Developing Leaders for Today and Tomorrow

• Leadership• Leaderly• Leaderful

Leadership?

• How would you define leadership?• Why is it important?

• What skills or attributes do we want these future leaders to have?

• How do we develop anyone?

What Is Leadership?

• How would you define leadership?

• How is leadership different from management?

Defining Leadership

“A leader’s job is to make sure the organization does the right things…”

Defining Leadership

“A leader’s job is to make sure the organization does the right things,while a manager’s job is to make

sure we do those things right.”

Warren BennisWhy Leaders Fail

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“I’m talking about leadership as the development of vision and strategies…”

Defining Leadership

“I’m talking about leadership as the development of vision and strategies,the alignment of relevant people behind those strategies, and the empowerment of individuals to make the vision happen despite obstacles.”

John KotterWhat Leaders Really Do

Defining Leadership

Defining Leadership

“Leadership is the capacity of a humancommunity to shape its future, thus defining leadership as a collective versusindividual act. MIT has focused on distributed leadership.”

Peter SengeMIT Sloan Society

for Organizational Learning

Defining Leadership

“Leadership is the capacity of a humancommunity to shape its future…”

Defining Leadership

Leadership: The activity or process of mobilizing people and groups to do adaptive work.

Ron HeifetzHarvard JFK School

Defining Leadership

A Leader: What one is “being” when one exercises leadership, not a formal position

Ron HeifetzHarvard JFK School

Why Is Leadership Important?

• Why is developing leadership the focus of so much attention?

Strategic Thinking

Strategic direction is designed to position your organization to be

successful in an ever-changing world.

GAP AnalysisWhere we want to be

Where we are now

What we can do to“close the gap”

What Are We Trying to Develop?

• What are the skills & attributes we want people to develop?

• What does the new prototype look like?

How does learning happen for you?

How do you DEVELOP anybody?

What has helped you learn about leadership?

The Variety of ExperiencePercentage of Events Where Learning Occurs

17%

34%

27%

22%

Hardships

Challenging Assignments

Learning from Others

Other Events

From the Center for Creative Leadership

The Variety of ExperienceChallengingAssignments

Change in Scope

Fix-it

Scratch

Line to Staff

Projects/Task Forces

Breaking a Rut

LearningFrom Others

Values Playing OutRole Models

Mentors

Peers

Hardships

Business Failures and Mistakes

Demotions, Missed Promotions, Lousy Jobs

Personal Trauma

Employee Performance Problems

Downsizing

Differences Matter

OtherEvents

Coursework

First Supervisory Experience

Early Work

Purely Personal

Feedback

Business Success

From the Center for Creative Leadership

Key Research Findings...

• Learning is not random -- different lessons are learned from different types of experiences.

• It is preferable to have a variety of experiences in order to achieve broad and balanced development.

• Derailment usually occurs when managers don’t adapt to changing demands and situations; often, strengths become weaknesses or flaws suddenly matter.

• Development is dynamic and ongoing.

From the Center for Creative Leadership

Just Do IT

Not empowered

• HAVE BE DO

Empowered

• DO BE HAVE

Suggestions to Support Development

• People need to want to develop• Practices facilitate new habits• IT Leader construct

IT Leaders Program Components

Suggestions for Pursuing Your Professional Development

• Set goals• Research• Who is good at this? consult a book• Adopt a practice• Sign someone up as a coach• Stretch

Practices Definitions

• To study, exercise one’s skill regularly

• Observable and actionable steps

Practices

•• Step 1 Step 1 -- AwarenessAwareness

•• Step 2 Step 2 -- AcceptanceAcceptance

•• Step 3 Step 3 -- Action to ChangeAction to Change

•• Step 4 Step 4 -- Adopt PracticesAdopt Practices

“You come to work everyday hoping to make a difference, why not make the biggest difference you can?”

Gary AugustsonFormer Vice Provost for IT at Penn State

What Are We Trying to Develop?

• Leadership• Leaderly• Leaderful

Defining Leadership

“We need to establish communities where everyone shares the experience of serving as a leader...”

Joseph A. RaelinCreating Leaderful Organizations