Unlocking Leadership
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Position or Choice
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Two Questions
Nature or Nurture
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“Leadership is like fruit...”
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Leadership Definition
A definition of leadership:-
Leadership is an active, influencing relationship among leaders and followers that get results.
“ The old ways won’t work.
Take care to get what you like,
or you will be forced to like what you get.”Adapted from Pygmalion, George Bernard Shaw
Active
Active and Influencing
Leading talented people in today’s world requires particular attention to the “soft skills” of:� Communicating (vision/roles/tasks)
� Persuading (influence/authority)
� Motivating (purpose/autonomy/challenge/recognition)
� Fostering Collaboration (group cohesion/identity)
“The soft skills are the hard skills”
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Leader-Manager Continuum
Leader
Outward Looking
Manager
Inward Looking
CIPD distinguishes the difference in leadership and management as between being more
emotional (leadership) than rational (management)
OversightForesight Insight
Insight as well as Foresight
“Operational effectiveness means you’re running the same race faster. But strategy is choosing to run a different race because it’s the one you’ve set yourself up to win”.
Michael Porter
Strategic Leadership
Transformational
Authoritative
Inspire and Get Results
Tough and Determined
A great leader remains true to their purpose and is prepared to adjust and adapt their position en route?
Purpose and Positioning
Leaders build social capital – the networks, connectionsand relationships that are needed to know what is going on.
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Leadership Equation
L = EQ + IQ + MQ
Social IntelligenceThe ability to determine the requirement for leadership in a particular situation and select an appropriate response
Leadership from WithinINVICTUS
Out of the night that covers me,Black as the pit from pole to pole,
I thank whatever gods may be
For my unconquerable soul.
In the fell clutch of circumstanceI have not winced nor cried aloud.Under the bludgeonings of chanceMy head is bloody, but unbowed.
Beyond this place of wrath and tearsLooms but the Horror of the shade,And yet the menace of the years
Finds and shall find me unafraid.
It matters not how strait the gate,How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate:
I am the captain of my soul.
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Relationships
LeaderFollower Follower
Follower
Follower
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Follower
Follower
Follower
Team and One-to-One
Leader Member Exchange (LMX )Theory
Leader
Team and One-to-Onerelationships
Harness All Leadership Talent
If you were shipwrecked as a group, who would you want to lead...
If you needed food?
If you needed shelter?
If you needed medical advice?
If you needed navigation?
Farmer
Carpenter
Nurse
Sailor
Poet
Salesman
Manager
Student
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Five Fundamentals
Personal Qualities
demonstrating integrity,
competence, decisiveness and
behavioural flexibility
Positioning
knowing and understanding the
context of the internal and external
environment
Purpose
articulating clear mission, vision,
values and strategy
People
engaging, motivating, empowering
and supporting people
Performance
planning, making things happen,
reviewing and getting results.
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Leadership for Uncertainty
1. Have vision, and be visible
2. Stay close to stakeholders/customers
3. Stick to core capabilities and purpose
4. Encourage, liberate and support all those who can lead
5. Obsess with innovation and new value propositions
6. Align people around purpose
7. Value skills and knowledge (more than structure and rules)
8. Manage your own learning as a leader
9. Be active and adaptive – use all the styles
10. Communicate incessantly
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Leadership as a Dance
Henri Matisse. (1910). Dance (II). , Oil on canvas, Displayed in The Hermitage, St Petersburg
“an energetic dance that binds the leader and followers, in which each side is fully present, active and able to shape the other.”
