Leadership Roles Are Changing In The New

Environment

What skills do leaders/managers need to be successful and effective?

What do managers/leaders do?

Traditional/Classic Activities: Planning Organizing Leading Controlling

More Recent Additions: Communication Networking

What Do Leaders/Managers Do? Results of a Study of Effective and Successful Leaders

Relative Distribution of Managers’ Activities

What Do Successful Managers/Leaders Do?

Of the four major activities, only networking had a statistically significant relationship with success.

Human resource management activities made the least relative contribution.

What Do Effective Managers/Leaders Do?

The opposite!

What should organizations do about this paradox?

Pay attention to reward system/compensation structure

Authentic Leadership – Bill George

March 23 - Senior Writer Diane Brady talks to former Medtronic CEO Bill George about his insightful book on how to become an authentic leader and the factors that send even accomplished leaders astray. In True North, a follow-up to Authentic Leadership, George looks at the various factors that go into achieving authenticity on the job and staying focused on what matters

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Leadership Skills What skills do leaders need? Whetten and Cameron Model – Personal and Interpersonal

Leadership Skills What skills do leaders need? Whetten and Cameron Model – Personal and Interpersonal

What Skills Do Leaders Need To Be Effective and Successful?

Cultural flexibilityCommunication skillsHRD skillsCreativitySelf-management learning

The 10 Leadership Behaviors that represent the most effective style of today’s leaders/managers

1. Vision2. Passion3. Confidence, determination, persistence4. Image building5. Role modeling6. External representation7. Expectations of and confidence in followers8. Selective motive arousal9. Frame alignment10. Inspirational communication

The Role of Humor and Fun

Humor and fun may play a role in leader effectiveness.

Leadership and Emotions – Dan Hill

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Lessons on Leadership - Jack Stahl: Former Coca-Cola president and Revlon CEO Jack Stahl talks with senior writer Diane Brady about what he has learned in senior leadership positions, and how others can apply that to their careers.

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Leadership Development

Authentic Leadership Development (ALD)

The process that draws upon a leader’s life course, psychological capital, moral perspective, and a “highly developed” supporting organizational climate to produce greater self-awareness and self-regulated positive behaviors, which in turn fosters continuous, positive self-development resulting in veritable, sustained performance.

Coaching

The goal of effective coaching is to change behavior.

The Seven Principles of Effective Executive Coaching/Organizational Consulting:

http://pinkmagazine.com/resources/career/7_principles_coaching.html

The five key leadership roles that will be essential in the next decade

1.A strategic vision to motivate and inspire2.Empowering employees3.Accumulating and sharing internal knowledge4.Gathering and integrating external information5.Challenging the status quo and enabling

creativity

Red Cross President Is Ousted Over Relationship With Employeehttp://online.wsj.com/article/SB119619004451105488.html?mod=djem_jiewr_be

SUMMARY: The American Red Cross ousted its president, Mark Everson, afterlearning that he had engaged in a "personal relationship" with a subordinateemployee. The board "concluded that the situation reflected poor judgment on Mr. Everson's part and diminished his ability to lead the organization in the future."

QUESTIONS:1.) Why do you think the Red Cross has had rapid turnover in its top positionsbased on, in this case, inappropriate relationship and with the past twopresidents, conflict and friction with the board if governors?

2.) Most non-profit organization do not develop formal ethics programs similarto corporate ethics programs. Why do you think non-profits feel that they donot need to manage organizational ethics?

3.) In this case, is there anything the Red Cross could have done to prevent MrEverson from creating a situation that damages the reputation of the Red Cross?