Strategic Leaders

1. Topic 4
Strategic
Leaders

2. Topic 4 : Strategic Leaders
• Strategic leadership develop a vision for their organization that enables it to adapt
to or remain competitive in a changing economic and technological climate.
• Strategic leadership is about anticipating, envisioning, maintaining flexibility,
thinking strategically and empowering employees to create something new that
lead to organizational transformations or changes that bring improvement in
performance.
• The strategic leader is also known as change driver. As a change driver, the
leader creates and develops change management strategies and evolves
techniques to make the employees accept the changes .
• Effective strategic leadership is at the core of creating a sustainable competitive
advantage in rapidly changing organizations.

3. The Strategic Leadership Process comprised of four steps:
 Competence
o The right competencies, the appropriate temperament, a drive to
succeed and inspire the team to achieve goals.
 Vision
o Vision should provide strategic guidance, outlining a course for the
organization to follow
 Communication of vision
o Effectively communicate the vision to the appropriate internal groups.
 Serving others to realize the vision
o Listening and understanding to others needs will contribute to the overall
growth of the organization and the environment surrounding it.
 Managing Relationship
o Managing relationships with colleagues, executive management, and
employees is critical to becoming a strategic leader

4. Some of the important leadership qualities that can develop a good leader are
as below ;-
 Honesty and integrity
 Decision Making Capabilities
 Delegation and Empowerment
 Creativity and Innovation
 Emotional Intelligence
 Transparency
 Vision and purpose

5. In order to become a strategic leader, on must engage in the following 3
behaviors:
• Think strategically – Begin with understanding the complex relationship between
your organization and its environment. With this knowledge, one can then make
decisions that facilitate the organization’s success.
• Act strategically – Take decisive action consistent with the strategic direction of
the organization despite ambiguity and complexity.
• Influence strategically – Build commitment to the organization’s strategic
direction by inviting stakeholders into the strategic process, building relationships
inside and outside the organization, and utilizing organizational culture and
systems of influence.