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21 Sept 2018

Leadership Revisited

Lelia Konyn Head of HR and Corporate Affairs Shun Shing Group

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 What is Leadership?  Common Corporate Mistakes OR How not to do it  Leadership - How to…

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Leadership ???

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What is Leadership?

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“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

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Leadership or Management ?

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Management

• Planning
• Organizing Resources
• Allocating work / Delegating
• Communicating
• Monitoring
• Supporting

Leadership

• Setting a vision, direction - strategy
• Developing resources
• Empowering
• Communicating
• Facilitating
• Creating positive momentum vs. obstacles

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Leadership or Management ?

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 Managers by job title who exhibit leadership - interactions with team & work approach

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Χ Don’t focus on defining management vs leadership, rather  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.

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Leadership Common Mistakes

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Common Corporate Mistakes

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 Congratulations, you are promoted!  Biggest money maker!  Control & Command  Teflon Leader, Undecided Leader, Toxic Leader …

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Leadership How to…

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Two Key Fundamentals

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I. Individual

• II. Context

 Track record / Performance  Ability / Potential  Willingness / Aspirations  Motivations / Why?  Business  Company  Sector  Country, Region

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Context 1st !

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 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.

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Context 1st ! – cont’d

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 Business  Company  Sector  Country / Region

• Healthy ? Growing ? Stagnant ? Declining ? Legacies ?
• Size & Complexity? Mature / Emerging? Public / Private?
• Competitive Challenges ?
• Language, culture, norms

Organizational Health

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Contextual / Situational Leadership

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 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

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Leadership how to… - Process

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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

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A final word …

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 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 …