LEADERSHIP

Chapter V
 What is a leader?
• Guide- leader assumes the role as the
director, organizer, mentor, guru, and
adviser.
• Frontrunner- leader can be a spearhead,
leading light, trailblazer, and
groundbreaker.
• Head- leader can be called chief,
manager, superior, principal, boss, and
supervisor.
 Leadership
• is both a research area and a practical skill
encompassing the ability of an individual
or organization to "lead" or guide other
individuals, teams, or entire organizations.
• a process of giving control, guidance,
headship, direction, and governance.
 Causes of Failures in Leadership
• Selfishness, self-centeredness
• Pessimism
• Passivity
• Insecurity
• Recognition seeker
• Subjectivity/bias/partiality
• Lack of dedication/commitment/sincerity
• Dishonesty/Corruption
• Immorality
• Conceitedness/Boastfulness
 Servant Leadership
• is a leadership philosophy in which the
main goal of the leader is to serve. This is
different from traditional leadership where
the leader's main focus is the thriving of
their company or organizations.
Ten Principles of Servant Leadership
seeks to identify the will of a group and helps clarify that will.
1. Listening The servant leader seeks to listen receptively to what is being
said.

2. Empathy the ability to understand and share the feelings of another.

the potential for healing one's self and those who have broken
3. Healing
spirits from a variety of emotional hurts.
view most situations from a more integrated and holistic
4. Awareness
position.
a leader can attempt to influence a person's beliefs, attitudes,
5. Persuasion
intentions, motivations, or behaviors in a positive way.
ability to think beyond day to day realities with sensible and
6. Conceptualization
functional ideas.
enables the servant leader to understand the lessons and
7. Foresight events from the past, the realities and phenomena of the
present, and the likely impact of a decision for the future.
prioritizes the needs of others and emphasizes the use of openness
8. Stewardship
and persuasion rather than control.
9. Commitment of the Growth of allow members to enhance their potential aside from their concrete
People contributions as a worker.
suggests that true community can be created among those who
10. Building Community
work in businesses and other institutions.
 Leadership Behaviors
• Authoritarian Leadership- leads men by
means of the rank position.
• Paternalistic Leadership- leads men by
always setting an example.
• Participative Leadership-makes men
participate actively in the activity/task in
the organization.
• Laissez-Faire Leadership- leaves
decision-making to the subordinates.
 Types of Leader
• The Contributing Leader- focused on providing
reliable information to the team.
• The Collaborating Leader- focused on fulfilling
the overall goals and mission of the team.
• The Communicating Leader- focused on the
processes by which the team attains its goals.
• The Challenging Leader- focused on enhancing
team performance through "gadfly" questions
and comments.
 Foundation of Leadership
• Customer Orientation
• People Orientation
• Achievement Orientation
• Initiative
• Leadership
• Impact
• Self Confidence
 7 Steps of Effective Learning
1. Choose training according to your development
review
2. Define learning objectives
3. Build personal development plan (PDP)
4. Set SMART Objectives
5. Discuss key learnings with your supervisor
6. Define actions and next steps with your
supervisor
7. Evaluation/Feedback
 SMART Objectives
S-pecific
M-easurable
A-mbitious/Challenging
R-ealistic
T-ime bounded
 7 Leadeship Qualities of Great
Leaders
1. Vision- can see into the future.
2. Courage- willing to take risks.
3. Integrity- the quality of being honest and having strong
moral principles; moral uprightness.
4. Humility- being humble.
5. Strategic Planning- able to set priorities, focus energy
and resources, strengthen operations, ensure that team
members and other stakeholders are working towards
both the team and the organizations' common goals.
6. Focus-ability to concentrate on the pressing
issues/concerns of the organization.
7. Cooperation- ability to get everyone working and pulling
together in attaining the organizations' goals.
 Characteristics of a Leader
• Proactive versus Reactive- always thinking 3 step ahead.
• Flexible/Adaptable- able to adjust easily to different types of
situations/surroundings.
• Good Communicator- able to understand, listen, and leads
members in the right direction.
• Respectful- treating others with respect.
• Quiet Confidence- being sure of one's self with humble
intentions.
• Enthusiastic- energetic, entertaining, and motivates people to
work.
• Open Minded- work to consider all options when making
decisions.
• Resourceful- utilizes available resources.
 Characteristics of a Leader
• Rewarding- recognize each member's efforts.
• Well Educated- knowledgeable
• Open to Change- willingness to change policies, programs and
traditions that is already out-dated or no longer beneficial to the
group.
• Interested in Feedback- view feedback as a gift to improve.
• Evaluative- will constantly assess and change programs and
policies that were no longer working.
• Organized- always prepared and orderly in meetings, presentations,
and events.
• Consistent- acting or doing something in the same way over time,
especially so as to be fair or accurate.
• Delegator- able to delegate tasks accordingly to each member's
talents/skills/abilities.
• Initiative- ability to assess and act upon things independently.
 Leadership Styles
• Lewin's Leadership Style
1. Autocratic- makes decisions without consulting team
members.
2. Democratic- makes the final decision but includes
team members in the decision-making process.
3. Laissez-faire- gives their team members a lot of
freedom in how they do their work and how they set
their deadlines.
• Blake-Mouton Managerial Grid
1. People oriented- focused on organizing, supporting,
and developing team members.
2. Task oriented- focused on getting the job done.
 Leadership Styles
• Hersey-Blanchard Situational Leadership
Theory
– depends on maturity of team members
– if members are immature, a directing
approach/leadership is needed.
– if members are more mature, a
participative/delegating leadership style is
needed.
• Path-Goal Theory
– what your team members want and need.
 Leadership Styles
• 6 Emotional Leadership Styles
1. Visionary
2. Coaching
3. Affiliative
4. Democratic
5. Pacesetting
6. Commanding
• Flamholtz and Randles'
Leadership Style Matrix
 Leadership Styles
• Transformational Leadership
- is a leadership style in which leaders encourage,
inspire and motivate employees to innovate and
create change that will help grow and shape the
future success of the company.
• Bureaucratic Leadership
- is one of the leadership styles postulated by Max
Weber in 1947.
- is leadership based upon fixed official duties under a
hierarchy of authority, applying a system of rules for
management and decision-making.
 Leadership Styles
• Charismatic Leadership
- is basically the method of encouraging particular behaviors in others
by way of eloquent communication, persuasion and force of
personality.
- charismatic leaders motivate followers to get things done or improve
the way certain things are done.

• Servant Leadership
- is a leadership philosophy in which the main goal of the leader is to
serve.

• Transactional Leadership
- is a style of leadership in which leaders promote compliance by
followers through both rewards and punishments. Through a
rewards and punishments system, transactional leaders are able to
keep followers motivated for the short-term.
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