Growing Tommorrow's Leaders today: effective leadership and teamworking
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Pages: 20 sides of A4 (or less)
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Overall aim of this chapter: Demystify what leadership is about and what it is not. Concentrate on the humanistic side of leadership and the things that can derail you from becoming a good leader. Please make it Jargon free if possible. We need to engage the reader who may have made preconceptual links between leadership, politics and fashion (i.e. a buzz word).
- what is leadership
- we are all potential leaders even if we don't think we have the makings ourselves
- Identify the Qualities of a good Leader
- Different leadership styles and identification of own style
- Sources of Power within a practice
- The effect of different Leadership styles on a team
- Concept of psychological contracts
- Key principles of team leadership
- Turning a group into a team
- Effective chairing of meetings
- Leading like Shackleton
- Jung/Olivier Mythodrama: good king vs bitter old man, warrior vs mercenary, great mother vs devouring mother, medicine woman vs mad woman
- strengths that can become derailers
- how we handle various edicts from others - top overload; bottom disregard; middle crunch, customer neglect
- Teamworking
- (some bits of this are still being written): need to get powerpoint from Ken Jarrod
- How to teach on Leadership to trainees and what activities can we incorporate into HDR that put leadership skills into practice (at a UKAPD seminar, we thought simulating the group tasks bit of Deanery recruitment, getting groups to deliver bits of the HDR etc)
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5 Tips on Effective Leadership
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Communicate clearly and routinely. Lay out your company goals and principles in a mission statement and keep sharing your vision with your employees.
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Involve employees in setting objectives. Give them feedback on how they are progressing toward meeting those targets.
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Give your people authority, then hold them accountable. But don’t go after them personally when things go wrong. Find out first if the process is at fault.
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Be accountable yourself. Install an advisory board or executive team to help you make good strategic decisions and give you feedback on your own performance.
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Be trustworthy and extend trust to your employees. That will help you earn their loyalty and strengthen your company.
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Other Notes
Leadership Characteristics
Resolute and Focussed
Humility
Determined
Courage
Honesty
Moral/Behavioural standards set
Motivator
Inspirational
Leads by example
Aware of own and others behaviour
Represents the team to the outside world
Keeps the group on the task
Maintains unity
Core functions of leadership
Planning,
Controling (incl managing conflict)
Supporting
Informing (incl getting feedback)
Evaluating
Psychological Contracts and Motivation
Maslows Hierachy
Motivation Calculus
Needs, Efactors, Desired Results
Effective team leaderhip
Things that lead to bad decison making
Benefits of team work
Establishing teams (need time to get to know each other)
Building and maintaing (review and evaluation)
Checking
Cohesiveness
Team Roles
Culture and Standards
Adairs Circles
Group Problems
Chairing Skills
Interventions
Depersonalise
Refocus
Encourage empathy
Control the strong and Protect he Weak
Steer towards decision making
Group Vs Team
Leading like shacklton.
Led Expedition to Anartica 1914
Lost Ship Endurance
Led men to safety after 10 months on pack ice
Recruited team, balanced,
Communicatio, Good psychology
Varied leadership style depending on risk
Addressed Conflict
Self Belief