Strategies of a leader report

1. “STRATEGIES OF A
LEADER”
REPORTER: LEZYL JANE R. AGUHOB
SUBJECT: EDUC 234
PROFESSOR: ROSANNA A.WOOTON Ed,D
REPORTER #9

2. STRATEGIES OF A LEADER

3. WHAT IS A LEADER?
 A leader is a person who influences
a group of people towards a
specific result.
 A leader is someone who can see
how things can be improved and
who rallies people to move toward
that better vision.

4. PRINCIPLES OF STRATEGIC
LEADERSHIP

5. PRINCIPLE 1-3
SYSTEM AND STRUCTURES
1. DISTRIBUTE RESPONSIBILITY
Strategic leaders gain their skill through practice
and practice requires a fair amount of
autonomy.
2. BE HONEST AND OPEN ABOUT
INFORMATION
Transparency fosters conversation about the
meaning of information and the improvement
of everyday practices.
Strategic leaders know that the real power in

6. 3. CREATE MULTIPLE PATHS FOR
RAISING AND TESTING IDEAS.
Developing and presenting ideas is a key
skill for strategic leaders.
By setting up ways for people to bring
innovative thinking to the surface, you
can help them learn to make the most of
their own creativity.

7. PRINCIPLE 4-7
PEOPLE, POLICIES AND
PRACTICES
4. MAKE IT SAFE TO FAIL
Some organizations have begun to
embrace failure as an important part of
their employee’s development.
Strategic leaders cannot learn only from
efforts that succeed; they need to
recognize the types of failures that turn
into successes.

8. 5. PROVIDE ACCESS TO OTHER STRATEGISTS
Give potential leaders the opportunity to meet and
work with their peers across the organization.
6. DEVELOP OPPORTUNITIES FOR
EXPERIENCE-BASED LEARNING
The vast majority of professional leadership
development is informative as opposed to
experiential.

9. 7. HIRE FOR TRANSFORMATION
Hiring decisions should be based on
careful considerations of capabilities and
experiences, and should aim for
diversity to overcome the natural
tendency of managers to select people
much like themselves.

10. PRINCIPLE 8-10
FOCUS ON THE SELF
8. BRING YOUR WHOLE SELF TO WORK
Strategic leaders understand that to tackle the
most demanding situations and problems,
they need to draw on everything they have
learned in their lives.
9. FIND TIME TO REFLECT
Your goal in reflection is to raise your game in
double-loop learning.
Double-loop learning involves studying your
own thinking about the situation- the biases

11. 10. RECOGNIZE LEADERSHIP
DEVELOPMENT AS AN ONGOING
PRACTICE
Strategists have the humility and
intelligence to realize that their
learning and development is never
done, however experienced they
may be.