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LEADERSHIP

“Leadership has been described as the “process of social influence in which one person can enlist the aid and support of others in the accomplishment of a common task".

"Leadership is ultimately about creating a way for people to contribute to making something extraordinary happen.

 "Effective leadership is the ability to successfully integrate and maximize available resources within the internal and external environment for the attainment of organizational or societal goals."

Functional theory

Functional leadership theory  is a particularly useful theory for addressing specific leader behaviors expected to contribute to organizational or unit effectiveness. This theory argues that the leader's main job is to see that whatever is necessary to group needs is taken care of; thus, a leader can be said to have done their job well when they have contributed to group effectiveness and cohesion.While functional leadership theory has most often been applied to team leadership, It has also been effectively applied to broader organizational leadership as well. In summarizing literature on functional leadership , observed five broad functions a leader performs when promoting organization's effectiveness. These functions include environmental monitoring, organizing subordinate activities, teaching and coaching subordinates, motivating others, and intervening actively in the group's work.

A variety of leadership behaviors are expected to facilitate these functions. In initial work identifying leader behavior,It is observed that subordinates perceived their supervisors' behavior in terms of two broad categories referred to as consideration and initiating structure. Consideration includes behavior involved in fostering effective relationships. Examples of such behavior would include showing concern for a subordinate or acting in a supportive manner towards others. Initiating structure involves the actions of the leader focused specifically on task accomplishment. This could include role clarification, setting performance standards, and holding subordinates accountable to those standards.

Transactional and transformational Leadership

Eric Berne first analyzed the relations between a group and its leadership in terms of transactional analysis.

The transactional leader is given power to perform certain tasks and reward or punish for the team's performance. It gives the opportunity to the manager to lead the group and the group agrees to follow his lead to accomplish a predetermined goal in exchange for something else. Power is given to the leader to evaluate, correct, and train subordinates when productivity is not up to the desired level, and reward effectiveness when expected outcome is reached.

The transformational leader  motivates its team to be effective and efficient. Communication is the base for goal achievement focusing the group on the final desired outcome or goal attainment. This leader is highly visible and uses chain of command to get the job done. Transformational leaders focus on the big picture, needing to be surrounded by people who take care of the details. The leader is always looking for ideas that move the organization to reach the company's vision.

Emotions

Leadership can be perceived as a particularly emotion-laden process, with emotions entwined with the social influence process.In an organization, the leader's mood has some effects on his/her group. These effects can be described in 3 levels:

1. The mood of individual group members. Group members with leaders in a positive mood experience more positive mood than do group members with leaders in a negative mood. The leaders transmit their moods to other group members through the mechanism of emotional contagion.Mood contagion may be one of the psychological mechanisms by which charismatic leaders influence followers.
2. The affective tone of the group. Group affective tone represents the consistent or homogeneous affective reactions within a group. Group affective tone is an aggregate of the moods of the individual members of the group and refers to mood at the group level of analysis. Groups with leaders in a positive mood have a more positive affective tone than do groups with leaders in a negative mood.
3. Group processes like coordination, effort expenditure, and task strategy. Public expressions of mood impact how group members think and act. When people experience and express mood, they send signals to others. Leaders signal their goals, intentions, and attitudes through their expressions of moods. For example, expressions of positive moods by leaders signal that leaders deem progress toward goals to be good. The group members respond to those signals cognitively and behaviorally in ways that are reflected in the group processes.
   

In research about client service, it was found that expressions of positive mood by the leader improve the performance of the group, although in other sectors there were other findings.

Beyond the leader's mood, her/his behavior is a source for employee positive and negative emotions at work. The leader creates situations and events that lead to emotional response. Certain leader behaviors displayed during interactions with their employees are the sources of these affective events. Leaders shape workplace affective events. Examples – feedback giving, allocating tasks, resource distribution. Since employee behavior and productivity are directly affected by their emotional states, it is imperative to consider employee emotional responses to organizational leaders. Emotional intelligence, the ability to understand and manage moods and emotions in the self and others, contributes to effective leadership in organizations.

What I am... and What I will Become...

What i am and what i will become...
I work with a group of people who are eager to succeed...
I am a LEADER that people look up to,listen to and follow..

TEAM BUILDING

TEAM BUILDING

EVERY ONE IS PART OF A TEAM



SIGNFICANCE

Teams:
 Involve more people
 Maximize a leader’s potential
 Maximize his weakness
 Provide multiple perspective on a problem or goal
 Share the credit of victories & blame for loss
 Keep leaders accountable for a goal
 Can simply do more than one individual

We tend to stand alone because of our Ego, Insecurities, Naivete and Temperament.


Becoming a Better Team Member

 What Major Goals are you working toward achieving right now? Write some of them down.
 Think about the Greatest Dreams you have in your life
Now ask yourself
Is it bigger than I am?
Does it bigger others as well as myself?
Is it worth dedicating part of my life to?


THE CHAIN

Not every will, should or can take a journey
The strength of the team is impacted by it’s weakest link
You lose the respect of the best when you don’t deal properly with the worst

Becoming a better Team Leader

Remember your responsibilities come in the following order.
 To the Organization
 To the Team
 To the Individual


THE SCOREBOARD

The team can adjustment when it knows where it stands.
If a team has to accomplish its goals it has to known it stands
The scoreboard is essential to
 Understanding
 Evaluating
 Adjusting
 Winning
 Decision-making


Becoming a better Team Member

 Take some time to identify how you team keeps score
 Think about :-
-How you should be measuring yourself individually
-What you should be keeping track of, to make sure you are doing your best?

THE PRICE TAG

The team fails to reach its potential when it fails to pay the pay the price.
The price must be paid by everyone. If everyone doesn’t pay the price to
Win, then everyone will pay the price by losing.
“The price must be paid all the time. There are no victories at bargain Prices.” Dwight D.Eisenehowe

The price increases if the team wants to improve, change or keep winning.
The higher you are, the more you have to pay to make small
Improvements.
The price never decreases most people quit don’t give up at the bottom the mountain, they halfway up it.

You seldom get more than you pay for.

Becoming a better Team Member
If you are an achiever, write down some of dreams & goals
Which one of them are you willing to give up?

When your personal goals conflict with those of the team, you have 3 choices
 Put down the goal (The team is more important)
 Put off goal (it’s not a right time)
 Part with the team (it’s better for everyone)

Remember the price tag for failure is greater than the price tag for success .
The price for accepting failure is: Poverty, depression & a rotten sprite.
You should be willing to:
 Make financial sacrifices for the team
 Keep growing for the sake of the team
 Empower other for the sake of the team
 Make difficult decision for the sake of the team


BUILDING YOUR DREAMS TEAM

THE NICHE

All players must have a place where they add the most value
Start by finding the right place for you
Be secure, Get to know yourself, Trust your leader , See the big picture and Rely on your experience.

" NEVER STOP LEARNING "....

Never Stop Learning...

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"PARABLE OF A PENCIL."

Parable Of A Pencil









The Pencil Maker took the pencil aside, just before putting him into the box. "There are 5 things you need to know", he told the pencil, "before I send you out into the world. Always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best pencil you can be."

ONE: "You will be able to do many great things, but only if you allow yourself to be held in Someone's hand."

TWO: "You will experience a painful sharpening from time to time, but you'll need it to become a better pencil."

THREE: "You will be able to correct any mistakes you might make."

FOUR: "The most important part of you will always be what's inside."

AND FIVE: "On every surface you are used on, you must leave your mark. No matter what the condition, you must continue to write."

The pencil understood and promised to remember, and went into the box with purpose in its heart.

Now replacing the place of the pencil with you; always remember them and never forget, and you will become the best person you can be.

"Only a good humanbeing can become a good leader."