A presentation on Leadership Skills necessary for aspiring managers

1. Skills of a Leader
Discussion Paper
S K Jaiswal
20th Nov 2011

2. Research into Leadership
Skills
 Profession Based Skills and validation of
leadership approaches:
◦ Pharma, Principals, Engineers, Nurses, Medics,
Ethnic students,
◦ Are there generic leadership skills?
 Leadership Approach based skills
◦ Each approach defines its own set of skills
◦ Need to define a competency model first and
then identify the skills required?
 Career/Level Based Leadership skills
◦ Leadership Pipeline as defined by Ram Charan
◦ Prepare a hierarchy of skills required at each
passage?

3. Other issues in Leadership
skills
 Cultural factors
 Environmental factors
 Individual Traits
 Maturity and development of
subordinates
 Neuro-science based skills
 Psychology based issues:
◦ Personalities, e.g. MBTI personality types
◦ Positive Psychology- Seligman
◦ Emotional Intelligence based.

4. Difference between a Skill and a
Competency?
 The terms "skills" and "competencies"
are often used interchangeably, but
they are not necessarily synonymous.
 Competencies may refer to sets of
skills, but "competency" is more of an
umbrella term that also includes
behaviors and knowledge,
 whereas skills are specific learned
activities that may be part of a broader
context.

5. Managerial Vs Leadership
Competences

6. Definition of Leadership
Leadership is a process whereby an
individual influences a group of
individuals to achieve a common goal
- Northouse, 2010, p3

7. The Leadership Pipeline
How to Build the Leadership-Powered Company
AUTHOR: Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel
PUBLISHER: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
DATE OF PUBLICATION: 2001
NUMBER OF PAGES: 242 pages

8. Basic Principle
Getting results through comprehensive
Enterprise Leadership & Statesmanship.
Getting results through Business Managers.
Getting results through comprehensive business
management.
Getting results through a function.
Getting results through managers.
Getting results through others.
Getting results through personal effort.
ScopeandComplexityIncreases
The Leadership Pipeline model provides a framework upon which
organizations can be built while reconfiguring old ones.
At each passage a person has very specific values, compulsory skills,
and necessary time applications.

9. Leadership Development
Based on the Leadership Pipeline: there are skill, time, and value
development needs at each “leadership turn.”
Source: The Leadership Pipeline, by Ram Charan, Stephen Drotter, and James Noel

10. Model Based Skills

11. Leadership Competencies

12. Leadership Competencies-II

13. Leadership Competencies-III

14. Leadership competencies - IV

15. Leadership competency model
The Diagram below shows the Pyramid of Leadership, while the table below it explains each level in more detail:

26. Summarizing