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World according to Smith-Meyer

"Leadership ensures a governance and cultural framework in which the leader seeks to optimize the organization of company resources and guides its volunteers(employees) as to their role and purpose in the value chain of the enterprise, inspiring them to pursue that role with rigor and diligence" *organization and motivation

Full range model of leadership

*Transactional leadership: focuses on the clarifying employees' roles and providing followers with positive and negative rewards contingent on performance *Transformational leaders: engender trust, seek to develop leadership in others, exhibit self-sacrifice and serve as moral agents focusing themselves and followers on objectives that transcend the more immediate needs of the work group

Participative management

-delegating to employee how to do something -communicating significance of work-fit in -autonomy-giving trust, show your believe in them, remove barriers -resourced in what they're doing -core self evaluations -contingent pay practices -decision making participation

situational control

-leader-member relations:extent to which the leader has the support, loyalty, and trust of the work group -task structure: concerned with the amount of structure contained within tasks performed by the work group -position power: the degree to which the leader has formal power to reward, punish, otherwise obtain compliance from employees

Do women and men display same leadership skills?

-men and women were seen as displaying more task and social leadership -women used a more democratic or participative style -men used more autocratic and directive style

"Great Boss"?

-non-confrontational -compromise -giving it away *no challenge, no leadership, no fighting for the team... not good *need: constructive=better situation for self, cant leave everything to boss, more responsibility, life long learning

Transactional leadership focus

-organizational focus -clarity of staff roles -clear expectations -straight forward remuneration and reward systems *honest

Transformational leaders

-people focus -global perspectives (big picture) -staff development -non-financial motivation *authentic

Traits possessed by bad leaders

-rigid: cant adapt/not listening -intemperate: gets mad easily -callous:dishonest/not trust -insular: not communicate/cant inspire -evil: own agenda before others, egoistic

Employee Engagement

-suitability: employee profile fits the job requirements -sense of meaningfulness: task purpose is important and meaningful, understanding the context of the role -sense of autonomy: ability to use judgement and freedom when completing tasks, he/she needs me! -sense of achievement: i can do this job, and do it well -sense of progress: awareness of impact, role and contribution; praise and recognition

Leaders have to focus on:

-vision -markets -competition -strategy -goals -critical success factors -core competencies -competitive advantage -process and systems:governance, internal control, information, reward systems -organizational structure -people: culture, motivation

Conscious Leadership-Path goal theory

4 different leadership styles 1.directive 2.supportive 3.participative 4.achievement-oriented reformulated path goal theory: -greater variety of leader behavior -intrinsic motivation and empowerment in influencing leadership effectiveness -shared leadership

General representation of House's Revised Path-Goal

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Transformational Leader behaviors

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Leadership

Kinicki/Fugate: "a social influence process in which the leader seeks the voluntary participation of subordinates in an effort to reach organizational goals"

Behavioral Styles Theory

Ohio States studies-2 critical dimensions of leader behavior: 1.consideration: creating mutual respect and trust with followers 2. initiating structure: organizing and defining what group members should be doing

What do we (employees) expect from our hierarchy?

Organization and motivation -employees want organizational leaders to create feelings of: *significance-what one does at work is important and meaningful *community-a sense of unity encourages people to treat others with respect and dignity and to work together in pursuit of organizational goals *excitement-people are engaged and feel energy at work

Sheryl Sandberg

author of "Lean In: women, work, the will to lead" -women behave in weak manner when surrounded by men/minority/expressing opinion our of comfort zone area=make them feel weak -always will be minority based on opinion-ability of judgments, opinions, own person -get involved-opinion heard -do not lean back before your time

Can traits be learned?

can get better over time, learn techniques, reinforcement

Categories of leader behavior

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It starts at the top, so does the work

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Key Positive leadership traits

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Transformational Model of Leadership

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applying situational theories

chart -how to best execute plan/how to motivate/match behavior to plan

Evolution of Power

chart -leaving tasks to certain people -degree of engagement, complexity

Rational Model

chart purpose to improve leadership -leads to better decisions

3 pillars of authentic leadership

chart self awareness, ethics, self regulation

DISC basics

dominance conscientious influence steadiness

Situational Theories-Fiedler

effectiveness of a particular style of leader behavior depends on the situation -you are boss=ability to fire people -try to get job done -motivated-like feedback, give advice

shared leadership

entails a simultaneous, ongoing, mutual influence process in which individuals share responsibility for leading regardless of formal roles and titles -interdependency, creative input, complexity

Traits possessed by effective leaders

intelligence, strong influence, self-confidence, level of energy and activity, task-relevant knowledge *confidence+determination=influence *energy=determination stamina

Trait Theory

leader traid: physical or personality characteristic that can be used to differentiate leaders from followers *sense of mission/vision

Behavioral styles theory

leaders behaviors can be systematically improved and developed -there is no one best style of leadership -the effectiveness of a particular leadership style depends on the situation at hand -no one best style -leaders are people who do the right thing -leaders have awareness

Diversity about complementarity of...

skills, experience, mindset,aptitude, style, and more