Some Thoughts on Leadership

1. Some Thoughts on
Leadership
by
Prof. Crisencio M. Paner, LPT., MSc., Ph.D. (cand.)
College of Science
University of Santo Tomas

2. Successful Leadership: Why important?
• 21st Century: a period of unprecedented and
transformative change
• Global Economy and Workforce
• Turbulence in world

3. Successful Leadership: Why important?
• “The old organizational pyramids of the
nineteenth century are crumbling, being replaced
by upside-down pyramids and circles and
connections.” (Greenleaf Center, 1997)
• Without leadership, organization’s falter in times
of change and turmoil.

4. Successful Leadership: Why important?
• Companies rated in the 20 percent of leadership
skills and development outperform their industry’s
average return to shareholders by 22 percentage
points. (Lombardo & Eichinger, The Leadership
Machine)
• Companies with above-average leadership-team
strength enjoyed above-average revenue growth,
relative to their industries (Holden, 2003. Corporate
Leadership Council)

5. Successful Leadership: Why important?
• Dr. John Kotter,
Harvard leadership
expert, maintains
that successful
organizational
transformations are
70 to 90 percent
attributable to
leadership ability.
(Holden, 2003)

6. Successful Leadership: Why important?
• Lack of confidence in leaders:
• In 2016, only about half of all employees in a survey
rated their organization’s leadership as excellent or
good.
• By 2017, one out of three employees rated
organization’s leadership as excellent or good.
• Fall of companies (e.g., America’s Enron, Italy’s
Parlamat, Switzerland’s The Erb Group, etc.).

7. Definition of Leadership

8. The Leadership Challenge
• “Each of us contains the capacity to be a
leader.” (Warren Bennis)
• The challenge: to realize this capacity.
• Leadership is a global issue: crosses all
boundaries, cultures, religions, etc.

10. Attributes of a Leader
• Guiding vision: Effective leaders know what they
want to do, and have the strength of character to
pursue their objectives in the face of opposition
and in spite of failures. The effective leader
establishes achievable goals.

11. Attributes of a Leader
Passion: Effective leaders believe passionately in
their goals. They have a positive outlook on who
they are, and they love what they do. Their
passion for life is a guiding star for others to
follow, because they radiate promise!

12. Attributes of a Leader
• Integrity: Because they know who they are,
effective leaders are also aware of their
weaknesses. They only make promises
they can follow through on.
• Honesty: Leaders convey an aura of
honesty in both their professional and their
personal lives.
• Trust: Effective leaders earn the trust of
their followers and act on behalf of their
followers.

13. Attributes of a Leader
• Curiosity: Leaders are learners. They wonder
about every aspect of their charge. They find out
what they need to know in order to pursue their
goals.
• Risk: Effective leaders take calculated risks when
necessary to achieve their objectives. If a
mistake is made, the effective leader will learn
from the mistake and use it as an opportunity to
explore other avenues.

14. Attributes of a Leader
• Dedication: The effective leader is dedicated to
his or her charge, and will work assiduously on
behalf of those following. The leader gives
himself or herself entirely to the task when it is
necessary.

15. Attributes of a Leader
• Charisma: This may be the one attribute that is
the most difficult to cultivate. It conveys maturity,
respect for your followers, compassion, a fine
sense of humor, and a love of humanity. The
result is that leaders have the capability to
motivate people to excel.
• Listening: Leaders Listen! This is the most
important attribute of all, listen to your followers.

16. Leader vs Manager
Leader n, 1. A person who is followed by
others.
Manager n, 1. A person controlling or
administering a business or a part of a
business. 2. A person regarded in
terms of skill in household or financial or
other management.

17. • Leadership is
the ability to
develop a
vision that
motivates
others to move
with a passion
toward a
common goal

18. Management
• Management is the ability to organize
resources and coordinate the execution
of tasks necessary to reach a goal in a
timely and cost effective manner

19. Leadership vs Management
• Management seeks stability &
predictability
–(order)
• Leadership seeks improvement through
change
–(disorder)

20. Leader vs Manager
Leaders:
Do the right
thing
Manager:
Do things
right

21. Leadership & Management Skills
Leadership – soft skills
• Communications
• Motivation
• Stress Management
• Team Building
• Change Management
Management – hard skills
• Scheduling
• Staffing
• Activity Analysis
• Project Controls

22. Managers have the following attributes , they
– Consider alternatives to design
– Estimate costs involved
– Establish risks to the organization
– Develop a schedule for the project
– Include decision steps
– Manage change in an orderly fashion
– Keep the team motivated and informed
– Review responsibilities and goals with
each team player
– State clearly the basis for evaluation and
where each person fits into the
organization

23. Managers have the following attributes , they
– Monitor progress
– Set directions; set expected achievements
for each individual within the next work
period. Show the team members where
they fit in achieving unit goals.
– Perform administrative tasks
– Report to senior management
– Money and job security play a major role in
management effectiveness. They act as
deficiency motivators.

24. Being a Leader
• If you want to get ahead, be a leader, you
must assume:
– That everything that happens to you
results in a situation that is in your control
– That the attitude you convey is what you
are judged on
– That what you think and do in your private
life is what you will reap in your public or
corporate life
– You are what you think and believe
– If you never meet a challenge you will
never find out what you are worth

25. Recipe for being a Leader
• Take control of your life
• Assume responsibility for who you are
• Convey a positive and dynamic attitude in
everything you do
• Accept blame: learn from your own mistakes
as well as those of others. Take blame for
everything that happens in your unit
• Give credit wherever it is due
• Be compassionate when you review your
team members' progress or lack thereof

26. Recipe for Being a Leader
• Think great thoughts. Small thinking is why
companies go broke
• Turn disasters into opportunities. Turn every
obstacle into a personal triumph
• Determine your "real" goals then strive to
achieve them
• When you want to tell someone something
important, do it personally
• Don’t be afraid to get your hands dirty doing
what you ask others to do. Make coffee

27. Recipe for Being a Leader
• Listen effectively
• Encourage teamwork and participation
• Empower team members
• Communicate effectively
• Emphasize long-term productivity
• Make sound and timely decisions
• Treat each person as an individual
• Know yourself and your team
• Protect your team
• Have vision, courage and commitment

28. What is servant leadership?
• Servant leadership is best defined by Jesus
Himself:
• “Whoever wants to become great among you
must be your servant, and whoever wants to
be first must be your slave—just as the Son
of Man did not come to be served, but to
serve, and to give his life as a ransom for
many” (Matthew 20:26–28).
• In the Christian realm, all leadership should
be servant leadership.

29. What is servant leadership?
• It is the focus on the growth of the individual,
that they might flourish and achieve their full
potential and not primarily the growth and
potential of the organization, that
distinguishes servant leadership from other
leadership styles.
• The primary concern of the servant leader is
service to their followers.

30. What is a Servant Leader?
• From the teaching and example of Jesus Christ we
learn that being a servant leader in the most general
sense means being:
• A voluntary servant, who submits themselves to a
higher purpose, which is beyond their personal
interests or the interests of others,
• A leader who uses the power that is entrusted to
them to serve others,
• A servant who, out of love, serves others needs
before their own,
• A teacher who teaches their followers, in word and
deed, how to become servant leaders themselves.

31. What is a Servant Leader?
• To Jesus, greatness and power were not
measured by the number of people serving a leader
but the extent that the leader was serving the people
under him or her.
• Oswald Sanders summed up this thought by writing,
“True greatness, true leadership, is achieved not by
reducing men to one’s service but in giving oneself
in selfless service to them” (Spiritual Leadership,
Moody Press, 1980)

32. What is a Servant Leader?
• John Stott has
written, ”Leaders
have power, but
power is safe only in
the hands of those
who humble
themselves to
serve.”

33. What is a Servant Leader?
• A servant leader sacrificially seeks the highest joy of
those he serves:
• Jesus said, “Whoever would be great among you
must be your servant . . . even as the Son of Man
came not to be served but to serve, and to give his
life as a ransom for many” (Matthew 20:26, 28).

34. What is a Servant Leader?
• A servant leader is not preoccupied with personal
visibility and recognition.
• Like John the Baptist, a servant leader sees himself
as a “friend of the Bridegroom” (John 3:29), and is
not preoccupied with the visibility of his own role.
• He doesn’t view those with less visible roles as less
significant, nor does he covet more visible roles as
more significant (1 Corinthians 12:12–26).
• He seeks to steward the role he’s received as best he
can, and gladly leaves the role assignments to God
(John 3:27).

35. What is a Servant Leader?
• A servant leader anticipates and graciously accepts
the time for his decrease.
• All leaders serve only for a season.
• Some seasons are long, some short; some are
abundant, some lean; some are recorded and
recalled, most are not.
• But all seasons end.
• When John the Baptist recognized the ending of his
season, he said, “Therefore this joy of mine is now
complete.
• He must increase, but I must decrease” (John 3:29–
30).

36. Workshop Activity

44. Finally
The End