-: Project :Leadership Skills Approach

Course

Leadership Behaviors and Skill

By

Prof. M. Farooq Hussain

Submitted By: Muhammad Imran Kiani (L1S07MBEX0011) Umar Iqbal

University of Central Punjab

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Leader
Great leaders are made not born. If you have the desire and willpower, you can become an effective leader. Good leaders develop through a never ending process of education, training, and experience. To inspire your workers into higher levels of teamwork, there are certain things you must be, know, and, do. These do not come naturally, but are acquired through continual work and study. A leader is someone who inspires others to follow to achieve a designed goal. On the other hand, someone who possesses talent, skills, traits, vision, planning, determination etc., and acts alone without influencing others is not a leader.

Leadership
1. Leadership is a process by which a person influences others to accomplish an objective and directs the organization in a way that makes it more cohesive and coherent. 2. Leadership is the ability to others to do what they dont like to do and like it. 3. Leadership is not just the purview of a few people born with certain traits that make them effective leaders. The skills approach refers that many people have leadership potential, and if they can learn from their experiences, they can become more effective leaders.

Leadership Attributes
Leadership framework is based on Be know do!

BE KNOW DO
BE a professional. Be loyal to the organization, perform selfless service, take personal responsibility. BE a professional who has good character traits like Honesty, competence, commitment, integrity, courage, straightforwardness and imagination. KNOW the four factors of leadership follower, leader, communication, situation.

KNOW yourself. You must be aware of your strengths and weaknesses. KNOW human nature. Good leader must know human needs and emotions. KNOW your goals and objectives DO provide direction. This include goal setting, problem solving, decision making, planning. DO implement. This includes communicating, coordinating, supervising and evaluating. DO motivate.

Leadership Skills Approach vs Trait Approach

Skills Approach
In skills approach, we focus on a persons skills and abilities that can be learned and developed by experience and training. Skills are based on knowledge and abilities that a person gains throughout life. The ability to learn a new skill varies from one individual to other. Some skills come almost naturally, while others come only by complete devotion to study and practice.

Traits Approach
In trait approach, we focused on personality traits that are considered inherent and relatively stable from birth. Traits are distinguished qualities of a ones character like honesty,

Leadership Skills Approach

There is an old-fashioned approach of leadership is that leaders are marked out for leadership from early on in their lives; and that if you are not a born leader, there's little you can do to become one. The modern view is that through patience, persistence and hard work, training and experience you can be a truly effective leader, just as long as you make the effort needed.

It is observed that leaders come-up with many different styles, some have been effective or caring and some have been divisive or even ruthless. Some have been great role models, others big disappointments. Following are specific skills someone must master if they want to be a leader.

Communication Skills
Communications skills were considered highest by most respondents and another recent survey of recruiters ranks it as one of the more decisive skills when a company hires a manager. To be a great leader or manager, you must be a great communicator. Communication skills can be broken down into three areas. Speaking Skills Speaking skill is considered to be most important because they have to clearly communicate their message through verbal communication. Listening Skills A huge part of being a great communicator is being a great listener. When someone comes to your office to speak with you, being a good leader, put down everything you are doing, turn to them and give them your full attention. Written Skills Emails, memos and reports are all forms of written communications skills. They can be a very effective and efficient means of communications provided they are done correctly.

Integrity
Integrity means honesty. This refers to having strong internal guiding principles that one does not compromise. It means treating others as you would wish to be treated. Integrity is a skill to the extent that we see it in action. But it goes much deeper than surface actions. Integrity is

reflected in your thinking, attitudes, and actions. In a leader, followers cant directly see your level of integrity, but they judge it accurately on a gut level based on your actions and your words.

Vision or Strategy
Vision is another important component of good leadership quality. A leader must have a clear idea about his vision or mission statement.

Human or Interpersonal Skills

Human / interpersonal skills are proficiency in working with people based on a persons knowledge about people and how they behave, how they operate in groups, how to communicate effectively with them, and their motives, attitudes, and feelings. The way to influence followers, then, is to earn their liking and respect, to appeal to the friendship factor. It requires spending time with others, caring and respecting. The more amount of time that you are willing to spend with the people, the greater will be his tendency to trust you and to feel that you are acting in their best interest.

Persuasion Skills
Leadership is often defined as the ability to persuade or influence others to do something they might not have done without the leaders persuasion. The ability to influence others and cause them to move in a particular direction is a highly important skill in leadership.

Adaptability Skills
The good leader has to embrace change and see it as an opportunity. Adaptability is a very critical skill in leadership. Adaptability and flexibility in not being bound by a plan are important success factors in leadership today. The leader must move easily from one set of circumstances to another.

Teamwork / Team building Skills

One of the best ways to lead is by example. A good leader knows when to be a leader and when to be a follower. No individual can do it all.

Benjamin Disraeli said, I must follow the people. Am I not their leader?

Great leaders are followers too. If youre a leader without following, youre a dictator.

Coaching and encouraging

Encouragement is considered oxygen to the soul. If you desire to be a great leader, giving encouragement is a skill you must develop. Encouraging followers to expand their capabilities and take on additional assignments is part of the leaders responsibility.

Decision-making
A leader must be able to wade through information, comprehend whats relevant, make a wellconsidered decision, and take action based on that decision. Making decisions too quickly or too slowly will impede your leadership effectiveness.

Planning Skills
To plan means to focus more strategically. Planning involves making certain assumptions about the future and taking actions in the present to positively influence that future. Plans are important for guidance and focus, but plans can seldom be cast in stone. Planning is an excellent and necessary example leadership skill.

Passion Skills
Without passion, no one can be a great leader. It drives a lot, and you can inspire so much in others through your own passion and enthusiasm. Being a leader you must be able to set goals and determine priorities to achieve those goals. Leaders who produce results not only drive value to the business, but increase their value to the organization. You need to have a can do attitude about showing results.

Technical Skills (Knowledge)

More knowledgeable leaders are able to consider complex organizational issues and to develop alternative and appropriate strategies for change. Knowledge is linked to a leaders problemsolving skills. These are the skills required to effectively influence superiors and subordinates in the achievement of organizational goals. Technical skill is proficiency, based on specific knowledge, in a particular area of work. To have technical skills means that a person is competent and knowledgeable with respect to the activities specific to an organization, rules and standard operating procedures.

Problem-Solving Skills
These are creative abilities that leaders bring to unique, vague, hard to address in organizational problems. These skills include identifying the problems and issues and gathering relevant information and making plans to solve.

Problem-solving skills operate in the context of an organization and its environment and require that leaders be aware of their own capacities and challenges relative to the problem/issue and the organizational context.