THE SEVEN PRINCIPLES OF EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP

DEVELOPMENT

-JOHN ADAIR

HOW TO GROW LEADERS

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

• John Adair was educated at St. Paul’s school, London.• After Cambridge, he became Senior Lecturer in Military

History.• Leadership Training Adviser at the Royal Military

Academy• World’s first professor in Leadership Studies at

University of Surrey.• Found Europe's first Centre for Leadership Studies at

University of Exeter.• Now a National and International adviser on Leadership

development and is regarded as the world’s leading authority on leadership and leadership development.

• Author of 30 books including Not bosses but Leaders, The Inspirational Leader, Leadership and Motivation.

OUTLINE OF THE BOOKEXPLORING LEADERSHIP- Qualities Approach- Group/ functional Approach- Situational Approach

LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP- Team- Operational- Strategic

HOW TO GROW LEADERS- The seven principles

EXPLORING LEADERSHIP

QUALITIES APPROACH- Focuses on what a leader has to be.- The art of influencing a body of people to follow a

certain course of action; the art of controlling them, directing them and getting the best out of them.

- Insists leaders are born with certain qualities and not made.

- Distinguishing quality of a leader- confidence.- Major part of leadership is Man-management.- Various other qualities possessed by a person to

be a leader.

EXPLORING LEADERSHIP

GROUP OR FUNCTIONAL APPROACH- Focuses on what a leader has to do.- Refers to activity demanded by one’s position.- Three circles model - Functions of leadership

PlanningInitiatingControllingSupportingInformingEvaluating

Three circles model

EXPLORING LEADERSHIP

SITUATIONAL APPROACH- Focuses on how a leader needs to act.- In any situation people will tend to follow or obey

the man or woman who knows what to do and how to do it.

- A leader needs true knowledge of human nature.- Must have the ability to give people intellectual and

moral strength.- Your position never gives you the right to command .

It only imposes on you the duty of so living your life that others may receive your orders without being humiliated

LEVELS OF LEADERSHIP

Leadership exists at 3 different levels

TEAMOPERATIONALSTRATEGIC

The seven principles of leadership development

HOW TO GROW LEADERS

Principle One: TRAINING FOR LEADERSHIP

“There is nobody who cannot vastly improve his powers of leadership by a little thought and

practice”

I. Select good seed or stock II. Prepare the soil III. Enrich the earth by fertilizing and watering IV. Rotate the crops V. Let the fields lie fallow VI. Observe where plants thrive VII.Prune the dead wood VIII.Let the taproots go deep

Principle Two: SELECTION

“Measure the cloth seven times because it can only be cut once”

I. Leadership and team work abilitiesII.Decision making abilitiesIII.Communication abilitiesIV.Self management abilitiesV.Personal qualities

Principle Three:LINE MANAGERS AS LEADERSHIP

MENTORS

“It is the province of knowledge of speak and it is the privilege of wisdom to

speak”

I. A good leader begets leaders- natural leadership mentors

II.Teach the leaders for tomorrowIII.A natural process which needs to be

encouragedIV.Become a positive influenceV.Best teachers are also learners

Principle Four:THE CHANCE TO LEAD

“Responsibility is the great developer of men”

I. Give potential leaders difficult leadership challenges

II.Practical help in the form of training and support

III.Thinking aheadIV.Achieving excellence to grow

Principle Five:EDUCATION FOR LEADERSHIP

“It takes a whole society to raise a leader”Methods by which people learn:I. TeachingII.TrainingIII.EducatingIV.InstructingV.TutoringVI.CoachingVII.mentoring

Principle Six:STRATEGY FOR LEADERSHIP

DEVELOPMENT

“Everyone knows at any given moment who is the best company in its field. The best in bringing in

new products, quality, how we deal with out people- all of these things”

I. The whole is always greater than the partsII.Responsibility grows leadersIII.Give importance to integrityIV.Aim to be the best organization in your

field

Principle Seven:THE CHIEF EXECUTIVE

“Setting an example is not the main means of influencing another, it is the only means”

I. Lead from the front/ lead by exampleII.Be a leadership guide to each individualIII.A discussion should become a conversation

with a purposeIV.Participate personally in selecting leadersV.Seize natural opportunities to speak face-

to- face

SUMMARY

There is nothing as practical as a good theory

Truth is what stands the test of experience

The wings carry the bird; the bird carries the wings

Leaders don’t grow without inspiration

“ The task of leadership is not to put greatness into people, but to elicit it, for the greatness is there

already ”

Michelle

Peris KMT 2012-

2014

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