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Build Your Management Skills

Build Your Management Skills. Self-Assessment Exercise: Do You Have What it Takes to be a Leader?. 1. Leadership in Review:. Leadership is “a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of the subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals.”

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Build Your Management Skills

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  1. Build Your Management Skills Self-Assessment Exercise: Do You Have What it Takes to be a Leader? 1

  2. Leadership in Review: • Leadership is “a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of the subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals.” • A leadership trait is a personal characteristic that differentiates leaders from followers. 2

  3. Leaders: Innovate Develop Inspire Long-term view Ask what and why Originate Challenge the status quo Do the right things Managers: Administer Maintain Control Short-term view Ask how and when Initiate Accept the status quo Do things right Leaders vs. Managers Source: J.P Kotter, “What Leaders Really Do,” Harvard Business Review, December 2001, pp. 85-96. 3

  4. Learning Objectives: Part A • To assess your knowledge of leadership and trait theories. • To work in groups to strengthen your personal leadership strengths and weaknesses. 4

  5. Instructions: Part A • Complete “Do You Have What it Takes to be a Leader?” self-assessment. • Submit your answers and read your results. • Determine your leadership strengths (top 3) and weaknesses (bottom 3). 5

  6. Seven Leadership Traits • Personal Stability • Productivity • Self-Management • Boundary Setting • Communication • Work Quality • Teamwork 6

  7. Leadership Skills Scale 7

  8. Instructions: Part A Continued • Brainstorm 2 specific ways to strengthen each of your weak behaviors (for a total of six). • Break into groups and share results. Provide one another with feedback. • Class discussion. 8

  9. Learning Objectives: Part B • To further your understanding of what it takes to be a leader. • To work in groups to develop an understanding of leadership and gender. 9

  10. Instructions: Part B • Separate by gender. • Break into gender-based groups of 3-4. • Brainstorm and reach a consensus for your group’s top 3 leadership skills and bottom 3 leadership skills. • Present your strengths and weaknesses to the class. 10

  11. Gender and Leadership • Men displayed more task leadership • Women more social leadership • Women more democratic and participative • Men more autocratic and directive • Equally assertive • Women scored higher on a variety of effectiveness criteria 11

  12. Leadership Effectiveness Criteria *Each check mark denotes which group scored higher in respective studies **In one study, women’s and men’s score in these categories were statistically even 12 Source: R. Sharpe “As Leaders, Women Rule.” Business Week, November 20, 2000, p. 75. The data came from Haberg Consulting Group, Management Research Group, Lawrence A. Pfaff Personnel Decisions International Inc., and Advanced Teamware Inc.

  13. Discussion Questions: Part B • Is this information consistent or inconsistent with our class findings? • What do these finding say about the leadership skills of the men and women in this class? 13

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