1. What is Leadership?
Leadership is the process of influencing people and providing an environment for them to achieve team or organizational objectives.
Courtesy of Suncor Energy Inc.

2. What is your leadership potential
Leadership readiness score: add 1-5
Leadership style: Task emphasis 7+9; relationship emphasis: 6 +8
Strength of preference
Leadership style adaptability: Item 10

3. Leaders and Managers: Distinguishing Their Roles
Establish
organizational
mission
Leader’s Job
Formulate
Strategy for
implementing
mission
Implement
organizational
strategy
Manager’s Job

4. Perspectives of Leadership
Competency
Perspective
Leadership
Perspectives
Behaviour
Perspective
Romance
Perspective
Transformational
Perspective
Contingency
Perspective

5. Behavioural Perspective Seven Leadership Competencies
1. Drive
2. Leadership motivation
3. Integrity
4. Self-confidence
5. Intelligence
6. Knowledge of the business
7. Emotional intelligence

6. Leader Behaviour Perspective
People-oriented behaviours
Showing mutual trust and respect
Concern for employee needs
Desire to look out for employee welfare
Task-oriented behaviours
Assign specific tasks
Ensure employees follow rules
Push employees to reach peak performance

7. Path-Goal Leadership Styles
Directive
Task-oriented behaviours
Supportive
People-oriented behaviours
Participative
Encouraging employee involvement
Achievement-oriented
Using goal setting and positive self-fulfilling prophecy

8. Path-Goal Leadership Model
Employee
Contingencies
Leader
Behaviours
Directive
Supportive
Participative
Achievement-oriented
Leader
Effectiveness
Motivated employees
Satisfied employees
Leader acceptance
Environmental
Contingencies

9. Path-Goal Contingencies
Directive Supportive Participative Achievement
Employee
Contingencies
Skill/Experience low low high high
Locus of Control external external internal internal
Environmental
Contingencies
Directive Supportive Participative Achievement
Task Structure nonroutine routine nonroutine ?
Team Dynamics –ve norms low cohesion +ve norms ?

10. Leadership Substitutes
Conditions that limit a leader’s influence or make a particular leadership style unnecessary.
Examples:
Training and experience replace directive leadership
Cohesive team replaces supportive leadership
Self-leadership replaces achievement-oriented leadership

11. Transformational v. Transactional Leaders
Transformational leaders
Leading — changing the organization to fit the environment
Develop, communicate, enact a vision
Transactional leaders
Managing — linking job performance to rewards
Ensure employees have necessary resources
Apply contingency leadership theories

12. Transformational Leadership Elements
Building
Commitment
Creating
a Vision
Transformational
Leadership
Modelling
the Vision
Communicating
the Vision

13. Romance Perspective of Leadership
Attributing Leadership
Romance
Perspective of Leadership
Need for
Situational
Control
Stereotyping
Leadership

14. Gender Issues in Leadership
Male and female leaders have similar task- and people-oriented leadership.
Participative leadership is used more often by female leaders.
Women rated less favourably than equivalent male leaders due to stereotyping.