Leadership Revisited Lelia Konyn Head of HR and Corporate Affairs - PowerPoint PPT Presentation

Leadership Revisited Lelia Konyn Head of HR and Corporate Affairs Shun Shing Group 21 Sept 2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Content  What is Leadership?  Common Corporate Mistakes OR How not to do it  Leadership - How to… 2 9/19/2018

Leadership ??? 3 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference What is Leadership? “the action of leading a group of people or an organization, or the ability to do this” Oxford Dictionary  Management - the concrete, “left - brain” action of planning, organizing, and achieving efficiency,  Leadership - the abstract creation of vision and strategy 4 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Leadership or Management ? Management Leadership   Planning Setting a vision, direction - strategy   Organizing Resources Developing resources   Allocating work / Delegating Empowering   Communicating Communicating   Monitoring Facilitating   Supporting Creating positive momentum vs. obstacles 6 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Leadership or Management ?  Managers by job title who exhibit leadership - interactions with team & work approach  Don’t focus on defining management vs leadership, rather Χ  Focus on how people can exhibit the characteristics of strong managers & strong leaders.  In today’s complex, global world, we are all leaders - compelled to increase our own productivity and that of others, by revealing and utilizing strengths in the way we work. 7 9/19/2018

Leadership Common Mistakes 8 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Common Corporate Mistakes  Congratulations, you are promoted!  Biggest money maker!  Control & Command  Teflon Leader, Undecided Leader, Toxic Leader … 9 9/19/2018

Leadership How to… 10 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Two Key Fundamentals I. Individual II. Context  Track record / Performance  Business  Ability / Potential  Company  Willingness / Aspirations  Sector  Motivations / Why?  Country, Region 11 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Context 1 st !  Context matters more than you might expect … Churchill, Ghandi , Mao, Lincoln, Ben Gurion …  Effectiveness depends less on the traits of any one executive (or of that person’s direct reports) and more on a company’s competitive challenges, legacies & other shifting forces. 12 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Context 1 st ! – cont’d  Business  Healthy ? Growing ? Stagnant ? Declining ? Legacies ?   Company Size & Complexity? Mature / Emerging? Public / Private?   Sector Competitive Challenges ?  Country / Region  Language, culture, norms Organizational Health 13 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Contextual / Situational Leadership  Certain qualities – e.g. demonstrating a concern for people & offering a critical perspective - always part of what it takes to be a leader. But  The importance of other elements – e.g. keeping groups on task & bringing out the best in others - vary in importance depending on an organization’s circumstances.  Organizational health changes over time.  Effective situational leadership adapts to these changes by identifying and marshaling the kinds of behavior needed to transition a company from its present state to a stronger, healthier one 14 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference Leadership how to… - Process 1. Prepare concise summary of Organization Health  Business, Company, Sector, Region 2. Identify & document the kinds of Leadership Behaviours & Skills needed to transition the company from its present state to a stronger, healthier one 3. Prepare a simple Action Plan : A. Develop managers to fit Leadership needs   train, expose, rotate, “deep water test”, promote B. Hire external managers who fit Leadership needs  identify sources, create proposition, provide clear KPIs, compensate & reward 15 9/19/2018

Leadership revisited – HR Conference A final word …  For people seeking to lead companies effectively, AND  For organizations seeking to develop managers who can deploy different kinds of leadership behavior when appropriate,  Recognizing & responding to the Company’s Health is far more important than following scripts / generic models … 16 9/19/2018