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Leadership

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Leadership

A question for the audience.

Are they born or made?

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What are the characteristics of a good leader ?

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Leadership

John Buchan (1930)

• Enthusiasm

• Integrity

• Toughness or demandingness and fairness

• Warmth and humanity

• Humility

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Enthusiasm

• A lively or strong interest for a cause or activity.

• A great eagerness

• An intense and sometimes a passionate zeal for the work in hand.

“the very lifeblood of our

enterprise”

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Integrity

Field Marshal Slim

“the quality which makes people trust you”

Loyal adherence to values and standards especially the truth

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Tough, demanding but fair

• A leader has no favourites.

• The demands are not unreasonable

• The treatment of the team is even handed

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Warmth and humanity

• Chinese Proverb “You can live with cold tea and cold rice but not with cold words”

• General friendliness and caring for individuals

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Humility

• Lack of arrogance

• Open-mindedness

• Not over assertive or domineering

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Leadership Qualities

• Enthusiasm

• Integrity

• Tough, demanding but fair

• Warmth and humanity

• Humility

Write down two people whom you regard as leaders – give them a mark out of ten for each of the above.

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Is there a difference between Leadership and Management?

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The difference between leading and managing? • The manager maintains; the leader

develops. • – The manager focuses on systems

and structure; the leader focuses on people.

• – The manager relies on control; the leader inspires trust.

• – The manager has a short-range view; the leader has a long-range perspective.

• – The manager asks how and when; the leader asks what and why.

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The difference between leading and managing? • – The manager has his or her eye

always on the bottom line; the leader’s eye is on the horizon.

• – The manager imitates; the leader originates.

• – The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.

• – The manager is the classic good soldier; the leader is his or her own person.

• – The manager does things right; the leader does the right thing.

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What are leaders supposed to do?

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What are leaders supposed to do?

Achieving

the task

Developing

the

individual

Building and

Maintaining the

team

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What sort of leader do you want?

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John Adair Leadership and Motivation

How you lead the team is dependant upon the team and the project

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What is a leader supposed to do about motivation?

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Why is motivation so important?

Performance = fx (ability) (Motivation)

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Motivation

What motivates you at work?

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De - Motivation

What de-motivates you at work?

Life! Don't talk to me about life.

Wearily on I go, pain and misery my only companions. And vast intelligence, of course. And infinite sorrow. I despise you all.

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Motivation

Sense of achievement, recognition from colleagues of good work Enjoying aspects of the job itself A sense of responsibility A sense of career advancement ALicata JW, Mowen JC, Harris EG, Brown TJ. On the trait antecedents and outcomes of service worker job resourcefulness: a hierarchical model approach. J Acad Marketing Sci 2003;31:256-71 feeling of personal growth

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Motivation

• Kindness –Keep them on side

• Team sprit – make feel part of the team

• Trust and Respect

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Motivation John Adair

• Be motivated yourself

• Select people who are highly motivated

• Treat each person as an individual

• Set realistic and challenging targets

• Remember that progress motivates

• Create a motivating environment

• Provide fair rewards

• Give recognition

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Why do the best not always succeed?

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The Situational Approach Knowledge of the situation

You need:

• Food

• Shelter

• protection

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The Functional Approach Necessary skills to enable the team to achieve the task

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Authority at work

• Position

• Personality

• knowledge

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Leadership

A question for the audience.

Are they born or made?

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