Leadership

IT Group 1
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 Agenda
● What is Leadership?
● What is Leadership Skills?
● Leaders from World
● Leaders from Sri Lanka
● Where we see leadership skills applied

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 What is leadership?

• the art of motivating a group of people to act toward achieving a

common goal.
• In business it is directing workers and colleagues with a strategy to meet
the company's needs.

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 What is leadership skills?

• the abilities people have to steer employees toward the achievement of the
business goals to
• inspire them,
• drive change,
• deliver results.

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What are leadership skills?

● Active listening
● Empathy
● The ability to share clear messages and make complex ideas easy to understand for everyone
● Strategic thinking skills
● Creativity
● The ability to inspire and convince others
● Flexibility
● The ability to turn information into action
● Project planning
● Active listening
● The ability to assess employees’ strengths and weaknesses
● Business storytelling

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 Leadership skills cont.

● Time management
● The ability to build trust
● Strong communication skills
● Positivity
● Reliability
● Management skills
● The ability to align the employees with the company values and goals
● A strong leadership vision
● Recruiting skills
● Persuasion skills
● The ability to help employees find meaning at work
● Strong charisma
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World’s leaders and leaders from our country

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Mahatma Gandhi

Mohandas Gandhi (Mahatma Gandhi) is called the “Father of

the Nation” in India.

He was the preeminent leader of the Indian independence

movement in British-ruled India.

He had the characteristics of a good leader to address the

nation and to gather people against the British empire.

“The history of the world is full of men who rose to leadership,

by sheer force of self-confidence, bravery and tenacity.”

-Mahatma Gandhi-

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Nelson Mandela

Nelson Mandela was the president of South Africa from

1994 to 1999.

He is a great leader in the African anti-apartheid revolution.

He possesses the characteristics of a great and powerful

leader, including a high level of forgiveness, positive
thinking, focuses on goals, high determination, humility,
hopefulness, and patience.

“A real leader uses every issue, no matter how serious and

sensitive, to ensure that at the end of the debate we should
emerge stronger and more united than ever before.”

-Nelson Mandela-

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Abraham Lincoln

Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the

United States from March 1861 until his
assassination in April 1865.

He also had possessed the characteristics of a great

leader which led the United States through its Civil
War.

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If

we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we
destroyed ourselves.”

-Abraham Lincoln-

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Ven. Anagarika Dharmapala Thero

Anagarika Dharmapala was a religious leader who is

credited with introducing Buddhism to the United States
and Europe.

He also helped to restore Buddhism in Sri Lanka after

centuries of foreign invaders had forced their religions on
its citizens.

He is a great leader who gave new energy to the religion

through a reform movement that emphasized its moral
and ethical aspects.

“We are selfish, and our luxurious lives are the cause of
our forgetfulness of our duty to our fellow man.”

-Ven. Anagarika Dharmapala Thero-

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Kumar Sangakkara

Kumar Sangakkara is one of former cricket player of Sri

Lankan national team.

He is one of the most influential personalities of the

generation, to having achieved legendary status as a
batsman.

He had the characteristics of a good leader to guide team

members and get their commitments towards the
success.

He once said to a newspaper article that “Management is

doing things right; leadership is doing the right things.”

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CHARACTERISTICS OF A GOOD LEADER
Honesty and Integrity
• Honesty and integrity are two important ingredients which make a good leader.
•  It’s especially important for top-level executives who are charting the organization’s course and making countless other significant decisions
• Research show that integrity may actually be a potential blind spot for organizations
Confidence
• To be an effective leader, you should be confident enough to ensure that other follow your commands.
• This includes being confident enough to lead, knowing that your plans and vision are not only viable for the team but the absolute best
decision possible.
• True leaders are the ones that don’t just talk about problems but come up with their own solutions fearlessly.
Inspire Others
• Probably the most difficult job for a leader is to persuade others to
follow.
• It can only be possible if you inspire your followers by setting a good
example. When the going gets tough, they look up to you and see
how you react to the situation. If you handle it well, they will follow
you
Delegation and Empowerment

• You cannot do everything, right. It is important for a leader to focus on key responsibilities while leaving the rest to others.
• By that, I mean empowering your followers and delegating tasks to them.
• Delegate tasks to your subordinates and see how they perform. Provide them with all the resources and support they need to achieve the
objective and give them a chance to bear the responsibility.
Empathy.

• A true leader has enough open-mindedness to understand their followers’ motivations, hopes, dreams, and problems so that they can forge
a deep personal connection with them.
Good Communicator

• A good communicator can be a good leader. Words have the power to motivate people and make them do the unthinkable. If you use them
effectively, you can also achieve better results.
• If we are unable to communicate our message effectively to our team, we can never be a good leader.
• Words have the power to motivate people and make them do the unthinkable. If you use them effectively, you can also achieve better
results.
Decision-Making Capabilities

• Decision-making skills show your proficiency in choosing between two or more alternatives.
• You can make decisions once you process all the information available to you and speak with the right points of contact involved in a certain
situation.
Emotional Intelligence

• Good leaders always have higher influence but how do they increase their influence on the point where people accept what they say.
• They do this by connecting with people emotionally. That is where emotional intelligence comes into play.
Vision and Purpose

• Good leaders always have a vision and purpose.

• They not only visualize the future themselves but also share their vision with their followers.
• When their followers were able to see the big picture, they can see where they are heading.
• A great leader goes above and beyond and explain why they are moving in the direction they are moving and shares the strategy and action
plan to achieve that goal.
Leadership Takes Skills and Hard Work

Use these steps to stand out as a LEADER

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Know Yourself – Self Awareness
● Strong character, intent, and honesty are founded on a base of self-awareness.
● You are only able to lead because you know who you are, not who the world
thinks you are.
● You ought to understand your talents, shortcomings, principles, convictions,
motives and preferences correctly.
● The creation of these personal observations is the basis of all good leaders.

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Understanding Others – Knowledge of Others

Pick up emotional cues

Active listening

Empathy

Communication skills

Authenticity

Help and motivate others

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Developing Your Power of Influence

Know the distinction from authority or the power of manipulating

Know how to delegate

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Constant Learning

"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other"

John F. Kennedy

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