Leadership skills

Important concepts
• Leadership:
• Leader:
• Manager:
 Important concepts
• Leadership: (TRAIT, QUALITY) Leadership is a
process whereby an individual influences a
group of individuals to achieve a common goal
• Leader: leaders are the ones who have the
quality of leadership in them
• Manager: Managers supervise staff in the
day-to-day operations of an organization.
 Types of Knowledge a leader entails
• Tacit knowledge:
Knowledge which draws on the accumulated
experience and learning of a person
• Explicit knowledge:
Explicit knowledge is used in the design of
routines, standard operation procedures, and
the structure of data records.
 Individual and Social Capital
Individual capital:
A persons own tacit and explicit knowledge
Organizational capital:
When many persons share their tacit and
explicit knowledge with organization it becomes
organizational capital
 Leader and strategic focus of Org.
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Priorities
Leadership
Translate org. goals
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and Process
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Employee
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 Attributes Of Leader
1. Strategic visionary:
• Should have a Clear vision
• Should be able to translate Vision-strategy-
into reality
• The leader should be more visionary
(directional) so that the employees can
understand the strategy.
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2. Motivators:
• Leader should be a source of motivation for the
employees:
Motivation can be provided in following ways:
• Giving support
• Encouraging others
• Praising
• Rewarding
• Positive reinforcement
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3. Communicator:

• A knowledge based leader should be a good

communicator.
• He can established communication through
formal and informal channels.
Cont..
4. Change Agent:

• The leader should be able to facilitate change

process in the organization
• Transforming a traditional org to knowledge org is
itself change process.
• He should build Willingness to accept change in
the organization
• Build change capacity
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5. Coach Mentor and Model:

A leader should be a good guide for the member

of the organization
A leader should walk the talk for encouraging
the member of org. (lead by example)
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6. Learning Facilitator:

A leader should share his tacit knowledge with

the organization, by doing this he is actually
facilitating the sharing process by himself .
One best way to share knowledge is through
story telling.
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7. Knowledge Executor:

• A leader should be able to implement their

vision into reality.
• leader should make sure vision does make
reality.
 How leadership capabilities can be
learnt?
• Modeling:
– Encourage desirable work behaviors by setting a role
model to which employees can look up to
• Shadowing
– Allows an individual to observe a leader closely.
• Coaching
– Learner gets feedback and guidance from the leader
• Mentoring
– Mentor and mentee meets regularly and discuss
strategies that mentee may apply