What is leadership? - Training and Development

What is Leadership?

Road to Success

Prepared By

Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.

Phone – 9744551114Mail – [email protected]

Leadership Quotes

• Leaders are people who

do the right thing;

managers are people

who do things right. –

Professor Warren G.

Bennis

Leadership Quotes

• Leadership is the art of

getting someone else to

do something you want

done because he wants

to do it. – Dwight D.

Eisenhower

Leadership• Leaders help themselves andothers to do the right things.

• They set direction, build aninspiring vision, and createsomething new.

• Leadership is about mapping outwhere you need to go to "win"as a team or an organization;and it is dynamic, exciting, andinspiring.

• Yet, while leaders set thedirection, they must also usemanagement skills to guide theirpeople to the right destination,in a smooth and efficient way.

Leadership: A Definition

• According to the idea oftransformational leadership,an effective leader is a personwho does the following:

– Creates an inspiring vision ofthe future.

– Motivates and inspires peopleto engage with that vision.

– Manages delivery of the vision.

– Coaches and builds a team, sothat it is more effective atachieving the vision.

Creating an Inspiring Vision of the Future

• In business, a vision is arealistic, convincing andattractive depiction ofwhere you want to be inthe future.

• Vision provides direction,sets priorities, and providesa marker, so that you cantell that you've achievedwhat you wanted toachieve.

Creating an Inspiring Vision of the Future

• To create a vision, leadersfocus on an organization'sstrengths.

• They think about how theirindustry is likely to evolve,and how their competitorsare likely to behave.

• And they test their visionswith appropriate marketresearch, and by assessingkey risks.

Creating an Inspiring Vision of the Future

• leadership is proactive –

problem solving, looking

ahead, and not being

satisfied with things as they

are.

Motivating and Inspiring People

• Effective leaders link

together two different

expectations:

– The expectation that hard

work leads to good results.

– The expectation that good

results lead to attractive

rewards or incentives.

Motivating and Inspiring People

• Leaders can also motivate

and influence people through

their natural charisma and

appeal.

• People admire and believe in

leaders with expert power

because they are expert in

what they do.

Managing Delivery of the Vision

• According to the Hersey –

Blanchard Situational Leadership

model , there is a time to tell, a

time to sell, a time to participate,

and a time to delegate.

• Knowing which approach you

need to use, and when you need

it, is key to effective leadership.

Managing Delivery of the Vision

• Leaders must ensure thatthe work needed to deliverthe vision is properlymanaged – either bythemselves, or by adedicated manager or teamof manager.

• To do this, team membersneed performance goalsthat are linked to theteam's overall vision.

Coaching and Building a Team to Achieve the Vision

• Individual and team

development are important

activities carried out by

transformational leaders.

• To develop a team, leaders

must first understand team

dynamics.

Key points• Leadership can be hard todefine and it means differentthings to different people.

• In the transformationalleadership model, leaders setdirection and help themselvesand others to do the right thingto move forward.

• To do this they create aninspiring vision, and thenmotivate and inspire others toreach that vision. They alsomanage delivery of the vision,either directly or indirectly, andbuild and coach their teams tomake them ever stronger.

Thank you

Prepared By

Manu Melwin Joy

Assistant ProfessorIlahia School of Management Studies

Kerala, India.

Phone – 9744551114Mail – [email protected]