Visionary & Participative Leadership

1. Visionary & Participative Leadership • Pamela Bentley, Silvia Lozano, & Ryan Eller • SWASAP ELI 2011

2. Visionary Leadership • “You must be the change you wish to see in the world.” – Mahatma Gandhi

3. Visionary Leadership • Visionary leadership is the organizational competency area concerned with collaborative leadership to reach the shared vision. • Visionary leadership is described as going beyond charisma with the ability to create and articulate a realistic, credible, attractive vision of the future for an organization or organizational unit that grows out of and improves on the present.  • Visionary Leaders empower others.

4. Visionary Leadership • Strengths of Visionary Leaders • Communication • Connectedness • Developer • Focus • Futuristic • Ideation • Individualization • Maximizer • Positivity • Relator • Strategic

5. Visionary Leadership • Our Strengths as a Visionary Leader • Silvia • Communication • Connectedness • Pamela • Positivity • Ryan • Communication • Maximizer • Positivity • Strategic

6. Visionary Leadership • Positives • 1. Creates a concise and clear vision • 2. Empowers others to join in on the vision • 3. Creates new ideas and opportunities for the organization • Negatives • 1. Lose track of the day-today responsibilities of the organization • 2. Can lack the discipline to organize goals • 3. May not always have the motivation to put the hard work into a project

7. Visionary Leadership • Famous Visionary Leaders

8. Visionary Leadership • Characteristics of a Visionary Leader • Creates a compelling vision • Facilitates the empowerment of others to participate in the vision • Creates a vision respectful of individual’s autonomy and dignity • Leads by example and supports leadership roles of others • Fosters the process of individual empowerment • Encourages use of resources • Generates, shares, and implements new ideas and incorporates them into daily work

9. Participative (Democratic) Leadership • This style of leadership allows all the members of the team to participate in the decision making process, but the final decision is still made by the leader. • A study by Kurt Lewin found that generally this is the most effective leadership style.

10. Participative (Democratic) Leadership • Strengths • Command • They like to impose their views on others • Deliberative • They are mostly private and prefer to work alone • Discipline • They instinctively impose structure. • Focus • They need a clear destination • Intellection • They seem to work better alone.

11. Participative (Democratic) Leadership • Three positives: • This process allows for the development of additional leaders who can serve the organization at a later date. • Effective participative leadership allows the talents and skills of all the team members to be utilized in arriving at decisions and taking courses of action. • Offers a great deal of flexibility to adapt to better ways of doing things.

12. Participative (Democratic) Leadership • Three Negatives • This leadership style does often involve the need for more time before action is taken. • If security is an issue, this style may be inappropriate because so many people are involved from an early stage. • If too many different views and personalities are together, it could create chaos.

13. Participative (Democratic) Leadership • Leaders • Dwight D. Eisenhower • As a military leader, Eisenhower was faced with the task of getting the Alliance forces to agree on a common strategy. Eisenhower labored hard to make sure everyone worked together to come to a common understanding. This was one of his greatest achievements.

14. Participative (Democratic) Leadership • Characteristics • Encourage group value • Take and give feedback • Be able to make final decision based on input from group • Being a good facilitator