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Essential Leadership Skills
Developing leadership in yourself
and others
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There are no bad soldiers under a good general. Anonymous
A Business Development Publication of
E-Myth WorldwideTM
Putting the Pieces Together
Santa Rosa, California, USA
Managers have skills of
two kinds: leadership
skills and managerial
skills. You must balance
the two to be fully
effective.
Leadership should occur
at every level of yourorganization. Everyone
can exhibit leadership,
but must act within his or
her scope of account-
ability and must respect
the organization and its
lines of communication.
Leadership skills tend to
b e more ins ti nc ti ve ,
m or e i nt ui ti ve , l es s
logical, and more emo-
tional than managerial
ski ll s. Some b el ieve
leadership is innate andc an no t be le ar ned,
but thats not true.
Leadership can be
developed.
Overview
Leadership isnt about
style. Its about substance.
Style is personality and
appearance. Substance is
knowing what to do, how
to do it, and influencing
others to get it done.
The first step in developingyour leadership skills is
to assess the skills you
have to determine your
strengths and develop-
mental needs. Then you
can focus on your needs
and create a development
plan for yourself.
Based on the combi-
nation of leadership and
managerial skills, there are
five types of managers:
the bureaucrat, the admin-
istrator, the professional,the cheerleader, and the
master.
Key Points
Professional
Cheerleader Master
Bureaucrat Administrator
Types of Managers
MANAGERIAL SKILLS
LEADE
RSHIP
SKILLS
LOW HIGH
HIGH
The 5 CoreLeadership Skills
Vision
Discrimination
Strategic Thinking
Commitment
Communication
The 5 CoreManagerial Skills
Supervision
System Development
Planning & Budgeting
Quantification
Information
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There are no bad soldiers under a good general.
Anonymous
LeadershipStyle or Substance?
At first glance, leadership looks like its simply a matter of style.But when you get to the core of it, leadership isnt about style atall. Its about substance.
Vision, action, and spirit. Theyre the essence of leadership.
They have nothing to do with style and everything to do with
substance.
Thesubstance of leadership consists of knowing what to do,
knowing how to do it, and influencing others to achieve it. Thestyle of leadership is a matter of personality. There are quiet,
low-key leaders as well as aggressive, charismatic leaders, and an
infinite variety of others. How effective they are depends how
well they carry out the substance of leadership.
Dont mistake style for spirit. Style is superficial. Style doesnt
create any vision, doesnt get anything done it just looks
goodor bad. Spirit is attitude, not just appearance. Energy, not
just motion. Caring, not just going through the motions.
Thesubstance of leadership can, and should, be systemized.
Leadership and Management: Whats the Difference?
Leadership and management are both concerned with achieving
results. Leadership determines the shape of things to come, what
results must be achieved on the way, and the path that will be taken
to get it all done. Management is concerned with doing it.
Management is getting results through people and systems.
Systems run the business, people run the systems, and managers
direct the people.
Effective leadership determines the results to be accomplished(the vision), creates the strategies for accomplishing them (the
actions), and inspires people to accomplish the vision through the
strategies (the spirit).
Being a manager doesnt automatically make you a leader. The
best managers are good leaders, but many managerspossibly
most managersarent very good leaders.
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What isLeadership?
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Vision
Action
Spirit
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Whats the difference? The difference lies in the differences in the
abilities of managers. There are two kinds of abilities, or skills, that
managers displayleadership skills and managerial skills.
The Five Core Leadership Skills
Looking, for the moment, only at the leadership component of
management, you find that there are five core skills of effective
leadership. They are:
Vision The ability to formulate ideas about the
business or parts of the business; to understand
opportunities or the need for change; to create
a mental picture of what the business will be in
the future; and to articulate all of that clearly in
words and images. At the highest level, its the
creation of the entrepreneurs dream.
Discrimination The ability to see whats important, to
understand the available choices, and to make
sound, practical decisions. Discrimination is
free-form decision making rather than rule-
based decision making. Its knowing what
questions to ask, and being able to answer them
in the absence of rules or previous experience.
Strategic The ability to see the big picture and devise an
Thinking effective paththe right actionsthat will
lead to realizing the vision. Inventing the
rules of your game. Creating your business
philosophy and key policies.
Commitment The determination and energy to follow
through and make the vision a reality even in
the face of obstacles, opposition, uncertainty,
and risk.
Inspirational The ability to communicate the vision and the
Communication strategy, and also to infuse the organization
with enthusiasm, dedication, and some of the
leaders own spirit.
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The 5 CoreLeadership Skills
Vision
Discrimination
Strategic Thinking
Commitment
Communication
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The Five Core Managerial Skills
There are five core managerial skills:
Supervision of The ability to get work done through peopleand systems. Observing and measuring
performance and results and coaching people
to improve. Relating to people in productive
ways. Making operational decisions within
guidelines. Being accountable for results.
System The ability to develop, implement, monitor,
and innovate systems. Seeing what needs to
be done, how to do it, and what resources are
needed. Using the Business Development
Process (Innovation, Quantification, and
Orchestration) at the tactical, operating level.Seeing how to organize and operate tasks and
resources cost-effectively.
Planning and The ability to break strategy down into the
tactical and operating activities needed to reach
an agreed-upon set of results. The ability to
understand resource requirements and
determine revenues and costs before the fact.
Quantification, The ability to determine the key indicators of
any system, organizational unit, or task; to
quantify them; to monitor them; to interpretthe resulting information and use it for
operational decision making.
Informational The ability to communicate clearly to others
especially reporting employeesinstructions,
systems, policies, the business strategy, and
anything else required in order for work to be
done and results achieved. This type of
communication is factual, operational, rational,
dispassionate, and oriented on work and results.
Finding the Balance
Its easy to see, and your own experience surely confirms, that
some people are stronger in leadership skills, some in managerial
skills. Many are weak in both areas, and very few are strong in
both. You probably have some ideas about your own leadership
and managerial strengths and weaknesses.
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People and
Systems
Development
Budgeting
Monitoring, and
Evaluation
Communication
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The 5 CoreManagerial Skills
Supervision
System Development
Planning & Budgeting
Quantification
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Balance is important for your business. The business needs a
balance of leadership and managerial skillsso much the better
if you and each of your managers is also individually balanced.
Why is balance important? Because your business is anintegrated organism. If the business has too little leadership, or
too few managerial skills, or if one overpowers the other, the
business itself becomes unbalanced.
Its much clearer if you think of the behavior of your managers
and how they need both leadership and managerial skills to do
their jobs in the most effective way. For instance, look at four
areas of focus for managers: decision making, communicating,
the time span of their attention, and their thinking habits.
Decision making. The decision making of a pure leader is free
form, unconstrained by rules and the past. The leader creates thequestions and alternatives, and makes decisions by criteria
appropriate to each decision. A pure manager makes rule-
based decisions that follow strict, explicit criteria and processes.
A business needs the ability to make decisions both ways.
Communicating. Leadership skills tend to result in inspirational
ways of communicating, painting a clear picture of the future,
generating commitment and energy, and motivating others to
strive to achieve the vision. Managerial skills tend to result in
informational communications that emphasize clarity, accuracy,
detail, and commitment to achieving results in the present. A
business needs both kinds of communication.
Time span of attention. Leadership skills tend to be future
oriented, with a firm grasp on the present as the foundation and
the jumping off point for the future. Managerial skills tend to be
oriented on the present, with a strong awareness of experiences and
precedents grounded in the past. A business needs both views.
Thinking habits. You can never know what goes on inside
someone elses mind, but behavior and language give us hints.
Generally, leadership thinking seems to be more intuitive,
holistic, integrated, big picture, and out of the box.
Managerial thinking patterns seem to be more linear, logical,
analytical, and detailed. They can both be focused, creative,
strategic, proactive, and pragmatic, but theres a more free-form
pattern to leadership thinking and a more process-based pattern
to managerial thinking. Businesses need both ways of thinking.
The point of all this isnt to be the final word about defining
leadership and managerial skillsnot even psychologists and
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management gurus agree on thosebut to point out that
theyre very different skill sets and businesses need both to
survive and prosper.
Are Managers Leaders?
Theoretically, its possible for someone to be a manager, yet have
no leadership skills, or to be a leader with no managerial skills.
In the real world, however, everyone who takes on management
accountabilities has at least some leadership skill and some
managerial skill or they dont last long in a management position.
To be effective, you must have some significant level of both
leadership and managerial ability. Ineffective managers always
lack in one or both areas.
The Five Types of Managers
Its useful to classify yourself and your managers based on their
leadership and managerial skills. When you look at the skill
levels, you see five basic types of managers:
Master. A visionary manager who is unusually effective in getting
results, has an extremely strong sense of purpose and commitment,
and is able to infuse it into the organization and people around
him/her. Work gets done efficiently, systems are evolving rapidly,
theres progress toward a clear set of goals. Everyone knows
his/her role and why its important. The master manager is fast
track and high functioning in every sense.
Professional. A solid, competent,
reliable manager, capable in every way.
Balanced leadership and managerial
skills. Energetic, dedicated, efficient,
and effective.
Administrator. Efficient,
systemized, and documented.
Completes work quickly. Everyone
cooperates. But sense of purpose and
direction seem missing. Everyone is
busy but not inspired, and it all feels a
bit flat.
Cheerleader. Visionary, strategist, great communicator, but has
limited ability to convert ideas and energy into effective action.
The organization feels great and has wonderful ambitions, but
makes little progress.
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Professional
Cheerleader Master
Bureaucrat Administrator
Types of Managers
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MANAGERIAL SKILLS
LEADERSHIP
SKILLS
LOW HIGH
HIGH
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Bureaucrat. Minimally qualified for management. Either a
novice/apprentice just beginning to develop leadership and
managerial skills, or a marginally competent or incompetent
manager. Little or no vision or teamwork, little sense ofdirection, and slow or no progress. Just follow the rules and do
your work and everyone gets by. Its lifeless and feels stagnant.Levels of Leadership
Youre the primary leader of your business. Every manager at
every level in your business should also be a leader within the
scope of his or her organizational position and in accordance
with his or her position description.
You set the vision and the strategy for the business. Department
managers adapt your vision and strategy for their teams or units.
You inspire everyone in your business to understand and strive
to achieve your vision. Managers at every level inspire their
staffs by communicating your vision, emphasizing their part in
it, and adding their own energy and emphasis. Its all part of
management by agreement, delegation, and regulation.
In a healthy business, your technicians and workers can provide
leadership within their positions. They can formulate their own
visions for their positions, and create new ideas and strategies at
their level that, when properly developed with the support of
their managers, and when in alignment with the vision of the
business, can greatly enrich productivity and job satisfaction.
Theres even a cross-organizational kind of leadershipcall it
wild card leadershipthat occurs when someone in the
business sees opportunities and better ways of doing things in
other parts of the organization.
For instance, imagine an assembly worker in an automobile
engine assembly line who sees a problem in the assembly
process that could be cured by a parts design modif ication. He
knows whats needed and how it should be redesigned, a form of
vision; hes looked into it and is certain the redesigned part will
work and be cost-effective, showing discrimination and good
judgment; hes determined to do all he can, respecting organiza-tional lines and processes, indicating his commitment; and he
enthusiastically talks it up with his manager and others in the
business, evidence of inspiration.
Leadership can and should come from anywhere.
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Your managers and workers cant be allowed to implement
their own visions and strategies, but they can, through your
management processes, contribute to yours with their own ideas
and information. Once you communicate the vision and strategy,your employees can reinforce and support them with commitment
and determination. They can add their energy and adapt the
company vision and strategy to their own unit or team. The
result is leadership up and down the line.
THE LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP
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CEO MANAGERS WORKERS WILD CARDS
VISION
DISCRIMINATION
STRATEGIC
THINKING
COMMITMENT
INSPIRATION
Business vision. Department or
function vision,
within the companys
business vision.
Position vision, within
the department
vision.
Vision of opportunities
across organizational
lines; ideas for
improvement in any
area.
Unlimited scope,
free-form decision
making.
Free-form decision
making, but within
the scope of the
department.
Within the scope of
the position and
within decision
making authority.
Usually can
recommend, notdecide.
Unlimited, but has to
respect organiza-
tional lines of
accountability and
due process.
Business strategy.
Industry-wide, world-
wide breadth. The
very big picture view
of the business and
its environment.
Department or
functional strategy,
consistent with the
companys business
strategy.
Committed to the
company vision and
supporting lower
level visions.
Self-inspiration,
company-wide
inspiration.
Committed to
company vision and
department
vision/strategy.
Self-inspiration,
department
inspiration.
Self-inspiration,
peer inspiration, and
support of managers
efforts.
Self-inspiration and
inspiration of allies
in bringing about
change.
Determined to do
his/her utmost to
bring about positive
change, but respect-
ing organizationalprocesses.
Any level of strategy,
but done with proper
coordination along
organizational lines.
Committed to
company and
department
visions/strategies.
Position strategy
consistent with
department
strategy.
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Leadership and Managerial Skills Assessment
If your business lacks both leadership and managerial skills,
then you need an effective way to assess the skills you and your
managers have, and a way to develop the skills that are missingor need improvement.
The first step is to assess the organizational and personal skill
levels in your business. You do that by assessing your own skill
levels and those of each of your managers, and considering them
as individuals as well as a part of your organization as a whole.
Skills assessment should be as objective as possible, though
there will always be some amount of subjectivity. How do you
objectively assess commitment or inspirational ability or
discrimination ability? Structure the assessment process to
be as objective as possible, and further examine your ownbiases and preconceived notions and do the best you can to
minimize them.
An excellent way to become more objective is the dual evaluation
process, in which a manager evaluates himself and his manager
evaluates him. Then they discuss the results. They do not arrive at
true objectivity, but reach an understanding about each others
views. Its that mutual understanding that forms the basis of a
workable development plan.
The assessment process that follows in the Worksheets reveals
your leadership and managerial strengths and weaknesses andeach of the managers you evaluated. It provides guidance for
creating individual skills development plans and for a company-
wide development plan.
The skills assessment results in a Skills Profile, which is a bar
chart showing a rating on a 10-point scale for each of the five
leadership skills and each of the five managerial skills. The ratings,
and a close look at each of the specific rating items within the
assessment instrument, tell you where your strengths lie and
where you could use some development. The assessment
instrument is provided at the end of this booklet.The Skills Profile on page 9 shows an example of a hypotheticalmanager who is stronger in managerial skills than leadership. Inplanning a development program for this manager, you wouldinitially focus on the leadership skills of inspirational communi-cation, vision, and strategic thinking.
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Developing Leadership Skills In Yourself and Others
Conventional wisdom holds that managerial skills are learnedbut leadership is innateleaders are born, managers are made.While its true that everyone has a unique set of aptitudes and
some come to leadership more easily than others, its also truethat leadership can be developed. Leadership systems can becreated so that leadership is built into an organization.
Leadership skills seem less tangible, less rational, more
instinctive, more intuitive than managerial skills and, therefore,
seem more difficult to teach and learn.
Though we may have greater or less aptitude for leadership
skills, they may be learned. Just like athletic performance, some
of us are gifted athletes, some of us are couch potatoes, but we
all can improve our athletic skills with training and development.
Most of us will never become modern day Napoleons,
MacArthurs, or Ghandis, but with attention and development all
of us can make huge advances in our leadership skills. Heres
an overview of the development techniques.
Vision has to do with imagination, creativity, developing ideas
in original ways, putting business components and strategies
together in new ways, and seeing the possibilities that exist or
could be made to exist. Its a free-form, unconstrained mental
activity that takes advantage of both logical and intuitive thought
processes.
To develop these skills, you have to let go of any ideas you might
have about how to think, be willing to go beyond your comfort
level and think outside the box, and suspend for the moment your
experience and preconceived notions about your business,
yourself, and the world around you.
Here are some activities to develop visionary skills:
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Vision
Skills
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5
Vision Discrimination StrategicThinking
InformationQuantificationPlanning/Budgeting
Commitment Inspiration Supervision SystemsDevelopment
LEADERSHIP SKILLS MANAGERIAL SKILLS
SKILLS PROFILE
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Periodic vision meetings. Meet with a small number of
people, maybe your managers, or one other trusted person.
Discuss your current vision, your strategy, andheres the
developmental partdiscuss the possibilities. Its more thanbrainstorming about the big picture. Ground rules are: no
criticism, no doubt expressed, and nothing is too ridiculous
to discuss. Push your ideas to the extreme, even to the
impossible, and force yourselves to consider how you would
make this impossible idea a reality. Even if you discuss
ridiculous ideas that come to nothing, the mental exercise
itself will build your visionary ability. But dont be
surprised at how often those impossible ideas become reality,
or lead you to other innovations and ideas that work.
Headlines in the news. A couple of times a week, scheduled
or randomly, look at a headline in the newspaper and forceyourself to think: What opportunity does that present for my
business? or How could I turn that situation to our
advantage? The idea is to force yourself to think about
connecting up ideas that normally have no connection, to see
things a new way. You could combine this with your vision
meetings to give them some momentum.
Dream drills. This one is silly, but it has a serious purpose
and a serious result. Dont brush it aside. Either alone or
with a person you trust, take a 5-minute break and fantasize
about your business. The trick here is to launch into thoughtsthat are truly fantasy, truly bizarre, in no way even remotely
like your real-world business, but with some connection to it.
You might imagine hiring unicorns to deliver your product on
flying carpets to dancing hippopotamuses with bank teller
machines imbedded in their stomachs. Or you might think
about animated lawn mowers parachuting from flying butterfly-
gorillas while throwing jelly beans at customers in your
stores. Yes, that silly. Push it. The more fantastic, the better.
The idea here is to push far beyond your usual thoughtprocesses, and to stimulate your unconscious mind with
far-out thoughts that have completely different emotionalcontent from your norms. Its a way to move outside yourmind and stimulate unconscious associations. No practicalideas may result from this, but youre strengthening yourvisionary muscles and broadening the span of yourthinking. Its not wasted time, and when you do it enoughto get past inhibitions, its fun.
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Written dream drills. This task is like the dream drills
above, but done in writing. The pace of your thinking slows
down to accommodate your writing speed. It seems like the
same exercise, but the act of writing changes your thinkingdynamic by keeping your mind focused on each passing
mini-thought for a bit longer, thus letting your unconscious
mind work on it in a different, more in-depth way.
The point of these visionary skill development exercises is to
break loose from your normal thought patterns to gain greater
access to your unconscious thought processes, yet keep enough
connection with your business to maintain your focus without
restricting your thinking.
Discrimination is another word for judgment or wisdom. We all
have discrimination skills but we diminish them with personal
biases, emotional responses, and our reactions to others.
Discrimination depends on claritywhen you see the situation
and its consequences clearly, youll have accurate perceptions
and youll make good decisions. You dont have to learn
discriminationyou already have it. The development you need
is learning how to be dispassionate and objective within yourself,
and not reactive to the presentations and persuasions of others.
The key is clarity. You have the ability to make wise choices
once you have a clear understanding of the situation and its
consequences.
The best way to eliminate emotion and bias in yourself and inyour reactions to others is to quantify everything. The problem
is that not everything can be readily quantified. At the level of
entrepreneurial leadership, where vision and strategy are key,
where youre often breaking new ground with little to guide you,
and where quantification can be especially shaky, discrimination
is especially important critical, in fact.
The development technique, as with visionary skill, is to break
old patterns and build new ones. You do that by forcing yourself
to think and react in new ways. At first it feels awkward, silly,
counter-intuitive, and just plain wrong. But as the development
takes hold, you find yourself with increasing clarity, decreasing
confusion, and greater equanimity in the face of strong emotions
from others and within yourselfthe confusion and emotion
are still there, but you simply see past them to the truth of the
matter. You cant help but make better decisions, strategies,
and innovations.
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DiscriminationSkills
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seeing the complete situation, and youre denying yourself a full
understanding of it. The purpose of forcing you to fully explore
the other side is, in actuality, forcing you to see allof the situation.
It might even be true that you have a complete understanding of
the situation, but you cant know that for sure until you explore the
other side thoroughly. Once you have the fullest, most factual,
most complete understanding of the situation, your discrimination
will lead you to wise, effective decisions.
Initially, you might have to do this privately, as a developmental
exercise, until you get the hang of it. But eventually, it will
become a habit of mind, something you do every time there seem
to be two sides to a situation. Its an important path to wisdom.
Strategic thinking is fueled by detail, but detail obscures strategy.
The trick is to immerse yourself in the details of your business
understand its dynamics thoroughlyyet be able to draw backand see the big picture and the leverage points of the business.
Think of it as a 5-part process:
Part 1Continually monitor the business horizon.
Your target markets
Your competition
The government
Macro-trends (the economy, social trends,technology, business trends)
For the most part, this means wide-ranging reading habits and
talking with knowledgeable people. It doesnt necessarily mean
studying everything in the press and buying all the reports that
come out. It does mean cultivating a healthy interest in whats
going on that might have an impact on your business, plus a
curiosity about whats going in the world in general. You never
know what trends might show up that look irrelevant but that
can evolve into an opportunity or a threat.
Part 2Immerse yourself in the details of your business.
Quantification and personal observation are the keys here. Notonly gather the numbers, but see whats going on. Get a feel for
the business.
Quantification is key, but its just the means for developing your
intuitive feel for the business. Statisticians understand standard
deviation, chi-squared tests, bell curves, and the like, but the
really good statisticians understand their work at a gut level.
They have a feel for their craft. Its the same for management
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and management information. The really good managers
develop an intuitive understanding of their numbersthe
numbers become invisible in a way, and the dynamics of the
business become visible. You dont hear the notes, you hear themusic.
Part 3Understand the dynamics of the business, financial
and operational.
How does it work?
What knocks it off course?
Know how your business flows. A well-run business has a
smooth, flowing feel to it. You can track the flow of your
business by looking at it from the viewpoint of your client.
The purchase decision chain is a good starting point
awareness, motivation (sense of need for your products),
product acceptance, brand preference, purchase transaction,
post-purchase experience. Then, with the clients experience
clearly in mind, trace through the various management
processes of the business. If you have been in your business
for a long time, its worthwhile to take a fresh look at it. Youd
be surprised how some things become invisible due to familiarity
or the assumption that you know them.
Part 4Know the leverage points of the business.
Where do you get the greatest effect for your actions?
Where is the business vulnerable?
This is the critical point for managers and the foundation for
strategic thinking. In every business, there is a hierarchy of
thingssystems, processes, contacts, communicationsthat
have an impact on the business. They can be internal or external.
They are the things you have to do right or the things you have
to manage well or the business suffers. Its a hierarchy because
some things have more impact than others.
The idea is to know your business so well, from top to bottom,
that all your leverage points are known to you. When you knowyour leverage points, you can fine-tune your information
gathering process to focus on them, thus fine-tuning your
management of your business.
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Part 5Back off and look at the big picture.
Diagrams and a review of your Strategic Objective can help.
Consciously avoid detailed descriptions of activities and
plans (that comes in the planning and execution stages of
management).
The details will swamp your perceptions and muddle your feel
for your business. Without the ability to pull back and take the
long view (big picture, long term), youll micro-manage and
miss the point. If it doesnt come easily to you, focus on the
high-impact leverage points and use such techniques as
diagramming, essence statements, and the 30-second sound
bite, forcing yourself to tell the whole story in 30 seconds, as if
you were on the evening news.
You cant practice being committed. And you cant fake it, either.
Youre either committed, or youre not. Its not something you can
role play or pretend. There arent even exercises you can do to
develop your ability to commit because exercises by their very
nature are pretend, not real. And commitment is real.
You can try to act out commitment, and maybe youre a good
enough actor to convince other people your commitment is real.
But if its not real, it, and you, will eventually falter. And when
you falter, its always at the very worst time, when the chips are
down, the pressure is on, and your resolve is being tested.
So, the idea is not to develop commitment skills, but to developtrue commitment itself.
Leaders are distinguished by their ability to forge ahead in theface of obstacles, opposition, uncertainty, and risk. Notfoolishly, but in the pursuit of a real visionone that is doableeven if it seems unlikely to others. So the way to commitmentis to test your vision.
Your sense of commitment is a barometer of the validity of your
vision and strategy. If youre not fully committed, maybe the
vision, or the strategy, is off, somehow out of alignment with
your Primary Aim, flawed in some way, or incomplete.The process of developing true commitment is to test yourcurrent level of commitment, making adjustments if necessary,maybe even abandoning the vision if you cant develop a truecommitment to it.
Test your sense of commitment by looking at the following:
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Your Primary Aim. Are the vision and strategy consistent with
your Primary Aim? Do they arouse in you the kind of fire your
Primary Aim inspires?
Obstacles. What obstacles can you foresee that might get in the
way? How serious are they? You dont have to foresee every
conceivable obstacle, and you dont have to know how to
overcome them. You just need to test your determination and
your sense that, come what may, you willovercome them.
Opposition. What opposition or resistance will you experience
from your employees, the competition, friends and loved ones?
You dont have to know how youll eliminate or overcomeopposition, but you do need to have the firm conviction that
opposition will not prevent the realization of your vision.
Uncertainty. Do you have doubts? Are you worried that thingsyou dont understand or cant anticipate will crop up and possiblyderail your vision and your strategy? Are you determined to dealwith them as they arise and, most importantly, are you confidentyou will be able to deal with them?
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DEVELOPINGCOMMITMENT
The Path to
SuccessBetter than going
ahead without full
commitment
Recipe
for Disaster
Strong Sense of
Commitment
Adjust Vision
and
Strategy
Abandon theVision; Try
Something
Else
Go
Ahead
Anyway
Weak Sense of
Commitment
Test your commitment to your vision
and strategy by looking at:
Your Primary Aim
Risks
Obstacles
Opposition
Uncertainty
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Risks. What personal and professional risks are you takingon? What will be the risks to your business? Risks can betangible, such as financial and competitive risks, and intangible,such as image and reputation. They can be personal, such as
embarrassment or personal financial difficulties, or professional,such as damage to your reputation or weakened confidence inyour abilities.
Youll have no difficulty imagining all kinds of obstacles,opposition, and risks. The point of this exercise is to bring theminto your conscious thinking and see if they diminish your senseof commitment. If they do, its likely to be a real sign that eithersomething isnt right with your vision and strategy, or that youdont have the determination necessary to lead the way toachieving your vision.
The best outcome of this exercise is that you confirm andstrengthen your commitment. Even if you abandon your vision
because youre unable to muster a true sense of commitment,
thats a far better course of action than launching a major
strategy thats doomed to fail for lack of determination.
This test of faith approach to developing your commitment
depends completely on your ability to be totally and brutally
honest with yourself. You can go through the motions but not
truly challenge yourself, and then proclaim your commitment to
one and all. But that course of action will catch up with you the
first time a serious obstacle or opposition appears and your
commitment, or lack of it, isnt strong enough to carry the day.Thats a recipe for disaster.
Make sure your commitment is real, or dont move ahead. Find
another vision to which you can commit.
Inspiration is emotional. Information is rational. If youre
going to inspire others to commit to your vision and your
strategy, youre going to have to communicate in ways that stir
emotions. You also have to communicate information, but there
has to be an emotional component to it or it wont be inspiring.
Unless youre a natural-born or trained motivational speaker,
you might think this skill is beyond your reach. But its not. So,
how do you go about inspiring your people with your communi-
cations about your vision and strategy? There are five things to
think about and understand, that will improve your ability to
inspire others:
Sincerityrealcommitment, and the realyou.
Opportunities and occasionswhen and where.
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Expressivenessmannerisms and energy.
Techniquescommunicating emotion and energy.
Enhancementsmaking it special.
Sincerity. Your commitment has to be real, and you have to be
willing to let people see your excitement and how important it is
to you. It has to be genuine. If you cant muster commitment
within yourself, you wont be able to inspire it in others. And
you cant fake it for more than a short time. When it comes to
inspirational communications, to paraphrase Abraham Lincoln,
you can fool some of the people for a short time, but you cant
fool all of the people all of the time. So, ifyoure not fully
committed, dont even try to elicit it from others.
Opportunities and occasions. The question is, When and
where should I be an inspired communicator?
The answer is: At every opportunity. One-on-one and in
groups. At business and socially. At scheduled events and in
casual encounters. When youre prepared, and when youre not.
At the office and on the street. There are very few occasions
when its notappropriate to reinforce your commitment and that
of your employees.
Expressiveness. When you communicate, facts are necessary,
but not sufficient. Feelings and emotions are key. You have to
put life into it. How do you do that? It comes naturally, and
you already know how.
We all do. Most of us just dont think of it as inspirational.
Have you ever told someone about your childs achievement?
Or gotten into a friendly argument about politics, morality,
sports, or raising children? You were almost certainly an
inspired speaker. You didnt merely explain facts, rather put
energy, emotion, conviction into it. You probably raised your
voice a bit, gestured more than you normally do, and were
more animated than usual. The person you were talking with
saw by your body language, your expressions, your energy
that you were saying something important. It doesnt matterwho won the argument; the point is that you were arguing with
all the mannerisms of inspirational communication. Your
companion in the conversation could see how important the
subject was to you and how committed you were to your vision
of the subject. You can be sure that you made quite an impression
on the other person.
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You werent a bit self-conscious about it, were you? You were so
into it that the importance of the subject and your commitment to
your point of view carried you. You were probably so absorbed
in the conversation you lost track of yourselfit was too importantto make your point, to get that other person to understand to
move him. Thats inspirational communication at its best
sincere, genuine, strongly felt, important.
You dont have to learn the mannerisms of inspirational
communication because you already use them whenever you tap
into something important to you and what, other than family
and spiritual beliefs, holds a higher level of commitment for you
than your vision for your business?
Techniques. There are a number of techniques you can use to
add energy and emotional impact to your communications, and to
tap into the unconscious minds and associations of your audience.
Here are some that should work for you:
Stories. Stories have life, action. They conjure images in our
minds and communicate excitement, emotion. We relate to
stories, whether fiction or fact, and theyre a great way to
make a point.
Emotionally-loaded words. Choose words that convey
excitement, energy, and involvement rather than neutral
words. Our strategy will enable us to doesnt sound as
good as Our strategy has the power to does it? Our
vision for the future will unfold if we work for it, doesnt
sound as compelling as, Our future will take a bold new
shape if we dedicate ourselves to it and make it happen.
Experiences and anecdotes. Anecdotes and experiences, like
stories, draw the listener/reader in, and make your points in
dynamic, compelling ways.
Images. Actual images (pictures, photographs) or imagined
images stimulated by words or sounds add energy and
unconscious associations to your communication.
Sensory elements. Colors and sounds add dimension andfurther energy to your words. Things such as banners, caps,
buttons, signs, and coffee mugs add further texture and
dimension, and also act as constant reminders.
Metaphors, analogies, symbols. The meanings associated with
some symbols, metaphors, and analogies add power and depth
to words and ideas. A simple symbol such as a star adds
strength and vibrancy to an idea. So do eagles, wild horses,
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lions, and any number of creature symbols. Make sure the
symbol adds to rather than detracts from your message.
Enhancements. There are also ways to add emphasis, intensity,
and impact to your communications, including:
Audio-visual aids. Simple signs and handouts, PowerPoint
presentations, and audio recordings add sound and visuals to
your message and increases its power and persuasion. They
also increase planning and production costs and requirements.
Drama. We all understand the power of drama, even in
simple forms such as skits performed by ourselves or our
employees, or role-playing dialogues.
Events and occasions. Company meetings, trainings,
excursions, or social occasions bring everyone together, and
are an excellent way to focus your communications. You
also benefit from a reinforcing effect when the participants
talk among themselves about your vision and strategy.
Creativity without Leadership Is Chaos
Much is said these days about creativity. Business owners want
to maximize the creativity of their organizations and all the
people in them. People say I want to be able to express my
creativity at work. Its one of those ideas people accept without
a second thought because it sounds right, it feels good. How
can creativity be a bad thing? It mustbe beneficial, isnt it?Not necessarily.
Unfettered creativity is a nightmare.
If everyone has license to use their creativity and make changes
as they see fit, you have a recipe for chaos. What you want is
leadership throughout your organization, not raw creativity.
Creativity without vision is random. Creativity without
discrimination is irresponsible. Creativity without strategic
thinking is confused. Creativity without commitment is wishful
thinking. And creativity without the right kind of communication
is like shouting into an empty room.
Theres nothing wrong with creativity, far from it. You want a
lot of creativity in your organization. But it has to be nurtured
and directed, or its wasteful and disruptive.
In other words, creativity without leadership is chaos.
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INSTRUCTIONS:
Assess the skill level of the subject manager by circling the appropriate rating on a scale of 1 to 10, in which 1 means virtually no abilityin that particular skill and 10 means extremely skilled. A score sheet is provided at the end of this questionnaire (page 30). Rate all
items. If the item isnt clear or isnt exactly appropriate for the subject, make your best judgment, but do rate all items.
CAUTION:
Its extremely important to be completely honest in your ratings. The purpose of the instrument is to learn what kind of managerthe subject is, and to provide a basis for the development of managerial skills. Its easy to fool the instrument and paint a pic-
ture of the perfect manager. Dont do it. Its a waste of time and will be misleading unless your ratings are completely honest.
Subject name:
Position:
Date:
Assessment made by:
Self
Other (name)
Ability to think outside the box, innovate, create new ways of seeing
things. Not bound by conventional wisdom or the expectations of others.
Ability to imagine the shape of things to come, to formulate views of the
future.
Habit of seeing opportunities, possibilities, alternatives.
Ability to go beyond your own personal experiences, preconceived ideas,
and habitual ways of thinking.
Willingness to be thought of by self and others as out there, unconven-
tional, different, or unusual.
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Vision
IMPORTANT:
Dont cluster your ratings at the middle of the range, push them toward the extremes. For example, if you think the subject is pret-
ty good at thinking outside the box, rather than giving him a rating of 5 or 6, give him a 7 or 8. If you think the subject is a bit
deficient in his ability to see whats important and unimportant in any situation, rather than give him a 4 or 5, give him a 3 or even
2. Pushing your ratings toward the extremes will give a much clearer profile than clustering them in the middle range.
DUAL ASSESSMENT:
You should assess yourself and also have someone who knows you well also assess you. Your manager probably has the best opinion.
Leadership Skills
Managers Skills Assessment Instrument
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Ability to identify opportunities, choices, alternatives.
Ability to see whats important and unimportant in any situation.
Ability to see all sides of an issue or debate, even when they conflict withyours; no tunnel vision.
Ability to understand the leverage points in any business or situation.
Ability to anticipate the probable consequences of decisions or actions.
Has good judgment, good decision making ability, doesnt need rules orguidelines to make good decisions.
Ability to quantify, and understand the meaning behind the quantification,
for all conditions that are quantifiable.Ability to set aside/not be swayed by emotions, personal biases, preconceivedideas from others.
Has independent judgment, not reactive to others, not influenced byshoulds; thinks for self.
Knowledge of markets, competition, the economy, technology trends, thebusiness environment, legal/regulatory requirements.
Ability to see the path to achieve the vision, and all significant alternativepaths.
Ability to think holistically; integrates all the elements of a decision orstrategy into a cohesive whole.
Ability to see the leverage points and vulnerabilities in any strategicdecision or situation; distinguishes the right action to take in any situationto attain desired results.
Ability to create and implement rules of the game, guiding principles, keypolicies, business philosophy.
Ability to immerse self in details of the business yet always keep the bigpicture in mind.
Ability to be grounded in todays work while at the same time keeping thelong-term goal/Strategic Objective in mind.
Ability to understand the business dynamics from the numbers; to gain afeel for the business, an intuitive understanding of it from quantification.
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Commitment
Inspirational Communication
Degree of determination to achieve the vision.
Ability to follow through a major task/project to full completion.
Ability to move ahead in the face of strong resistance, opposition,criticism.
Ability to tolerate and make effective decisions when there is significantuncertainty or doubt.
Ability to identify and understand obstacleseven if unanticipatedandovercome them.
Ability to identify risks and move ahead anyway; risk acceptance, notrisk seeking.
Degree of personal commitment to your own Primary Aim.
Sincerity; when you communicate about the vision and the strategy, thedegree to which you internally feel strongly, intensely committed.
Ability to communicate vision and strategy with clarity so that all canunderstand them fully.
Ability to communicate with emotional impact so that all can feel yourcommitment and intensity.
Ability to persuade others to your point of view.
Degree to which you want/desire others to see things the way you do.
Ability to create opportunities to talk about the vision and strategy;talking it up at every opportunity.
Ability to encourage creativity/vision in others.
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Orientation on results, not just work; takes responsibility for gettingdefined results.
Ability to detect signs of difficulty and problems and find solutions.
Attention to details in the operation of systems and in the work people do;pays attention to the small stuff.
Has productive, cooperative relationships with reporting employees; notadversarial; encourages open lines of communication; relationships basedon management by agreement.
Has comprehensive knowledge of business policies and procedures;
knows and follows rules of the game; makes decisions based on rules,policies, procedures; not a loose cannon.
Has a systems-oriented approach to management and problem solving;focuses on business conditions rather than blaming people; systems-dependent rather than people-dependent.
Works well across organizational lines; cooperative.
Develops staff effectively in business skills and operation of businesssystems; effective trainer of reporting employees.
Ability to evaluate people; makes good hiring and firing decisions.
Understands quality assurance and holds to high quality standards.
Ability to identify system solutions for business conditions, problems, andfrustrations.
Ability to identify and design tasks and benchmarks in a business system;creates appropriate operating rules and standards.
Ability to evaluate systems clearly and completely.
Documents systems clearly and completely.
Ability to innovate systems; can determine systems needs or modificationsto get desired results or improve operations.
Implements systems and makes changes effectively, with minimal disruptionof work flow and minimal stress for staff.
Attention to detail in system design and implementation.
Optimizes/conserves resources used in systems.
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Ability to forecast revenues, volume of business, activity levels.
Ability to set appropriate goals, define appropriate benchmarks, establishappropriate expectations for accountabilities.
Ability to translate strategy into effective business plans and activities;defines work to be done to achieve his/her part of the vision andStrategic Objective.
Ability to estimate and forecast costs, labor hours, resource requirementsand translate into budget.
Controls costs and resource utilization effectively; appropriate costcontrol (neither overspends nor reduces productivity by being overlyaggressive on cost controls).
Understands the management implications of budgeting and budgetvariance analysis; uses financial information to understand the businessoperation and for decision making.
Thinks ahead responsibly; doesnt shoot from the hip but also no paralysisby analysis; has effective balance of action and planning ahead.
Comfortable with quantification; not afraid of numbers; sees quantificationas a way to look at the business objectively and gain clarity.
Ability to determine key indicators of any system and any organizationalposition and how to quantify them; knows whats important and whats not.
Ability to understand what the numbers mean; how quantification revealsunderlying business conditions and leads to diagnosis and innovation.
Monitors and evaluates systems and productivity effectively; tracks
quantified information frequently/continually for complete understandingof his/her part of the business.
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Places high priority/importance on communicating with reportingemployees, peers, managers; keeps them informed, up to date.
Clarity of thought; understands the vision, the strategy, and the business;grasp of details as well as big picture.
Oral communication skills; appropriate vocabulary; clear expression; getsideas across so theyre completely understood by the listener.
Written communication skills; appropriate vocabulary; clear expression;gets ideas across so theyre completely understood by the reader.
Creates and maintains operating manuals, position contracts, and otherdocumentation.
Detects and clears up misunderstandings immediately.
Communicates with appropriate energy and tone; enthusiastic, optimistic,caring; minimal anger, frustration, or apathy.
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
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Informational Communication
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Leadership Skills
Vision __________ 5 = __________
Discrimination __________ 9 = __________
Strategic Thinking __________ 8 = __________
Commitment __________ 7 = __________
Inspirational Communication __________ 7 = __________
Managerial Skills
Supervision __________ 10 = __________
System Development __________ 8 = __________
Planning & Budgeting __________ 7 = __________
Quantification __________ 4 = __________
Informational Communication __________ 7 = __________
Mastery Impact!
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Business Development Process: 1SUP-L03
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Rating Summary
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5
Vision Discrimination StrategicThinking
InformationQuantificationPlanning/Budgeting
Commitment Inspiration Supervision SystemsDevelopment
PROFESSIONAL SKILLS MANAGERIAL SKILLS
SKILLS PROFILE
Total Score
Number of
Ratings Skill Rating
Total Leadership Skills Rating =
Total Managerial Skills Rating =
=
Mark each bar with your rating for that category to profile your strengths and development needs.
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TOTA
LLEADERSHIP
SKILLS
RATING
Manager Typing Graph
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TOTAL MANAGERIAL SKILLS RATING
PROFESSIONAL
CHEERLEADER
ADMINISTRATOR
MASTER
BUREAUCRAT
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Leadership Skills Development Plan
1List your lowest rated leadership skill categories in order, with the lowest listed first. For each,
look at the responses in your assessment instrument and see what they indicate about your specif-ic development needs. Note your conclusions briefly under observations and conclusions.
Skill Category
and Rating Observations and Conclusions
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2 Re-read the skills development guidelines on pages 920, paying special attention to the areas ofyour developmental need.
3Study your specific responses from your Managers Skills Assessment Instrument (including
those completed by others). Determine which developmental activities you will use to developyour skills. In the table below, indicate the activities, set a schedule/timing for doing them, and
indicate what assistance you will have.
Its important to have a friend or trusted associate help you with the developmental activities
theyll be more objective than you will about your progress, and will have insights, make suggestions,
and provide support that you wont be able to provide for yourself.
You can work on one skill at a time, or several at the same time. You should consider leadership
skills development a long-term effort. Some develop the skills quickly (months), but most will
improve over a period of years. And, no matter how skilled you are, you can always improve.
Be sure to schedule your developmental activities on your appointment calendar. Dont merely tryto fit them into my spare time. If you dont schedule them, they wont get done, and youll make
no progress.
Activity Schedule/Timing Assistance From