Leadership Development

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Leadership Development

• Chapter 12

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• Management is doing things right leadership
  is doing the right things. Peter F. Drucker

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Components of Leadership

• Learning
• Experience
• Developmental relationships

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Components of Leadership

• Learning
• Individual preparation
• Socializing company vision and values
• Strategic leadership initiatives

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Components of Leadership

• Experience
• Broad types of job opportunities
• Job transitions
• Creating change
• High level responsibility
• Non-authority relationships
• Obstacles

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Components of Leadership

• Hardship
• How do you learn from this experience?
• What caused the failure?
• Was this truly a failure?
• What successes are contained in the failure?
• What can I learn from what happened?
• Am I grateful for the experience?
• How can I turn this into a success?
• Who can help me with this issue?
• Where do I go from here?

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Primary Types of Hardship Events

• Business mistakes and failures
• Career setbacks
• Personal trauma
• Problem employees
• Downsizing

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Components of LeadershipDevelopmental
Relationships

• Peers
• Information peers
• Collegial peers
• Special peers
• Mentors

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Career Functions

• Sponsorship
• Coaching
• Protection
• Challenging assignments

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Psychosocial functions

• Role modeling
• Acceptance and confirmation
• Counseling
• Friendship

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Steps for Searching for a Mentor

• Identify what you need
• Evaluate yourself as a prospective protégé
• Identify mentor candidates
• Prepare for obstacles
• Approach possible mentors

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Coveys 7 Habits of Highly Effective People

• Be proactive
• Begin with the end in mind
• Put first things first
• Think win/win
• Seek first to understand, then to be understood
• Synergize
• Sharpen the saw

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Cashmans Leadership from the Inside Out

• Personal Mastery
• Purpose Mastery
• Change Mastery
• Interpersonal Mastery
• Being Mastery
• Balance Mastery
• Action Mastery

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Leadership Transitions

• Taking charge
• Taking hold (3-6 months)
• Immersion (4-11 months)
• Reshaping (3-6 months)
• Consolidation (3-9 months)
• Refinement

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Managing Transitions

• Recognize that taking charge takes time
• Develop effective working relationships
  immediately
• Assess and act on prior experience
• Clarify expectations

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Succession Planning

• Successful programs have
• Participation and support from top management
• Include all levels of leadership
• Organizational needs assessment
• Competency focused
• Accountability
• Development

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