The document discusses leadership within organizations. It defines leadership and explains that successful organizations need leaders at all levels. Leaders create an inspiring vision, motivate others, and help develop talent within the organization. Additionally, the document outlines that leadership is about having conversations to build trust and engage employees. Leaders need to listen attentively and explain goals through consensus rather than commands. Developing leadership requires sustained investment in growing leaders over time at every level of the organization.

1. Leadership Within
Organizations
SEAN JOHNSTON

2. Leadership
 Lead·er·ship
 The action of leading a group of people or an organization- Merriam Webster
 "Leadership is having a vision, sharing that vision and inspiring others to
support your vision while creating their own." – Mindy Gibbins-Klein

3. What is Leadership?
 Leaders create an inspiring vision of the future
 Leaders motivate and inspire the people they work with
 Leaders manage the delivery of the group/organizations vision of the
future
 Leaders coach and build a team to achieve the vision

5. How Does Leadership Impact
Organizations?
 Leaders help shape culture
 Leaders create a vision for the future
 Leaders motivate through truthful and frequent communication
 Leaders maximize the abilities of those they work with

6. 4 Fundamentals to Inspire Leadership
Within Your Company-
Entrepreneur
 Listen, empathize and form emotional connections
 Create a common vision
 Inspire yourself first and others will follow
 Building the team

8. Successful Organizations Need Leaders
At All Levels-Forbes
 Leaders are needed throughout the organization
 This was identified as 1 of 12 critical issues from a Global Human Capital
Trends Survey
 Leadership is the number 1 talent issue facing organizations

9. Successful Organizations Need Leaders
At All Levels-Forbes
 86% of respondents rated the need for leadership as urgent
 13% responded that they do an excellent job developing leadership
 In global society, leadership needs to have greater flexibility
 Leaders need to be able to adapt to changing technology and disciplines

11. Successful Organizations Need Leaders
At All Levels-Forbes
 The flattening of organizations has created an even greater demand for
leadership
 A solution is to grow leadership pipelines through organizational levels
 The development of leaders requires sustained and substantial investment
 Higher level leaders should create a culture that creates opportunities for
devolvement

12. Successful Organizations Need Leaders
At All Levels-Forbes
 Where should organizations begin in their own development of leaders
 Engage top executives to develop leadership strategy and actively govern
leadership development.
 Align leadership strategies and development with evolving business goals
 Focus on three aspects of developing leaders – developing leaders at all levels,
developing global leaders locally and developing a succession mindset
 Implement an effective – and unique – leadership program

14. Leadership Is a Conversation-Harvard
Business Review
 Smart leaders engage in a way that resembles normal day to day
conversations
 Make a large company feel like a small one
 Leaders need to maintain mental or emotional proximity
 Leaders reflect intimacy, interactivity, inclusion, and intentionality in their
conversations

16. Leadership Is a Conversation-Harvard
Business Review
 Leaders develop conversational intimacy with people they interact with
through proximity
 Physical proximity is not essential, but mental proximity is
 Leaders step down from their perches and then step up to the challenge of
personal communications
 Leaders gain the trust of those they work with, No Trust/No Intimacy

17. Leadership Is a Conversation-Harvard
Business Review
 Leaders gain trust by being straightforward and authentic in their
communications
 Leaders know when to stop talking and when to listen
 Attentive listening signals respect for people of all ranks and roles
 Duke’s Energy CEO instituted “listening sessions” where managers can put
forth any pressing issues their teams are facing

18. Leadership Is a Conversation-Harvard
Business Review
 Leaders call on employees to participate in the organizational conversation
 Leaders can raise the employees emotional engagement within the
organization
 Raising the emotional engagement increases employees organizational
participation
 Leaders explain the organizational goals through consent rather than
commanding assent

19. Questions Regarding Leadership?
 How can an organization inspire managers to become leaders?
 How can an organization promote their leaders while still maintaining
leaders throughout the organization?
 How can leaders build teams to maximize the talents at their disposal?
 What benefits are there of having managers instead of a leader within an
organization?

20. Sources
 Trapp, R. (2014, March 23). Successful Organizations Need Leaders At
All Levels. Retrieved from
https://www.forbes.com/sites/rogertrapp/2014/03/23/organizations-
need-leaders-at-all-levels/#1c596ac83ab1
 Groysberg, B., & Slind, M. (2012, June). Leadership Is a Conversation.
Retrieved from https://hbr.org/2012/06/leadership-is-a-conversation
 Chandra, A. (2014, September 7). 4 Fundamentals to Inspire
Leadership Within Your Company. Retrieved from
https://www.entrepreneur.com/article/237546