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Session 1

What Does It Mean to Be a Leader?

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Session Objectives

Understand the full meaning of leadership and see the leadership potential in yourself and others.

Recognize and facilitate the six fundamental transformations in today’s organizations and leaders.

Identify the primary reasons for leadership derailment and the new paradigm skills that can help you avoid it.

Recognize the traditional functions of management and the fundamental differences between leadership and management.

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Objectives (contd.)

Appreciate the crucial importance of providing direction, alignment, relationships, personal qualities, and outcomes.

Realize how historical leadership approaches apply to the practice of leadership today.

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Definition of Leadership

Leadership is an influence relationship among leaders and followers who intend real changes and outcomes that reflect their shared purposes.

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Ex. 1.1 What Leadership Involves

Influence Intention

Followers

Shared purpose

Change

Personal responsibility and integrity

Leader

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Ex. 1.2 The New Reality for Leadership

OLD ParadigmStability

Control

Competition

Uniformity

Self-centered

Hero

NEW ParadigmChange/crisis mgt.

Empowerment

Collaboration

Diversity

Higher purpose

Humble

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Management and Vision

Management is the attainment of organizational goals in an effective and efficient manner through planning, organizing, staffing, directing, and controlling organizational resources.

Vision is a picture of an ambitious, desirable future for the organization or team

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Comparing Management and Leadership

Management Leadership

Direction Planning and budgeting

Keeping eye on bottom line

Creating vision and strategy

Keeping eye on horizon

Alignment Organizing and staffing

Directing and controlling

Creating boundaries

Creating shared culture and values

Helping others grow

Reducing boundaries

Relationships Focusing on objects – producing/selling goods and services

Based on position power

Acting as boss

Focusing on people – inspiring and motivating followers

Based on personal power

Acting as coach, facilitator, servant

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(contd.)

Management Leadership

Personal Qualities Emotional distance

Expert mind

Talking

Conformity

Insight into organization

Emotional connections (Heart)

Open mind (Mindfulness)

Listening (Communication)

Nonconformity (Courage)

Insight into self (Character)

Outcomes Maintains stability; creates culture of efficiency

Creates change and a culture of integrity

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Position power

A written, spoken, or implied contract wherein people accept either a superior or subordinate role and see the use of coercive as well as noncoercive behavior as an acceptable way of achieving desirable results.

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Theories of Leadership

Great Man Theories

Trait Theories

Behavior Theories

Contingency Theories

Influence Theories

Relational Theories