Welcome to Our

Leadership Skills Course

IT IS
TIME
TO MAKE
A CHANGE

Introduction

Course Objectives
1. Learn What is and the Importance
of Leadership.
2. Contingency theories of Leadership.
3. Cutting-Edge Approaches to
Leadership.
4. Leadership Issues (Managing Power,
Developing Trust, Moral Leadership,
Gender Difference and Leadership,
Heroic Leadership).

I) Introduction, Contd

What is Leadership Skills?

The Quality of being good at

leading a team, an
organization, a country.
-------------------------The Process of Influencing a
group toward the
achievement of Goals.

I) Introduction, Contd

Importance of Leadership
What People said about Leadership?!
1) Leaders aren't born, they are
made. And they are made just like
anything else, through hard work.
And that's the price we'll have to
pay to achieve that goal, or any
goal.
(Vince Lombardi)

Importance of
Leadership, Contd
2) A leader is one who knows the
way, goes the way, and shows
the way.
(John C. Maxwell)

Importance of
Leadership, Contd
3) Everybody can get angry that's easy. But getting angry at
the right person, with the right
intensity, at the right time, for the
right reason and in the right way that's hard.
(Aristotle)

Importance of
Leadership, Contd
4) No man is fit to command
another that cannot command
himself.
(William Penn)

Importance of
Leadership, Contd
5) People ask the difference
between a leader and a boss....
The leader works in the open, and
the boss in secret. The leader
leads and the boss drives.
(Theodore Roosevelt)

I) Introduction, Contd

Frequently asked questions?!

What is .
Can I .
What if

Importance of
Leadership, Contd
Is it true .
Leadership is a rare skill!
Leaders are born, not made!
Leaders are charismatic!
Leadership exists only at the top of
an organization!
5. Leaders control, direct, prod, &
manipulate!

1.
2.
3.
4.

Importance of
Leadership, Contd
I believe that .. But .
What is the best ..
Who is the best

II) Contingency theories of

Leadership
Situational Leadership theory

Focuses on Followers Readiness

Readiness:
The extent to which people have
the ability and willingness to
accomplish a specific task.

Situational Leadership
theory, Contd
Leadership Styles
Telling (define roles, tells people
what, how, when, where to do
various tasks)
Selling (provides direct &
support)
Participating (L & F share in
decisions, L is Facilitating &
Communicating)
Delegating (little direction &

Leadership styles

Situational Leadership
theory, Contd
Readiness Stages
1. R1: neither competent nor
confident
2. R2: motivated but no skills
3. R3: able but unwilling to do
what the leader wants
4. R4: able and willing to do what
is asked

Situational Leadership
theory, Contd
Readiness Stages

II) Contingency theories of

Leadership
Path-Goal Model (One of the
best)
It States that the Leaders job is to
assist his/her followers in:
1. Achieving their goals
2. Provide direction
3. Provide Support
4. Ensure common goals (with the
org.)

Path-Goal Model, Contd

4 Leadership behaviours
1) Directive Leader
Lets followers know whats
expected of them, schedules
work done, and gives specific
guidance on how to accomplish
tasks

Path-Goal Model, Contd

2) Supportive Leader
Is friendly and shows concern for
the need of followers

Path-Goal Model, Contd

3) Participative Leader
Consults with group members
and uses their suggestions before
making a decision

Path-Goal Model, Contd

4) Achievement-oriented Leader
Sets challenging goals and
expects followers to perform at
their highest level

III) Cutting-Edge
Approaches to Leadership
Team Leadership.
All organizations are using
work teams
Role of team leadership in
guiding team members is
dramatically increasing. WHY?
It is a challenge to learn how
to become team leader.

Team Leadership

Effective team leaders know when

to leave their teams alone and
when to get involved (it is diff.).
Team leaders job is focusing on:

1. Managing the teams external

boundary
2. Facilitating the teams process

Team Leadership, Contd

How to gain Team

Leadership Skills:
1. Patience to share
information.
2. Able to trust others.
3. Give up authority.
4. Understand when to
intervene.

Team Leadership, Contd

3 specific leadership roles:

1) Troubleshooters:
a. Trying to help in solving
problems without direct
technical interference.
b. Getting needed resources to
solve the problem

Team Leadership, Contd

2) Conflict managers:
a. Helping to identify source of
conflict.
b. Stating available options to
resolve the issue.
c. Evaluating these available
options

Team Leadership, Contd

3) Coaches:
a. Teaching the team.
b. Clarifying expectations & roles.
c. Doing whatever necessary to
keep high performance.

III) Cutting-Edge
Approaches to Leadership,
Contd
Charismatic Leadership.

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd
Charismatic Leader

Self-confident leader whose

personality & actions
influence people to behave
in certain ways.

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd
Studies showed that charismatic
leadership can be taught.
Students were taught needed skills
and non-verbal behaviors.

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd
We perfectly use Charismatic
Leadership in
1. Religion.
2. Politics & Wartime.
3. Business firm is starting up or
facing a crisis.

Charismatic Leadership,
Contd
How to be a Charismatic leader?!
1. Having a vision.
2. Able to articulate this vision.
3. Willing to take risk to achieve
that vision.
4. Sensitive to followers needs.
Show behaviours that are out of
ordinary.

IV) Leadership Issues

These are the Issues that

was raised in the 20th
and 21st Centuries

IV) Leadership Issues,

Contd
Managing Power
1. Legitimate Power
2. Coercive Power
3. Reward Power
4. Expert Power
5. Referent Power

IV) Leadership Issues,

Contd
Developing Trust

It is the belief in the

integrity, character,
and abilities of a
leader

Developing Trust, Contd

How to develop trust??????

1. Integrity
2. Competence
3. Consistency
4. Loyalty
5. Openness

IV) Leadership Issues,

Contd
Moral Leadership

How to have Moral

Leadership?
1. The means
2. The Content of goals
3. Moral than being ethical but
enforcing it.

IV) Leadership Issues,

Contd
Gender Difference and Leadership

Country

Percentage

Australia

24%

Canada

43%

France

10%

Germany

19%

Japan

9%

Poland

66%

Sweden

59%

Gender Difference and

Leadership, Contd
Women

Men

More Democratic

More Directive

More Participative

More Command

Sharing Power

More Control

More Motivation

Appraise and Punish

W act more autocratically when it comes to

group norms and males stereotypes

IV) Leadership Issues,

Contd
Heroic Leadership
It is not real (Belief)
How to have it?!
1. Apologize when you make a
mistake
2. Take the responsibility when
a problem happens

V) Conclusion
What we Learnt.
1. What is and the Importance of
Leadership.
2. Contingency theories of Leadership.
3. Cutting-Edge Approaches to
Leadership.
4. Leadership Issues (Managing Power,
Developing Trust, Moral Leadership,
Gender Difference and Leadership,
Heroic Leadership).

V) Conclusion, Contd

The Action Plan.