Leader Effectiveness Training

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Leader Effectiveness Training

• What do leaders need?
• What do team members need?

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Leadership

• Lead, follow, or get out of the way. Thomas
  Paine
• Leadership is solving problems. The day soldiers
  stop bringing you their problems... They have
  either lost confidence that you can help or
  concluded you do not care. Either case is a
  failure of leadership. Colin Powell
• Leadership at one time meant muscles but today
  it means getting along with people. Mahatma
  Gandhi

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Leadership

• Example is leadership. Albert Schweitzer
• Leadership is the art of getting someone else to
  do something you want done because he wants to do
  it. Dwight D. Eisenhower
• Management is doing things right leadership is
  doing the right things. Peter Drucker
• Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful,
  concerned citizens can change world. Indeed it is
  the only thing that ever has. Margaret Mead

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Leadership

• A leader is a dealer in hope. Napoleon
  Bonaparte
• Never tell people how to do things. Tell them
  what to do and they will surprise you with their
  ingenuity. General George Patton

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Leadership

• Simon Sinek It's not what you do. It's not
  how you do it. It is why you do it. If
  people believe you and share the belief, they
  will do it for themselves, they won't need to do
  it for you.e.g. MLK I have a dream... not a
  plan.

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Leadership

• Everyone has spent time with admirable leaders
  and leaders who are less so.
• Two minute writing exercise
• what makes a good leader?
• what makes a poor leader?
• Four geographic groups
• compare and collate your lists.

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Leadership

• Being the leader does not make you one.
• There are no innate trait differences between
  leaders and non-leaders. Page 17
• Everyone wants their needs met.
• Leadership meets the...
• group member's needs as an HR specialist
• Organization's needs as a task specialist

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Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs

• McLeod, S. A. (2007). Maslow's Hierarchy of
  Needs. Retrieved from http//www.simplypsychology.
  org/maslow.html

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Professional Needs

• Long-term career satisfaction requires a real
  sense of
• autonomy
• impact on the world
• masteryyou are good at what you do
• connection to other people

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Professional Achievement

• systematically train your ability to focus
  persistently on hard things
• to become incredibly valuable in the economy
• because theres not many people who can do it at
  exactly the time when the ability is needed
• ...the rest are all distracted by Twitter and
  checking their Facebook page

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Mike Hoye's Hierarchy of Needs

• food, shelter, coffee
• a good Internet connection
• colleagues who are not jerks
• source code management
• The thing about chaos is...it's fair.

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Organizational Needs

• Charles Darwin, The Descent of Man
• to survive and be successful, groups...
• evolve compassionate, sympathetic, helping,
  altruistic behaviours, at least within those
  groups
• Evolution is cooperation, not competition.
• It is not the strongest or the most intelligent
  who will survive but those who can best manage
  change. ? Charles Darwin

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Leadership

• Needs dis-satisfiers
• poor relationships with superiors and peers.
• inadequate technical supervision
• poor company policies, administration, working
  conditions
• problems in one's personal life
• Poor conditions produced dissatisfaction.
• Good conditions did not produce satisfaction.

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Leadership

• Needs satisfiers
• achievement
• recognition
• rewarding and challenging work
• responsibility
• growth and advancement
• Only satisfiers brought satisfaction
• Satisfiers are about why people work.

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Leader as Problem Solver

• When groups have problems, they need leaders.
• Whose problem is it?
• group member personal needs unmet
• your problem your own needs unmet
• common problem both own it
• no problem everyone's needs being met

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Leadership

• Whose problem is it?
• Team member is behind on the schedule due to
  technical difficulties.
• A team member isn't prepared to report at a
  project meeting.
• Your co-worker says he's worried about his
  upcoming performance review.

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Leadership

• Whose problem is it?

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Leadership

• Whose problem is it?

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Leadership

• A team member has just asked asked for 6 months
  maternity leave during critical times.
• Your group has an intense discussion during a
  staff meeting.
• The issue list is getting longer, and longer, and
  longer...

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Leadership

• Effective leaders must behave in such a way that
  they come to be perceived almost as another group
  member at the time time, they must help all
  group members feel as free as the leader to make
  contributions and perform needed functions in the
  group." L.E.T. p. 46

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Leadership

• Effective leaders act like group members
• Effective group members act like leaders
• status leveling
• focus on the goal, not the people
• "Fix the problem, not the blame." Japanese
  proverb

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Leadership

• An effective leader does not need to solve
  problems but to see that they get solved.
• 5 tips for being a better leader
• Facilitate progress
• Be supportive, not controlling
• Remind people why their jobs are important
• Change behaviour by addressing feelings (feelings
  and emotions come from needs)