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Styles and Dimensions
of Leadership
By Rex Gatto, Ph.D.
Gatto Associates, LLC
412-344-2277
Email: [email protected]
Website:www.rexgatto .com
Content Outline
• Introduction
• What is Leadership –how does it apply to your firm
• Leading by adapting to your people and the culture of your firm
• Applying the six dimensions of leadership
Thought Provoking
Books
• “Smart Mangers FAQ” by Gatto
• The 21 Indispensable Qualities of a Leader” by Maxwell
• “Management Challenges for the 21st Century” by Drucker
• “Leading Change” by Kotter
• “First Break All The Rules” by Buckingham and Coffman
• “Winning” by Welch
• “Where did all the Leader Go” by Iacocca
Learning Objectives
I. Effectively utilizing leadership characteristics
II. Effectively adapting leadership by communicating with followers
III. How to lead your firm
Four Styles/Level of
Leadership
Based on:
• Needs of the follower,
• Current work situation, and desired results
LEADERSHIP Leadership - process by which leaders
guide and develop themselves and others by:
• Communicating
• Taking appropriate action
• Building trust
• Achieving goals, given
• Leader’s abilities and skills
• Abilities and skills of followers
• Within a changing environment
LEADERSHIP
Leaders develop through ability, desire, and opportunity.
Effectively develop followers.
Address issues proactively.
Develop potential by leading, making decisions.
Earn the respect of followers.
Respond
Single out and clearly define expectations.
Have desire & trust to lead in unpredictable times.
Identify the right questions.
Provide open, honest, trusting, respectful communication.
LEADERSHIP DEFINITION
Leaders:
Define what the future should look like, aligns people with that vision, and inspires people to make it happen despite
the obstacles
(John Kotter)
Lead by Adaptation
Vision: where are we headed
Clearly define the job: set stretch goals
Open Communication: open communication in all directions – up and down and across the organization
Accountability for Results: in the end, it’s performance that counts. YOU are responsible for results
Lead by Adaptation
#2
Be Visible: make a point of getting out of your office and talking to the people who work for you; meet people
Performance: employee performance; give employee credit
Be a Role Mode: employees respond more to your actions than to your rhetoric. Lead by example.
Change: changing business; needs ask for input
Work Environment: open trusting, respectful and honest work atmosphere
Carly Fiorina
• Putting information to work by employing an infrastructure with the flexibility and adaptability to help companies
• Role that character, capability and collaboration play in defining leadership
Jack Welch
• Positive energy: go go go; they love action and relish change
• Energize: the ability to love people and inspire them to move mountains
• Edge: courage to make tough yes-or-no decisions -- no maybes
• Execute: get the job done
• Passion: a heartfelt, deep and authentic excitement about life and work
• Teach Managers to mange less; instill confidence
Walt Disney
Vision - is critical to success
Involvement - create a work
environment that
encourages employees to
be actively involved
Angel Merkel (Germany’s
1st women leader 11/05)
• Emphasizing the need for self-sufficiency
• Reforming the funding of the medical system and raising the retirement age while tinkering with the tax system
• Unemployment - 5 million before the election, fell in October to its lowest level in four years at around 4 million
• Debt is down
Jim Collins
Level Five Leaders
• Make the organization more successful for the next generation
• Know that we created a strong company
• Want my successor to be better and greater
• NO ME it’s WE
Effective Leaders
• Use various styles
• Trust themselves
• Develop themselves
• Apply abilities
• Know to whom and when to
listen and follow
Six Dimensions of
Leadership
• Communication
• Positive Attitude
• Building Relationship
• Decision Making
• Modeling Leadership
• Inspiring Others
Six Dimensions of
Leadership
Communication
• Listen, interact and write
Positive Attitude
• Enthusiastic, create trust and create trust
Building Relationship
• Fairness, resolve conflict and know followers
Six Dimensions of
Leadership
Decision Making
• Timely, problem solve, take action and set priorities
Modeling Leadership
• Set goals and follow through, manage time and compassion
• Inspiring Others
• Show appreciation, respect, positive and give recognition
Leadership Development Develop from Develop to
passive—having to be stimulated,
motivated, and disciplined
active —being self-reliant, self-initiated and
self-determined
dependence relative independence to interdependence
(internalization of a set of values which
become base for behavior)
capable of behaving in a few ways capable of behaving in many different ways
unpredictable, shallow interests of
short duration
deeper interests
smaller time perspectives a much larger time perspective of events—
behavior is affected by past events and
future hopes
subordinate position aspiring to occupy an equal and/or
superordinate position in reference to peers
lack of self-awareness awareness of and control over oneself