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Developing Key Leadership Skills

This document discusses key concepts of leadership. It begins by noting the radical changes occurring in society and the need for changes in how organizations work. It defines leadership as providing direction, communicating vision and benefits, enabling and coaching others, and recognizing results. The document outlines important leadership skills like articulating a compelling vision, influencing others, leading by example, and developing new leaders. It emphasizes listening to others, serving as a role model, and making one's team's success the priority in order to effectively develop leadership skills.

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Developing Key Leadership Skills

This document discusses key concepts of leadership. It begins by noting the radical changes occurring in society and the need for changes in how organizations work. It defines leadership as providing direction, communicating vision and benefits, enabling and coaching others, and recognizing results. The document outlines important leadership skills like articulating a compelling vision, influencing others, leading by example, and developing new leaders. It emphasizes listening to others, serving as a role model, and making one's team's success the priority in order to effectively develop leadership skills.

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Raisl, Department of Management ,SEUSL


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 Today’s Realities
 What is Leadership?
 What Do Leaders Do?
 Key Leadership Skills
 Ways to Develop Leadership Skills
 Summary

[Link], Department of Management


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,SEUSL
 Radical changes in all aspects of our society
- Education
- Government
- Business
-Banking
- Health Care
-Insurance
 We have to change how we work and manage
- All aspects of our organizations
- All processes we use to do our work

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Knowledge

What? Why?

Habits
Behavior
Mindset
How To? Want To

Adapted from Covey 1989 Skills Attitude and Desire


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 Political
 Military
 Business
 Academic
 Religious
 Sports
 Statistical Leaders
 And many more

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 Provide Direction - Where we are headed
 Communicate

- The “Why” & “Benefits” of the


direction
 Enable, Coach and Counsel
 Recognize Results and Reinforce Desired

Behavior

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 Provide Direction
- Leaders show the way
 Communicate

- Leaders develop understanding and


hope
 Enable, Coach, Counsel, Provide Resources

- Leaders set people up for success


 Recognize Results and Reinforce Desired
Behavior
- Leaders catch people doing things right

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 “Power of rhetoric” If you want things to
change, declare success about it
◦ Raise visibility by having things be part of the
language

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 Be able to articulate your vision in an easily
understood way
◦ Provides a focus for your leadership
 Get a core group of people working with you
◦ Buy-in is critical.
 Build on people’s strengths and passions
◦ Invest people in forwarding your/their agenda

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 Be willing to lose openly and often
◦ Accepting loss speaks to integrity and
leadership
 Use a group of key people in your life
whose advice you trust
 Be willing to change your thinking
 To be a leader, you need to be able to get
people to follow
◦ You need to get people working together and
engaged with a mutual agenda

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 People follow leaders with vision
◦ Vision must be simple, focused and compelling
◦ Leader must do their homework
◦ You must be able to sell your vision
 You need to master when to use influence and
when to use power
◦ You need to know how to use both
 Actions are at least as important as words
◦ If you think something is important, you need to
demonstrate it to your reports wrt your priorities, how
you spend your time, etc.

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 You need to be able to work in a number of
different time scales
◦ You need to be able to plan far ahead
 You need to be able to manage both self-
confidence and self-doubt
◦ Take enough input to question yourself
 You need to be able to create new leaders
◦ Good organizations have bench depth

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 Stay at the table – don’t give up on people
or what you believe in
 Leaders should listen
◦ Be obliging in the way you refuse
 You have to be respected even if you or
your decisions are not liked
 Be a role model for your organization
◦ Interact with your staff consist in the way you
want the culture to be

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 Make your goals about your team’s success
rather than your success
 You need to get good at managing both up

and down
◦ With direct reports, it’s useful to foster
communication among parties
 Strategy: Each person can explain the other’s point of
view
 Value the idea and not just the status of the
person who said it

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“Never doubt that a small group of
committed people can change the World.
Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has”
Margaret Mead

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 Have dreams and desire
 Place an increased focus on enhancing your
leadership skills
 Be on the lookout for examples - good and bad -
of leadership that you can use as a model
 Be assertive all the time
 Best way to learn to lead is to do it
- Be on the lookout for your opportunity!
opportunity

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Thank You.

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