1. Enhancing Leadership Skills
Ekeinde Ohiwerei
Inaugural Lead Summit
24th October
2015
(c) / 2015

2. Agenda Today’s Realities What is Leadership? What do Leaders Do?
How do you measure Leadership?
Key Leadership Skills
Ways to Enhance Leadership Skills
Summary
(c) / 2015

3. Today’s Realities The world is changing – change is the new constant.
New ways of working in business, governments, education, healthcare.
Stakeholders are more demanding.
We have to change how we work and keep improving.
We have a crises of leadership in Nigeria.
(c) / 2015

4. The ground has shifted…
Old Way of Working – one job, lifetime professional
Qualify, go to work, do your job and come home
New Way of Working – We have three jobs
Do your work
Improve on how you do your work
Keep learning new knowledge and skills
Key Issue
How does one balance ‘doing’, ‘improving’ and ‘learning’?
(c) / 2015

5. Leaders help a group of people move from one paradigm to another.
What is leadership?
Leaders help a group of people move from one paradigm to another.
Leadership is the ability to influence others, with or without authority.
Peter DeLisle
Leadership: the art of getting someone else to do something… because he wants to do it
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Leaders have followers
Bill Gore, Founder, W. L. Gore and Associates
(c) / 2015

6. Types of Leaders Religious leaders Business leaders Academic leaders
Community leaders
Thought leaders
Sports leaders
Fashion leaders
Etc.
(c) / 2015

7. Leadership vs Management
Leading – develop vision, change mindset
Moving between paradigms
Doing the right things
Creating improvement
Managing – organize resources, coordinate execution
Working within a paradigm
Making things work effectively
Creating efficiency
Leadership needs Management to be effective
We need to have the right balance – officer/director
(c) / 2015

8. What do Leaders do? Provide direction Communicate
Where are we headed? – Articulate case for change
Communicate
The ‘why’ and ‘benefits’ of the direction - WIIFM
Enable, coach and counsel
Develop people, achieve through others
Recognize results
And reinforce desired behavior
(c) / 2015

9. How do you measure Leadership?
Provide direction
Leaders show the way
Communicate
Leaders develop understanding and hope
Enable, coach and counsel
Leaders set up people for success
Recognize results
Leaders celebrate people doing the right things
(c) / 2015

10. Creating A Legacy Effective leaders create a lasting legacy
Even when forgotten, their footprints are there to see.
The best leaders leave paradigms that far outlive their tenure.
Leadership is not about glory
The best leaders are often not seen
We can demonstrate leadership at every level
(c) / 2015

11. Dalton Model for Career Development
Apprentice
Learns, helps and follows direction
Colleague
Independent contributor
Mentor
Manager, developer of people, networker
Sponsor
Shapes the organization’s direction
Leadership skills are required to function as ‘Mentor’ and ‘Sponsor’
(c) / 2015

12. More Quotes on Leadership
The very essence of leadership is to have a vision. It’s got to be a vision you articulate forcefully on every occasion
Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, Notre Dame University
The speed of the leader determines the rate of the pack
Warren Bennis and Bert Nanus
The best coaches know what the end result looks like. – if you don’t know what the end result is supposed to look like, you can’t get there.
Vince Lombardi
(c) / 2015

13. Key Leadership Skills Business Acumen Process and Systems Thinking
Understanding how business works
Process and Systems Thinking
Strategic Planning and Deployment
Stakeholder Building
Communication – clear, concise, continuous
Change Management
Reviewing and coaching
Structured improvement methods
Learning to deal with Team and Group Dynamics
Managing uncertainty
Project Planning and Management
Understanding Human Behavior
(c) / 2015

14. Key Leadership Skills Business Acumen Process and Systems Thinking
Understanding how business works
Process and Systems Thinking
What are the core processes of the business?
Who are the stakeholders, suppliers, customers
(c) / 2015

15. Key Leadership Skills Strategic Planning and Deployment
Mission – what do you want to do?
Vision – what do you want to become?
Values – what principles will you live by?
Objectives – what do we have to do to be successful?
Strategy – how will we achieve our objectives
Goals – what are the targets we need to meet our objectives
Initiatives – actions taken to implement strategies
Deployment – making it happen
(c) / 2015

16. Key Leadership Skills Stakeholder Building No man is an island
To be a successful leader, you need to build support
You need to turn people from ‘no’ to ‘yes’; from ‘it will never work’ to ‘we have to do this’
WIIFM
(c) / 2015

17. Key Leadership Skills Communication – clear, concise, continuous
You need to learn how to use different forms of communication
You need to improve your diction and writing
You need to expand your vocabulary
You need to think about your communication
(c) / 2015

18. Key Leadership Skills Change management Insanity
The only person who enjoys change?
If you cannot change your mind you can’t change anything – George B Shaw
Change management vs management of change
(c) / 2015

19. Key Leadership Skills Reviewing and coaching
Structured improvement methods
Learning to deal with Team and Group Dynamics
Managing uncertainty
Project Planning and Management
Understanding Human Behavior
(c) / 2015

20. Myths of Leadership Leadership is a rare skill
Leaders are born not made
Leaders are charismatic
Leadership exists only at the top of an organization
The leader controls, directs, prods and manipulates
Bennis and Nanus 1985
(c) / 2015

21. Key Success Factors Awareness Ability Commitment
Recognize yourself, others
Assess situations, be self reflective
Ability
Learn and understand the issues
Able to communicate, solve problems, resolve issues
Commitment
Realize you can make a difference
Stay on course
(c) / 2015

22. Ways to Develop Leadership Skills
Read, read, read
Attend courses
Discuss the subject with colleagues
Practice, practice, practice
Becoming a leader is like learning how to play the violin in public
- Anonymous
(c) / 2015

23. Message to you You are a leader – are you a good one?
Place and increased focus on enhancing your leadership skills
Be on the lookout for examples – good and bad- of leadership you can use as a model
Learn you own style
Be focused
Best way to learn to lead is to do it
Be on the lookout for your opportunity
(c) / 2015

24. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING
Presentation Material Culled from internet resources
(c) / 2015