Title: Charity Talk - Successful Leadership
1Charity Talk - Successful Leadership
- Camila Batmanghelidjh, Chief Executive, Kids
Company - Ruth Lesirge, Cass Centre for Charity
Effectiveness - Chair Professor Ian Bruce
2The Question.
- How can we make the most of learning from our
exceptional leaders? -
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Ruth Lesirge, December 2008
3Leading 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
4Leading 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
5A 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
6A 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
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7Thinking 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
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8PETER 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
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Ruth Lesirge,
December 2008
9JAMES 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
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Ruth Lesirge,
December 2008
10WARREN 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 -
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December 2008 -
11JOHN ADAIR action centred leadership
Ruth Lesirge, December 2008
12R. 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 -
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Ruth
Lesirge, December 2008
13The 4 Quadrant model of leadership
- Charismatic
- Enabler
- More Less
- codified codified
- controls controls
- Systematic
- Enabler
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Ruth Lesirge, December 2008
14The 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 -
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Ruth Lesirge, December 2008
15Learning 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
16So what.?
- Our ambition should be to
- Recognise their gifts
- Celebrate their achievements
- Be generous about their shortcomings
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- 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