groups

Your own leadership qualities (Covey)

How to apply lesson content to the first part of the assignment

Activity

With your neighbour: Decide on a suitable

definition of leadership

What are the key skills/attributes of a leader?

Leaders Quotes

"Leadership is a combination of strategy and character. If you must be without one, be without the strategy." - Gen. H. Norman Schwarzkopf

Management is efficiency in climbing the ladder of success; leadership determines whether the ladder is leaning against the right wall." - Stephen R. Covey

"As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others." - Bill Gates

"... Praise loudly, blame softly." (Catherine the Great)

"A dream is just a dream. A goal is a dream with a plan and a deadline." (Harvey Mackay)

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a moulder of consensus. Martin Luther King, Jr.

Leadership

"Leadership is a function of knowing yourself, having a vision that is well communicated, building trust among colleagues, and taking effective action to realize your own leadership potential. “Warren Bennis

Skills and Attitudes

While a certain skill level is necessary to do a job, the fact is that attitude determines whether the job is done well, and whether the job holder makes a real difference to their organisation, colleagues and environment.

What make them ‘great leaders’?

Discuss the attributes and skills that make them ‘great leaders’

John Adair and Attributes

Attribute “A quality or characteristic that

someone or something has” (Cambridge Advanced Learners Dictionary)

Intelligence, experience and goodness

Exceptional understanding Understanding oneself Sound executable judgement Being a good sensible counsellor Having an excellent character Authoritative presence etc

Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective Peoplehttp://www.leaderu.com/cl-institute/habits/habit2.html

Covey suggests that highly effective people have seven main habits which they develop in maturing from:A childlike dependency

Relying on others to take care of us Independence

Make our own decisions, take care of ourselves

Interdependence Cooperation with others

Professor Kanterhttp://www.esrcsocietytoday.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/PO/releases/2003/november/reverse.aspx?ComponentId=2157&SourcePageId=1404

Successful turnaround leaders restore their people's confidence in themselves and one another as a first step to regaining stakeholder and public confidence.

"Decline causes people to dislike and avoid one another, hide information and deny responsibility - their actions create an environment that reinforces these tendencies and makes rebuilding confidence more difficult," said Kanter. "That's what makes turnarounds so hard and leaders who reverse the cycle so impressive."

Henry Mintzberghttp://www.pfdf.org/leaderbooks/L2L/spring99/mintzberg.html

Managing Quietly Inspiring

Quiet managers don’t empower people they inspire them

Caring Quiet managers spend more time preventing

problems than fixing them Infusion

Quiet managing is about infusion, change that seeps in slowly, steadily, profoundly

Initiating Quiet management is not about drinking

champagne in Business Class; it is about rolling up sleeves and finding out what is going on.

Assignment

Examine the impact of different leadership attributes (qualities and characteristics) and skills on work groups.

Explain the expected impact of a range of leadership skills and attributes on work groups Use ‘real examples' of business

leaders to re-enforce your point, i.e. Rupert Murdoch, Anita Roddick, Mark Hughes or a work ‘colleague’