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1. How To Be A Successful Leader Speakerhead.com

2. Content • Successful Leadership: Why important? • Who is a successful leader? • Management and Leadership • The Leadership Challenge • Leadership Definition • How to Be a Successful Leader • Conclusion Speakerhead.com

3. Successful Leadership: Why important? • 21st Century: a period of unprecedented and transformative change • Global Economy and Workforce • Turbulence in world • “The old organizational pyramids of the nineteenth century are crumbling, being replaced by upside-down pyramids and circles and connections.” (Greenleaf Center, 1997) • Without leadership, organization’s falter in times of change and turmoil. Speakerhead.com

4. Successful Leadership:Why important? • Companies rated in the 20 percent of leadership skills and development outperform their industry’s average return to shareholders by 22 percentage points. (Lombardo & Eichinger, The Leadership Machine) • Companies with above-average leadership-team strength enjoyed above-average revenue growth, relative to their industries (Holden, 2003. Corporate Leadership Council) • Dr. John Kotter, Harvard leadership expert, maintains that successful organizational transformations are 70 to 90 percent attributable to leadership ability. (Holden, 2003) Speakerhead.com

5. Who is a Successful Leader? • Alexander the Great Speakerhead.com

6. Who is a Successful Leader? • Napoleon I • “A leader is a dealer in hope.” Speakerhead.com

7. Who is a Successful Leader? • John F. Kennedy • “Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other.” Speakerhead.com

8. Management and Leadership • The manager has his/her eyes on the bottom line. • The leader has his/her eyes on the horizon. • The manager imitates. • The leader originates. • (Management Notes, 1998) Speakerhead.com

9. Management and Leadership • The manager is the classic good soldier. • The leader is his/her own person. • The manager does things right. • The leader does the right thing. • The manager asks how and when. • The leader asks what and why. (W. Bennis) • (Management Notes, 1998) Speakerhead.com

10. The Leadership Challenge • “Each of us contains the capacity to be a leader.” (Warren Bennis) • The challenge: to realize this capacity. • Leadership is a global issue: crosses all boundaries, cultures, religions, etc. Speakerhead.com

11. Leadership Definition • Leadership: A process of influence among leaders and followers who intend real changes that reflect their mutual purposes. (Appleton, 1999) Speakerhead.com

12. How to Be a Successful Leader: Essential Elements • Successful leaders must have the ability to develop a vision of the possible. • Leaders guide the skills of others by the sheer weight of their visions. • (Appleton, 1999) Speakerhead.com

13. How to Be a Successful Leader: Essential Elements • Successful leaders have a clear understanding of: • themselves; • the expectations, experiences, needs, and interaction patterns of others in the group or organization; • and, appreciate the specifics of the environment and the tasks to be accomplished. • (Appleton, 1999) Speakerhead.com

14. How to Be a Successful Leader: Essential Elements • Successful leaders depend as much on personal influence and competency power as on the elements of legitimate power. • The successful leader will be a transformational leader. • (Appleton, 1999) Speakerhead.com

15. Transformational Leader • Develop a vision that is both clear and highly appealing to followers. • Articulate a strategy for bringing that vision to life. • State your vision clearly and promote it to others. • Show confidence and optimism about your vision. • Express confidence in followers’ capacity to carry out the strategy. Speakerhead.com

16. Transformational Leader • Build confidence by recognizing small accomplishments toward the goal. • Celebrate accomplishments and successes. • Take dramatic action to symbolize key organizational values. • Set an example. • Coach and mentor. Speakerhead.com

17. How to Be a Successful Leader: Essential Elements • A successful leader will not only ask questions and wrestle with their individual and organizational interests, but will also ask the question: • “Leadership for what purpose and what public good?” • (Appleton, 1999) Speakerhead.com

18. Make your expectations clearly known. Share your goals, visions, motivations, and reasons. Give feedback about contributions. Listen Build team players. Reward cooperation and hard work. Maintain good relations with boss. Accept diversity. Admit your mistakes. When you promise-deliver. Periodically, disengage from daily pressures. Don’t take yourself too seriously. How to Be a Successful Leader: Strategies(Technical Management Services, Inc., 2004) Speakerhead.com

19. How to Be a Successful Leader: Characteristics • Drive • Honesty and integrity • Leadership motivation • Self-confidence • Cognitive ability/intelligence • Knowledge of the business • Emotional intelligence • Flexibility Speakerhead.com

20. Conclusion As citizens of this turbulent dynamic world, we each have a responsibility to be a successful leader. • Citizen Leader: influencing others to create a better and peaceful world. Speakerhead.com

21. ConclusionCitizen Leader • To create an environment where people can thrive, grow, and live in peace with one another. • To promote harmony with nature and thereby provide sustainability for future generations. • To create communities of reciprocal care and shared responsibility. (Allen, et. al, 1998) Speakerhead.com

22. Conclusion • “Leadership is not the private reserve of a few charismatic men and women. It is a process ordinary people use when they are bringing forth the best from themselves and others.” Speakerhead.com

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