Leadership skills

Leadership skills

Roles & activities of leaders

Credits :Anjali Narayan

Prateek Nilay Minj

Vasundhara Sharma

"Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because he wants to do it."

– Dwight D. Eisenhower

The word "leadership" can bring to mind a variety of images. For example:

1. An army officer, charging forward to meet the enemy.2. An explorer, cutting a path through the jungle for the

rest of his party to follow.3. An executive, developing her company's strategy to

remain ahead of the competition.

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The Story of a boy : At the age of seven, he and his family were forced out of

their home. At 9, his mother passed away. When he grew up, the young

man was keen to go to law school, but had no education. At 22, he lost his job as a store clerk. At 23, he ran for state legislature and lost. The same year,

he went into business. It failed, leaving him with a debt that took him 17 years to repay.

At 27, he had a nervous breakdown. At 29, he tried for the post of speaker in his state

legislature. He lost.

At 31, he was defeated in his attempt to become an elector.

By 35, he had been defeated twice while running for Congress. Finally, he did manage to secure a brief term in Congress, but at 39 he lost his re-election bid.

At 41, his four-year-old son died. At 42, he was rejected as a prospective land officer. At 45, he ran for the Senate and lost. Two years later, he

lost the vice presidential nomination. At 49, he ran for Senate and lost again. At 51, he was elected the President of the United States of

America. Abraham Lincoln

TRADITIONAL VIEW : Wow! That's the stuff real leaders are made off.“ “Mythological creatures", separate from the rest of

humanity and empowered by some mysterious quality that smoothes their path towards inevitable success.

If you're not a leader, there's little that you can do to become one.

MODERN VIEW :

Through patience, persistence and hard work, you can be a highly effective leader.

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LEADERSHIP SKILLS

COMMUNICATING

EVALUATING

PLANNINGCONTROLLING

GROUP PERFORMANCE

SETTING EXAMPLE

UNDERSTANDING GROUP NEEDS

REPRESENTING THE GROUP

SHARING LEADERSHIP

KNOWING GROUP RESOURCES

COUNSELLIING

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communicating

To improve your skills in getting information:1. Pay attention and listen carefully.2. Make notes and sketches.3. Ask questions and repeat your understanding of what was said. To improve your skills in giving information:1. Be sure others are listening before you speak.2. Speak slowly and clearly.3. Draw diagrams, if needed. Ask those receiving information to take

notes.4. Have the listeners repeat their understanding of what was said.

Encourage questions.

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Each individual participant of the group has certain needs and characteristics.

1. A leader should understand his or her own needs and characteristics.

2. A leader should understand the needs and characteristics of each participant of the group. This helps the leader to deal with each person as an individual, to treat that individual with respect, and to help the person grow.

3. This understanding helps in planning the program and in getting things done.

4. This understanding creates trust and builds confidence among group participants.

understanding group needs


When the leader uses the knowledge and skills of group participants to get a job done, the participants

1. gain experience and improve skills.

2. They also develop a positive attitude toward using a skill.

Knowing and using group resources


Keep the post’s program capability inventory up-to date and use it in planning. Understand the purpose and resources of your participating organization.Find out your post participants’ skills, interests, and resources.

Consider the task and objectives. What do you want to accomplish?

Consider the resources—equipment, knowledge, skills, and attitudes.

Consider the alternatives. Brainstorm. Reach a decision, evaluating each option. Write the plan down and review it with the post. Execute the plan. Evaluate the plan.

planning


Evaluating helps measure the performance of a group in getting a job done and working together.

Getting the job done—1. Was the job done?2. Was the job done right?3. Was the job done on time?

Keeping the group together—1. Were relationships between group participants helped or hurt?2. Was participation equally distributed among group participants?3. Did the group enjoy the activity?4. Did the group handle conflicts well?

evaluating


Controlling group performance

A group works together best when everybody is headed in the same direction. Control is a function that the group assigns to the leader to get the job done.

1. Continually observe the group. Know what is happening and the attitude of the group.

2. Make your instructions clear and pertinent.3. Pitch in and help when necessary.4. Quickly deal with disruption. Guide the post toward self-discipline.


Setting the example is probably the most important leadership skill. It is the most effective way to show others the proper way to conduct themselves, and is even more effective than verbal communication. Without this skill, all the other skills will be useless. One way to think about setting the example is to imagine Yourself as part of a group and think about how you would like your leader to act.

SETTING EXAMPLE


While there are various ways to exercise leadership, the goal of Exploring leadership is exemplified in a quote from the ancient Chinese philosopher, Lao-Tzu: “But of a good leader . . . When the work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say, ‘We did this ourselves.’

The Exploring leader wants to give post participants the skills he or she possesses, not to use those skills in ways that keep the post weak or dependent. He or she offers leadership opportunities to post participants and teaches them the skills they need.

SHARING LEADERSHIP


Counselling is important1. To help people solve problems2. To encourage or reassure3. To help an Explorer reach his or her potential

Counselling can be effective when a person is1. Undecided—he or she can’t make a decision2. Confused—he or she doesn’t have enough

information or has too much information3. Locked in—he or she doesn’t know any alternatives

COUNSELLING


The leader represents the post in two situations:

1. Without consultation—when he or she doesn’t have the opportunity to consult with post officers about a decision.

2. With consultation—when he or she can meet with post officers about the issue.

REPRESENTING THE GROUP


In some cases the leader must represent the post’s decision exactly; in other cases, he or she must use independent judgment. You will need to solicit and analyze participants’ views and attempt to represent those views within the guidelines of your post, your participating organization, and Exploring.

Roles of a leader Explain team goals and

objectives to assigned team members and assist team in organizing to accomplish work.

Coach, facilitate, solve work problems and participate in the work of the team.

Provide information to the supervisor on performance of the team.

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Communicate assignments, milestones and dead lines to the team and individuals based on supervisor’s instructions.

Observe training needs and relay training needs and requests to supervisor.

Inform supervisor of attendance and behavioural problems.

Relay request for resources and supplies.

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Based on Henry Mitzberg’s research

The roles are described under three heads:

1. Interpersonal Roles: Figurehead, Leader, Liaison2. Informational Roles: Monitor, Disseminator,

Spokesperson3. Decisional Roles: Entrepreneur, Disturbance handler,

Resource allocator, Negotiator

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They are grouped into the following four categories:

1.Routine Communication: Exchanging information, handling paper work2. Traditional management: Planning, Decision making, Controlling3.Networking: Interacting with outsiders,

Socializing/Politicking4.Human resource management :

Motivating/ Reinforcing, Disciplinary/Punishing, Managing conflict, Staffing, Training/Developing

activities of a leader

Other Activities May Include:

Planning/coordinating, staffing, training/developing, decision making/problem solving, processing paper work, exchanging routine information, monitoring/controlling performance, motivating/reinforcing, disciplining/punishing, interacting with outsiders, managing conflict, socializing/politicking.http://nraomtr.blogspot.in/2011/12/leadership-styles-roles-activities.html

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