The document discusses social leadership and how it is becoming increasingly important. It defines social leadership as influencing, inspiring, and helping others become their best selves by building their skills and achieving goals. Social leadership focuses on enhancing collaboration through kindness, nurturing communities, fighting for fairness and equality, creating spaces for social learning, and sharing stories. The key characteristics of social leaders are having high social capital and behaving in ways that develop other leaders. Effective social leadership involves embracing communities, being curious, sharing work, telling stories, being fair and protecting others, and being humble. As organizations shift toward more social platforms, social spaces are where meaningful engagement happens to enable leadership through human-centered narrative and storytelling.

1. How social is your
leadership?
@sathpal

2. My Journey

3. Management
vs
Leadership

4. What’s the difference?

5. Leadership,
let’s go deeper

6. What is leadership?
“To influence, inspire and help others
become their best selves, building their skills
and achieving their goals along the way”

8. Leadership
Styles &
Behaviours

9. Formal vs
Social
leadership

10. Positional
Authority

11. Social Authority

12. Social
leadership &
the Social Age

13. The
Social
Age
Changes in life
and work
Democratisation
and moderation
of communication
Social contract &
capital
The rise of the
Social Leader
Social learning Communities

14. The Social Leader
Characteristics Behaviours
High Social Capital Enhancing collaboration
Kindness Nurturing and developing communities
Fairness Fighting for fairness & equality
Humility Create spaces for social learning
Grace Sharing and storytelling
Reputation-based authority Develop other leaders

15. Social leaders help
make an organisation
more agile…
by questioning
everything!

16. The NET
model

17. Social
leadership in
action?

18. Engineering
Communities

20. A shift…
Company
Chat
Wiki
Cloud file
storage
Email

21. Six tenets
1. Be Curious
2. Try Learn Try
5. Tell Stories
3. Share
6 Be Fair and Protect
4. Be Humble
• Communicate
widely BUT
wisely
• Work out loud
• A new platform
• New ways to
collaborate,
share and
support others
• A journey of
exploration
• A willingness to
question &
permission to
challenge
• You don’t have all
the answers
• Add value to the
community
• Create a narrative
on opportunities &
benefits
• Surface successes &
contributions
• Do what’s right
• Create open spaces
• Remove inequality
• Sits with individuals
and not systems &
processes

22. Final
thoughts

23. We need to embrace the Social Age
Effective leadership continues to
evolve
We now need social alongside formal
Social spaces are where the magic
happens
Enable through narrative, storytelling
& human-centred engagement

24. The stage is
yours!

26. Further reading
https://www.infoq.com/articles/social-leadership-collaboration-communities/
https://seasaltlearning.com/quiet-leadership/

27. Keep in touch
https://www.linkedin.com/in/sathpal/
https://www.instagram.com/visualsath
@sathpal
https://www.meetup.com/the-future-of-work-in-Scotland/

28. Thanks for listening!