This document summarizes a conference on leadership styles. It discusses definitions of leadership as guiding others beyond their own abilities and discusses factors that influence leadership style, including a leader's character, power, competence, emotional intelligence, and style. It also outlines different leadership styles identified by Daniel Goleman and provides guidelines for effective leadership, including adapting one's style to suit individuals and contexts. The document concludes by outlining a task for conference attendees to discuss leadership styles and skills in small groups.
2. What is leadership?
“Guiding others to go where they
can’t go by themselves”
Jo Owen quoting Henry Kissinger
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3. The Nature of Leadership
1. Everyone can learn to lead, and to lead better
2. No leader is perfect
3. You can lead at any level
4. Build on your strengths
5. Leadership is a team sport
6. Make a difference (go beyond status quo/comfort zone)
7. Find your context
8. People and political skills become more important with
seniority
9. Rules of leadership change at each level
10. You are responsible
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4. Leadership level/position
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Top leaders Middle leaders Emerging
leaders
Vision Ability to
motivate others
Hard work
Ability to motivate
others
Decisiveness Proactivity
Decisiveness Industry
experience
Intelligence
Ability to handle
crises
Networking
ability
Reliability
Honesty & integrity Delegation Ambition
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5. What do we mean by
‘leadership style?
• A way of leading that embodies a
particular set of traits and skills
• A term first coined by Kurt Lewin
in the 1930s
• Lewin said that leadership styles
could be learned
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6. Which factors influence leadership
style?
LeaderL's
character
L's power
and
influence
L's
competence
L's style
L's
emotional
intelligence
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7. Discussion
• In which ways is it important to
consider these 3 factors when
considering leadership style?
• Organisational culture
• Tasks
• Employees
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8. You – Emotional Intelligence
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9. Emotional intelligence - challenges
• Not becoming defensive when criticised
• Staying calm under pressure
• Handling setbacks effectively
• Managing anxiety, stress, anger and fear
• Seeking and utilising feedback and criticism for growth
• Remaining positive
• Maintaining a sense of humour
• Trying to see things from other’s perspectives
• Recognising how behaviour affects others
• Airing grievances skilfully
• Listening without jumping to judgement
• Freely admitting to making mistakes
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11. Leadership guidelines
1. Get to know your team
2. Provide basic job training
3. Develop people
4. Recognise
5. Encourage teamwork
6. Build a customer focused team
7. Coach
8. Act on employee feedback
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12. Leadership guidelines
1. Adapt leadership styles to suit the
person and context
2. Guide but don’t control
3. Clarify own expectations
4. Stay in touch
5. Lead on learning
6. Encourage collaboration
7. Tweak roles to capitalise on strengths
8. Offer incentives around what each
employee values
9. Use different coaching styles to suit
unique learning styles
10.Don’t set people up to fail
13. Task & Discussion
• The case scenario is designed to
promote detailed discussion on
leadership styles and skills.
• In groups, discuss the answer to the Qs
• In feedback, you will be asked to share:
• Key and interesting points that were raised in
discussion
• Any insights or revelations gained
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