Strategic Leadership, 2020

Prof. Sandeep Bhattacharya

Leadership
Definitions - Leadership
• Influencing employees to voluntarily pursue
organizational goals
• the action of leading a group of people or an organization,
• or the ability to do this.
The essence of leadership
Colin Powell
 Leadership
Approaches/Styles/Theories
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 Leadership Theories
• Trait Approach:
• “Who will make a good leader?”

• Behavior Approach:
• “What do good leaders do?”

• Leader-member exchange and transformational:

• “How does the interaction between subordinate and supervisor affect the subordinate’s behavior?”

• Contingency and Path-Goal Approach:

• “Under a given condition, who will be a good leader and what behavior is likely to be effective?”

TFFC Jam
Leadership is an amazing disease

Case study from Sourav Ganguly

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 The Leadership Grid®

High
9 1.9 9.9
Country club Team management
8 management
Concern for People

7
6
5 5.5
Middle-of-the-
4 road-management
3
2
1 1.1 9.1
Low Impoverished Authority-
management compliance

Low 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 High

Concern for Production

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Country Club
• Job satisfaction.
• Happy worker is productive worker.
• What can I do to help you be better ?
(servant leadership).
Authority compliance
• Tells people what to do, how to do it, and when to do it.
• Monitors performance closely (electronic or direct).
• Commonly dismisses people if poor performance.
• Military model
Middle of the Road.
• Someone who is eclectic. Not consistent.
• Or Varies with people and trust.
• Mix of approaches
Team
• Supervisor and subordinate are a team.
• Power distance is minimal. Open communication.
• Share goals and set firm goal (task). But goals are set with
subordinate participation (People).
• Let people decide how to meet the goals.
• Monitor performance. Discuss performance from problem solving
perspective.
• Recognize when goals are achieved.
 Where does the Personal power of the
leader come from ?
• Faith ▪ Self-motivation,
• Vision ▪ Initiative,
• IQ, EQ, KQ ▪ Self-confidence,
• People orientation ▪ Creativity,
• Contextual thinking ▪ Persistence,
• Communication skills ▪ Stress tolerance,
• Courage of Conviction ▪ Risk taking,
• Ethical behavior ▪ Ability to accept
• Innovation criticism.
 Activity

What are your leadership

strengths ?
Review AB
 Leadership Traits and Skills
Traits Skills
• Adaptable to situations • Clever (intelligent)
• Conceptually skilled
• Alert to social environment
• Creative
• Ambitious and achievement • Diplomatic and tactful
orientated
• Fluent in speaking
• Assertive • Knowledgeable about group task
• Cooperative • Organised (administrative ability)
• Decisive • Persuasive
• Dependable • Socially skilled
• Dominant (desire to influence others)
• Energetic (high activity level)
• Persistent
Leaders will also use:
• Self-confident
Integrity, Honesty, Compassion,
• Tolerant of stress Humility
• Willing to assume responsibility
• Able • Eager • Hard worker • Positive
• Affectionate • Effective • Healthy • Professional
• Amiable • Efficient • Helpful • Prompt
• Appreciative • Elegant • Honest • Quick learner
• Articulate • Encouraging • Humorous • Quick to smile
• Artistic • Energetic • Inclusive • Reliable
• Athletic • Ethical • Independent • Resilient
• Brave • Excited about life • Inspiring • Respectful
• Bright • Fair • Intelligent • Responsible

Strengths List
• Calm • Faithful • Joyful • Risk-taker
• Candid • Family oriented • Kind • Self-reliant
• Caring • Focused • Lighthearted • Sensitive
• Clean • Forgiving • Leader • Spiritual
• Common sense • Frank • Lovable • Spontaneous
• Communicates well • Friendly • Loving • Straightforward
• Community-minded • Funny • Loyal • Strong
• Compassionate • Fun-loving • Mathematical • Team player
• Confident • Generous • Mature • Tenacious
• Considerate • Gentle • Mechanical • Tolerant
• Cooperative • Giving • Motivating • Trusting
• Courteous • Global perspective • Musical • Truthful
• Creative • Good cook • Natural • Understanding
• Curious • Good friend • Observant • Unselfish
• Daring • Good listener • Orderly • Visionary
• Dedicated • Good parent • Organized • Warm
• Dependable • Good people skills • Open • Welcoming
• Determined • Graceful • Patient
Overcoming patterned
thinking of the brain.
The Pros and Cons
• The use of stereotypes is a major way in which we
simplify our social world; since they reduce the
amount of processing (i.e. thinking) we have to do
when we meet a new person.
• E.g. Younger people are smarter
• One disadvantage is that it makes us ignore
differences between individuals; therefore we think
things about people that might not be true (i.e.
make generalizations).
Thinking Stereotypes
• Experience gives better judgement
• Better qualifications=Better performance
• Only good institutions can build good people
• The weaker sex is weaker
• Men are the "backbone."
• Slow and steady wins
• Review The Tortoise and the Hare story Ver 4.0
• You must succeed at first shot
• Vs it is ok to fail
Other Stereotypes
• Mentoring rarely works
• Review Reverse mentoring
• For example, imagine your new coworker has a political affiliation
that differs from yours. Based on the negative stereotypes affiliated
with your coworker's political party, if you make assumptions about
your new colleague, you might start off with a hostile and
unfriendly relationship. This could significantly impede your ability
to work together.
• However, if you get to know your new coworker as an individual,
you might be able to put aside any political differences for the sake
of productivity. You might also develop some new political
perspectives of your own and build a strong working relationship
built on mutual understanding. This holds true for any individual
and any potential stereotypes.
Women Leadership
 Activity - debate

Are leaders born or are they

made ?
Leadership behaviors
• Leaders build consensus on and communicate clear, institutionally-
aligned and challenging direction.
• Leaders recruit, develop, mentor and engage teams of collaborative,
talented people.
• Leaders include and respect all individuals and groups.
• Leaders encourage intelligent risk taking
Leadership behaviors
• Leaders encourage thoughtful experiments in everyday work to foster
innovative and creative initiatives.
• Leaders go see to gain first-hand knowledge of their organization’s
processes and problems.
• Leaders ask ‘why’ to learn more about causes of problems in order to
mentor others’ problem solving.
Leadership behaviors

• Leaders understand that the health and safety of our employees

are important in the line of our work.
• Leaders demonstrate the highest level of integrity and ethics in all
they do and say.
• Leaders understand market and industry trends, championing
business initiatives and relationships to remain market
competitive.
Activity TOWS Matrix
 Simple tips to improve your leadership skills
1. Reflect and identify the skills YOU need to lead effectively and create your action
plan to develop them

2. Ask for feedback from work colleagues, line managers, tutors, your ‘followers’

3. Practise! Take on responsibility (work, volunteering, clubs & Societies) and reflect
on your performance

4. Find a mentor – learn from positive leadership role-models

5. Attend further leadership and management training !

My
Way
OR…
 How not to be a leader
▪ I know everything here
▪ Micro-manage
▪ Treating people badly (care, respect, appreciation, value)
▪ Not setting good examples
▪ Focusing on too many things at once
▪ Pushing too hard on the task and forgetting the people
▪ Not giving clear direction
▪ Not taking responsibility for failure
▪ Focusing on the detail and forgetting to tell the big picture
▪ Showing little or no personal commitment to the vision
▪ Allowing people who aren’t performing the job to remain
Last thoughts …
Accountability
Sully
 Group Activity

I see something in you

Do you hire based on experience or potential
Dream, Dare, Soar & may the FORCE
be with you