The will to control events, the understanding to chart a course and the power to get a job done co-operatively using the skills and abilities of other people.
To lead us to:
- Identify a problem
- Consider the facts
- Decide what's to be done
- Act with deliberate speed
Leaders “Have to possess the qualities expected or
required in their working group.”
Bennis / Adair
Leadership
- To influence
- Guiding in direction, course or action
- Visionary orientated
- Creative
- Effectiveness (results, performance)
- Creating a state of mind
- Results orientated
- Giving direction and team building
Role of leadership
- Provide functions necessary to achieve a successful result – direction, vision
- Bulding team - morale, improvement
- Develop the individual - skills, attitudes
- To achieve a task with the help of your group
- Gain the commitment and co-operation of the team
- Get the group into action to meet the agreed objectives
- Make optimum use of skills, talents, energies of each individual in the team
Role of the leader
- The task and the environment
- The group harmony
- The individuals in the group
- Yourself
The leader
- Inspires
- Thinks
- Motivates
- Inintiates change
- Makes things happen
- Challenges the status quo
- Creates
- Proactice
- Sets the pact
- Inspire loyalty
- Drivesrs
The Manager
- Controls
- Does
- Organises
- Adjusts to change
- Accepts current practice
- Administers
- Reacts
- Follows proceedures
- Co-ordinates
- Seeks discipline
Leadership is founded on five inward strengths
- Vision
- Self-belief
- Results focus
- Courage
- Integrity
Leadership is effected though
- Team work
- Visibility
- Communication
- Attention
- Commitment
Qualities of Effective Leaders
- Intelligent
- Assertive
- Confident
- Persuasive
- Flexible
- Intrinsically Motivated
- Motivated to achive success Internally controlled
- High self awareness
- Optimistic
Leadership Qualities
Twelve highest rated attributes of high level executives
- Decisiveness
- Leadership
- Integrity
- Enthusiasm
- Imagination
- Willingness to work hard
- Analytical ability
- Understanding of others
- Ability to spot opportunities
- Ability to face unpleasant situations
- Ability to adapt quickly to change
- Willingness to take risk
- Never takes his hand from the work from one moment
- Sees his ‘conception’ through from the first to the last step
- Has a temperament sturdy enough to stand up to constant disappointment, accident and weakness of subordinates
- Works calmly, with steady nerves amid friction
- Goes for simplicity in everything
- Keeps a firm grip on the fundamentals that matter
- Studies and develops morale
- Always expresses confidence in the plans
- Loathes inefficiency
- Plans with meticulous care
- Knows or studies opponents
- Before undertaking anything – meditated for a long time and anticipated and planned for all outcomes
- Having upset an oppositions plan, never give them time for recovery
- Has clear objectives and a clear means of achieving them
- Exudes confidence and clarity
- Articulates a viewpoint
- Conviction
- Has great poise and assurance
- Faces problems honestly
- Presents policy clearly
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