Lecture 4: LEADERSHIP
“Be the Empowered Leader”
Lecture 4: Objectives
 Learning to be a more authentic leader
 Adapting the leadership style to each
employee and situation
 Identifying ways to develop your personal
power
 Learning how to create an empowering
environment
Lesson 1
Leadership
Styles
Lecture 4 – Lesson 1
What is the single greatest
problem in any organization?
The answer is simple …
A lack of Leadership and people
management skills!!
Characteristics of Leadership
 Goal Orientation
 Enablement
 Human Resources
Importance
 Self-development
How do you Identify Leaders?
 Accepting and
Encouraging ideas
and suggestions
 Inspiring
confidence
and showing respect
 Communicating
important things
 Giving importance
and freedom
Who are the Best Leaders?
People agreed that the Best Leaders are:
 Aware of their impact on others.
 Open to feedback and suggestions
 Work hard to check their negative
tendencies
Leadership Styles
 Telling
 Persuading
 Consulting
 Participating
 Delegating
Factors Influencing
Leadership Styles
 Personality of the Leader
 Personality of the Group members
 Nature of the task
 Nature of the environment
Develop
Your
Personal Power
Positive Power Definition
 Power is: Forcefulness and Effectiveness
 Concern for others
 Ability to make things happen
 Ability to block undesirable events
 To feel empowered is fundamental to a
healthy, active, fulfilled and productive life.
What Situations Make People
Feel Powerful or Powerless?
 To feel empowered is to have:
 A strong sense of can do
 A feeling of control
Do you feel
Empowered or Disempowered?
 The Empowered person:
 Has a sense of personal growth
 Maintains an optimistic, “can do” feeling
 Has a high self-regard and is self-confident
 The Disempowered person:
 Lacks a sense of positive self-regard and self-esteem
 Requires external reinforcement of his self-worth
 Experiences life as a continuing contest
 Makes choices or acts in ways that tend to generate
negative consequences for himself, others or both.
Lesson 3
How to Create an
Empowering Environment?
Lecture 4 – Lesson 3
Creating an
Empowering Environment
 What are the characteristics of the
empowering environment from your
point of view?
 What would you find in an
environment that allowed you to be
your very best?
“A leader takes people where they
want to go. A great leader takes
people where they don't necessarily
want to go but ought to be.”
Rosalynn Carter
A Final Word …

ITM 4

  • 1.
    Lecture 4: LEADERSHIP “Bethe Empowered Leader”
  • 2.
    Lecture 4: Objectives Learning to be a more authentic leader  Adapting the leadership style to each employee and situation  Identifying ways to develop your personal power  Learning how to create an empowering environment
  • 3.
  • 4.
    What is thesingle greatest problem in any organization? The answer is simple … A lack of Leadership and people management skills!!
  • 5.
    Characteristics of Leadership Goal Orientation  Enablement  Human Resources Importance  Self-development
  • 6.
    How do youIdentify Leaders?  Accepting and Encouraging ideas and suggestions  Inspiring confidence and showing respect  Communicating important things  Giving importance and freedom
  • 7.
    Who are theBest Leaders? People agreed that the Best Leaders are:  Aware of their impact on others.  Open to feedback and suggestions  Work hard to check their negative tendencies
  • 8.
    Leadership Styles  Telling Persuading  Consulting  Participating  Delegating
  • 9.
    Factors Influencing Leadership Styles Personality of the Leader  Personality of the Group members  Nature of the task  Nature of the environment
  • 10.
  • 11.
    Positive Power Definition Power is: Forcefulness and Effectiveness  Concern for others  Ability to make things happen  Ability to block undesirable events  To feel empowered is fundamental to a healthy, active, fulfilled and productive life.
  • 12.
    What Situations MakePeople Feel Powerful or Powerless?  To feel empowered is to have:  A strong sense of can do  A feeling of control
  • 13.
    Do you feel Empoweredor Disempowered?  The Empowered person:  Has a sense of personal growth  Maintains an optimistic, “can do” feeling  Has a high self-regard and is self-confident  The Disempowered person:  Lacks a sense of positive self-regard and self-esteem  Requires external reinforcement of his self-worth  Experiences life as a continuing contest  Makes choices or acts in ways that tend to generate negative consequences for himself, others or both.
  • 14.
    Lesson 3 How toCreate an Empowering Environment? Lecture 4 – Lesson 3
  • 15.
    Creating an Empowering Environment What are the characteristics of the empowering environment from your point of view?  What would you find in an environment that allowed you to be your very best?
  • 16.
    “A leader takespeople where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go but ought to be.” Rosalynn Carter A Final Word …

Editor's Notes

  • #6 Goal Orientation: Foresight and sense of direction Enablement: Helping others to show their maximum Human Resources Importance: Human beings are considered the most important resources leaders have Self-development: adopting a healthy self-image and a positive “I-can-win attitude”
  • #9 Telling ; Leaders tell their followers what to do., after identifying the problem and considering the alternatives. Persuading: Leaders make decisions then try to persuade followers to accept them. Consulting: Leaders consult followers before making the decision. Participating: Leaders participate as members in the discussion and agree in advance to execute the decision agreed upon. Delegating: The role of the leaders is to define the boundaries within which followers solve problems.
  • #10 Personality of the Leader: Value system, Confidence in his group Personality of the Group members: independence level, skills Nature of the task: its importance, complexity, urgency Nature of the environment: Structure of the organization, social, economic and political factors
  • #12 Concern for others: helping people formulate their own goals and providing them with the means to achieve them. Ability to choose what you want to do, make things happen and block the occurrence of events that are undesirable or harmful. To feel empowered is fundamental to a healthy, active, fulfilled and productive life.
  • #13 People who feel empowered are fully aware of their resources – their strengths and weaknesses, their feelings and frustrations, their values and attitudes.