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Leader:
A leader strengthens and inspires the followers to accomplish shared goals. Leader is someone who can take a group of people to a place they dont think they can go.
WHAT IS CREDIBILITY?
Leadership is a give and take between those who desire to lead and those who choose to follow. Any discussion of leadership should attend to the energy of this relationship, which serves as a vital force for the organization. Strategies and talent are empty without an understanding of the human passions that connect constituents and their leaders. Two decades of research by James Kouzes and his associates shed some light on the concept of this vital force. Through the world wide administration of seventy-five thousand questionnaires that asked for the seven qualities most sought after and admired in a leader deep insight was gained. The results of the survey have been amazingly consistent over decades. Four qualities have continuously earned more than 50 percent of the votes. We must believe our leaders are: Honest, Forwardlooking, Competent, and Inspiring. Communications experts often refer to these characteristics as .source credibility.. In determining the believability of communication sources researchers evaluate individuals on three criteria: their perceived trustworthiness, their expertise and their dynamism. The most credible sources of information rate the highest on these dimensions. Notably these characteristics are tightly linked to the admired leader qualities of honesty, competent and inspiring. What this link clearly says is that people want leaders who are credible. The propellant to accelerate your success as a leader is credibility. Above all else, we want to believe in our leaders, trusting their word, seeing a match between their words and behavior, that they have personal passion about the direction in which we are going, and that they are taking the lead with a full compliment of knowledge and skills. Knowing leadership credibility has such a significant impact on your follower`s attitudes and behavior certainly provides a clear precept for leaders. Credibility makes a difference, and leaders must want to take it personally. Loyalty, commitment, energy and productivity depend upon it. When leaders are asked to define the ideal leader it is not uncommon to hear an emphasis on intelligence. Frequently left off the list are the qualities that are a personal reflection of the individual. But recent studies indicate that leaders who are honest, competent, inspirational and look to the future receive kudos as the most influential leaders in life and work. Current research also supports that although a certain degree of analytical and technical skill is a minimum requirement for success, what is called .emotional intelligence. serves as an accurate predictor to distinguish those who will outperform the capable managers. By combining the emotions and thinking, leaders can build a flourishing career and cultivate lasting, meaningful relationships with credibility as the cornerstone.
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STEPS TO CREDIBILITY:
FIND YOUR MIRROR, Tools and Resources:
360 Degree Feedback Assessment Center Executive coach Emotional Intelligence Training
Leadership Write a memo to your direct reports or clients to guide actions and decisions while you
are on a six-month sabbatical Write a credo for your family and/or friends Prepare a tape (audio/ and or video) sharing the three most important things you have learned from your life
Know what influences your behaviors Consciously choose the behaviors you want to perfect Bring balance to your scale of strengths and weaknesses with a development plan
2-Build commitment:
The second responsibility of ethical leader is to build commitment to ethical reflection and action. Ethics in three simple steps, A. Ethical awareness:
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a. In what ways is this about ethics b. In what ways are values being challenged B. Ethical decision making: a. What would our values (personal and organizational) guide us to do. C. Ethical behavior:
a. What steps must I/we take in order to honor our values in this situation?
3- Individual versus Community 4- Short-term goods versus Long-term goods Resolution requires choosing which value is the most important one by which to live. Three principles of resolution: 1- Do what produces greatest good for the greatest number. (utilitarianism) 2- Follow only principle/s you want everybody else to follow. (categorical imperative) 3- Do others what you would like them to do to you. (golden rule) Rather we may find a third way that honors both and provides the situation for compromising.
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It won`t happen if doesn`t make sense. Acting ethically would make sense: In specific context With my personal values With organization`s mission With fulfilling daily responsibilities With achieving personal success The leader has responsibility to make sure it make sense. Leader must model the way by: Acting ethically 24/7 publically and privately Building a team around them that models ethical behavior Expecting others to act ethically Allocating time and other resources needed to prove that ethics is How we do things around here.
Leadership Styles:
Leadership style refers to a leader's behavior. It is the result of the philosophy, personality and experience of the leader.
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Different situations call for different leadership styles. In an emergency when there is little time to converge on an agreement and where a designated authority has significantly more experience or expertise than the rest of the team, an autocratic leadership style may be most effective; however, in a highly motivated and aligned team with a homogeneous level of expertise, a more democratic or laissez-faire style may be more effective. The style adopted should be the one that most effectively achieves the objectives of the group while balancing the interests of its individual members.
4-Toxic leadership:
A toxic leader is someone who has responsibility over a group of people or an organization, and who abuses the leader-follower relationship by leaving the group or organization in a worse-off condition than when s/he first found them. For example, the dictators, who ruled over the Pakistan in history.
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actions. 10- They choose suppliers on the basis of quality rather than on price. Low price item/material may increase the cost of living. 11- They establish organizational systems to support the quality effort. At the senior management level a quality council is provided and the first line manager level. 12- They encourage and recognize team effort and give rewards for deserving efforts.
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