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Leadership

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What is leadership?

Leading people

Influencing people

Commanding people

Guiding people

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Types of Leaders

  • Leader by the position achieved
  • Leader by personality, charisma
  • Leader by moral example
  • Leader by power held
  • Intellectual leader
  • Leader because of ability to accomplish things

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Managers vs. Leaders

Managers

  • Focus on things
  • Do things right
  • Plan
  • Organize
  • Direct
  • Control
  • Follows the rules

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Leaders

  • Focus on people
  • Do the right things
  • Inspire
  • Influence
  • Motivate
  • Build
  • Shape entities

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Common Activities

  • Planning
  • Organizing
  • Directing
  • Controlling

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Planning

Manager

  • Planning
  • Budgeting
  • Sets targets
  • Establishes detailed steps
  • Allocates resources

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Leader

  • Devises strategy
  • Sets direction
  • Creates vision

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Organizing

Manager

  • Creates structure
  • Job descriptions
  • Staffing
  • Hierarchy
  • Delegates
  • Training

Leader

  • Gets people on board for strategy
  • Communication
  • Networks

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Directing Work

Manager

  • Solves problems
  • Negotiates
  • Brings to consensus

Leader

  • Empowers people
  • Cheerleader

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Controlling

Manager

  • Implements control systems
  • Performance measures
  • Identifies variances
  • Fixes variances

Leader

  • Motivate
  • Inspire
  • Gives sense of accomplishment

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Leadership Traits

  • Intelligence
    • More intelligent than non-leaders
    • Scholarship
    • Knowledge
    • Being able to get things done
  • Physical
    • Doesn’t see to be correlated
  • Personality
    • Verbal facility
    • Honesty
    • Initiative
    • Aggressive
    • Self-confident
    • Ambitious
    • Originality
    • Sociability
    • Adaptability

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Leadership Styles

  • Delegating
    • Low relationship/ low task
    • Responsibility
    • Willing employees
  • Participating
    • High relationship/ low task
    • Facilitate decisions
    • Able but unwilling

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  • Selling
    • High task/high relationship
    • Explain decisions
    • Willing but unable
  • Telling
    • High Task/Low relationship
    • Provide instruction
    • Closely supervise

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New Leaders Take Note

  • General Advice
    • Take advantage of the transition period
    • Get advice and counsel
    • Show empathy to predecessor
    • Learn leadership
  • Challenges
    • Need knowledge quickly
    • Establish new relationships
    • Expectations
    • Personal equilibrium

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New Leader Traps

  • Not learning quickly
  • Isolation
  • Know-it-all
  • Keeping existing team
  • Taking on too much

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  • Captured by wrong people
  • Successor syndrome

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Seven Basic Principles

  • Have two to three years to make measurable financial and cultural progress
  • Come in knowing current strategy, goals, and challenges. Form hypothesis on operating priorities
  • Balance intense focus on priorities with flexibility on implementation….

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Seven Basic Principles, con’t

  • Decide about new organization architecture
  • Build personal credibility and momentum
  • Earn right to transform entity
  • Remember there is no “one” way to manage a transition

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Core Tasks

  • Create Momentum
  • Master technologies of learning, visioning, and coalition building
  • Manage oneself

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Create Momentum

  • Foundation for change
    • Vision of how the organization will look
    • Build political base to support change
    • Modify culture to fit vision
  • Learn and know about company
  • Securing early wins
    • First set short term goals
    • When achieved make a big deal
    • Should fit long term strategy

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Create Momentum

  • Build credibility
    • Demanding but can be satisfied
    • Accessible but not too familiar
    • Focused but flexible
    • Active
    • Can make tough calls but humane

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Master Technologies

  • Learn from internal and external sources
  • Visioning - develop strategy
    • Push vs. pull tools
    • What values does the strategy embrace?
    • What behaviors are needed?
  • Communicate the vision
    • Simple text - Best channels
    • Clear meaning - Do it yourself!

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Enabling Technologies, con’t

  • Coalition building
    • Don’t ignore politics
    • Technical change not enough
    • Political management isn’t same as being political
    • Prevent blocking coalitions
    • Build political capital

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Manage Oneself

  • Be self-aware
  • Define your leadership style
  • Get advice and counsel
    • Advice is from expert to leader
    • Counsel is insight
  • Types of help
    • Technical
    • Political
    • Personal
  • Advisor traits
    • Competent
    • Trustworthy
    • Enhance your status

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How Far Can You Go?