Leadership

A good leadership is to encourage, motivate, correct and help others to work passionate and give their
best towards the objective

Characteristics of a leader

I think a good leader does not stop until the task at his hands is finished. He rests only after he finishes
his work. He is not afraid of failure. A person who not only leads the team but also consider himself as a
part of the team

What leadership is not

Leadership has nothing to do with seniority.

Leadership has nothing to do with titles.

Leadership has nothing to do with attributes.

Leadership isn’t management.

Great Leadership

Wanting to do something new and better, and getting others to go along while fostering an environment
of Transparency, Motivation, Feedback and Gratitude.

Components of Leader

 Leader
 Followers
 Situation

Central idea of course

Leadership is a process, not a position

3 Goal by Indian coach in 2003

 Playing Cricket like Golf

 Motivating by perform-or-perish- if u perform good u will be allowed to play in next match, but
if u loose u won’tbe allowed to play next 3 matches
 Hogging the limelight- he was infront of media when India won but when India lost Saurabh
ganguli was put in front

Indian team was highly demotivated

Another coach

 Worked on individual weaknesses.

  Priority of keeping players happy, inspired and fit. Played football during warm-ups.
 Gave the credit to the team for winnings; took the blame for losses.
 Did not hog the limelight.

India won because of his leadership, he just did opposite of wt first coach did

Servant leadership

Leader worked like a servant

 The process by which an agent induces a subordinate to behave in a desired manner.

 Directing and coordinating the work of group members.
 An interpersonal relation in which others comply because they want to, not because they
have to.
 The process of influencing an organized group toward accomplishing its goals.
 Actions that focus resources to create desirable opportunities.
 Creating conditions for a team to be effective.
 The ability to get results and the ability to build teams; these represents the what and the
how of leadership.
 A complex form of social problem solving.

Characteristics of a leadership

 Good leadership may not require courses or a training program.

 However, knowing something about leadership research is relevant to effective leadership.
 Leadership is mix of both art and science

Is Leadership a RATIONAL Or an EMOTIONAL process?

It is both. It includes logic and reason as well as inspiration and passion.

Leaders cannot be one-sided only.

Leaders can use rational techniques as well as emotional appeals to influence followers.

Manager vs leader

 Managing
 Managers administer
 Managers maintain
 Managers control
 Short-term view YoY- year on year
 Managers ask how
 Managers imitate
 Managers accept the status quo
Control, lead and ask how.

Leader

 Leading
 Leaders innovate
 Leaders develop
 Leaders inspire
 Long-term view
 Leaders ask what and why
 Leaders originate
 Leaders challenge it.

Create you coat of arms

Leadership activity 1

Myth about Leadership

Myth #1: Good Leadership is all Common Sense

 Leaders should be confident

Leader should always perceiver

 Always push through the time of obstacles

Leader changing direction:- like if there is pandemic the leader will say let’s try something else so that
this pandemic doesn’t affect our profit

Myth#2: Leaders are born and not made

 Some leaders are made because some learn through their experience
 Some are just born with leadership skills

Myth#3: The only school you learn Leadership from is the School of Hard Knocks or through experience

 Leadership is possible through formal education and as well as through experience

 Ex. Barak Obama passed out from Harvard University
 Today’s world people become leader through experience too

Interactional Framework for analyzing leadership

Leadership is a result of complex set of interaction among leaders, followers and situation

Leader brings
What does a leader bring to the leadership equation? Personal history, interests, traits, motivation.

People who are born to emotional outcomes then people doesn’t like to work under them.

People who is calm, thinks before speaking people are more interested in working under him.

Factors that influence a leader’s success

 Leaders appointed by superiors have less credibility than those selected by consensus.
 Politicians are elected by the people.
 Leader’s experience or history within the organization.
 History of accomplishment.
 The extent followers participated in the selection process.

After leaders are follower

Those who wish to be a leaders should be a great follower first. Being a followers means you build
qualities like discipline, humility and trust- these actually are leadership qualities. Good followers
becomes great leaders.

 Why the armed people are hired in a particular way?

Followers play a critical role in leadership but they haven’t always been recognized.

The common view was “leaders actively led and followers obediently followed”.

Today, followers are accepted as an integral part of the leadership process.

Kinds of followers

Alienated Followers – Point out negative aspects

Conformist Followers – “Yes people” (Cult followers)

Pragmatist Followers – Independent performers

Passive Followers – Don’t think, no enthusiasm, lazy, incompetent.

Exemplary Followers – Independent, innovative, challenge seekers, help move things forward in
bureaucracy.

Situation

Action observation reflection (A-O-R) model

First you take action and based on your action u observe whether u have taken a right action or not if as
per the observation you again see whether u should be continuing with the same action or is there some
change needed.

This is 3 step process model

Another four step model is Experiential learning theory.

Making more of a experiences is key to leadership development

Thinking about your experiences is critical to your growth as a leader is AOR model.

Spiral of experience

Perceptual set

Your focus will be on only some things not all

We may tend to experience different things in different way it depends on how you perceive things.

Some things affect your perceptual set because of your past experience

Some people have bias based on how they look or gender bias

Biasness

In the course of this program, it is important to become aware of your biases so that you can be
effective leaders.

How perception and reflection connected

 Reflection is a meaning-making process.

 In this process, Attribution plays a major role.
 Attributions are the explanations we develop for the behaviours or actions

Fundamental attribution error

Why did Sanyoni fail to form a study group?

Mostly due to her intelligence, her ability to manage people, her personality could not lead-dispositional
factors.
Mostly due to the negative environment, the lack of support from her supervisor, lack of support from
the study group, people could not agree on the time or travel.

Fundamental Attribution Error

Why did Sanyoni fail to form a study group?

Mostly due to her intelligence, her ability to manage people, her personality could not lead-dispositional
factors.

Mostly due to the negative environment, the lack of support from her supervisor, lack of support from
the study group, people could not agree on the time or travel.

Self-Serving bias

Self-serving bias-The tendency to make external attributions (blame the situation), for one’s own failures
yet make internal attributions (take credit) for one’s successes.

self-serving bias is just opposite of fundamental attribution of error

Actor/Observer difference:

The people observing an action are much more likely than the actor to make the fundamental
attribution error.

 Actors does self serving bias

 Observer does fundamental attribution error

Self-fulfilling prophecy:

when expectations or predictions play a causal role in bringing about the events predicted.

Eden and Shani military Bootcamp experiment.

They have to do a millitary assessment called high command assessment. Some student had regular
potential, some got high potential and some got no potential they gave a list of people who stand in
these categories.

But people who were ranked high potential got high score. Because perception played a positive role in
changing people’s behavior
Merely having expectations positive or negative can subtly influence actions and these actions can affect
the way others behave.

Single & Double Loop Learning

 Single Loop Learning

 Leaders seek little feedback that may confront their ideas.
 Little public testing of ideas against valid information.
 Belief system becomes self-fulfilling over time.
 Little time spent on reflection.

Double Loop Learning

 Willingness to confront your own views by inviting others to do so.

 Openness to information and power sharing can lead to better recognition of problems and
increased decision-making effectiveness.
 Possible to move through personal blind spots.
 After Event Reviews (AERs) increase the leadership performance.

De-event learning

If any event takes place then after the event the leader will discuss with all members abt the errors and
mistakes they make so that they can improve this mistakes next time