Importance of leadership for career development
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Importance of leadership for career development
- 1. By JF Gailleur, 2015
- 2. Foreword • Why are we talking about leadership? • Your most important asset is … • Take control of your career • Tools to develop your leadership skills
- 3. Leadership What is Leadership, again?
- 4. Leadership is a process by which one person influences the thoughts, attitudes, and behaviors of others.
- 5. Some Quotes • Peter Drucker: “The only definition of a leader is someone who has followers.” • Warren Bennis: “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” • Bill Gates: “As we look ahead into the next century, leaders will be those who empower others.” • John Maxwell: “Leadership is influence – nothing more, nothing less.” • Dwight D. Eisenhower : “Leadership is the art of getting someone else to do something you want done because she/he wants to do it.” Source: http://leadership.uoregon.edu/resources/quotes
- 6. Could be summarized as Leadership is an art of social influence to inspire others so that they maximize their efforts towards the achievement of a transformational goal (vision).
- 7. Leadership has nothing to do with… • Seniority • Titles • Knowing more than everybody else • Personality • Good news, you can learn skills to increase your leadership
- 8. Managers vs. Leaders Managers Optimize systems PREDICTABILITY Leaders Enable people & get things done CHANGE • Focus on things • Plan and budgets • Organize and allocate resources • Control and solve problems • Follow the rules • Accept status-quo • Focus on people • Show a direction • Motivate and Inspire • Align and Influence • Shape entities • Challenge status-quo “ The manager accepts the status quo; the leader challenges it.” Warren Bennis
- 9. Making things happen “no matter what” Leaders accomplish tasks which no one else wishes to do. Leadership recognition is quickly earned with a “whatever-it- takes” attitude. The key organizational players are described as the “Go-To” players. John P. Kotter
- 10. Tooling
- 11. Preface to Tooling • No magic formula or checklist to complete • Acquiring Leadership Skills is a life long learning process • Invest in yourself “The more I learn, the more I realize how much I don't know.” Albert Einstein
- 12. FIRST: Know Yourself more than anyone else • Myers–Briggs Personality Type Indicator • Favorite world: Do you prefer to focus on the outer world or on your own inner world? This is called Extraversion (E) or Introversion (I). • Information: Do you prefer to focus on the basic information you take in or do you prefer to interpret and add meaning? This is called Sensing (S) or Intuition (N). • Decisions: When making decisions, do you prefer to first look at logic and consistency or first look at the people and special circumstances? This is called Thinking (T) or Feeling (F). • Structure: In dealing with the outside world, do you prefer to get things decided or do you prefer to stay open to new information and options? This is called Judging (J) or Perceiving (P). • Many others like Strengths Finder 2.0, Enneagram, Disc…
- 13. Know yourself cont.: Introvert vs Extrovert • Where do you get your energy from? • Introverts get exhausted by social interaction and need solitude to recharge. • Extroverts get anxious when left alone and get energy from social interaction. • Introvert vs shy • If you don’t know: http://www.quietrev.com/the- introvert-test/ • Resources for Introvert: http://www.quietrev.com/ (Susan Cain)
- 14. Enjoy your work, Know your sweet spot Bud Caddell, http://budcaddell.com “What would you do if you were financially free?” Purpose
- 15. FOCUS (time management) Stephen Covey time management matrix from his book “First Things First”
- 16. SIMPLIFY “What is the very most important thing I should be doing with my time and resources right now?” "Nonessentialism dominates work lives today while true priorities do not get needed attention. The thin distribution of effort results in poor quality work."
- 17. NETWORKING , PUBLIC SPEAKING Learning by being OUT OF YOUR CONFORT ZONE How can you influence if you are not speaking up!
- 18. INFLUENCE 30 principles to success https://www.dalecarnegie.com/assets/1/7/Secrets_of_Success.pdf
- 19. Have your own GOALS “If you are not prioritizing your life, someone else will”
- 20. Resilience the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. Thomas Edison and his team of researchers in Edison's laboratory in Menlo Park, N.J., tested more than 3,000 designs for bulbs between 1878 and 1880 to eventually get the right one.
- 21. EFFORT & DISCIPLINE “Perform at your best when your best is required. Coach John Wooden on Leadership basketball player and coach Your best is required each day.” Work Hard
- 22. “Do, or Do Not. There is no try.”
- 23. Questions?
- 24. Success "SUCCESS IS PEACE OF MIND WHICH IS A DIRECT RESULT OF SELF- SATISFACTION IN KNOWING YOU MADE THE EFFORT TO BECOME THE BEST YOU ARE CAPABLE OF BECOMING.” John Wooden
- 25. Steve’s job leadership principles
- 26. Happiness and leadership level 5
Editor's Notes
- Why talking about leadership Few things are more important to human activity than leadership. Effective leadership helps our nation through times of peril. It makes a business organization successful. It enables a not-for-profit organization to fulfill its mission. The effective leadership of parents enables children to grow strong and healthy and become productive adults. One of the most studied topic in business school Software so complex, that you cannot do it alone, so you need to work in teams and groups, and A software Engineer’s Career Adventure at hybris: axis impact and influence https://wiki.hybris.com/display/prodandtech/A+Software+Engineer%27s+Career+Adventure+at+hybris
- Seniority Often when thinking about leadership in a company, it’s referring to the most senior, but that’s not always the case You don’t need to be senior to have leadership Titles e.g. can be a leader in your neighborhood, community, family Some have title with no leadership. Personality Charismatic, can learn, you are not born with leadership
- The difference between management and leadership are often misunderstood. Essentially, management is an organizational commission and leadership is the action taken to perform transformational and alignment tasks (Kotter, 1990a). However, both are essential to organization. As stated by (Kotter, 1990b), “Without good management, complex enterprises tend to become more chaotic in ways that threaten their very existence. Good management brings a degree of order and consistency to key dimensions like the quality and profitability. Leadership, by contrast, is about coping with change. ” For instance, military troops are managed during an era of peace but also need to be lead on the battlefield when the opportunity calls for it. If an individual is capable of exerting enough influence upon the overall goal achievement of others in an organizational context, then Leadership occurs (Johns, Gary, 1996c). The function of leadership is really to produce a change.
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- Introvert leaders: Barack Obama, Marissa Mayer, Albert Einstein Mahatma Gandhi Warren Buffet Abraham Lincoln Famous Introvert: President Obama Guy Kawasaki Marc Zuckerberg http://www.fastcompany.com/3032028/the-future-of-work/7-famous-leaders-who-prove-introverts-can-be-wildly-successful People who are introverts often describe themselves (or are described) as shy, but shyness and introversion are not the same thing. Shyness has, at its heart, a fear of negative judgment by others. Think of the difference this way: If asked to a party, an introvert might think about whether they wanted to expend their precious supply of social energy. A shy person, however, might think about how others at the party would perceive them. As author Susan Cain explained in “Quiet,” her landmark book on introverts: “Shyness is the fear of social disapproval or humiliation, while introversion is a preference for environments that are not overstimulating.” One stays home from the party from preference, in other words, and the other from fear.
- At some point of time, we need some purpose. If you have no purpose, you have no meaning of life.
- attention spans are shorter than ever
- E.g. Monday town-halls, lunch and learn, toastmaster Martin Fowler https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ken_Schwaber Present your idea to large group of people inside or outside your team Present an interesting idea in a lunch and learn in your office location Find a mentor in your office location and agree on periodical sessions to improve your skills
- Emotional intelligence (EQ) is the ability to identify, use, understand, and manage emotions in positive ways to relieve stress, communicate effectively, empathize with others, overcome challenges, and defuse conflict. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intelligence_quotient https://www.dalecarnegie.com/assets/1/7/Secrets_of_Success.pdf Become a Friendlier Person 1. Don’t criticize, condemn or complain. 2. Give honest, sincere appreciation. 3. Arouse in the other person an eager want. 4. Become genuinely interested in other people. 5. Smile. 6. Remember that a person’s name is to that person the sweetest and most important sound in any language. 7. Be a good listener. Encourage others to talk about themselves. 8. Talk in terms of the other person’s interests. 9. Make the other person feel important - and do it sincerely. – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – – Win People to Your Way of Thinking 10. The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it. 11. Show respect for the other person’s opinion. Never say, “You’re wrong.” 12. If you are wrong, admit it quickly and emphatically. 13. Begin in a friendly way. 14. Get the other person saying “yes, yes” immediately. 15. Let the other person do a great deal of the talking. 16. Let the other person feel that the idea is his or hers. 17. Try honestly to see things from the other person’s point of view. 18. Be sympathetic with the other person’s ideas and desires. 19. Appeal to the nobler motives. 20. Dramatize your ideas. 21. Throw down a challenge.
- Take control of your career by developing your leadership Vision, Goals, Focus Know yourself, know what you like, what you want Influence by communicating