Leadership

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Leadership

• March 9, 2010
• MGMT 4000, Class 6
• Christina Finegold and Linda Miklas

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What is Leadership?

• What are the key behaviors of successful leaders?

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Seven Essential Behaviors

• Know your people and your business
• Insist on realism
• Set clear goals and priorities
• Follow through
• Reward the doers
• Expand peoples capabilities
• Know yourself
• Execution, Bossidy and Charan, Crown Business,
  2002

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What Leaders Really Do (Kotter)

• Management Leadership
• Coping with complexity Coping with change
• Planning and budgeting Setting
  direction
• Organizing and staffing Aligning people
• Controlling and Motivating people
• Problem Solving

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Golemans EI Model

• Self-Management Skills Ability to Relate to
  Others
• -Self-Awareness -Empathy
• -Self-Regulation -Social Skill
• -Motivation

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Golemans EI Model
What I See
What I Do
Personal Competence
Self-Awareness
Self-Management
Relationship Management
Social Awareness
Social Competence
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Key Questions To Ask Yourself
Self-Awareness Can I accurately
identify my own emotions and tendencies as they
happen?
Self-Management Can I manage my emotions
and behavior to a positive outcome?
Social Awareness Can I accurately identify
others emotions and tendencies as I interact
with them?
Relationship Management Can I manage the
interactions I have with others constructively
and to a positive outcome?
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Authentic Leadership

• Learn from your life story
• Develop self-awareness
• Practice values/principles
• Balance intrinsic/extrinsic motivations
• Build reliable, trustworthy support team
• Stay grounded
• Empower others to lead
• Discovering Your Authentic Leadership,
• George, Bill, Sims, Peter, McLean, Andrew M.,
  Mayer, Diana, Harvard Business Review

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How Development Occurs
Experience Based Learning Relationship Based Learning Education Based Learning
Projects/ Assignments Bosses Courses
Jobs Colleagues Seminars/ Conferences
Hardships Mentors Training Programs
Community Service Coaches e/Distance Learning
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What Contributes to Development?
- Center for Creative Leadership
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Creating the Environment
Accountability for the right results
Trust earned one person at a time
Opportunity for Growth Impact
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• What questions should the leadership team be
  asking themselves and each other in the next
  12-18 months to determine the best course of
  action?
• Be prepared to report your top 3-5 questions that
  you would recommend this leadership team ask
  themselves

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References

• Discovering Your Authentic Leadership, George,
  Bill, Sims, Peter, McLean, Andrew M., Mayer,
  Diana, Harvard Business Review, 2007.
• What Makes a Leaders? Goleman, Daniel, Harvard
  Business Review, 2004.
• What Leaders Really Do, Kotter, John P., Harvard
  Business Review On Point, 2001.
• Execution The Discipline of Getting Things Done.
  Bossidy, Larry and Charan, Ram, 2002, Crown
  Business.