Leadership Skills Course
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Transcript of Leadership Skills Course
Welcome to Our
Leadership Skills Course
IT IS TIME
TO MAKE A CHANGE
I) IntroductionCourse Objectives
1. Learn What is and the Importance of Leadership.
2. Contingency theories of Leadership.
3. Cutting-Edge Approaches to Leadership.
4. Leadership Issues (Managing Power, Developing Trust, Moral Leadership, Gender Difference and Leadership, Heroic Leadership).
I) Introduction, Cont’d
• What is Leadership Skills?
The Quality of being good at leading a team, an organization, a country.
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The Process of Influencing a group toward the achievement of Goals.
I) Introduction, Cont’d
Importance of Leadership
What People said about Leadership?!
1) “Leaders aren't born, they are made. And they are made just like anything else,
through hard work. And that's the price we'll have to pay to achieve that goal, or any
goal”.
(Vince Lombardi)
Importance of Leadership, Cont’d
2) “A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way”.
(John C. Maxwell)
Importance of Leadership, Cont’d
3) “Everybody can get angry - that's easy. But getting angry at the right person, with
the right intensity, at the right time, for the right reason and in the right way -
that's hard”.
(Aristotle)
Importance of Leadership, Cont’d
4) “No man is fit to command another that cannot command himself”.
(William Penn)
Importance of Leadership, Cont’d
5) “People ask the difference between a leader and a boss.... The leader works in
the open, and the boss in secret. The leader leads and the boss drives”.
(Theodore Roosevelt)
I) Introduction, Cont’d
Frequently asked questions?!What is ……………….Can I ………………….What if …………………
Importance of Leadership, Cont’d
Is it true ……………….
1. Leadership is a rare skill!
2. Leaders are born, not made!
3. Leaders are charismatic!
4. Leadership exists only at the top of an organization!
5. Leaders control, direct, prod, & manipulate!
Importance of Leadership, Cont’d
I believe that …….. But ………….What is the best …………………..Who is the best ……………………
II) Contingency theories of Leadership
Situational Leadership theory
Focuses on Followers Readiness
Readiness:
The extent to which people have the ability and willingness to accomplish a specific
task.
Situational Leadership theory, Cont’d
• Leadership Styles
• Telling (define roles, tells people what, how, when, where to do various tasks)
• Selling (provides direct & support)
• Participating (L & F share in decisions, L is Facilitating & Communicating)
• Delegating (little direction & support)
Leadership styles
Participating Selling
Delegating Telling
High relationship & Low task
High task & High
relationship
Low relationship & Low task
Low relationship & High task
TaskBehavior
Relationship Behavior
High
High
Low
Situational Leadership theory, Cont’d
Readiness Stages
1. R1: neither competent nor confident
2. R2: motivated but no skills
3. R3: able but unwilling to do what the leader wants
4. R4: able and willing to do what is asked
Situational Leadership theory, Cont’d
Readiness Stages
R4 R3 R2 R1
High Moderate Low <------------------------------------------------------->
Able and Willing
Able and Unwilling
Unable and willing
Unable and
Unwilling
II) Contingency theories of Leadership
• Path-Goal Model (One of the best)
It States that the Leader’s job is to assist his/her followers in:
1. Achieving their goals
2. Provide direction
3. Provide Support
4. Ensure common goals (with the org.)
Path-Goal Model, Cont’d
4 Leadership behaviours
1) Directive Leader
“Lets followers know what’s expected of them, schedules work done, and gives
specific guidance on how to accomplish tasks”
Path-Goal Model, Cont’d
2) Supportive Leader
“Is friendly and shows concern for the need of followers”
Path-Goal Model, Cont’d
3) Participative Leader
“Consults with group members and uses their suggestions before making a
decision”
Path-Goal Model, Cont’d
4) Achievement-oriented Leader
“Sets challenging goals and expects followers to perform at their highest
level”
III) Cutting-Edge Approaches to Leadership
• Team Leadership.
– All organizations are using work teams
– Role of team leadership in guiding team members is dramatically increasing. WHY?
– It is a challenge to learn how to become team leader.
Team Leadership
• Effective team leaders know when to leave their teams alone and when to get involved (it is diff.).
• Team leaders’ job is focusing on:
1. Managing the team’s external boundary
2. Facilitating the team’s process
Team Leadership, Cont’d
• How to gain Team Leadership Skills:
1. Patience to share information.
2. Able to trust others. 3. Give up authority. 4. Understand when to
intervene.
Team Leadership, Cont’d
3 specific leadership roles:
1) Troubleshooters:
a. Trying to help in solving problems without direct technical interference.
b. Getting needed resources to solve the problem
Team Leadership, Cont’d
2) Conflict managers:
a. Helping to identify source of conflict.
b. Stating available options to resolve the issue.
c. Evaluating these available options
Team Leadership, Cont’d
3) Coaches:
a. Teaching the team.
b. Clarifying expectations & roles.
c. Doing whatever necessary to keep high performance.
III) Cutting-Edge Approaches to Leadership, Cont’d
• Charismatic Leadership.
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
Charismatic Leader
Self-confident leader whose personality & actions influence
people to behave in certain ways.
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
• Studies showed that charismatic leadership can be taught.
• Students were taught needed skills and non-verbal behaviors.
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
We perfectly use Charismatic Leadership in
1. Religion.
2. Politics & Wartime.
3. Business firm is starting up or facing a crisis.
Charismatic Leadership, Cont’d
How to be a Charismatic leader?!
1. Having a vision.
2. Able to articulate this vision.
3. Willing to take risk to achieve that vision.
4. Sensitive to followers’ needs. Show behaviours that are out of ordinary.
IV) Leadership Issues
• These are the Issues that was raised in the 20th and 21st
Centuries
IV) Leadership Issues, Cont’d
• Managing Power
1. Legitimate Power
2. Coercive Power
3. Reward Power
4. Expert Power
5. Referent Power
IV) Leadership Issues, Cont’d
Developing Trust
It is the belief in the integrity, character, and abilities of a
leader
Developing Trust, Cont’d
• How to develop trust??????
1. Integrity
2. Competence
3. Consistency
4. Loyalty
5. Openness
IV) Leadership Issues, Cont’d
Moral Leadership
• How to have Moral Leadership?
1. The means
2. The Content of goals
3. Moral than being ethical but enforcing it.
IV) Leadership Issues, Cont’d
Gender Difference and Leadership
Country Percentage
Australia 24%
Canada 43%
France 10%
Germany 19%
Japan 9%
Poland 66%
Sweden 59%
Gender Difference and Leadership, Cont’d
Women Men
More Democratic More Directive
More Participative More Command
Sharing Power More Control
More Motivation Appraise and Punish
W act more autocratically when it comes to group norms and males stereotypes
IV) Leadership Issues, Cont’d
• Heroic Leadership
It is not real (Belief)
• How to have it?!
1. Apologize when you make a mistake
2. Take the responsibility when a problem happens
V) ConclusionWhat we Learnt.
1. What is and the Importance of Leadership.
2. Contingency theories of Leadership.
3. Cutting-Edge Approaches to Leadership.
4. Leadership Issues (Managing Power, Developing Trust, Moral Leadership, Gender Difference and Leadership, Heroic Leadership).
V) Conclusion, Cont’d
•The Action Plan.
Questions?
?
THANK YOU
Instructor Contacts
Yehia Abou-El-Wafa
For more information groups.yahoo.com/group/alzad
www.zadconsulting.org/alsedik