THE IMPORTANCE OF
LEADERSHIP
CHAPTER 1
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LEADERSHIP
• Leadership is the art or process of influencing
people to perform assigned tasks willingly,
efficiently and effectively.
• Leadership is the ability to get other people
to do something significant that they might
not otherwise do. It’s energizing people
toward a goal.
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LEADERSHIP FOR GOOD OR ILL
• leadership can be used for good or ill.
• Example: Hitler seemed to be a leader of the
German people, but he set an evil direction. He
had great leadership skills, but put them to
terrible uses.
• Sometimes people can use leadership skills to
benefit themselves rather than the people they
are supposed to help.
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IMPORTANCE OF LEADERSHIP
• An organization without a leader is like a
ship without a captain.
• Without a leader, the ship will sink!!
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LEADERS!!
• A leader is a key human resource in any
organization. A person who influences a
group of people towards the achievement
of a goal
• Better leaders develop better employees
and the two together develop better
products.
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LEADERS TASKS
• Business leaders serve a range of important
functions in their organizations:
• Leaders are responsible for training employees to perform
their tasks effectively
• supervising the actual completion of those tasks on a regular
basis.
• inspiring employees to get excited about the company and
their work.
• protecting the employees from internal and external threats.
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LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
• In a competitive business environment,
effective leadership is an essential requirement
in order to achieve organizational goals.
• To do this, leaders must be able to provide
inspiration, motivation and clear direction to
their team.
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LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
• Enabling people to feel they have a say in
how they do something results in higher
levels of job satisfaction and productivity.
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LEADERSHIP IN BUSINESS
• For any type or size of business, effective
leadership provides many benefits and
will help the organization to achieve
success and stability.
• In the absence of effective leadership,
organizations often grow slowly and may
lose their direction and competitiveness.
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INEFFECTIVE LEADERS IN BUSINESS
• A business could be considered successful
if it has an effective leader.
• If the head of a company lacks positive
leadership traits, he/ she will not be able
to motivate and lead their staff, and vice
versa..
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HOW CAN LEADERSHIP BENEFIT THEE
BUSINESS?
• Some of the ways in which leadership can
benefit a business include:
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Employee relations
A clear vision
Effective planning
Employee relations
New ideas
Inspiration and motivation
Problems management
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HOW TO GAIN LEADERSHIP
• leadership is generally gained through
education, and practice and error.
• Going through experience and making mistakes,
enable the person to becoming a true and
effective leader.
• If a person is not able to learn from her mistakes
and admitting her faults, she will never be able
to be an effective leader.
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
• leadership and management skills are NOT
exclusive of each other.
• Leadership is particularly important in senior
management positions within an organization.
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
• In order for an organization to succeed, there
are a variety of people (leaders and managers)
who play an important role.
• Some people think that both same when they
are actually not. People generally assume the
managers to be the leaders and the leaders to
be the managers, but there is a huge difference
between the two.
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
• Leadership and management operate
hand in hand.
• Being a good manager requires leadership
skills, and an effective leader will be
reliant on applying their own and others'
management skills to achieve their vision.
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LEADERSHIP AND MANAGEMENT
• Leadership provides direction,
encouragement and inspiration to motivate a
team to achieve organizational success.
• Management coordinating people's efforts
and the allocation of resources to maximize
efficiency in achieving identified goals.
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5 KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEADERS
AND MANAGERS
• Leaders make followers and the managers
look for subordinates.
• The leader is an innovator (come up with
new ideas and ways) and the manager is
an administrator (who wants to get the job
done).
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5 KEY DIFFERENCES BETWEEN LEADERS
AND MANAGERS
• Managers focus on systems; Leaders focus
on people.
• Managers do things right; Leaders do the
right things.
• Managers have short-term perspective;
Leaders have long-term perspective.
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ASSIGNMENT
• Provide more differences between a manager
and a leader.
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REFERENCES
• The art of leadership, By Dr. Quinn Mills
http://www.cafanet.com/LinkClick.aspx?fileticket=q
wswE8roe74%3D&tabid=96
• Leadership and Business, By “SmallBizConnect”
http://toolkit.smallbiz.nsw.gov.au
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