Leadership comes in many forms. In this talk Sath will be sharing his journey into Social Leadership, its potential and how he adopted it's mindset and behaviours whilst building and nurturing a knowledge sharing community of engineers across a population 000s in financial services. What makes a Social Leader, what characterises them and why are they need more than ever. We are in the Social Age!

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”

7. Leadership
Styles &
Behaviours

8. Formal vs
Social
leadership

9. Positional
Authority

10. Social Authority

11. Social
leadership &
the Social Age

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

13. The Social Leader
Characteristics Behaviours
High Social Capital Fighting for fairness & equality
Kindness Nurturing and developing communities
Fairness Create spaces for social learning
Humility Sharing and storytelling
Grace Develop other leaders
No formal authority
Authority based on reputation

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

15. The NET
model

16. Social
leadership in
action?

17. Engineering
Communities

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

20. 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

21. Final
thoughts

22. 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

23. The stage is
yours!

25. Further reading

26. 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/

27. Thanks for listening!