Leadership through Self-Reliance

By: M Jagadesh Kumar

• What are the initiatives for Organizational excellency by majority of companies?

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• Why are these excellence programs are needed?

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• What has been the result of all these excellence programs?

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• What has been the limitation of these excellency initiatives by majority of big organization?

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Standardization Daily management

Business reality A requirement for excellence

Sustenance and further improvement

Leadership is found to be the weak element

• Agenda

– Excellency sustenance problems

• What is leadership?

• How we lead usually?

• How leadership differentiates from management?

– What is needed to solve present problems?

– Toyota Production System and Respect for People

– What is self-reliance?

– Introduction to Harada Method

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• What has been the Leadership style generally practiced?

• What is leadership?

• Do we really lead our people?

• How leadership is differentiated from management?

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• How do we lead usually?

• Trust our subordinates, leave everything to subordinate

• Tell our subordinates what and how to do

• Problem solving skills are needed (because firefighting rewards us)

• We listen less and say more

• We confuse sub-ordinates (helping or troubling cannot be made-out)

• ……

We lose the trust of subordinate and demotivate

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• Leadership and Management

• There are 54 differences according to Mr. Norman Bodek

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• What are the present problems?

• Big companies are getting dragged into legal tussles

• Employees are demotivated

• Customers are getting confused / clueless (indifference from employees)

• ……….

8th Waste is the biggest problem

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• What is missing in most organization?

• No approach for people development

• No clear picture of individual goals and career

• Mentoring and coaching rarely done

• Development of people as business priority

• Systematic approach for self-sufficiency

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• Is there any example where these problems are taken care and how?

Quality, Cost & Delivery

Leveled Production, 5S, ….

Jid

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JIT

Respect of People

Toyota Production System

• Empowerment (Qualification, authority to stop line, …)

• Fact based • Reacting quickly to a problem • Working for only value addition • Dignified job and working conditions • Having necessary problem solving skills • Alignment to company objectives • High enthusiasm • Challenge to improve up on • ……..

Leadership demonstrates & develops

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• What is self-reliance?

Will Self-reliance help organizations?

Is it easy to gain self-reliance?

Empowered Visionary

Self-driven

Confident

Goal oriented Proactive

Caring for people

Problem solver

Responsible & accountable

Highly skilled & knowledged

Energised

Ethical

Determined

Trustworthy

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Mr. Takashi Harada

What is Harada Method?

• Simple 33 principles are used • Goal fixing takes place considering personal &

organizational requirements • Systematic method of goal setting (goal

analysis, success & failure factors analysis, …) • Tasks for achieving the goals are derived • Tasks are converted to daily routine for

implementation

Overview

• World’s best method for developing people • Findings of famous Leadership Gurus from USA are considered

• Psychological aspects like affirmations, strokes, daily routines are used

Specialities

Everyone needs coaching to be successful

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Application of Harada Method

1. Develop self first using this method

2. Use this method for coaching others

With Harada Method everyone can be successful in life

Be a Leader Be a Great coach

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What will be the impact of Harada Method?

Family

Society

Self

Organization

Eventually changes culture of organization & society

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Jagadesh Kumar M +91 9740321728, mjshalini@satyam.net.in