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2. Use goals throughout the organization and make them meaningful to achieve. Reward success.
3. Measure productivity at multiple levels using analytical tools, compare to goals and history, and focus on continuous improvement.
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Presentation focus:
Session Focus:
Develop an understanding of the adaptive leadership model.
Develop leadership skills to encounter a multitude of challenges
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This presentation gives us the Idea about what traits a leader should have and without these traits a loser come into existence.
The new leader of advanced world.
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key slides from interactive workshop on leading through change. Participants create their own video pitch to immediately transfer theory to practice within the workshop.
Essential Leadership Skills - Presentation by AJ Yilmaz, Executive Director, American College of Nutrition & CEO, Target Action presented to Tampa/St Petersburg section of ASQ on Feb 9, 2009.
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1. Organizational Principles
1. Have a set of overarching principles and • Instill individual dignity. Provide challenge
philosophies. Have an overall theme and and opportunity.
purpose. • Invest in people, facilities, upkeep. Payback
• Ensure they are well understood. is enormous.
• Stress integrity and commitment.
8. Create a climate of professionalism.
2. Use goals throughout. • Insist on high standards. Don’t settle for less.
• Make them straightforward, understandable, • Provide the supporting mechanisms and aids.
and meaningful. • You reap what you sow. Invest accordingly.
• Make it important to achieve them. Reward • Spirit and enthusiasm are the critical meas-
and praise success. ures.
3. Measure productivity/efficiency at several 9. Educate, educate, educate.
levels. • Make it specific. Establish feedback on results.
• Devise adequate analytical tools—but don’t • The organization is as strong as its weakest
strangle in paper. links.
• Compare to: (1) history, (2) goals, (3) like
organizations. 10. Communicate, communicate, communicate.
• Don’t use availability of microinformation to • Create the mechanisms. Up/down, down/up—
micromanage. and laterally.
• Look for trends, failure nodes, areas for • Make it clear and concise. Work to eliminate
improvement. ambiguity and misinformation.
• Orient to the product. Keep in clear focus for all. • Don’t depend on strictly hierarchical commu-
nication. Augment it. On key issues, commu-
4. Create leaders at many levels, not just a few. nicate several layers deep.
• Provide wide autonomy and flexibility to
achieve goals while preserving overall coher- 11. Create organizational discipline and loyalty.
ence and overarching principles. • Without stifling initiative. Reward it.
• Get the leaders where the action is. 12. Provide everyone a stake in the outcome.
• Streamline staff procedures. Staff supports • And “humanize” wherever possible—make
the line, not vice versa. each job meaningful.
5. Integrate authority and responsibility—not 13. Make it better.
separate them. Know the difference. • In measurable, identifiable ways. Instill that
• Create a sense of responsibility throughout. philosophy.
• Recognize that few accept responsibility with- • Work to create a sense of individual and orga-
out accompanying authority. Create ownership. nizational worth. Foster team identification.
• Invest principal authority in horizontal mission/ • A proud, confident, and optimistic organiza-
product leaders—not in vertical functional tional “chemistry” is the key to success—
“czars.” leaders must create it.
• In “matrixing” establish clear lines of authority— • Provide the climate and impetus for evolu-
tied to the product. Make it clear who is in tionary organizational change. Instill a philos-
charge. ophy of creative adoption and adaption. Stay
• Link authority to accountability. out in front of problems, changing circum-
6. Set up internal competition and comparison stances—and the competition.
where feasible.
14. Make it happen.
• Reward success, Provide incentives and • Active, vigorous leadership throughout is the
motivators. Praise the winners. magic ingredient.
• Address failure in balance with the circum- • Be informed, involved. Provide the dynamic
stances. spark.
7. Create a climate of pride. • Work the details—the whole is the sum of the
parts.
• Quality treatment begets quality performance.
• Never forget the organization begins and 15. Make it last.
ends, sinks or swims with its people. Treat • Codify, educate, and perpetuate.
them well and consider them first.
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