UHF 6033: DYNAMICS of LEADERSHIP

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR DR. YUSOF BOON

INSPIRING CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE MINDS

 WHY STUDY LEADERSHIP?

Please list your reasons for taking

this course
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INSPIRING CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE MINDS

 WHY STUDY LEADERSHIP?

Reasons Given Most Often:

1. I must have leadership skills to be a
leader
2. Leadership can be learned & nurtured
3. Leadership develops daily, not in a day
4. To prepare myself for future leadership
role
5. To be an effective leader by having the
right knowledge and skills

INSPIRING CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE MINDS

 WHY I WANT TO BE A LEADER

List your reasons for wanting to be a

leader
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2. …………………
3. …………………
4. …………………
5. …………………

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 WHY I WANT TO BE A LEADER

Reasons Given Most Often:

1. Leadership is everyone’s responsibility
2. I can help improve conditions through
leadership, my leadership is needed
3. I know I can provide good service
4. I can help others who want to succeed
5. My leadership can make the difference

INSPIRING CREATIVE AND INNOVATIVE MINDS

 SUCCESS WITHOUT LEADERSHIP

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 SUCCESS WITH LEADERSHIP

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 HOW GREAT LEADERS LEARN?

Those who are the best at leading

are also the best at learning.

– Kouzes & Posner.

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 A LEADER NEEDS TO LEARN
FAST

Average Retention Rates

For Various Instructional Modes
• Lecture 5%
• Reading 10%
• Audiovisuals 20%
• Demonstration 30%
• Discussion 50%
• Practice by Doing 75%
• Teaching Others 90%

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 WHO YOU SHOULD LEAD?

THE 1ST PERSON YOU LEAD

IS YOU

Why & How?

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 LEARN FROM GREAT LEADERS

Emulate Traits of Great Leaders:

1. Leaders know themselves
2. Open to feedback
3. Eager to learn & improve
4. Curious and willing to take risk
5. Concentrate on the work
6. Learn from adversity
7. Able to balance tradition & change
8. Have open communication channels
9. Work well with systems
10.Serve as role model or mentor
-J. Love
 LEARN FROM GREAT LEADERS (Contd.)

Emulate Traits of Great Leaders:

1. Excellent communicators
2. Visionary
3. Make others feel important
4. They follow the “platinum rule”
5. They admit mistakes
6. They criticize others only in private
7. They stay close to the action & are involved
8. They celebrate success
9. They make trust a priority

-M. Brody
 LEARN FROM GREAT LEADERS (Contd.)

Emulate Traits of Great Leaders:

1. Ability to create a compelling vision
2. Ability to articulate vision to others
3. Consistency
4. Humility
5. Focus
6. Tenacity
7. Holistic
8. Strategic
9. Agile mind
10.Aversion to tyranny
-C. Charney
 SEVEN HABITS OF HIGHLY
EFFECTIVE PEOPLE

1. Begin with the end in mind

2. Put first things first
3. Think win/win
4. Seek first to understand,
then to be understood
5. Synergize
6. Sharpen the saw
7. Be proactive
Stephen R. Covey

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 Basic Principles of the Seven Habits

• Habit 1: Be Proactive: Principles of Personal Choice

• Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind: Principles of Personal
Vision
• Habit 3: Put First Things First: Principles of Integrity &
Execution
• Habit 4: Think Win/Win: Principles of Mutual Benefit
• Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood:
Principles of Mutual Understanding
• Habit 6: Synergize: Principles of Creative Cooperation
• Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw: Principles of Balanced Self-
Renewal

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 The 8th Habit: Important Messages

• Intended as a sequel to The Seven

Habits
• In The Knowledge Worker Age, we
need more than effectiveness
• “Find your voice, and inspire others to
find theirs…”

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 Transformational Leadership

Kouzes & Posner: Actions for

Successful Leadership
• Model the way
• Inspire a shared vision
• Challenge the process
• Enable others to act
• Encourage the heart

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 Charney: Leaders’ Tool Kit

Categories of Leadership Skills You

Need To Develop
1. Leadership Fundamentals
2. Life and Career Management
3. Strategic Leadership
4. Leading Your People

5. Performance Leadership

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 I. LEADERSHIP FUNDAMENTALS

1. Adversity: Coping with Tough Times

2. Authenticity
3. Change
4. Collaboration and Teamwork
5. Communicating for Clarity and Commitment
6. Communicating One-on-One
7. Communicating with Groups
8. Decision Making
9. Democratizing the Workplace
10. Ethics

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 I. LEADERSHIP FUNDAMENTALS

11. Meetings
12. Mistakes: Turning Adversity into Opportunity
13. Mistakes: When Others Fail
14. Planning
15. Problem solving
16. Professionalism
17. Teamwork
18. Technology
19. Ten Traits of Great Leaders

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 II. LIFE AND CAREER MANAGEMENT

20. Balancing Your Life

21. Career Development
22. Learning & Self-Development
23. Learning: Strategies for Senior Executives
24. Life: Living Each Moment to the Fullest
25. Replacing Yourself
26. Setbacks: Overcoming Adversity in Your Career
27. Values: A Personal Approach

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 III. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

28. Alliances
29. Benchmarking
30. Change: Influencing the Future
31. Communicating with the Board & Other Executives
32. Consultants: Getting Your Money’s Worth
33. Consultants: Maximizing Value for Your Organization
34. Governance: More Than Staying Out of Jail
35. Governance: Structuring the Board of Directors
36. Government: Managing Relationship
37. Integration: Creating a United Organization
38. International Operation

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 III. STRATEGIC LEADERSHIP

39. Partnerships
40. Partnerships: Going International
41. Partnerships: Managing the Process
42. Reengineering and Downsizing
43. Stakeholders
44. Strategic Planning
45. Strategic Planning: SWOT Analysis
46. Sustainability
47. Sustainability: Evaluating Your Organization
48. Unions
49. Visioning
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 IV. LEADING YOUR PEOPLE

50. Abusive Behavior

51. Coaching
52. Compensation and Benefits
53. Inspiring Others
54. Knowledge Management
55. Leadership Development: Creating New Leaders
56. Leadership Development: Developing Learning Plans
57. Leadership Development: Training
58. Mentoring
59. Motivating Others
60. Rewards and Recognition
61. Retaining High Performers
 V. PERFORMANCE LEADERSHIP

62. Accountability and Responsibility: Getting

the Monkey off Your Back
63. Accountability: Measuring Outcomes
64. Creativity, Innovation, and Continuous
Improvement
65. High-Performance Leadership
66. High-Performance Organizations
67. Layoffs
68. Learning Organizations
69. Measurement: The Balanced Scorecard

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 YOUR OWN ACTION PLAN

Treat this as your personal journey toward

developing your own leadership skills.
• Conduct a group discussion to outline steps you have to
follow
• Identify your learning strategies and relate how you
would execute them
• Examine Charney’s framework: analyze & critique. Use
this as a guide to design your own personal framework
or programme which you can follow through toward
becoming an excellent leader.

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