1. Leadership Fundamentals Charting Your Own Development
Ellen Hewett
November 12, 2018

2. Session Goals
Distinguish the difference between leadership and management
Explore the characteristics of effective leadership
Assess your leadership style
Start to develop a personal leadership action plan

3. Leadership and Management
A manager
is someone who:
-Plans and budgets;
-Organizes and allocates resources;
-Controls and solves problems;
-Directs people.
A leader
is someone who:
-Shares a vision;
-Aligns and influences;
-Guides direction;
-Motivates and inspires.

4. Leadership and Management

5. Values

6. Leadership Styles
Leadership appears in many different forms in organizations, sports, and even in our personal lives.
The type of style used may depend on the leader and the follower and the organization’s mission.
Other factors such as age, gender, environment, and personality can also affect the type of leadership practiced.
There are many different dimensions to leadership.

7. Assess
Share

8. 3 Key Leadership Styles
Authoritarian leadership is characterized by individual control over all decisions and little input from group members.
Participative/democratic leadership invites input from staff on all company decisions.
Laissez-faire leadership is a hands-off style and allows staff to make most of the decisions.

9. Authoritarian Authoritarian leadership works well for
Employees who require close and constant supervision
Situations when quick decisions are needed
But, doesn’t always work well for
Creative types
Growing employees’ skills or responsibilities
Highly-experienced and competent employees

10. Participative/Democratic
Democratic leadership works well for
Making employees’ opinions feel valued
Getting a number of ideas on the table
Utilizing your employees’ expertise
But, doesn’t always work well for
Quick decisions
Data-driven decisions
Inexperienced teams

11. Laissez-faire Laissez-faire leadership works well for
Highly-experienced and trained employees who require little supervision
Remote employees
Employees who are already passionate and motivated
But, doesn’t always work well for
Growing employees
Employees who require direction
Employees who lack knowledge or experience

12. Thoughts

13. Practice Exercise

14. Elements of a Leadership Plan
Current strengths as a leader
Opportunities for improvement as a leader
Plans to improve over the next month: goal and steps
Plans to improve over the next 2 months: goal and steps
Plans to improve over the next 6 months: goal and steps
Plans to improve over the next year

15. Building Your Leadership Action Plan

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