GROUNDRULES

Be here now. Stay focused.

Cell phones on silent mode.
Breaks will be provided: 3 Cs
When in doubt, ask.
Aspire for quality results.
Be open.
BE CHILDLIKE!
6 As of Learning
Attitude
Adaptation
Application
Attendance
Punctuality!!!
Active Involvement
Aha!
Getting to Know Each Other
Thumb: When do you feel
affirmed?
Where do you see yourself?
Where do you want to go?
Greatest
Accomplishment/s
What are you
committed to?
What is your
fetish?
Training Outline/Agenda
What is Leadership
Leadership vs. Management
Leadership Styles
Leadership Skills
Power
Motivation
Giving Feedback
Leadership Traits
Group Exercise:
Choose leaders YOU admire
What personality traits and skills do they
have?

A Leadership Story:
A group of workers and their leaders are set a
task
of clearing a road through a dense jungle on
a remote island to get to the coast where an
estuary provides
a perfect site for a port.
The leaders organise the labour into efficient
units and monitor the distribution and use of
capital assets progress is excellent. The
leaders continue to monitor and evaluate
progress, making adjustments along the way
to ensure the progress is maintained and
efficiency increased wherever possible.
Then, one day amidst all the hustle and
bustle and activity, one person climbs up a
nearby tree. The person surveys the scene
from the top of the tree.
A Leadership Story:
And shouts down to the
assembled group below
Wrong Way!
(Story adapted from Stephen Covey (2004) The Seven
Habits of Highly Effective People Simon & Schuster).
Management is doing things right,
leadership is doing the right things
(Warren Bennis and Peter Drucker)
Exercise 1:
Name the following
Five Wealthiest People in the World
Last Six Time Magazine People of the Year
Five Recent Nobel or Pulitzer Prize Winners
Last Five Best Picture, Best Actor, or Best
Actress Academy Award Winners

Exercise 2:
Name the following:
Five Teachers or Coaches that helped you
through school
Six Friends that helped you through
difficult times.
Five People that taught you something
worthwhile.
Five People that made you feel appreciated
Gallup Leadership Research
More than 10,000 responders
2005-2006
Identify the leader that has the most positive
influence in your daily life.
More than 85% selected someone described as
a friend, family member, co-worker, teacher,
current manager/supervisor
75% named someone they had known for more
than six years.
LEADERSHIP IS ABOUT
RELATIONSHIPS!
The Leadership Challenge Kouzes
and Posner

Leadership
The Way to Influence Others

One's ability to get others to willingly follow

Does not mean yelling at your followers to
accomplish certain task .






Power versus influences :
Power : is using your authority to make your
subordinates do what you even they do not want to do it .
Influence : is using your persuasion to get what you
want because your subordinates want to do it .
The Nature of Leadership
Leadership
The process by which a person exerts influence
over others and inspires, motivates and directs
their activities to achieve group or
organizational goals.
The Nature of Leadership
Leader
An individual who is able to exert influence over
other people to help achieve group or
organizational goals

The Nature of Leadership
Distinction between managers and leaders
Managers establish and implement procedures to
ensure smooth functioning
Leaders look to the future and chart the course
for the organization

Nobody Can Teach You Leadership
You Learn Principally From Experience
Effective leadership is based on results, not
effort.
The title "Boss" or "Manager" does not
automatically make you a leader
Authority alone may not produce the best
results.


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Leadership
Produces Change and Movement
Establishing Direction

Aligning People

Motivating and Inspiring

Source: A Force for Change: How Leadership Differs from Management
By John Kotter
Leadership is the art of
mobilizing others to want to
struggle for shared
aspirations.

Kouzes and Posner

Are Leaders Born?
or
Are They Made?
Leaders can be made
There are some qualities
that you have to have.

You should possess, exemplify and perhaps
even personify the qualities expected or
required in your working group.

Sources of Managerial Power
Power: The Key to Leadership
Legitimate Power
The authority that a manager has by virtue of
his or her position in the firm.
Power: The Key to Leadership
Reward Power
The ability of a manager to give or withhold
tangible and intangible rewards.
Effective managers use reward power to signal
to employees that they are doing a good job.

Power: The Key to Leadership
Coercive Power
The ability of a manager to punish others.
Examples: verbal reprimand, pay cuts, and dismissal
Limited in effectiveness and application; can have
serious negative side effects.
Power: The Key to Leadership
Expert Power
Power that is based on special knowledge, skills,
and expertise that the leader possesses.
Tends to be used in a guiding or coaching manner
Power: The Key to Leadership
Referent Power
Power that comes from subordinates and
coworkers respect , admiration, and loyalty
Possessed by managers who are likable and
whom subordinates wish to use as a role model
Empowerment: An Ingredient in
Modern Management
Empowerment
The process of giving employees at all levels in the
organization the authority to make decisions, be
responsible for their outcomes, improve quality,
and cut costs
Empowerment: An Ingredient in
Modern Management
Empowerment increases a managers ability
to get things done
Empowerment increases workers
involvement, motivation, and commitment
Empowerment gives managers more time to
concentrate on their pressing concerns
The Essence Of Leadership Is Service To
Others
As a leader, you exist to:
Inspire others to strive for excellence
Ensure the work environment is safe, challenging, and fair
Teach, mentor, provide guidance
True leaders put the welfare of the group ahead of their own self-interest
Selfless does not mean hands-off
Great leaders enhance institutional capability by driving the actions of
others to achieve greatness


Leadership is all about helping others to succeed.
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The Perceived Complexity Of Leadership Arises From
Its Seemingly Overwhelming Number Of Duties
Create and establish strategies
Ensure effectiveness and efficiency
Communicate openly and often
Build solid relationships
Act with integrity and fairness
Provide counsel and direction
Exert influence in the absence of ownership
Foster collaboration
Motivate, coach and develop others
Produce results, meet objectives and
exceed goals
How can a leader avoid being overwhelmed by this complexity?
Focusing on a few key qualities and incorporating
them into every action simplifies the act of
leading others, and increases leadership
effectiveness
There is no standardized approach to
effective leadership
Your effectiveness as a leader is directly
proportional to how well the key qualities
you focus on align with your values and your
personality
Five qualities of a great leader are:
1. Maintains and demonstrates strong
convictions
2. Develops and communicates a clear,
winning vision
3. Creates a high performance culture
4. Convinces rather than controls
5. Continually learns

Leadership depends on three elements

The Leader
The
Group
The
Situation
Three needs

Task need
Individual
needs
Team
maintenance
need
These three needs are the
watchwords of leadership
and people expect their
leaders to

Help them achieve the
common task

Build the synergy of
the teamwork

Respond to individuals
and meet their needs .
Leadership Functions
Achieving the
TASK
Developing
the
INDIVIDUAL
Building and
maintaining
the TEAM
Defining the
task
Planning
Briefing
Controlling
Evaluating
Motivating
Organizing
Providing an
example
The Role
Defining The Task
Objective
clear
concrete
time-limited
realistic
challenging
capable of evaluation
there is a simple success criterion that will enable you
and the team to know that the objective has been
achieved.
Planning
Planning requires that the
What.
Why..
When.
How
Where.
Who
questions are answered..
Briefing
Briefing is the function of communicating
objectives and plans to the team.
Briefing, in fact, is part of a much larger
communication skill: effective speaking.
Be prepared.
Be clear
Be simple.
Be vivid.
Be natural.
Controlling
Regulating organizational activities so that
actual performance conforms to
organizational standards and goals

Success at directing, regulating, restraining
or encouraging individual and team efforts
on the task (and in meetings) is the criterion
for testing a leaders effectiveness as a
controller.
Evaluating
People need to know where they are in
relation to the end result they are aiming at.
Criteria or hallmarks of an excellent, high-
performance team:
Clear, realistic objectives
Atmosphere of openness
Best use of resources
Handles failure

Motivating
More recent thought suggests that we motivate
ourselves by responding to inner needs. As a
leader you must understand these needs in
individuals and how they operate, so that you can
work with the grain of human nature and not
against it.
Maslows concept of
a hierarchy of needs
Organizing
Allocating and arranging resources
It can mean systematic planning


Types of Injustice
Laziness
Inaccuracy
Rapid reactions
Personal benefits
Seeking mistakes only
Determination
Requirements of Justice
Competencies
Sense of responsibility
Equality
Proper selection of subordinates
Courage
Massive effort

Above all, Leadership is about :
0% 10% 20% 30% 40%
Competence
Charisma
Communication
Energizing people
Vision
6%
8%
19%
32%
35%
VISION
One definition of Leading is
influencing a group of people to move
towards the organizational objectives.
In order to do this, the leader should possess
the ability to identify the best road, detect
the obstacles and finally recognize the
capabilities of his followers.
By achieving this; the leader acquires the
vision.