Applied Leadership Principles Chapter 1, 2, 3, 4

Leadership styles

- A leader's behaviour and attitudes ultimately leads to a consistent

What is transformational leadership?

- A leadership style that helps bring about major, positive changes by moving the group members beyond their self-interests and towards the good of the group, organization, or society - Opposite is transactional leadership- focuses on routine transactions and rewarding groups members for meeting standards

Post- Traumatic Growth

- Being angry about your crucible or burying it - The traumatic event is commonly relived through recurrent recollections, nightmares.

Cognitive factors and leadership

- Cognitive factors: Cognitive analytical intelligence, practical intelligence, knowledge of the bussiness or group task, Creativity, Insight into people and Situations, Farsightedness and conceptual thinking.

Likert style survey addressing

- Competences - Worker Training - Action plans for improvement

Can you develop charisma through practice and self development?

- Develop synchrony with others - Practice the impressive appearance everyday - Be candid - Display an "in your face" attitude

Leadership Motives

- Effective leaders have frequently been distinguished by their motives and needs

5 habits of charismatic people

- Embrace imperfections - Do not be a conversational narcissist (who's the most interesting person you've ever met, what was the most exciting thing that happened to you today?, Who's the most interesting person you've met?) - Do not talk bad about people - Showing your hands - Keep eye contact, gaze deeply

What are the effects of charisma?

- Enhance productivity, lower accidents, enhance job satisfaction plants in office Windows in office Firefighters working with positive commanding officers

Three ways to deal with crucibles

- Focus on the event and live your life backward, often an angry life of blaming others - Live your life as if nothing happened, while the memories and ain remain deep inside you - Turn it into pearls

Formal Evaluation of leaders based on input form

- Followers - Customers - Suppliers

Charismatic leadership only works if

- Identify with the leader - Share beliefs - Accept the leader - Obey the leader

Examples of Crucibles

- Illness, divorce, discrimination, rejection by peers, Early Failures, poverty

Influence of heredity & Enviroment on leadership

- Individuals inherit a basic capacity to develop personality traits and mental ability that sets an outer limit on how extensively these traits can be developed. - enviromental influences

Learning from Failure

- Leaders have a deep-seated of fear of failure- Irony is learnt the most from their failures

Autocratic leadeship

- Leaders retain final authority and make all decisions

Why do leaders lose their way?

- Losing touch with reality: Surround themselves with supporters telling them what they want to hear. - Fearing Failure: can't accept failure - Craving success: Develop a sense of entitlement - Loneliness Within: Deny their fear and shut their inner voice because it is two uncomfortable to hear.

Power Motives

- Personalized Power motive

Personalized Charismatic

- Serve primarily their own interests - Exercise few restraints on their use of power

Participative leadership

- Share decision making with the followers - Divided in to three subtypes

Types of charismatic leaders

- Socialized Charismatic - Personalized Charismatic -

Entrepreneurship Leadership

- Strong achievement - High Degree of enthusiasm and creativity - Eye on the Future - Acts quickly when opportunity arises

Crucible are the real test of your character

- They can become transformational experiences that will empower your life meaning

Crucible

- Tradegy and trauma - leads to self actualization - Learn life is uncertain - have limited control

What characteristics do charismatic leaders possess?

- Visionary - Energetic - Masterful Communication skill - Ability to inspire that - Ability to make group members feel capable - Tactful in social situations - Energetic - Take risks

Celebrity charismatic

- overlap their public celebrity with socialized and personalized traits - A celebrity CEO taking stand on national and political issues

Consideration

- refers to the extent which the leader creates an environment of emotional support, warmth, and friendliness

Socialized charismatic

- restrain the use of power to benefit others - Tries o bring up other membership values. - Formulates and pursues goals that fufill the needs of the group members - less likely to engage in deviance (stealing etc. )

Ten such leadership roles are:

- the figurehead - spokesperson - negotiator - coach and motivator - team builder, team player - technical problem solver - entrepreneur - strategic planner - executor.

How do transformations take place?

1. Raise People's awareness 2. Help people look beyond self-interest 3. Help people search for self-fufillment 4. Help people 5. Commit to greatness ........

Rationalizers

Deviate from their values (Masterof Denial)

Drive and achievement Motive

Drive- A High prosperity to put forth high energy towards achieving goals and to be persistent in applying that energy

Self confidence

Improves performance, a leader who is self-assured

Imposters

Lack of selfawareness and Self esteem

How do charismatic leaders communicate?

Leadership by inspiration - Articulating a highly emotional message - Gearing language to different audiences Leadership by story telling - Builds company culture Extensive use of social networking - Face-to-face networking

Leadership definition

Leadership is the ability to inspire confidence in and support among the people who are needed to achieve organizational goals.

Leadership styles

Participative leadership Autogratic leadership Entrepuneural Leadership

Leadership Grid

Pg 130 in Textbook

Tenacity

Tenacity multiples in importance for organizational leaders because it does take a long time to implement a new program or to consummate a new business deal.

Initiating Structure

The extent to which a leader is likely to define and structure his or her role. - Collaboration

Intrinsic motivation

a motivation to take actions that are themselves rewarding

What is charisma?

a special quality of leaders who's purpose, powers, and extraordinary determination differentiate them from others - have a charming and colorful personality

Vision

the ability to imagine different and better future conditions and ways to achieve them