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Developing Leadership Skills for a Life-Time

Developing Leadership Skills for a Life-Time. Dr. Suresh U. Kumar Founder & CEO, NexAge Technologies/Green Earth/ Game Changers Adjunct Professor, University of Phoenix, NJ Advisor SAALT and ASHOKA Foundation. My Leadership Experience.

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Developing Leadership Skills for a Life-Time

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  1. Developing Leadership Skills for a Life-Time Dr. Suresh U. Kumar Founder & CEO, NexAge Technologies/Green Earth/ Game Changers Adjunct Professor, University of Phoenix, NJ Advisor SAALT and ASHOKA Foundation

  2. My Leadership Experience • School and Collage, Kerala- Multiple Student Leadership Roles; Captain of College Football Team; Kerala Students Union. • Professional/Work: Executive with 3 Multi-National Firms • Entrepreneurship: 3 High-Growth Startups, 2 of which are in the INC 500 List • Social/Community Sector: NetIP-NY, TIE, KITA, SAALT, ASHOKA

  3. What Exactly is Leadership? • The Art of Influencing People • A Form of Persuasion • Focus on a Group Process • An Inter-personal Power Relationship • Getting Others to Willingly do What it Takes to Reach Organizational Goals

  4. My Definition of Leadership “The INCREMENTAL INFLUENCE that a person has thru PERSONAL POWER above and beyond the mechanical compliance and Positional Authority”

  5. Key Ideas • Leadership is NOT Positional Authority (example CEO, Principal, President, Senator etc. are not necessarily leaders) • Leadership is not Mechanical Compliance with Rules • Leadership is the “INCREMENTAL INFLUENCE” (extra) that is driven by PERSONAL POWER.

  6. Leadership & Management(Are they the same?) • So who do you want to be?

  7. So How Can You Become a Leader? • Leadership is Teachable and Learnable Skill- so Practice, Practice, and Practice the art of Influencing others • Create multiple PLATFORMs to Practice Leadership (Social & Community Organizations) • Follow and Learn from Leaders you Admire (read history) and share your thoughts • #1 TIP: Join a Community or Professional Org- FOLLOW then LEAD from the front

  8. Characteristics/Values of Good Leaders • Restlessness and Intellectual Curiosity to Improve a Process, Product, Service or Cause • Comfort with Decision Making despite Ambiguity / Incomplete Information • Comfort with Calculated Risk-taking • EMPATHY & HUMILITY • ETHICS, INTEGRITY & Developing TRUST • Belief in a Cause Greater Than Self

  9. Summary of Key Ideas • Leadership is the ART of INFLUENCING PEOPLE • Leadership is derived from PERSONAL POWER • Leadership is NOT Management- it goes well beyond it. • Leadership is a Learnable Skill that can be mastered with Practice • Leadership is Values Based- Ethics and Integrity and Trust are at the core

  10. LEADERSHIP IS ACTION • “THE MAN IN THE ARENA” • SPEECH BY US PRESIDENT THEODORE ROOSEVELT in PARIS, April 23, 1910. • GOOGLE IT AND READ IT TODAY

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