All of the people listed have one thing in common - they were leaders. Leadership is defined as influencing others to achieve goals through change. It is difficult to define but involves influencing groups to achieve common goals. Leadership requires competencies in self-management, leading people, and managing tasks. Effective leaders are also effective communicators, using communication to motivate and influence others. Followership is also important to leadership - one cannot be a great leader without great followers, and followers are active participants in the leadership process.

1. Leadership and
Communication
Dinesh Basnet
Assistant Professor
Shanker Dev Campus

2. Introduction
 Take a look at the following list of people. It’s
quite a diverse group, but they all have one
thing in common See if you can figure out
what is it
 BILL CLINTON, ADOLF HITLER, TIGER
WOODS MOTHER TERESA, RAJESH
HAMAL, DHURMUS SUNTALI, KULMAN
GHISING

3. Leadership
 Leadership is the influencing process of leaders
and followers to achieve organizational objectives
through change.
 Leadership definition key elements.
 Influence (communicating ideas, motivating)
 Leaders and followers
 Organizational objectives
 Change
 People

4. Leadership
 Leadership is action not position – Donald McGannon
 Leadership is difficult to define with any consensus.
 “Leadership is a process whereby an individual influences a
group of individuals to achieve a common goal.” – Peter
Northouse
 “A leader [can be defined as]a person who influences individuals
and groups within an organization, helps them in the
establishment of goals, and guides them toward achievement of
those goals, thereby allowing them to be effective.” – Afsaneh
Nahavandi

5. Cont…
 Leadership is one of the most observed and
least understood phenomena on Earth.
 Joseph Rost found that there were 221
definitions of leadership published in books
and articles between 1900 – 1990

6. Conts…
Born or Made???

7.  The research indicate that genetics may
account for about 30% of the variance in
leadership roles, abut he majority still comes
from development
(genetic – environment interaction)

8. Management Vs Leadership
“Management is doing things right; leadership is doing the
right things.”
-Peter Drucker
“You manage things; you lead people.”
Grace Murray Hopper
Kouzees and Posner identified that leaders are suitable
during the time of turbulence, conflict, innovation, and
change whereas managers are suitable to maintain
stability, harmony, maintenance, and constancy.

9. Prerequisites of Organizational
Leaders
 Three important competencies, i.e. Self management, leading people,
and task management are the prerequisites of organizational leaders.
 Self Management Dimensions: It includes work habits, work attitudes,
stress management, self- insight, learning, leader’s action to self
management.
 Leading People: It includes communication, interpersonal awareness,
developing commitment and motivation, developing others, and
influencing.
 Task Management: Executing tasks, solving problems, Managing
information and material resources, managing human resources,
enhancing member performance.

11. “If we’re growing, we’re always going to be out
of our comfort zone.”
- John C Maxwell
8/24/202011
Thought

12. 8/24/202012
Break out of your comfort zone

13. Ponder point
Who comes to your mind when you hear
“leader”?
8/24/202013

14. Communication

15. Alien Communication
You have just landed on earth. Communicate
with a human.
YOU ARE NOT PERMITTED TO USE HUMAN
LANGUAGES, even if you know them!!
Reactions by receivers… what went through
your mind?

16. Communication
 Transmission of information
 Common Understanding (meaning)
 At least 75% of each workday is consumed in
communication.
 Your ability to speak, read, and write will have
a direct impact on your career success.

17. Try a common understanding?

18. Leadership and Communication
 Communication is major competency for leaders.
 Effective leaders are effective communicators.
 There is a positive relationship between communication
competency and leadership performance.
 Leaders play informational roles.
 Ethical leaders with integrate will use open and honest
communication.

19. Leadership and Communication
 The Pygmalion effect requires communication of attitudes.
 The autocratic leader uses one- way communication
whereas the democratic leader uses two way
communication.
 Leaders use communication to motivate employees.
 The most important thing I learned in school was how to
communicate (Lee Lacocca, former top executive of
Chrysler)

20. Leadership from a
Communication Perspective
 Willingness to Communicate
 Storytelling as Leadership
 Emotional Communication Competencies
 Impression Management: (From a
communication standpoint, leaders are made,
not born)

21. The Dimensions of Leadership
Communication Style
One model compares:
 Authoritarian style of leadership
communication
 Democratic style of leadership
communication, and
 Laissez- Faire style of leadership
communication

23. Second model contrasts
Task leadership communication
 It has been referred to production orientation, initiating
structure, Theory X, concern for production.
 The task oriented leader is highly authoritarian.
Interpersonal leadership communication
 It has been referred to employee oriented,
consideration structure, Theory Y, concern for people.
 The interpersonal leadership is highly democratic.

24. Michigan Leadership Studies

25. The Ohio State Leadership
Studies

26. Theory X and Theory Y

27. Managerial Grid

28. Followership
 Followership is the ability or willingness to follow a leader.
 “the followership: forgotten part of leadership”.
 One cannot be a great leader without great followers.
 “leadership is not just done by the leader, and followership is not
just done by followers”.
 Effective followers are active participants (partners) in creating
the leadership process.
 Followership's specific sets of skills complement leadership

29. Followership
 “The world is moved not only by the mighty
shoves of heroes, but also by the aggregate of the
tiny pushes of each honest worker.” — Helen
Keller
 “It is the men behind who make the man ahead.”
— Merle Crowel
 “Followership, like leadership, is a role and not a
destination.” — Michael McKinney

30. Follower Communication Styles
 Engaged Followers
 Exemplary Followership
 The 4 – D Followership Model

31. Engaged Followers

32. Exemplary Followership

33.  For effective organization, exemplary
followers are needed. Other three non-
exemplary followers do not contribute to the
organization. Passive follower does not
contribute, conformist follower does not think
and alienated follower undermines the leaders
and task.

34. Exemplary Followership

35. 4 – D Followership Model

36. Communication Styles and
Information Processing

37. Thank You