Leadership through self-reliance.

1. Leadership through Self-Reliance
By: M Jagadesh Kumar

2. • What are the initiatives for Organizational
excellency by majority of companies?
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3. • Why are these excellence programs are
needed?
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4. • What has been the result of all these
excellence programs?
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5. • What has been the limitation of these
excellency initiatives by majority of big
organization?
Sustenance and further
improvement
Standardization
Business reality
Daily management
A requirement for
excellence
Leadership is found to be the weak element
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6. • Agenda
– Excellency sustenance problems
• What is leadership?
• How we lead usually?
• How leadership differentiates from management?
– What is needed to solve present problems?
– Toyota Production System and Respect for People
– What is self-reliance?
– Introduction to Harada Method
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7. • What has been the Leadership style generally
practiced?
• What is leadership?
• Do we really lead our people?
• How leadership is differentiated from management?
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8. • How do we lead usually?
• Trust our subordinates, leave everything to subordinate
• Tell our subordinates what and how to do
• Problem solving skills are needed (because firefighting
rewards us)
• We listen less and say more
• We confuse sub-ordinates (helping or troubling cannot be
made-out)
• ……
We lose the trust of subordinate and demotivate
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9. • Leadership and Management
• There are 54 differences according to Mr. Norman Bodek
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10. • What are the present problems?
• Big companies are getting dragged into legal tussles
• Employees are demotivated
• Customers are getting confused / clueless (indifference from
employees)
• ……….
8th Waste is the biggest problem
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11. • What is missing in most organization?
• No approach for people development
• No clear picture of individual goals and career
• Mentoring and coaching rarely done
• Development of people as business priority
• Systematic approach for self-sufficiency
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12. • Is there any example where these problems
Leadership demonstrates
are taken care and how?
& develops
Respect of People
Jidoka
JIT
Quality, Cost &
Delivery
Leveled Production, 5S, ….
Toyota Production System
• Empowerment (Qualification, authority
to stop line, …)
• Fact based
• Reacting quickly to a problem
• Working for only value addition
• Dignified job and working conditions
• Having necessary problem solving skills
• Alignment to company objectives
• High enthusiasm
• Challenge to improve up on
• ……..
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13. • What is self-reliance?
Highly skilled
& knowledged
Empowered
Visionary
Self-driven
Responsible &
accountable
Energised
Determined
Problem solver
Confident
Caring for people
Ethical
Proactive
Goal oriented
Trustworthy
Will Self-reliance help organizations?
Is it easy to gain self-reliance?
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14. What is Harada Method?
Overview
Mr. Takashi Harada
• Simple 33 principles are used
• Goal fixing takes place considering personal &
organizational requirements
• Systematic method of goal setting (goal
analysis, success & failure factors analysis, …)
• Tasks for achieving the goals are derived
• Tasks are converted to daily routine for
implementation
Specialities
• World’s best method for developing people
• Findings of famous Leadership Gurus from USA are considered
• Psychological aspects like affirmations, strokes, daily routines are used
Everyone needs coaching to be successful
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15. Application of Harada Method
1. Develop self first using this method
2. Use this method for coaching others
With Harada Method everyone can be successful in life
Be a Leader
Be a Great coach
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16. What will be the impact of Harada Method?
Self
Organization
Family
Society
Eventually changes culture of organization & society
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17. Jagadesh Kumar M
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