This document discusses leadership skills and effective leadership. It outlines key leadership traits like communication skills, being a team player and builder, having integrity, and a positive attitude. It also discusses Stephen Covey's time management quadrant model and levels of leadership hierarchy from Jim Collins' book "Good to Great". The document ends with the author's career roadmap highlighting experiences developing communication skills and working to build teams.

1. LEADERSHIP SKILLS

2. Leadership Traits
• Great Communicator
• Great Listener
• Likes people
• Team Player
• Team Builder
• Courageous
• Positive Attitude
• Determination
• High Energy
• Enormous patience
• Trust and Empathy
• Integrity

3. How to be an
Effective Leader

4. Circle of Influence
Covey
Circle of
Influence
Proactive vs. reactive focus

5. Reactive Focus
Covey
Circle of
Influence

6. Proactive Focus
Covey
Circle of
Influence

7. Quadrant II – Time Management
Urgent Not Urgent Covey
I II
Important
 Crises  Planning, Prevention
 Pressing problems  PC activities
 Deadline-driven projects,  Recognizing new
meetings, preparations opportunities
 Relationship Building
 Renewal, Recreation
Habits 1-7
Not Important
 Needless interruptions  Trivia, busywork
 Unnecessary reports  Some phone calls
 Unimportant meetings,  Time wasters
phone calls, mail  “Escape” activities
 Other people’s minor  Irrelevant mail
issues  Excessive TV
III IV

8. Level 5 Hierarchy Jim Collins
Good to Great
Level 5 Executive
LEVEL 5 Builds enduring greatness through a
paradoxical combination of
personal humility plus professional will.
Effective Leader
LEVEL 4 Catalyzesand compelling vision; stimulates the of
a clear
commitment to and vigorous pursuit
group to high performance standards.
Competent Manager
LEVEL 3 Organizes people and resources toward effective
and efficient pursuit of predetermined objectives.
Contributing Team Member
LEVEL 2 Contributes to the achievement of group objectives;
works effectively with others in a group setting.
Highly Capable Individual
LEVEL 1 Makes productive contributions through talent,
knowledge,skills, and good work habits.

9. Level 5 Hierarchy Jim Collins
Good to Great
Professional Will Personal Humility
Creates Superb results, a clear Demonstrates a compelling
catalyst in the transition from modesty, shunning public
good to great adulation; never boastful.
Demonstrates an unwavering Acts with quiet, calm
resolve to do whatever must be determination; relies principally on
done to produce the best long- inspired standards, not inspiring
term results, no matter how charisma, to motivate.
difficult.
Sets the standard of building an Channels ambition into the
enduring great company; will company, not the self ; sets up
settle for nothing less. successors for even greater success
in the next generation.
Looks in the mirror, not out the Looks out the window , not in the
window, to apportion mirror, to apportion credit for the
responsibility for poor results, success of the company – to other
never blaming other people, people , external factors and good
external factors or bad luck. luck.

10. Road Map
1995 till
1987-88 1988 1988-89 1989-95
date
INDIA INTERFACE
SER SIVARAMS DYNOVOX
TELECOM SYSTEMS
Sales •Sales Executive
Mgmt Trainee Mgmt Trainee Proprietor
Executive 1989-91
•Sr. Tr. Mgr
1991-93
• Language • Hard work •Integrity
•Communication •Area Sales Mgr
• Broad picture • Speed •Determination
•High Energy 1993-94
•Like People
of how •Patience •Regional Sales
organization •Trust &
•Courage Mgr 1994-95
Empathy
works
•Top Mgmt •Stretch
• Communication
Requirements •Work on Q2
•Team Player
activities
•Team Building
POSITIVE ATTITUDE

11. THANK YOU