LEADERSHIP It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test of leadership.

Who is a Leader?

A leader is one who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way
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Steps to successful Leadership

Developing awareness Understanding people

Power and Authority

Communication Decision-making Creating a vision

What is Leadership?
It is a process whereby an individual influences a group of individuals to achieve a common goal. Leadership involves Influence Leadership occurs in groups Leadership includes attention to goals.

Leaders need followers and followers need leaders. It is the leader who initiates the relationship, creates the communication linkages and carries the burden for maintaining the relationship.

What leaders do
Establishing Direction Create a vision Clarify big picture Set strategies Aligning People Communicate goals Seek commitment Build teams and coalitions Motivating and Inspiring Inspire and energize Empower subordinates Satisfy unmet needs

Leadership - Vision

Leadership is not about authority, control and dominance. Rather, its about inspiration, guidance, direction, excellence, motivation and sway. Inspiration is the key. Any organization that is not changing continuously will disappear. Change leads to innovation and adaptation.
The very essence of leadership is that you have to have vision. You can't blow an uncertain trumpet. - Theodore M. Hesburgh

Leadership is lifting peoples vision, raising their performance to higher levels and developing their personality beyond their expected limits. Leadership is the ability to lead from the front with a passion and with a conviction of a great vision, despite many successive setbacks. It is also taking a sense of responsibility, setting as a role model with qualities like courage, commitment and conviction.

An Eye for Talent

When Ganguly saw M.S. Dhoni in some domestic match he said I have to make this boy play for India. His eye for talent has thrown up enough stalwarts for us to accept this as one of his special skills-Dhoni, Harbhajan, Yuvraj and Viru.

Nurturing Talent

When Sehwag was asked to open the innings in test matches, he was worried that failure would mean being dropped. Ganguly told him that failure as an opener would not see him dropped, but would only see him reverted to the middle order; his place in the team would be safe. The confidence arising from such an assurance played a part in Sehwags scores as an opener in the 2002-05.

Leadership Traits
Intelligence: Verbal ability, perceptual ability and reasoning. Self-confidence: Ability to be certain about ones competencies and skills. A sense of self-esteem and selfassurance and the belief that he can make a difference.

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Determination: Desire to get the job done, initiative, persistence, dominance, and drive. Integrity: Quality of honesty and trustworthiness, loyal, dependable and not deceptive.

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To be a leader build trust, sustain it

Trust is composed of Credibility: how believable a leader is. Reliability: how dependable he is. Intimacy : rates how safe people feel sharing information with the leader Self-orientation: how much the leader focuses on himself compared to his focus on others.

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Keep up your promises Do not put blame on others for your mistakes Contribute all you can for the success of your team. Keep developing your abilities Talk to your employees honestly and clearly Do what you believe is right though you have to pay a price for it.

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Be confident Listen to what others have to say and do it with empathy. Praise them for their success and share their success story with others. Accept people as what they are and respect them. Place the interests of your team members before yours. Trust your employees and their abilities.

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Leadership Competencies

Problem-Solving

Social Judgment

Knowledge

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Problem-Solving
Refers to a leaders creative ability to solve new and unusual, ill-defined organizational problems. It includes being able to define significant problems, gather problem information, formulate new understandings about the problem and generate prototype plans for problem solutions.

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Rediscovering yourself to track down latent potential.

Solution of our every problem lies with us not with other. So try to know yourself and do not get influenced with others to solve your own problems. Treat each day a new day with immense possibilities. Convert your latent potential into talent through selfmotivation.

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Social Judgment

Refers to the capacity to understand people. They enable leaders to work with others to solve problems and to marshal support to implement change within an organization.

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Knowledge

Knowledge refers to the accumulation of information and the mental structures used to organize that information. Mental structure is called a summary, a diagrammatic representation, or an outline. It is the knowledge that allows people to use the past to constructively confront the future.

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To conclude
The real difference between success and failure in an organization can be very often traced to the question of how well the leaders brings out the great energies and talents of their people."

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