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UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP

Leadership AnD Strategic Thinking. UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP. Thursday 25 th September. Tim Acquah-Hayford. Leadership And Strategic Thinking. Introduction. The Objective.

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UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP

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  1. Leadership AnD Strategic Thinking UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Thursday 25th September Tim Acquah-Hayford

  2. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Introduction The Objective To promote the ideas and virtues of voluntary work among the youth for National and international development and peace How • Mobilize the youth for action • Harness and direct their abundant energies, talents, time, (money) • for development • Start from the community to the national and to the international UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  3. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Expected Results • Strategic Thinking • Leading to responsible and effective leadership • Spirit of voluntary service Historical Spirit of Voluntarism • Concept not new in Ghana • It was basis of community development • Communities, towns, and villages had grown through self-help • Asafo companies- mainly youth constituted the vanguard group for community • Self help • Protection of life and property • Armies against external attack. UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  4. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Historical continued… • Unquestionable commitment and love for community • Considered assignment as community call to duty • Voluntary Service • Community interest superseded that of self and family • The voluntary sacrifice was the source of community development and peace UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  5. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Effect of Political, economic, social and technological changes (globalization) On voluntary Service • Gradual whittling away of spirit of voluntary Service, particularly among youth. • Demand for financial and physical rewards for otherwise voluntary • youth services offered • Disinterestedness in voluntary work for development and peace • Break up of traditional family system • Foreign influences on culture To reverse the trend: • Develop strategic thinking and Leadership among youth • Instil these as essential tools for promoting voluntary service • among youth UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  6. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Leadership The Leader creates an environment in which those he leads operates • The environment is the organization • Leaders talk to each other and work in the organization • They also talk to outsiders, customers, suppliers, and government • The leader does strategic thinking: • He makes the choices • Demands commitments • Builds capacity • The leader provides a clear view of his vision of where the organization • is going, the expected results, the conducts of the people, states priority, • States the way forward. • The leadership efforts rest on strategic thinking- a critical leadership tool UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  7. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Leadership defined A relationship through which one person influences the behaviour or actions Of other people. Elements • Interpersonal behaviour-relationship • Involves groups • Brings team building • Motivation • Communication • Delegation • Must be seen in action • Integrates individual and group goals Note: A leader is moving from control to coaching, support, empowerment UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  8. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Differences between Manager and Leader • Leadership does not necessarily take place within a hierarchical structure • of the organization • Manager does planning, organizing, directing, and controlling the activities of • subordinates • Leader is more concerned with communicating with, motivating, encouraging, • involving people • The two terms are often used interchangeably though. Three types of Leadership • Successful Leadership- Achieves results intended by the leader • Effective Leader- achieves group goals and functional behaviour • Attempted Leadership- an individual attempts to exert leadership in the group Leadership resides in the functions and not in a particular person. UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  9. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Leadership training Three areas of need • task need • Group need • Individual need Leadership Styles • Dictatorial • Unitary • Bureaucratic • Benevolent • Charismatic • Consultative • Participative • Abdicational UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  10. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Generally Classified into 3 main headings • Authoritarian- focus on power • Democratic-participative • Genuine Laissez- Faire- Focus of power is with group: • -leader available to help members Another Classification Style: -Tells: Leader identifies solutions for group implementation -Sells: Leader decides and persuades participation -Consults: Leader identifies problem leaves group to identify problem -Joins: Leader defines problems and limits to answer. The group finds answer UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  11. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Leadership Constraints • Culture • Social, economic, political, technological, global, and environment • Legislation UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  12. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Strategic Thinking Traditional concept of strategic planning • Effective exploitation of resources • Effective exploitation of stable market positions Shift in meaning Strategy consists of the unique set of deliberate significant processes And the handful of simple rules that guide them. - Important feature is seizing fleeting opportunities UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  13. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Questions arising • What is strategy • What is its purpose • Why does it matter • What must you do to make it worthwhile • Whose responsibility is it What it must achieve • Prepare leader to deal with an uncertain future • Prepare leader to adapt to change • Strategy is change- process not a plan, an everyday ongoing process • Competition is mandatory: leader must • Focus resources • Drive customers perceptions of value • Drive costs down UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  14. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Strategy Continued….. • Imagination and human spirit • Drive performance • Subordinates must volunteer their imagination and spirit • Must detect new possibilities • Inspire new ideas • Set new standards of performance • Synthesis is critical Competitive skill • - Ability to make connections, ie synergy 2+2=5 must be reality. • What is thought about is managed and measured • Must be clear where he is going • Strategy must be deliberately crafted • Must be managed on an on going basis UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  15. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Where to apply the process • All kinds of Companies • Large and Small • Old and Young • Fast moving markets • The Strategic Processes must include: • select few strategic processes • Avoid picking a position or leverage of competence • Craft a handful of simple rules • Avoid responding to complicated world with elaborate strategies • Jump into uncertainty instead of avoiding it • The flow of opportunities is swiftest and deepest • Product innovation • Customer care • Partnering • Spin out creation • New market entry UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  16. Leadership And Strategic Thinking What Strategy is About: • Being alert • Anticipation • Seizing opportunity • Dreaming out new ways • Doing it consistently • Execution • Analysis and Choices • Dynamic living processes UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  17. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Conclusion • Effect of promoting leadership and strategic thinking on the spirit of • Voluntary Service among the Youth. • Awareness creation is a gradual process • Should be sustained • There should be reason for compliance • Knowledge and information will be required • Compulsion is not the answer • Persuasion with built-in incentives should be encouraged • But training is crucial • Subject matter is leadership and strategic thinking • These are modern concepts • Applicable in general management development • Also provides the youth with tools for voluntary Service UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  18. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Conclusion Thank You for listening Questions? UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

  19. Leadership And Strategic Thinking Conclusion • Application extends beyond the community to • national and international levels • Voluntary service builds good citizenship and • spirit of each other’s neighbour • Fashioning of national and international citizenry UNV/GLOBAL CAPACITY BUILDING WORKSHOP Tim Acquah-Hayford

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