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Leadership Development Handbook
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Leadership Competencies:
Inspiring commitment
Being a quick learner
Respecting individual differences
Being culturally adaptive
Compassion and sensitivity
Self-Awareness
Participative management
Change Management
Resourcefulness
Strategic Management
Leading People
Motivator
Skill Gap:
A parallel study of leadership development has also revealed 5 major flaws that cause once
successful managers to derail while moving towards senior leadership positions:
Delivering Value:
Business Leadership
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People Leadership
Leadership Choices
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Progressive Leadership:
(Communicate – Differentiate – Innovate)
Inclusive Co-creating
Appreciating Humanizing
Aspirational Aspiring
Sharing / Learning Navigating
Risk-taking Generating
Developing Expressing
Commitment Synchronizing
Regressive Leadership:
(Dictate – Imitate - Stagnate)
Exclusive Co-creating
Criticizing / Judging Humanizing
Fear Based Aspiring
Silo-mentality Navigating
Punish Risk-taking Generating
Dictates Expressing
Compliance Synchronizing
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C- Community / Co-creating
Use of POSITIONAL POWER is TOXIC that prevents co creation
H- Humanizing
Use of JUDGING is TOXIC that reduces Self-Worth
A- Aspiring
Use of EXPLICIT and IMPLICIT threats are TOXIC that prevents contribution
N- Navigating
SUSPICION and LACK OF TRUST are TOXIC that prevents sharing and
collaborative learning
G- Generating
DWELLING on PROBLEMS of the PAST is extremely TOXIC and prevents
creativity, experimentation and innovation
E- Expressing
CONFLICT AVERSION resulting in TELLING, not LISTENING to others is TOXIC
and prevents individuals from feeling important
S- Spirit / Synchronizing
COMPLIANCE and CONTROL are TOXIC that prevents people from believing
in and making commitments towards organizational goals
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QUIZ:
Organizational Assessment
1 – NEVER…… 7 - ALWAYS
1. Do you work from positional power and control, rather than seeking and
honouring the contributions and power of your colleagues
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5. Do you hold onto past versus being encouraged to let go and embrace
possibilities for the future
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6. To what extent you are being told what to do rather being heard what you
have to say and contribute
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TOTAL SCORE
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QUIZ:
Organizational Assessment
1 – NEVER…… 7 - ALWAYS
1. Do you work from positional power and control, rather than seeking and
honouring the contributions and power of your colleagues
EXCLUDING INCLUDING
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5. Do you hold onto past versus being encouraged to let go and embrace
possibilities for the future
CONVENTIONAL INNOVATIVE
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6. To what extent you are being told what to do rather being heard what you
have to say and contribute
TOLD HEARD
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TOTAL SCORE
40-49 Organization embodies WE culture
30-39 Organization is on its way to embody WE culture
20-29 Organization shows signs of WE culture
07-19 Organization works on I culture
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Organizations have personalities that we can sense when we walk in the environment and
the way we are greeted. Every small act, every thought, every feeling, and every person
adds to the atmosphere and the overall experience. Leadership is about creating the
psychological environment that impacts organizations ability to grow, expand and
contribute abundantly to ourselves and our teams and above all to the organization future.
Transformational leadership change organizational boundaries by expanding the space for
people’s development thereby ensuring organization survival and growth.
C- Community / Co-creating
H- Humanizing
A- Aspiring
N- Navigating
G- Generating
E- Expressing
S- Spirit / Synchronizing
C- COMMUNITY
Philosophy POWER WITH and not POWER-OVER
WORK to INCLUDE and not to EXCLUDE
Co-creating value together
Co-creating works on PULL energy
Great sense of SHARED OWNERSHIP and ACCOMPLISHMENT
Focus is on ENGAGEMENT, INVOLVEMENT and PARTICIPATION
Reduce territoriality, ego and fear of rejection
Leadership Principle
INCLUSION (We centric) Vs. EXCLUSION (I centric)
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Competencies RESPECT
ACCOUNTABILITY
PASSION
INTEGRITY
DRIVE
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Leadership Principle
APPRECIATING (Us centric) Vs CRITICIZING (Me centric)
APPRECIATING: CRITICIZING
Constructive Feedback Blame, Finger pointing
Confidence & Reliance Lack of Trust
Focus is on Strengths Focus is on Deficiencies
“What can they DO” “What they can’t DO”
Supportive Critical
A- ASPIRING
Philosophy OPTIMISM and not PESSIMISM
HIGHER LEVEL of shared LEARNING
Value HOPES and INDIVIDAUL ASPIRATIONS
Works on PULL energy
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N- NAVIGATING
Philosophy MUTUAL SUPPORT and GROWTH
HIGHEST LEVEL of COLLABORATION
HIGHEST LEVEL of COHESIVENESS
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G- GENERATING
Philosophy ENVISIONING and CREATING FUTURE
HIGHEST LEVEL of COLLECTIVE INNOVATION
Shift from state of KNOWING to state of CUROSITY
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E- EXPRESSING
Philosophy DEVELOPING PEOPLE and their POTENTIAL
HIGHEST LEVEL of sense SHARED OWNERSHIP,
ACCOUNTABILITY and ACCOMPLISHMENT
Works on PULL energy by removing ARTIFICIAL RESTRAINTS
that STIFLE
Encourage PEOPLE to MAKE DECISION and CHALLENGE
AUTHORITY, and are valued and respected for their
contribution
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COMMITMENT: COMPLAINCE:
Shared Vision & Open Communication Disconnection & lack of
communication
Focus on Higher purpose Individual focus
Rewarded Punished
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H- Humanizing APPRECIATION
The Humanizing aspect of transformational leadership creates an atmosphere that values
UNIQUENESS and DIVERSITY and RESPECTS the talents of each INDIVIDUAL
CREATING A CULTURE OF APPRECIATION
1. Examining JUDGEMENTS
2. Checking ASSUMPTIONS
3. Checking INTERPRETATIONS and PERCEPTIONS
4. Moving from BLAME to HONORING
a. Identify person with whom you are having difficulty in your team
b. Decide what you want to happen in this relationship
c. What would change if this relationship was working perfectly
d. What beliefs about yourself or that person do you need to let go of that
are getting in your way of creating what you want
e. What feelings about yourself or that person do you need to let go of that
are getting in your way of creating what you want
f. What behaviours that you turn to when you are with that person do you
need to let go of that are getting in your way of creating what you want
g. What patterns of speaking and communicating do you need to let go of
that are getting in your way of creating what you want
h. Coach yourself – celebrate success
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N- Navigating LEARNING
The Navigating aspect of transformational leadership creates a culture of Learning
representing a framework for thinking about individual and organizational CHANGE and the
issue of how to adopt NEW BEHAVIORS.
CREATING A CULTURE OF LEARNING
Benchmarking with Difference
The idea is to seek out pockets of excellence or effectiveness within your organization and
invite those pockets to share what makes them excellent or effective.
G- Generating INNOVATION
The Generating aspect of transformational leadership nurtures Innovation and thinking that
leads to inspired breakthroughs
CREATING A CULTURE OF INNOVATION
Brain Walking
It is an exciting technique designed to help co-workers generate big ideas and insights by
stimulating connections between seemingly unrelated or random thoughts, facts and
intuitions. Brain walking is extension of Brainstorming
E- Expressing INITIATIVE
The Expressing aspect of transformational leadership nurtures culture for Development by
encouraging others to speak, take risks and develop themselves to develop organization and
lead their responsibilities in their own way
CREATING A CULTURE OF INITAITIVE / DEVELOPMENT
Learner as Teacher
One of the best ways to learn is by having to teach someone else
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