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LEADERSHIP

What is leadership?
Leading people
Influencing people
Commanding people
Guiding people

DEFINITIONS
Leadership is one who guides and directs
other people. He must give effective
direction and purpose
-Louis allen
Leadership is the activity of influencing
people to strive willingly for mutual
objectives
-George.R.Terry

Why Leadership is Important?


For crisis situations
For organizational performance
For employee job satisfaction
For successful management

Leader
INFLUENCES

Follower
Successful completion of a task
or accomplishment of a goal

KEY ELEMENTS OF
LEADERSHIP
Influence

Change

Leadership

LeadersFollowers

People

Organizational
Objectives

QUALITIES OF LEADER
Physical appearance
and strength
Mental vigour
Emotional stability
Sense of judgement
Goodwill
Motivation
Communication skill

Guiding ability
Sociability
Technical knowledge

VALUES DRIVE LEADERSHIP


Caring
Learning
Achieving
Sharing
Socially Responsibilities

IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP
Perfect organization structure
Directing group activities
Technological, economic and social changes
Better utilisation of manpower
Developing of good human relationship
Fulfilling social responsibilities
Source of motivation

FUNCTIONS OF LEADER
Taking initiative
Representation
Guide
Encouraging others
Arbitrator and
mediator
Planner

Rewards and
punishment
Integration
Communication
Production

CHARACTERSTICS OF LEADERSHIP
There must be followers
Working relationship between leader and follower
Personal quality
Reciprocal relationship
Community of interests
Guidance
Power relationship
Shared function
Related to a particular situation

TECHNIQUES OF LEADERSHIP
Securing co-operation
The use of power
Co-ordination
Discipline
Morale

Theories of leadership
Traitists theory
Behavioural approach theory
Situationalist approach theory
Followers theory (or) acceptance theory
System theory (or) path goal theory

LEADER STYLE
A leadership style is a relatively consistent
pattern of behaviour that characterizes a
leader. Leadership style is perceived by
others, as they respond to the leader
influence. This makes leadership style
predictable as a habit of action.

LEADERSHIP STYLE
Positive style
Negative style
Autocratic style
Democratic style
Free-rein style

TYPES OF LEADER
Autocratic leader
Intellectual leader
Liberal leader
Democratic leader
Institutional leader
Inducing leader
Paternal leader
Creative leader

LEADING VS MANAGING
Which is more important right or the left brain?
Creativity or Execution?
The essential difference is the degree to which people
initiate, own, anticipate, experiment
It is the difference between path creation & path
dependence
Greater the complexity of business, higher is the
need to blend both the capabilities
How leading is changing from pyramidical create
once and use many times model?

DIFFERENCE BETWEEN
MANAGER AND LEADER
Managers
Focus on things
Do things right
Plan
Organize
Direct
Control
Follows the rules

Leaders
Focus on people
Do the right things
Inspire
Influence
Motivate
Build
Shape entities

WHAT GOOD LEADERS DO NOT DO


Compete with their own people
Consider that they have a lousy team
Place popularity ahead of effectiveness
Sacrifice the means for the end
Create a future that enables self preservation
Sacrifice the team to prove a point
Say, I told you so When a new order is
ushered, let people say, we did it by ourselves

THANK YOU

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