Leadership Skill

Gathered by : B N Nagaraj
Leader

Each one of you can be a Leader, Just

that you have to work towards it!
Leadership is a skill that can be
acquired with the implementation of
carefully thought of steps!
Leadership Skill

This presentation contains

 Who Is a True Leader?: Modus Operandi

 Change Management: Leader’s Initiative

 Taking Initiative A Leader’s Job

 Problem Solving for Leaders

 Leading Your Team To Success

 Handling Subordinate
Who Is a True Leader?
 Who would be able to guide others either by
doing something himself or by directing a
specific course of action.
 Who believes on performance rather than
experience.
 Who is able to create a image of roll model
A leader is made, not born!
The Modus Operandi

Always look for a silver lining

 Follow this golden rule in any situation that
you find negative.
 Try & learn from experiences.

 Focus on what went wrong & why.

 Evaluate each & every action that you perform.

A leader is made, not born!
The Modus Operandi

Set realistic & achievable goals

 Focus on the task in hand

 Be clear what you want to achieve

A leader is made, not born!
The Modus Operandi

Know the value of discipline & truth

 Accept the responsibility for consequence of
your action.
 Never do something that goes against your
conscience.
 Begin & take a task to its completion.

 Commit with your goal

Look inwards, know yourself as a person &
give yourself whatever input needed to
become a better person.

Remember:
Where constant striving stretches its
arms towards perfection
:Rabindranath Togore
Change Management:
Leader’s Initiative

For change, leader will need to be

able influence others & bring them
around to his way of thinking.
Incorporating change

Attitudinal Change: A Job specific Approach

 Clarify that attitudinal change that you so desire
is a job specific one & nothing personal.
 Demonstrate how the way that you are
advocating work
 Keep the job specific nature of the attitudinal

change in focus & to highlight it.

Incorporating change

Attitudinal Change: A Job specific Approach

 Invite suggestions & incorporate a few.

 Analyze the person & judge the right kind of

approach required & then decide on an
appropriate approach.
Incorporating change

Be prepared with facts

 Once you have created an atmosphere of
compliance, come out with hard facts to support
your stand.
 Be prepared to defend your stand.
Incorporating change

Be open towards positive suggestions

 Invite others’ opinions & be willing to listen with
an open ear and mind
 Treat them on par by valuating their suggestions
& trying them out if they sound feasible.
Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job

There is always hesitation when it

comes to being the first one to do
something.
Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job

Self Consciences
 Try to develop a mindset wherein if you are
sure about something you just go ahead & do
it, not waiting for another person to show you
the way.
Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Seize the right moment
 Know when to take the initiative.

 Develop the knack of being able to seize the

right moment & lead the way.
 Assess yourself & analyze about success.

 See you have adequate time.

 Take a stock of resources.

Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Right Mindset
 Be open & perceptive towards sensing a
situation where you can take a initiative.
 Always grab the opportunities.

 Always attempt to look at situations from

different perspectives.
Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Handle the obstacles
 Arm yourself with attitude to think of ways to
surmount the blockages.
 Visualize the task that you are about to perform
& then ponder on the possible hurdles.
Taking Initiative-A Leader’s Job
Keep an open mind
 Keep open ears & eyes

 Be receptive to ideas that you see & hear.

 Be proactive

Involve your team

 Encourage new ideas

 Delegate task
Problem Solving for Leaders

The only thing that every

problem has is a solution!
Problem Solving

Try, Try & Try Till You Succeed

The wise learn from others’ experiences and

fool from their own”
Problem Solving
Be Objective
 Tackle the problem objectively.

 Analyze the facts about it.

 Pinpoint what went wrong & why.

 Ask lot of questions both to self & others.

 Do not let emotion colour your opinions.

 Listen will.
Problem Solving
How important the problem is?
 Give the problem the credit sue to it, neither
more nor less.
 Imagine a situation where it is not solved,
hypothetical consequences would answer your
question.
Problem Solving
Break down into tasks & delegate
 Identify the tasks to be performed.

 Assign the tasks specific people.

 Give specific requirement & concise directions.

 Show the way to arrive at the solutions.

 Beware of being overconfident.

Problem Solving
Implement your solution
 Always cross check facts & discuss ideas with
other people.
 Once a solution is decided upon, go ahead &
implement it.
 Always test your solution

 Once they are implemented, monitor them.

Leading Your Team To Success

The mark of good leader is his

or her ability to lead the team to
success!
Leading Your Team To Success

Integration of various activities

 Integrate various activities

 Various activities means various peoples.

 Coordinate the activities

 Integrate them towards desired goals.

 Leading Your Team To Success

The snowball effect –How to prevent it?

 Arrest the problem before it grows big

 Stop the snowball from gaining in size.

 Anticipate & prepare for problem.

Leading Your Team To Success

Guide your team to take decisions, don’t

make it for them.
 Ensure that each individual member of the
team knows what role to play.
 Group discussions
 Get agreement of the team members on
desired responsibilities.
Leading Your Team To Success

A virtual tool
 Visualize the process of performing the task

 Anticipate the possible obstacles that may be

encountered
 Modify your solution if required.
Handling Subordinates

Leadership is all about how well a

leader allows his subordinates to
grow under his guidance.
Handling Subordinates

 A good leader does not let his

subordinates feel their inferiority.
 The subordinates should be aware of are
the positive qualities of the leader & which,
in fact, had led to the position that he is in.
Handling Subordinates
Some oxymoron of leadership
 An oxymoron is a figure of speech in English,
where two apparently opposing words are used
together to create the effect of emphasis. (Boss
or a Leader)
 Treating subordinates with respect & affection is
in no way a compromise on leadership qualities.
Handling Subordinates
Sympathy & Empathy
 Do not use sympathy as a ploy to achieve your
end; it will eventually show.
 Sympathy & Empathy must be genuine.

 Genuineness can achieve much more than a

well planned out strategy can.

Handling Subordinates
Power within power
 Know that single person can not know or do
everything.
 Delegate the tasks.

 Get done the task.

Handling Subordinates

It does not hurt to give credit & power where

it is due (without) hurting your position) and
you have taught one chapter on the true
colours of leader.
Thank you

B N Nagaraj