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Leadership !? OL108A Distanskurs samhällsentreprenörskap Glokala Folkhögskolan
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Leadership The difference between management and leadership? Management - function / structure Leadership - often personal The difference between management and steering? "The wheel metaphor": Management is to ensure that the car has a steering wheel Steering is to hold the wheel
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Management & Leadership
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Leadership styles "Democratic Leadership" "Anything goes" Authoritarianism Organizational culture? Formalization / centralization?
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What should a good leader be like? Suggestions from a book: Good listeners Supportive Removing obstacles Create group cohesion Feedback Communicative Visible Delegate Trusted Good at creating organization / structure / documentation
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Management by messiah Hard to live up to the image of a leader as a super-hero ”Management by messiah” - more about the project manager as a person and less about the organisation and its pre-conditions
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Think-traps of leaders Egocentrism - it's all about me! Omniscience - I know everything! Omnipotence - I do what I want! Invulnerability - nothing can happen to me!
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To be lead-able Leadership is a social process Important to ensure the management of the team as a concern of the whole team Making oneself lead-able Can I solve the problem? Do I want to solve the task? The management of the group is based on a common agreement
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Situation based leadership Management must be tailored to the business/organisation The context The task Strategy The group
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Innovation management Overcoming resistance to change "Pathfinder Management" Based on both strategic and communicative leadership Direction as function and process
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Strategic and communicative management
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Reflexivity The degree of social reflexivity respectively task reflexivity - Reflect on the social climate, management, and support for the group / team respectively. reflect on the task, strategies, procedures and methods
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The management of projects – and other acitivities Time limit and task orientation distinguishes projects Does this distingiush management of projects from managing other businesses / organizations?
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Paradoxes of projects Change Innovative Loose and open Innovation and Development Flexible Ability to learn new Rationellt Measurable Controllable Visible results Creating power Planned o be carried out within time and budget
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The project manager's tasks Responsibilities (methods, personnel, budget, etc.) Management (steering, motivation, delegation) Coordination Communication (inward-outward) Reporting (deadlines, milestones) Managing interference (internal-external) Documentation Face of the project
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Teamwork Four types of teams: –Fully functioning –Cold efficiency –Dysfunctional –Cosy
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The paradox of teamwork Major advantages of teamwork (eg create patterns / personal information for future actions), but Also negative effects in terms of effort, decision making and creativity. Everything is not done better in the group! - You have to find ways for team work, taking advantage of the benefits but avoid the negative aspects (ie, both ways have it...) - Requires some knowledge of group members and the task - what we do best together respectively. individually
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Barriers of efficient team-work Hierarchy effects Personality-based conflicts ”Social loafing” / ”Free-riding” –We only use 75% of our own capability in group situations … If others do less, I do less... Wasted energy (”process losses”) because of coordination and communication problems –Poor problem solving & decision making –Low creativity
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How do we build efficient teams? The team should have interesting - and challenging tasks Individuals should feel important for the performance Individuals should have interesting tasks Clear objectives for the team Feedback
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Five dangerous traps Call it a team but reward individual efforts Too much or too little authority Large groups without structure (for communication etc.) and clear responsibilities Challenging goal, but insufficient support (resources / expertise in the group) Take for granted that the group members already have the skills necessary to work effectively as a team...
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