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Todays Realities What is Leadership? What Do Leaders Do? Key Leadership Skills Ways to Develop Leadership Skills Summary
Todays Realities
Political Military Business Academic Religious Sports Statistical Leaders And many more
Leading
Moving Between
Paradigms Doing Right Things Creating Improvements Leading & Developing People
Managing
Working Within a
Paradigm Doing Things Right Holding the Gains Processes
Managing
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Initiatives
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Communicate the change vision Empower employees for broad based action
Aggressive results oriented training at all levels $50M in six months at Company A Using annual operating plan and communications program
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People Skills
Target
Low Low
Statisticians
Technical Skills
High
Note: George Fisher, CEO at Motorola & Kodak, has a Ph.D. In applied mathematics from Brown University
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Quotes on Leadership
The very essence of leadership is you have to have a vision. It s got to be a vision you articulate forcefully on every occasion. You cant blow an uncertain trumpet. Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, President Emeritus, Notre Dame University Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other. John F. Kennedy November 22, 1963 The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack It is the capacity to develop and improve their skills that distinguishes leaders from their followers. Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus
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Quotes on Leadership
The best coaches know what the end result looks like.--If you dont know what the end result is supposed to look like, you cant get there. Vince Lombardi Hey, Wait a Minute John Madden p224 Failing to prepare is preparing to fail John Wooden The secret of success is constancy of purpose Benjamin Disraeli
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Quotes on Leadership
Life is like a dog sled team. If youre not the lead dog the view never changes. Anonymous "Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it." Dwight D. Eisenhower Leaders have followers Bill Gore, Founder, W. L. Gore and Associates You can manage what you cannot understand, but you cannot lead it. Myron Tribus
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Skills
Business Acumen
Understand how business works Process and Systems Thinking Strategic Planning and Deployment Stakeholder Building Communication Clear, concise & continuous Reviewing and Coaching Structured Improvement Methods (Six Sigma) Learn to Deal With Teams & Group Dynamics Meeting Design and Facilitation Project Planning and Management Understanding Human Behavior
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Core Processes
Product Processes
Design Development Manufacturing Delivery Selling Ordering Distribution
Requirements Collections and Definition
Translation
Enterprise Processes
Planning Financial Personnel Mgmt. Info. Sys. Legal Communications Public Relations
Market Segment
Market Place
Business Processes
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Modes of Behavior
Acceptance of a New Idea
This will be good for us Lets get started
Purposeful
I can make this work This will be good for me
Ego
Reactive
Time
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Note: Everyone starts in the reactive phase Goes Reactive! - We all pass through the Ego Phase before Becoming Purposeful - People move through the phases at different rates - Some people dont ever get out of the Reactive phase
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Plan 1
Input 1
Plan 2
Input 2
Plan 3
Plan Development
Continue to get input from stakeholders individually and revise the plan until you are ready to share the Plan with the stakeholders as a group.
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Strategic
Executives
Managerial
Managers
Operational
Others
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Meeting Roles
Scribe Meeting Leader
Note Taker
Analyze
Improve
Control
Myths of Leadership
Leadership is a rare skill Leaders are born not made Leaders are charismatic Leadership exists only at the top of an organization The leader controls, directs, prods, manipulates
Bennis and Nanus 1985
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Insanity
- Doing the Same Things and Expecting Better Results The Only Person Who Enjoys a Change is a Wet Baby If You Cant Change Your Mind You Cant Change Anything--George B. Shaw Those Who Fail to Respond to Their Changing World Will Have Less Influence in It
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Read books and articles Attend courses Discuss the subject with colleagues Practice, Practice, Practice, ..
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Can I Be Successful?
Never doubt that a small group of committed people can change the World. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has Margaret Mead
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My Message
Place an increased focus on enhancing your
leadership skills Be on the lookout for examples - good and bad - of leadership that you can use as a model Best way to learn to lead is to do it - Be on the lookout for your opportunity opportunity!
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References on Leadership
Bennis, W and Nanus, B. (1985) Leaders - The Strategies for Taking Charge, Harper-Row, NY. Bennis has several other books on leadership. Covey, S. R. (1989) The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People, Fireside, Simon and Schuster, New York, NY Hayword, F. (1997) Churchill on Leadership, Prima Publishing, Rocklin, CA Kotter, J. (1997) Leading Change, Harvard Business School Press, Cambridge, MA. Also see Harvard Business Review, March-April 1995 Kouzes, J. M. and Posner, B. Z. (1995) The Leadership Challenge, Jossey-Bass, San Francisco Phillips, D. T. (1992) Lincoln on Leadership, Warner Books, New York, NY
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