This document discusses effective leadership for engineers. It covers leadership styles such as autocratic, democratic, and delegative. It also outlines tools for leadership like planning, organizing, leading, and controlling. Additionally, it describes the four quadrants of effective leadership as business strategy, business economics and financing, marketing, and technology. Finally, it provides a "recipe" for the characteristics of an effective leader, including qualities like character, humility, intelligence, empathy, confidence, and reliability.

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2. EFFECTIVE LEADERSHIP
 Introduction
 Leadership Styles
 Tools for Leadership and Management
 Four Quadrants of Effective Leadership
 Secret Leadership for an effective Leader
 References
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Agenda

3.  Leadership is both the act of guiding and the process of
showing the way to proceed toward a common goal
(Northouse, 2010).
 A leader takes risk, exhibits initiative, inspires and
motivates others to follow and perform and activity.
 Engineers can make good leaders because they are
generally intelligent and have the ability to plan.
 If the engineer possesses the additional ingredients of a
dynamic personality and strong character, they can gain
the respect of their followers.
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Introduction

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 Some of the characteristics of effective leader engineers are
the following:
A Good Leader:
• Inspires
• Motivates/Recognizes
• Sets a Good Example
“Characteristics” of a Good Leader:
• Trustworthy
• Intelligent
• Courageous
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Leadership Styles
 Leadership style is the manner and approach of providing
direction, implementing plan, and motivating people.
• Autocratic
• Democratic
• Delegative or Free Reign

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Leadership Styles
 Autocratic Leadership
An autocratic leadership style is one where the leader tells the team
member or followers what to do, how to do it, and when to do it,
without any input from their followers.
 Democratic Leadership
A democratic leadership style occurs when the leader invites the team
members or followers to provide input into the decision-making
process respecting them and validating their input into the overall
process.
 Delegative Leadership
A delegative leadership style is one where the leader provides broad
guidance to the team members to decide what to do, how and when to
do it, and where to do it.

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Tools for Leadership and Management
 Most engineering managers are leaders and they generally
have common tools in their tool boxes independent of whether
they are involved in engineering consulting or public service.
 A manger assumes responsibility for a business unit or an
element of a government service like an engineering
department or an organization.
 In essence managers plan, organize, lead, and control (POLC)
to accomplish the mission of the business unit.

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Tools for Leadership and Management
 Planning
The Planning functions includes an analysis of where the
business unit is going in the short-and-long term periods.
 Organizing
Organizing activities are related to assessing the needs of the
business unit with regard to personnel, equipment, services,
and resources to operate the unit to accomplish the mission.
 Leading
The effectiveness of the leadership function separates “managers” from
“leaders.” A leader will lead the strategic planning function of the
business unit the mission of the business unit in a way that matches
the vision of the executive management team (DuBrin 2000)
 Controlling
Controlling an engineering business unit is probably a lot like flying a
light aircraft from a quite valley, over the mountain and through a
storm.

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Four Quadrants of Effective Leadership
 Leaders often display strong character, strength, fortitude, and
courage to lead the way toward the vision in the strategic plan.
Effective leaders do not forget that they need to control the
velocity and direction of the business unit.
Four quadrants of effective leadership
Business Strategy
Business Economics
and Financing
Marketing Technology
Leadership

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Secret Leadership for an effective Leader
 In an effort to describe a virtual effective leader a “perfect
recipe” has been device.
• A liter of strong character
• A liter of humility
• Two liters of organization
• A kilogram of intelligence
• A pinch of empathy
• A liter of confidence
• Preheated trust and ethics
• A liter of reliability mixed
with follow-through
• A genuine smile
 Now mix the above ingredients together with demonstrated
communication skills, add strong listening and sensitivity
training.
 Simmer over even-heated mentorship with years of experience
continued training, advanced technical/business degree, and
dedication to common objectives.
 Serve warm to the public (or clients) after a brief introduction
in a pleasant environment.

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References
 Organizational behavior/Afsaneh Nahavandi,
University of San Diego, Robert B. Denhardt,
University of Southern California, Maria P.
Aristigueta, University of Delaware.
 The lead dog has the best view: leading your
project team to success Anne Smith.
 Power of motivation, How to Succeed in all
circumstances by Michael Bolduc.
 Leading from within, Building Organizational
Leadership Capacity by David R. Kolzow, PhD

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Thank You!
 Every great leader I have known has been a great
teacher, able to give those around him a sense of
perspective and to set the moral, social, and
motivational climate among his followers.
Vice Admiral James Bond Stockdale
The Washington Quarterly,
“Educating Leaders,” 30 March 1983
 Leadership is the art of influencing human
behavior.
Department of the Army Pamphlet 22-1, Leadership
December 1948