...Assessing your own leadership capabilities and performance Understanding leadership styles within an organization A leadership style is a way of providing direction, implementing plans and motivating people. Every company applies its own leadership styles, choosing to adopt those which best suit their particular needs. no one style of leadership fits all situations, so it's useful to understand different leadership frameworks and leadership styles and adapt your approach to fit your situation. Looking through leadership theory, we find that different books and studies opt to split leadership differently. However for this assignment we will be using the Situational leadership theory, developed by Paul Hersey and Kenneth Blanchard in the 1960’s. The model rests on two fundamental concepts; the Leadership Style and the individual or group Maturity Level. Hersey and Blanchard categorized all leadership styles into four behaviour types, which they named S1 to S4: S1.Directing This is where leaders make all of the decisions within the company, then give specific instructions to their (followers) expecting them to follow, all whilst supervising closely the work which is being carried out. S2.Coaching The Coaching style of leadership clearly defines the roles of each follower while still seeking input and suggestions from them. Final decisions are still made by the leader but communication is two way. S3.Supporting The supporting...
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...Institute of Leadership & Management Unit M5.29 Assessing your own leadership capability and performance A S P M E L Unit: M5.29 Assessing your own leadership capability and performance: Assessment with Session Plan M5.29 ‘Assessing your own leadership capability and performance’ Assessment with Session Plan Session Plan: M5.29 Assessing your own leadership capability and performance Session Length: 2 half-day sessions plus guided learning in the workplace set by tutor (16 glh total) Venue: TBC Tutor Resources to include: · · · · · Flip charts and pens Assessment M5.29 Sufficiency descriptor M5.29 NHS LQF NHS Leadership Framework. Additional information about the sessions: These two half-day sessions together with guided learning set by the tutor in the learners’ own workplace are designed to cover the minimum 16 glh for the ILM unit M5.29 ‘Assessing your own leadership capability and performance’ and to enable the learner to complete to a satisfactory standard the ILM assessment for the M5.29 unit. The sessions are intended to further develop the skills and knowledge of learners working in the NHS who are existing or aspiring middle managers with some previous knowledge of leadership and motivation theory. Time for tutorials are not included in the sessions. A S P M E L Page 2 of 11 M5.29 © ILM 2012 Copied under licence Unit: M5.29 Assessing your own leadership capability and performance: Assessment with Session Plan Reflective...
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...Leadership Communication Skills Assessment Read through the list of skills and for each one check off your present capability in the chart below. Excel = You have mastered this skill and are excellent in it. Competent = You are competent in this skill but could polish it some. ✓ Need to Develop = This is a skill you need to develop further. | | | |Need to | |Area and Skill |Excel |Competent |Develop | |Part 1 – Assessment of the Core Abilities | |Audience Analysis and Strategy | | | | |Analyzing the context for communication | | | | |Analyzing audiences | | | | |Tailoring messages to different audiences | | | | |Selecting the most effective medium (channel) | | | | |Developing a complete communication strategy ...
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...Potential — for what? What every CEO should know – new insights into selecting the right leaders to secure your competitive future. Potential — for what? 1 Contents Potential — for what? Break-through approaches to selecting future leaders 2 3 5 Is your employee or candidate ready, willing and able to take on the next role? The ‘growth’ factors that enable people to develop over time Derailers: Is it them? Is it you? (It is probably both) Potential — for what? A roadmap Understanding the job and its context Best practices in assessing potential Summary – 5 key steps to Identifying and Managing Potential Leadership Roles Matrix Leadership Competencies 8 11 13 15 16 17 18 19 ©2006 Hay Group. All Rights Reserved www.haygroup.com Potential — for what? Potential — for what? CEOs at the world’s most successful companies know that they can only safeguard their business’s competitive future if they have the right leaders to develop and implement their strategy. While CEOs know they can also hire external candidates, they also know that the track record of outside hires can be very unpredictable. CEOs and HR Directors from those organizations seen as best by their peers for managing talent, prefer to ensure they develop a good bench-strength of talent from inside their own organizations. For many years CEOs at the world’s most successful companies – such as GE, P&G, BP – have seen the importance of securing their long term competitive...
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...Identify factors that will influence your choice of leadership styles and explain why your leadership styles are likely to positively affect your team. Before we look at what leadership styles there are it is important to define what the difference is between management and leadership. The biggest difference between managers and leaders is the way they motivate people to follow them. Managers have a position within the organisation, their teams work for them to complete tasks and in turn manage situations as they occur. Leaders on the other hand do not have teams when they are leading. Instead, formal control is given up, as to lead is have followers and this is always a voluntary activity. Telling people what to do does not inspire them to follow, rather than to be effective they must want to follow. Kurt Lewin (1939) led a group of researchers to identify different styles of leadership. While further research has identified more specific types of leadership, this early study was very influential and established three major leadership styles. • Authoritarian or autocratic • Participative or democratic • Delegative or laissez-fair Although good leaders use all three styles, with one of them normally dominant, bad leaders tend to stick with one style. When doing my own research into leadership styles I found that we now recognise and use four main subtitles which are: authoritative, consultative, supportive and delegative...
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...MOTIVATING EMPLOYEES IN THE ORGANIZATION Prepared for Professor Dan Riding Florida Institute of Technology Prepared by Student Elzbieta Kociolek Florida Institute of Technology February 19, 2012 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction………………………………………………………………………………….3 Understanding the concept of motivation………………………………………………4 Assessing your approach to employee motivation 5 Identifying manager's role in motivation process6 Applying motivational techniques7 Use appropriate methods of reinforcement.7 Provide people with flexibility and choice…………………………………………….8 Encourage employees to set their own goals and objectives………………………8 Have a flexible management style…………………………………………………….8 Provide immediate and relevant feedback that will help employees improve their performance in the future……………………………………………………………....8 Establish a climate of trust and open communication……………………………….9 Demonstrate your own motivation through behavior and attitude…………………9 Conclusions and Recommendations………………………………………………………10 References……………………………………………………………………………………11 INTRODUCTION Motivation is defined as the willingness to exert high levels of effort toward organizational goals, conditioned by the effort’s ability to satisfy some individual needs. Motivation is necessary element and the most crucial aspect in achieving goals in the organization. When people get motivated, they will put more effort and try harder on what they doing to achieve better goals...
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...HBR SPOTLIGHT Assets like leadership, talent, and speed are what produce superior market value. A capabilities audit can show you how you measure up-and how to build on your intangible strengths. Capitalizing on Capabilities by Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood they admire, people quickly point to organizations like General Electric, Starbucks, Nordstrom, or Microsoft. Ask how many layers of management these companies have, though, or how they set strategy, and you'll discover that few know or care. What people respect about the companies is not how they are structured or their specific approaches to management, but their capabilities an ability to innovate, for example, or to respond to changing customer needs. Such organizational capabilities, as we call them, are key intangible assets. You can't see or touch them, yet they can make all the difference in the world when it comes to market value. These capabilities - the collective skills, abilities, and expertise of an organization - are the outcome of investments in staffing, training, compensation, communication, and other human JUNE 2004 I F YOU ASK THEM WHICH COMPANIES resources areas. They represent the ways that people and resources are brought together to accomplish work. They form the identity and personality of the organization by defining what it is good at doing and, in the end, what it is. They are stable over time and more difficult for competitors to copy than capital market access, product strategy...
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...1) _______________ involves analyzing a situation, determining goals to be pursued, and deciding upon the actions that will be taken to achieve these goals. | |[pic]A. [pic] Planning | | |[pic]B. [pic] Organizing | | |[pic]C. [pic] Leading | | |[pic]D. [pic] Staffing | | | | 2) The four traditional functions of management include planning, organizing, leading, and service. | |[pic]A. [pic] False | | |[pic]B. [pic] True | | | | 3) Building a dynamic organization is another way of describing which function of management? | |[pic]A. [pic] Controlling | | |[pic]B. [pic] Leading | | |[pic]C. [pic] Organizing | | |[pic]D. [pic] Planning | | | | 4) The macroenvironment includes all of the following EXCEPT: | |[pic]A. [pic] International developments | | |[pic]B. [pic] Government policies | | |[pic]C. [pic] New entrants | | |[pic]D. [pic] Technology | | | | 5) Robert was recently hired as the workplace safety compliance officer at ABC Power Company. Robert will have the responsibility to monitor regulations from which of these government agencies? | |[pic]A. [pic] National Labor Relations Board | | |[pic]B. [pic] Environmental...
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...ILM Diploma in leadership and Management Assignment No 1 : Assessing your own leadership capability and performance The first step in being a good leader is to understand yourself. Gaining an understanding of your personality type, leadership style, and leadership skills is paramount. All leaders, regardless of their natural abilities, experience, and training, must be aware of their own personal areas of improvement so they can grow and become more successful. Understanding Leadership styles within the organisation • Review the prevailing leadership styles in the organisation Leadership styles vary according to organisational structure, people, environment, and task. Leaders promote loyalty among subordinates by keeping an open mind, being self-aware, and being inquisitive .Awareness is important in working effectively with diverse groups and individuals, regardless of personal bias. Anger and frustration indicate a closed mind. The effective leader asks questions with a genuine interest in learning more, rather than as a probe to expose a mistake or fault. Employee inquiries should be conducted with genuine interest and with demonstrated respect. Even more important is listening to the feedback, so that appropriate action may be taken. There are four main leadership styles. • Directing, leaders direct subordinates in what, how, when and where tasks should be done. These leaders maintain a standard of performance, and their style is high-directive...
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...Finance and Performance Management Mastery and the High Performance Business At Accenture, we have always believed that a direct correlation exists between the sophistication of an organization’s finance and performance management capabilities and its overall performance. 2 Now, we’ve put that theory to the test. In a recent landmark study, Accenture examined the relationship between finance and high performance. The results show a tangible link and strong correlation between a high-performance business and mastery of a new finance competency set. The results also reveal that those companies that created the greatest value have embraced entirely new ways of thinking about finance and performance management. Achieving High Performance Accenture defines high-performance businesses as organizations that consistently outperform their peers over a sustained timeframe (typically 5 to 7 years) and across business cycles, industry disruptions and CEO leadership cycles. These companies deliver consistently upper-quartile total returns to shareholders. They create returns on invested capital significantly in excess of the cost of capital and drive profitable revenue growth faster than their industry peers. In short, they are lean, responsive to changing competitive fundamentals and consistently rank as market leaders. How do they do it? Accenture embarked on a major research program to identify the attributes and practices that distinguish high-performance businesses from...
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...Assessing your own leadership capability and performance Review the prevailing leadership styles in the organisation In this section I will be looking at the main leadership styles in my organisation and assessing the positive and negative effects these styles can have. Pacesetting leadership style – A phrase to best describe a pacesetting leader is “do as I do, now”. This style involves a drive to achieve goals and achieve results. Pacesetting leaders lead by example. A pacesetting leader sets both high standards for themselves and the people that they are leading. A key skill for this style is a “lead by example” approach to work. They expect their followers to carry out their tasks to the same level as themselves. Leaders of this type are always quick to identify employees that are not keeping up with expectations, and they are told improve their performance. Pacesetting leaders don’t give their employees much positive feedback as it would take up time that they could be using to carry out their tasks and often jump in and take over their employee’s tasks if they believe that progress isn’t quick enough. A positive of this style is that they are able to achieve results quickly and efficiently. At least in the short term, there employees will be an energetic group with great performance in terms of both completing tasks well and a high quality of work. The negative of this style is the effect it has on the working environment. Employees are often unable to keep up...
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...Point of view What the future demands: The growing challenge of global leadership development B What the future demands: The growing challenge of global leadership development Companies worldwide seem to be seized by a new enthusiasm for innovation and growth after a sobering period of retrenchment and downsizings. Fast-moving technologies, rapid global expansion, shifting business models, mergers and acquisitions all hold out dazzling possibilities. But in order to capitalize on these opportunities, corporate leaders are confronting a serious need for new kinds of talent and leadership. One has the sense that CEOs all over the world are emerging from strategy sessions and turning to their HR leaders with the same questions: How will we get our company from here to there? And do we have the leadership to make that transition? HR executives bear increasing responsibility for helping their organizations find and develop leaders who can move their companies forward – and then for helping those leaders to succeed. This responsibility is complicated by the fact that it’s often difficult to get a clear view into the future state of the business. Among the outstanding questions for HR executives: ■ How fast must we be prepared for change throughout the organization and change at the top? What leadership skills are required for the future? How do we ensure that we hire, develop and retain the people with the right skills – intellectually, technologically and emotionally...
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...Assessing your own leadership, capability and performance Level 5. By Sue Rogers 15/05/12 Understand Leadership styles Contemporary leadership as defined by Gareth Jones and Jennifer George is “the process by which an individual exerts influence over other people and inspires, motivates, and directs their activities to help achieve group or organisational goals.” As I consider myself to be a contemporary leader, who has recently been allocated the task of being part of a leadership team which will lead a new and hopefully innovative health and social care service forward in Cornwall; I believe it is an essential part of this role to ensure I understand exactly what effective leadership is and how I will need to use the right skills at the right time. In addition the new service implementation is taking place within a background of a much wider cultural change from the relative safety of the NHS into what is essentially the private sector. Working within a community health service which has recently become a community interest company staff were naturally concerned about what this might mean for both themselves and for the patients we all provide care for. In order to achieve this major change senior management endeavoured to engage staff in the decision making process by holding interactive information sessions, using computerised updates asking for feedback and questionnaires. The leadership styles employed to achieve this attempted to be transformational (Burn, 1978)...
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...TOOL KIT Maximizing Your Return on People New tools can show you which investments in employees are driving company performance now and which you should emphasize to advance your strategic goals. by Laurie Bassi and Daniel McMurrer M J.D. King ANAGERS ARE FOND OF THE MAXIM “Employees are our most important asset.” Yet beneath the rhetoric, too many executives still regard – and manage – employees as costs. That’s dangerous because, for many companies, people are the only source of long-term competitive advantage. Companies that fail to invest in employees jeopardize their own success and even survival. In part, this practice has lingered for lack of alternatives. Until recently, there simply weren’t robust methods for measuring the bottom-line contributions of investments in human capital management (HCM) – things like leadership development, job design, and knowledge sharing. That’s changed. Over the past decade, we have worked with colleagues worldwide to develop a system for assessing HCM, predicting organizational performance, and guiding organizations’ investments in people. hbr.org | March 2007 | Harvard Business Review 115 TOOL KIT | Maximizing Your Return on People Using the framework we describe here has the obvious and immediate practical benefit of improving organizational performance. More broadly, though, as the links between people and performance come into focus, organizations will also begin to appreciate the long-term value...
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...Capitalizing on Capabilities By Dave Ulrich and Norm Smallwood Assets like leadership, talent, and speed are what produce superior market value. A capabilities audit can show you how you measure up—and how to build on your intangible strengths. 1 [bio] Dave Ulrich, on leave from the University of Michigan, is currently mission president of the Canada Montreal Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints; he can be reached at dou@umich.edu. Norm Smallwood is a cofounder of Results-Based Leadership; he can be reached at nsmallwood@rbl.net. Ulrich and Smallwood are coauthors of Why the Bottom Line Isn’t! How to Build Value Through People and Organization. When asked which companies they admire, people quickly point to organizations like General Electric, Starbucks, Nordstrom, or Microsoft. Ask how many layers of management these companies have, though, or how they set strategy, and you’ll discover that few know or care. What people respect about these companies is not how they are structured or their specific approaches to management, but their capabilities— an ability to innovate, for example, or to respond to changing customer needs. Such “organizational capabilities,” as we call them, are key intangible assets. You can’t see or touch them, yet they can make all the difference in the world when it comes to market value. The collective skills, abilities, and expertise of an organization, these capabilities are the outcome of investments in human resources—staffing...
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