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Title: Charity Talk - Successful Leadership


1
Charity Talk - Successful Leadership
  • Camila Batmanghelidjh, Chief Executive, Kids
    Company
  • Ruth Lesirge, Cass Centre for Charity
    Effectiveness
  • Chair Professor Ian Bruce

2
The Question.
  • How can we make the most of learning from our
    exceptional leaders?

  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008

3
Leading Kids Company
  • Integrative approach
  • emotional vocational leadership
  • spiritually driven
  • No compromises re ethics and principles
  • Total focus is on the children
  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008

4
Leading Kids Company
  • Resulting characteristics of the organisation
  • Motivated and committed workforce
  • High initial investment in staff training
    quality provision
  • Fluid organisational structure
  • Holistic approach to physical, intellectual,
    emotional needs
  • Working from practice to create theoretical
    understandings



  • Ruth
    Lesirge, December 2008

5
A Definition of leadership
  • Consistently achieving results beyond
    expectations by creating a climate in which
    others can shine
  • Applies to leadership in an organisation
  • Applies to leader at any level within an
    organisation
  • Assumes leaders motives are honourable
    (excludes tyrannical leaders)
  • Expectations of team members, the
    organisation, stakeholders
  • Others primarily team members, also
    colleagues,external partners etc
  • Creating a climate ref. Complete Leadership,
    S. Bloch P. Whiteley)
  • www.knowhownonprofit.org

    Ruth Lesirge, December
    2008

6
A Definition of leadership
  • Consistently achieving results beyond
    expectations by creating a climate in which
    others can shine
  • Key actions required to make this happen
  • Build trust
  • Demonstrate courage
  • Challenge
  • Provide focus
  • Communicate effectively
  • www.knowhownonprofit.org

  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008

7
Thinking about learning from Camilas leadership
  • Theoretical models of leadership are helpful in
    encapsulating aspects of skills, knowledge and
    behaviours.
  • Each model offers only a partial view as
    through one turn of the kaleidoscope.
  • Useful to inform thinking about and learning
    from Camilas leadership style
  • Come on the journey with me as far as I have
    got
  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008

8
PETER DRUCKER What makes an effective executive?
  • Regardless of their style, effective
    executives..
  • Ask what needs to be done?
  • Ask what is right for the enterprise?
  • Develop action plans
  • Take responsibility for decisions
  • Take responsibility for communicating
  • Focus on opportunities rather than problems
  • Run productive meetings
  • Say and think we rather than I



  • Ruth Lesirge,
    December 2008

9
JAMES KOUZES BARRY POSNER Exemplary
Leadership
  • 5 practices
  • 1 MODEL the way
  • INSPIRE a shared vision
  • 3 CHALLENGE the process
  • 4 ENABLE others to act
  • ENCOURAGE the heart



  • Ruth Lesirge,
    December 2008

10
WARREN BENNIS Four leadership competencies
  • 1 Management of attention does not waste time
  • Management of meaning makes things intelligible
    and tangible
  • Management of trust people know what the leader
    believes and stands for
  • Management of self knows own skills (
    weaknesses) deploys them effectively



  • Ruth Lesirge,
    December 2008

11
JOHN ADAIR action centred leadership
Ruth Lesirge, December 2008
12
R. GOFFEE G. JONES 4 qualities of
inspirational leaders
  • Selectively show their weaknesses
  • Rely on intuition re appropriate timing and
    course of actions (aided by ability to collect
    interpret soft data)
  • Manage staff with tough empathy care intensely
    about the work staff do
  • Reveal their difference and capitalise on it
  • NB. What is special is ability to capture hearts
    and minds, not just grow the business






  • Ruth
    Lesirge, December 2008

13
The 4 Quadrant model of leadership
  • Charismatic
  • Enabler
  • More Less
  • codified codified
  • controls controls
  • Systematic
  • Enabler






  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008

14
The 4 Quadrant model of leadership
  • The model suggests
  • The more charismatic the leadership style, the
    less codified controls are likely to be
  • Autonomy for key people in the organisation
  • A high level of delegation to the CE by the
    Board






  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008

15
Learning from exceptional leaders
  • There are endless variations of how people lead
  • There are skills, knowledge and behaviours that
    leaders can learn and/or improve
  • It is essential to live the core values
  • Emotional intelligence is an important
    attribute
  • Ruth Lesirge December 2008

16
So what.?
  • Our ambition should be to
  • Recognise their gifts
  • Celebrate their achievements
  • Be generous about their shortcomings
  • Not to copy but to learn from their work
  • Work out how to craft a personal leadership
    style which has personal authenticity



  • Ruth Lesirge, December 2008
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