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Executive Leadership Skills

For Success

NACAS

South

April 21, 2008

By

Dr. Jairy C. Hunter, Jr., President

Charleston Southern University

I. Introduction

A. Greetings

B. Presentation Overview

The Change Process

Challenges in Changing Times

Strategies for a Changing Culture

Leadership Maxims

Essential Leadership Skills Collins Leadership Concepts

Maxwells Law of the Lid

Leadership Development

Summary

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II. The Change Process

A. Change is the process by which the

future invades our lives and

organizations. (Alvin Toffler)

B. Views of Change:

Danger or Opportunity

C. Options for Change:

Choose Change or Chase Change

III. Challenges in Changing Times

A. Thrive or Survive

B. Everything or Niche

C. Quality or Quantity

D. Price or Value

E. Innovation or Security

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IV. Strategies for a Changing Culture

A. Awareness

Know your business

Be alert internally and externally

B. Adaptability

Be open to change

Choose change

C. Decisiveness

Be proactive

Keep a competitive edge

V. Leadership Maxims

A. Leadership Ps & Rs

Position = Rights

Productivity = Results

People Development = Relationships

Personhood = Respect

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V. Leadership Maxims (Cont.)

B. Triangles of Leadership

Top Down

Bottom Up

V. Leadership Maxims (Cont.)

C. Leadership Formula: L = IQ + EI

Knowing who youre dealing with

Knowing how to work with others

Leadership = Intelligence Quotient +Emotional Intelligence

Source: Emotional Intelligence at Work, Hendrie Weisinger, Jossey-Bass Publishers, San Francisco

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V. Leadership Maxims (Cont.)

D. Leadership Basics

Everyone makes a difference.

You cant do it alone.

Accept the pleasantries and the pitfalls.

You dont have to be a born leader.

Leadership isnt having the corner officewith the window.

Comp

etency

Comp

etency V

ision

Vis

ionInfluenceInfluence

IntegrityIntegrity

V. Leadership Maxims (Cont.)

E. Character

Its what you do when nobodys looking.

(Hunter)

Success is always temporary. When all

is said and done, the only thing youll

have left is your character. (Author unknown)

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V. Leadership Maxims (Cont.)

F. Leadership Excellence

Effectiveness: Working on the right things.

Efficiency: Doing things right.

Leadership Excellence: Doing the right things right.

VI. Essential Leadership Skills

A. Self-Awareness Skills

Know Thyself!

Who Am I?

What Do I Believe?

Where Do I Want to Go?Be True to Yourself and Others.

Always Remember the Morning Newspaper Test.

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VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

B. Old-Fashioned Leadership Skills

Leadership is the ability to get people to dowhat they dont want to do and like it.(Truman)

Leadership is lifting a persons vision tohigher sights, raising a persons performanceto a higher standard, and building apersonality beyond its normal limitations.

(Drucker)

Leadership is a process and relationshipwhich reflects character. (Hunter)

VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

C. Visionary Leadership Skills

Visionary leaders literally create the future.

Visionary leaders function in four roles:

1. Direction Setter: Is mission-oriented, focused, and buildson strengths.

2. Change Agent: Sets high expectations, thinks strategically,and exhibits a burning desire to succeed.

3. Spokesperson: Personifies vision, generates trust,and develops consensus.

4. Coach: Maintains a productive environment, assistsothers in achieving peak performance, and practiceshands-off management.

Source: Visionary Leadership, Burt Nanus, (San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass Publishers, 1992)

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VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

D. Strategic Planning Skills

Different Approaches

1. Institutional Driven

2. Market Driven

Planning Maxims

1. If you fail to plan, you plan to fail.

2. If you dont know where youre going..

. any road will take you there.

. how will you know when you getthere?

. you might end up somewhere else.(Stengle)

VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

E. Planning answers these questions:

1. Where are we now?

2. Where are we going?

3. How will we get there?

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VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

F. Planning achieves organizational effectiveness.

1. Accomplishes mission

2. Pursues vision

3. Sets long-term directions

4. Establishes priorities

5. Directs resources strategically

6. Evaluates outcomes

7. Uses results from evaluations tocontinuously improve.

VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

G. Communication Skills

Personal Method

Organizational Methods

Everyone wears an invisible sign:

Make Me Feel Important.

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VI. Essential Leadership Skills (Cont.)

H. Team Building Skills

Teamwork is the spirit of cooperation.

Trust is the foundation of teamwork.

Teams function by collaboration

Teamwork requires as much freedom as possible

and as little authority as necessary.

Teamwork works best under a participatory

leadership style.

None of us can do the job as well as all of us.

(author unknown)

VII. Collins Leadership Concepts

A. Disciplined People

B. First who then what

C. Disciplined Thought

D. Hedgehog

E. Disciplined Action

F. Technology Accelerators

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VII. Collins Leadership Concepts (Cont.)

5 Level 5 Executive

Builds enduring greatness through a paradoxical blend of personal

humility and professional will.

4 Effective Leader

Catalyzes commitment to and vigorous pursuit of a clear and

compelling vision, stimulating higher performance standards.

3 Competent Manager

Organizes people and resources toward the effective and efficient

pursuit of predetermined objectives.

2 Contributing Team Member

Contributes individual capabilities to the achievement of group

objectives and works effectively with others in a group setting.

1 Highly Capable Individual

Makes productive contributions through talent, knowledge, skills, and

good work habits.

Good is the Enemy of Great

VIII. Maxwells Law of the Lid

A. Success Without Leadership

B. Success with Leadership

C. Proverbs 29:2 When good people run

things, everyone is glad, but when the ruler is

bad, everyone groans.

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VIII. Maxwells Law of the Lid (Cont.)

Success With LeadershipSuccess Without Leadership

SUCCESS

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

SUCCESS

A. B.

EFFECTIVENESS

EFFECTIVENESS

INCREASES

IX. Leadership Development

A. Do a Vision Check-up (3 Rs)

-Relax

-Rethink

-Refocus

B. Reflections

We work 11,000 days of our lives between the ages of 21 and 65.(Richard Koonce)

Choose a job you love and you will never have towork a day in your life.(Confucius)

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IX. Leadership Development (Cont.)

C. Points to Ponder

The best way to predict your future is to create it. (Unknown)

Keep your skills and contacts current

Theres plenty of room at the top but no place to sit down. (Unknown)

If your outgo exceeds your income, then your upkeep will be yourdownfall, and your assets will be in jail.

X. Summary

A. Know Thyself

B. Be Aware and Adaptable

C. Choose Change!

D. Increase Your Leadership Lid

E. Be a Positive Influence

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X. Summary (Cont.)

F. Leadership Success is really

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G. Best Wishes!

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