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Leadership: Secrets of Becoming a Great Leader

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009

Leadership is about inspiring others to follow:

Old style leadership anagram

Despotic Anagram (old thinking)

Dictatorial & commanding
Evaluates rather than values
Suspicious and cynical
Power seeking & taking
Oppresses differences
Total control seeker
Intrustive & instructive
Cold and calculating

Nothing too inspiring about despots!

“THE WORLD THAT WE HAVE MADE AS A RESULT OF THE LEVEL OF THINKING WE HAVE DONE THUS FAR CREATES PROBLEMS THAT WE CANNOT SOLVE AT THE SAME LEVEL AT WHICH WE CREATED THEM” – Albert Einstein

So what we need is great teams leveraging on each others ideas and talents inspired by great leaders.

Leadership Anagram (new thinking)

Love of followers is demonstrated
Empathetic with individuals at all levels
Able to create vision & achieve the mission
Democratic decisions & communicates
Empowers & encourages others
Resilient, overcomes setbacks
Sharing, provides for followers needs
Hopeful, positive & future driven
Intelligent, uses the head and heart
Persistent, sticks to the task, never gives up

SO WHICH ONE IS MORE LIKE YOU? – (ACCORDING TO THE STAFF?)

The short wall sign you should put up in your office if you want to learn the formula to becoming a great leader!

A personal oath you can make to yourself if you want to become a great leader:

I will take a long term view, conceive and communicate a well thought out and positive vision that is tested and supported by an appropriate set of values

I will always be innovative and take care to effectively decide what is important and what is just clutter and I will actively promote that which is important.

I will readily elicit and accept help and will stay close and constantly listen to and consider the suggestions made by my key players.

I will strive with passion to build a team (rather than a group) where reward is linked to outcomes and continuous learning is the norm.

I will take care to see, recognize and celebrate the best that followers contribute and allow others to shine and share in the spotlight.

I will actively remember that now is the only time we ever have will always live in the present

I will ungrudgingly be willing to make personal sacrifices to actively ensure the best outcomes for my followers.

So do you really want a leadership role?

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Leadership takes competence and confidence so remember:  “The most important words you will ever hear are those that you say to yourself about yourself when you are by yourself.” source unkown.

Ric (orglearn)

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People Oriented Management Competencies and Working With Teams

Friday, September 18th, 2009

TEAM LEADERSHIP

A) Communicates clearly the team goals and systematically monitors standards and controls the progress of the team and individual members. Listens well to the opinions of members.

B) Leads by example by adhering to agreed rules, regulations and standards of behaviour in general and particularly those set/agreed by the team.

C) Uses sound principles of human relations to establish strong commitment among work group members to achieve team objectives. Maintains and enhances self-esteem of members and rewards good performance.

D) Understands the changing stages of team development and is able to fulfil the relevant roles of each stage. Encourages others to perform well by empowering them.

TEAM PLAYER

A) Supports team decisions willingly. Does his/her share of work, updates team members on group process, shares useful information.

B) Speaks of others positively. Expresses positive expectations of others. Shows respect for opinion of others by using reasons as basis for decisions.

C) Gets ideas/opinions from others to form plans, values input. Willing to learn from subordinates and colleagues. Takes action to increase co-operation among others.

D) Gives credit in public to those who performed well. Makes those who have performed well feel important. Resolves conflict and protects group reputation. Promotes friendly climate by providing situations for positive interactions and promotes a group identity.


TRUSTING and TRUSTED

A) Openly accepts instructions without an undue level of questioning. Readily accepts the advice of procedure/technical advice of qualified personnel in areas on expertise or legitimate authority.

B) Allows others to perform work without over supervision and follows up in an appropriate manner.

C) Looks for reasons to accept ideas/propositions by seeking relevant feedback rather than reasons to refuse without due consideration.

D) Believes in the organization’s commitment to his/her personal well-being and is willing to influence others to believe the same.

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Leadership Definition & Free Leadership Skills Test

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009

Is leadership easy to define and what is “leadership”?

Definition 1: John C Maxwell : In the 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John Maxwell sums up his definition of leadership as “leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.” Perhaps a bit of an oversimplification you may think.

Definition 2: Peter Drucker : The forward to the Drucker Foundation’s “The Leader of the Future” sums up leadership : “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.”

Definition 3: ‘Leadership is the art of motivating [I think they mean inspiring] a group of people to act towards achieving a common goal. The leader is the inspiration and director of the action. He or she is the person in the group that possesses the combination of personality and skills that makes others want to follow his or her direction’.

ref:

sbinfocanada.about.com/od/leadership/g/leadership.htm

Definition 4: “In its essence, leadership in an organizational role involves (1) establishing a clear vision, (2) sharing (communicating) that vision with others so that they will follow willingly, (3) providing the information, knowledge, and methods to realize that vision, and (4) coordinating and balancing the conflicting interests of all members or stakeholders. A leader comes to the forefront in case of crisis, and is able to think and act in creative ways in difficult situations. Unlike management, leadership flows from the core of a personality and cannot be taught, although it may be learnt and may be enhanced through coaching or mentoring.”

ref:

www.businessdictionary.com/definition/leadership.html

So you think you have what it takes to be a leader!

Just how good are your leadership skills… like to get a quick indication?

Here is a link to a free online leadership skills test: Leadership Skills Test

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