To be successful, a business
Leader must be effective in:
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creating an agenda |
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developing a human network for achieving the agenda |
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execution / implementation |
Effective Leadership Practices
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The Key Success Factors for
effective leadership practices include:
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1. Understanding
the differences between .....,
and balancing the tasks of .....
Leadership
and Management
(Kotter)
Establishing
direction
Planning & Budgetting
Aligning
people
Organising & staffing
Motivating
&
inspiring
Controlling & Problem solving
Leadership
produces change, often to a dramatic degree.
Management
produces a degree of predictability,
consistency and order.
2.
Critical Leadership skills required
(Kouzes and Posner)
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Challenging the status quo,
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Inspiring
a shared vision,•• |
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Encouraging
the heart, |
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Modelling
the way.
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Enabling
others to act |
plus
a willingness to take prudent business risks
3.
Communications / Communications / Communications
4.
“Participative decision-making
and an openness to challenge and to be challenged.”
5.
“Where people grow, profits grow.”
(Koestenbaum)
6.
“Effective expense control is an essential business
function,
however, a company cannot
simply save its way to success
in a technology-driven industry.”
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