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Leadership ?

Leadership is a process by which a


person influences others to accomplish
an objective
and directs the organization in a way
that makes it more cohesive and
coherent
• Leadership is a process
whereby an individual influences a group of
individuals to achieve a common goal.
Leaders carry out this process by applying their
leadership knowledge and skills. This is called
Process Leadership (Jago, 1982).
• Trait Leadership (Jago, 1982), in that it
was once common to believe that leaders were
born rather than made. While
leadership is learned, the skills and knowledge
processed by the leader can be influenced by his
or hers attributes or traits; such as beliefs, values,
ethics, and character.
• Knowledge and skills contribute directly to the
process of leadership, while the other
attributes give the leader certain characteristics
that make him or her unique.
Skills, knowledge, and attributes make the
Leader
Four corner stone’s Factors of Leadership:

There are four major factors in leadership


You must have:
1- an honest understanding of who you are, what you know,
and what you can do. Also, note that:
it is the followers, not the leader or someone else who determines
if the leader is successful.
If they do not trust or lack confidence in their leader, then they
will be uninspired.
To be successful you have to convince your
followers, not yourself or your superiors, that you are
worthy of being followed.
2-Followers
• Different people require different styles of leadership.
For example, a new hire requires more supervision than an
experienced employee does.
A person who lacks motivation:
requires a different approach than one with a high degree of
motivation.
You must:
• know your people!,
The fundamental starting point:
is having a good understanding of human nature, such as needs,
emotions, and motivation.
You must come to know your employees' be, know, and do attributes.
3-Communication

• You lead through two-way communication.


Much of it is nonverbal.
(For instance, when you “set the example,”
communicates to your people that you would not ask them
to perform anything that you would not be willing to do).
What and how you communicate either builds
or harms the relationship between you and your
employees.
4-Situation

• All situations are different.


What you do in one situation will not always work in
another.
You must use your judgment to decide the best course of
action and the leadership style needed for each situation.
(For example, you may need to confront an
employee for inappropriate behavior, but if the
confrontation is too late or too early,
too harsh or too weak, then the results may prove
ineffective).
• Also note: that the situation normally has a greater effect on a leader's
action than his or her traits.
• This is because while traits may have an impressive stability over a period
of time, they have little consistency across situations (Mischel, 1968).
• This is why a number of leadership scholars think the Process Theory of
Leadership is a more accurate than the Trait Theory of Leadership.
• Various forces will affect these four factors.
• Examples of forces are:
• Your relationship with your seniors.
• The skills of your followers.
• The informal leaders within your organization.
• How your organization is organized.
Principles of Leadership
To help you be, know, and do, YOU
SHOULD
follow these eleven principles of leadership (U.S.
Army, 1983).
• 1. Know yourself and seek self-
improvement - In order to know yourself, you
have to understand your be, know, and do,
attributes. Seeking self-improvement means
continually strengthening your attributes.
-This can be accomplished through self-study,
formal classes, reflection, and interacting with
others.
2. Be technically proficient –
As a leader, you must know your job and have a
solid familiarity with your employees' tasks.
• 3. Seek responsibility and take responsibility for your
actions –
Search for:
ways to guide your organization to new heights. And
when things go wrong,
As they often tend to do sooner or later :
• do not blame others.
• Analyze the situation,
• take corrective action,
• and move on to the next challenge.
• 4. Make sound and timely decisions –
Use good problem solving, decision making,
and planning tools.
• 5. Set the example –
Be a good role model for your employees.
They must not only hear what they are expected
to do, but also see.
“We must become the change we want to
see” - Mahatma Gandhi
• 6. Know your people and look out for their
well-being - Know human nature
and the importance of sincerely caring for
your workers.
• 7. Keep your workers informed –
Know how to communicate with not only
them, but also seniors and other key people.
• 8. Develop a sense of responsibility in your
workers –
Help to develop good character traits that
will help them carry out their professional
responsibilities.
• 9. Ensure that tasks are understood,
supervised, and accomplished -
Communication is the key to this responsibility.
Attributes of Leadership:

If you are a leader who can be trusted, then


those around you will grow to respect you.
To be such a leader, there is a Leadership
Framework to guide you:
What is an attribute?

• An attribute
• As a Verb: to attribute: to apply, ascribe,
assign, blame, charge, credit, impute, lay at the
door of, put down to, refer, set down to, trace to
as a Noun: an attribut: an aspect, a character,
characteristic, facet, feature, indication, mark,
note, peculiarity, point, property, quality, quirk,
sign, symbol, trait, virtue
BE, KNOW, DO
• BE : a professional.
Examples:
Be loyal to the organization,
perform selfless service,
take personal responsibility.
• BE:
a professional who possess good character
traits.
Examples: Honesty, competence, candor, commitment,
integrity, courage, straightforwardness, imagination
• KNOW;
the four factors of leadership —
follower, leader, communication, situation.
• KNOW yourself.
Examples: strengths and weakness of your
character, knowledge, and skills.
• KNOW human nature.
Examples:
Human needs, emotions, and how
people respond to stress.
• KNOW your job.
• Examples:
• be proficient and be able to train others in their
tasks.
• KNOW your organization
Examples:
where to go for help, its climate and culture,
who the unofficial (Informal) leaders are?
DOs
• DO provide direction.
• Examples:
goal setting, problem solving, decision making,

planning.
• DO implement.
Examples:
communicating, coordinating, supervising,
evaluating.
• DO motivate.
Examples:
Develop morale and - ésprit de corps-
in the organization, train, coach, counsel.
• The Process of Great Leadership:
• The road to great leadership (Kouzes & Posner, 1987) that is common to
successful leaders:
• • Challenge the process - First, find a process that you believe needs to be
• improved the most.
• • Inspire a shared vision - Next, share your vision in words that can be
• understood by your followers.
• • Enable others to act - Give them the tools and methods to solve the
problem.
• • Model the way - When the process gets tough, get your hands dirty. A
boss tells others what to do; a leader shows that it can be done.
• • Encourage the heart - Share the glory with your followers' hearts, while
• keeping the pains within your own.

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